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John C Dvorak: It's just blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah.
Unknown: Adam curry.
John C Dvorak,
Adam Curry: 2024, this is your
award winning gimbal nation
media assassination episode
1702.
Unknown: This is no agenda.
We're unedited by CBS, and we're
Adam Curry: broadcasting live
from the heart of the Texas new
country here in FEMA reach
number six in the morning.
Everybody. I'm Adam curry
John C Dvorak: from Northern
Silicon Valley, where we advise
you to stop using the word
triage. I'm Johnson Dvorak
Buzzkill.
Adam Curry: I think we should
use that all the time during our
show. We're triaging all the
clips we got, triaging all the
boots on the ground, so we can
make sure we get all the right
stuff out there. Triaging. I
kind of like it.
John C Dvorak: Yeah. So I was
watching one of the Fox shows,
the fox, fox morning chatterbox.
They like to say triage for
Adam Curry: everything. The Fox
chatterbox. There you go. That's
a good one. The Fox chatterbox,
yeah, the triage. So it seems to
me like, okay, it sucks, but I
think the weather people kind of
got it all wrong. Wasn't
everyone supposed to be dead and
destroyed and everything swept
away and the storm surge drowned
everybody. Yet they forgot to
predict the tornadoes. 126 of
them, to be exact. Where was
that prediction? I didn't hear
anyone Well, it
John C Dvorak: matters not they
can predict the climate, but
they can't predict this. Yeah,
happens the next day. Yeah, of
course. We're
Adam Curry: we are, of course,
by
John C Dvorak: the way, I want
to say that Santis, DeSantis,
DeSantis De Santis, I was
watching his entire press
conference. This guy really is a
good governor. Oh yeah. He just
seems to be on top of
everything. He's got the facts
in front of him. He goes on and
on and on. He's got all kinds of
details. He's smart enough to do
stuff in advance. And the thing
that impressed me most, most was
a couple of days ago, when he
says, you know, we're, we're
closing all the toll booths on
all this expressway so people
can get out of there time to
stop and pay five bucks to get
through. Yeah, that makes sense.
He said, just one thing after
another, if it wasn't for that
whiny voice of his
Adam Curry: when, and even
though he's not wearing the
white boots, you still can't get
that out of your head. You still
see him with the white boots.
Hard to hard to visualize him
without those
John C Dvorak: competency and
it's just there's a combination
of things. But he's definitely a
governor you'd like to have as a
governor,
Adam Curry: yes, but every I
mean, we have lots of friends
and lots of course, there's lots
of producers in in Florida, and
the reporting was just freaking
everybody out. It was, it was,
and of course, it's not great.
There's no doubt, no doubt
there's a problem. But it's not
at all the destruction that we
were sold. I feel gypped the
tornadoes. That's the thing that
got me though. What? Not a
single mention of that. And then
these were not like little
tornadoes. These were big
twisters just appeared out of
nowhere, blowing
John C Dvorak: up stuff left and
right. Yeah, yeah, the funny.
And there was mentioned that,
you know, in Florida, where they
do have tornadoes on occasion,
especially with some
accompanying some hurricanes,
you can't build tornado shelters
because the water table is so
high. No, you can't. It's like,
you know, the water table is
right under the house. So
Adam Curry: of course, we hope
everyone's okay and that the
damage isn't too bad. We we
won't know, really, for a little
bit, but the they had no good
reports. They didn't have anyone
blowing over from the wind. The
wind didn't even seem, I mean,
you know, I've been doing a
little because, oh man,
John C Dvorak: by the way, uh,
Cooper, uh, pooper got, yeah,
pooper, yeah. He was on CNN. He
got hit by debris. It was, it's
a piece of styrofoam hit him,
and it was like a roll of
disaster. Oh, so
Adam Curry: I don't want to make
light of it, because, you know,
if you're, if your house is
flooded,
John C Dvorak: it sucks, yeah,
or even gone, if,
Adam Curry: if it's gone, that's
what seemed the wind damage
seemed to be pretty minimal. I
mean, just, I
John C Dvorak: don't think so.
Oh, the wind damage was all the
damage, but
Adam Curry: it was, well, here's
the one that made me kind of
smile and
Unknown: take a look at this
video just into the newsroom
from Tropicana Field in St
Petersburg, where the stadium's
rooftop has literally been torn
apart by the winds from
Hurricane Milton. You may
remember Tropicana Field was
transformed into a shelter for
first responders ahead of the
big storm.
Adam Curry: So it's a stadium
with a vinyl roof where a team
plays that no one cares about,
but that was the news that was a
very flimsy roof looked just
like vinyl you. It
Unknown: was, yeah. So, okay,
just
John C Dvorak: a coded. It was
just a it wasn't really, it was
more of a balloon roof,
Adam Curry: yeah. So, yeah, of
course, the
John C Dvorak: I will say, by
the I will say, the sound really
does stink.
Adam Curry: What do you mean
what you're hearing?
John C Dvorak: Yeah, it's not
like it's, I don't know what the
chat room thinks, but it's not
like it I can't understand you.
It's just like a lousy phone
connection.
Adam Curry: Oh, that's
interesting. No, it sounds good
for everyone there. See, is
there? Let me see, I want to
make sure, oh, speech optimized.
We don't want that. We want
music optimized. Hold
Unknown: on a second. Let
Adam Curry: me see if that'll
break
John C Dvorak: every musical
tones,
Adam Curry: yes, for my musical
stylings, John, for my musical
styling styling.
John C Dvorak: I'm sorry, yeah,
maybe,
Adam Curry: maybe that's better.
I don't know, but it's that's
what you're hearing is not what
was what's recording. So, of
course, I can't get away from
they modified the weather. They
seeded the clouds, they steered
it that way.
John C Dvorak: Just had a good
commentary on this, too. I wish
I had clipped it. It would came
in late. It was this morning. He
said, he says this is he's
basically said. He says both. He
did a good job of balancing it,
because he condemned the idea
that they're changing the
weather, because it's hurricane
season. So this happens all the
time. The worst hurricane, he
points out, was in on late the
famous Labor Day hurricane of
the 1930s which was worse than
anything. And he says, this is
hurricane seasons, Hurricane
weather. And you get these
hurricanes, as he says, and but
it's not just the left, the
right, not mentioning Marjorie,
Taylor Greene, he says it's also
the left who blames everything
on fossil fuels. So he did a
really good balancing act. This
guy is very talented governor.
Adam Curry: Well, there was a so
I have a couple of clips because
it was worth playing. Since
Biden, they rolled Biden out.
This may have been the real
Biden. You can't tell when he's
if he's not standing up. It's
hard to see if I can't see the
back of his head. I don't know
if it's Biden or daddy long
legs, but he came out and slurs
something out alive.
Unknown: There's simply no place
for this to happen. Former
President Trump has led the
onslaught of lies. Sessions have
been made that property is being
confiscated. That's simply not
true. They're saying people
impacted by these terms will
receive $750 in cash and no
more. That's simply not true.
The money is needed for this
crisis is being diverted to
migrants. What a ridiculous
thing to say. Now the claims are
getting even more bizarre.
Congressman Marjorie, Taylor
Greene, Congresswoman Georgia,
federal government is literally
controlling the weather,
controlling the weather. It's
beyond ridiculous. It's got to
stop moments like this. There
are no red or blue states.
There's one United States of
America where neighbors are
helping neighbors, volunteers
and first responders are risking
everything, including their own
lives, to help their fellow
Americans.
Adam Curry: Jeff, so that was a
very that was real stately
there. Joe and MSNBC really ran
with this ball. And thank
goodness we're connecting this
to climate change. I mean, it
took they didn't do, I've got
clips. They didn't do it during
John C Dvorak: Helene, but oh
no, they did it big time on this
one. Yeah. So I was just start
Adam Curry: with a few, and then
I'll do a few Chris Hayes clips,
because, man, he was hot over
there on MSNBC. Hurricane
Helene,
John C Dvorak: I thought you
were going to say, thank God for
MSNBC, because nobody listens to
it. Well,
Adam Curry: no. I mean, they
need us. They need us to get to
any listenership. And here you
go
Unknown: now. Hurricane Helene
just showed us how this
phenomenon is wreaking havoc,
even in areas previously thought
to be safe from these kinds of
storms, tucked away deep in the
Blue Ridge Mountains, Asheville,
North Carolina, was considered a
little slice of paradise. Some
called it a climate Haven,
suggesting it was immune to
extreme weather.
Adam Curry: Now, I don't know
where MSNBC got this idea from,
what? Because there was a huge
there was a equally large storm
in 1916 there was one as as
recent as 2014 what so. But then
they have this like this. This
footage of birds chirping and
oh, it's a haven. We're safe
here, huh?
Unknown: But last week that
paradise turned out to be an
illusion. Oh, my God, battering
the area for days. Stop
John C Dvorak: a second. Stop.
Stop the I, you know, this is an
interesting form of reporting,
where you create a false
scenario, yeah, and then you
report. On it, free, creative,
classic, this is what these guys
do. They should be ashamed of
themselves at NBC News, no,
Adam Curry: I think they're
doing a great job. This is
they're doing exactly what
they're paid to do, to promote
climate change and at the same
time discredit Trump and anyone
else who's in his camp, ripping
apart
Unknown: homes, washing out
roads, toppling trees and
cutting off entire towns. New
research out this week says
there is strong evidence human
driven climate change
strengthened Helene's
destructive power. It made the
storms
Adam Curry: strong evidence
Helene strengthened,
strengthened by human made
climate change, so just
strengthened it it's a
multiplier, a force multiplier.
Force multiplier term is rapid
intensification. We'll get to
that human
Unknown: driven climate change
strength into Lean's destructive
power. One study saying it made
the storms, rainfall up to 20%
heavier, 28 winds 7% stronger.
Seeing
these events that are boosted by
climate change, stronger,
wetter, lasting longer. Another
report
found that a warmer climate led
to 50% more rain over parts of
the Carolinas and Georgia than
would have been expected. You
know,
Adam Curry: is just as a little
entremond clip here. So it's
stronger, it's wetter. PBS had
this to say about last year and
2023
Unknown: was the driest year for
the world's rivers in more than
three decades.
Adam Curry: I mean, make up your
mind. Is it going to be wetter
or is it going to be drier? I
mean, they can't seem to figure
out what it's
John C Dvorak: going to be.
Unfortunately, there's no
coordinated yeah, there's no
Adam Curry: messaging, no
central command,
John C Dvorak: there's no
exactly they set that up. Yeah,
we wouldn't have these issues.
Curry
Adam Curry: Dvorak Consulting
Group. We're available. Do it.
We're available. We're
available. All right, so let's
just face the fact climate to
climate change is it's, it's
responsible for everything.
Storms
Unknown: like Killeen and what
we expect to come from Milton
are exactly, precisely what
experts have been screaming
about for decades now, as John
Morales, Nicole Wallace, it is
why he got so emotional over
last night's forecast. When I
saw 50 millibars in 10 hours, I
just broke down with a mixture
of empathy, angst over these
increasing extreme weather
events, and also frustration,
because for over 20 years, I've
been trying to communicate on on
what would be coming if we did
not check the injection of
greenhouse gasses into the
atmosphere. And well, here we
are, and it's not going to get
any better. This guy
Adam Curry: was crying on the
air. I
John C Dvorak: have, you know,
this is funny. You have that
clip from from Chris Hayes,
because in my little series of
hurricane clips, it's included
exactly this, well, not exactly,
but pretty much the same clip,
only. He's crying more from NPR,
the same guy. This is the
coordinated effort. Do
Adam Curry: you know which clip
that is? Can we play that real
quick?
John C Dvorak: I'd rather play
the whole series. All
Adam Curry: right, all right.
I'll get through this.
Unknown: So we are now preparing
for the second major climate
change fueled hurricane in two
weeks, which could put a
dangerous strain on federal
resources. Climate fueled New
York Times reports the Federal
Emergency Management Agency is
running out of staff to deal
with the potential devastation
of Hurricane. No as of Monday
morning, just 9% of FEMA
personnel were available to
respond to hurricane or other
disasters. While FEMA says it is
well equipped to handle the
strains, it is a reminder the
challenge of more frequent
natural disasters the times.
What did
John C Dvorak: he say, he said
9% responded to the to one of
their was it? Helene, yes. Well,
I thought they were like all,
all hands on deck, yeah.
Adam Curry: But the rest is at
the border, helping people at
the border, getting them into
hotels. As
Unknown: of Monday morning, just
9% of FEMA personnel were
available to respond. Oh, that
was available. Where's that
John C Dvorak: 90% where the
other 91
Adam Curry: that must be in
John C Dvorak: western 1000s and
1000s of people? Well, I
Adam Curry: hope they're in
western North Carolina, but they
should have figured out anyway,
that's just continue the
Unknown: hurricane or other
disasters. Now, while FEMA says
it is well equipped to handle
the strains, it is reminder the
challenge of more frequent
natural disasters. The Times
noting that FEMA is also
responding to flooding and land
signs in Vermont, tornadoes in
Kansas, the aftermath of
Tropical Storm Debbie in New
York and Georgia and the watch
fire in Arizona. And those are
just disasters that were
declared the past two weeks.
Okay, so
Adam Curry: now Chris gets Wait.
John C Dvorak: I want to point
out. I want you to remember that
he said more frequent, more
free, because I in my series of
clips, I got a little
contradiction in here. Good,
good.
Adam Curry: So now Chris Hayes
gets into some math, which is
just astounding. I'm not a
climate scientist, nor is he
remember.
Unknown: What I'm telling you
right now, what we're looking at
right now in the last week, what
we're preparing for Milton. This
is what we are now facing with
global average temperatures a
little over one degree Celsius
higher than the pre Industrial
Average. Okay, one that's one 1%
imagine what it will look like
when we reach two degrees, twice
as bad. Oh, so
Adam Curry: if it's two degrees,
then it'll be twice as bad, or
Unknown: three or four, that is
the world. It'll be
Adam Curry: four times as bad if
John C Dvorak: it was. So let's
see it goes from, let's say, one
degree higher, which would be a
percent. What a point? If 5%
some small percentage, but
somehow it's going to be twice
as bad. It's
Adam Curry: going to double. And
if it's three degrees, work
exactly, exactly. It's fake
news, or three
Unknown: or four. That is the
world Donald Trump would push,
not that he cares. He thinks it
would be good for real estate
values.
When I hear these people talking
about global warming, that's the
global warming you have to worry
about, not that the ocean is
going to rise in 400 years, an
eighth of an inch, and you'll
have more seafront property,
right? If that happens, I said,
is that good or bad? I said,
Isn't that a good thing? If I
have a little property on the
ocean, I have a little bit more
property. I have a little bit
more ocean. Okay,
every time we play this clip, we
just got to stop for one second.
Think about that for give it 10
seconds of your brain power.
Okay, if the oceans rise, do you
have more beachfront property?
Does that make sense? The oceans
rise? Do more beachfront or let
you have less?
Adam Curry: You said more ocean.
Anyway, that so at least we know
it's all Donald Trump's fault in
Donald Trump's and I will play
this last clip, and then we'll,
we'll play your clips, and then
I'll come back to some of the
conspiracy theories. And this
is, this has got to be my
favorites. Now,
Unknown: we've known for decades
our planet is warming, that we
would start seeing the brutal
effects, but conservatives
running so deep in their denial,
they're flailing around for
anyone or anything else to
blame. Republican Congressman
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is
now like a big mover and shaker
in the Republican Party, is
promoting a bizarre conspiracy
theory about a mysterious day.
You can imagine who that is.
Adam Curry: So on the screen
they have her tweet which says,
yes, they can control the
weather. The weather always
remember that. So that's what
she said. And I think we can
prove that that is probably
true, not that this was the
case, but that's the tweet
Unknown: controlling the
weather, suggesting that they
are sending hurricanes to
Republican areas to impact the
election, like someone is
sitting at some computer
somewhere pressing hurricane.
It's not just her. She's now
being amplified by right wing
media and the Republican nominee
himself, Chris, Chris decaf has
the government figured out how
to build a storm into a super
storm
that will destroy everything
that's
passed, and then how to aim it.
Right now, he's
Adam Curry: just playing some
rando guys from I don't know,
YouTube or whatever, who are
just talking crap where they
Unknown: want to aim it. It just
happens to miss South Florida
while the Democrats live.
Something
strange is going on. These
are Trump
counties.
John C Dvorak: Some actors to do
stuff like, this
Adam Curry: is great. This
John C Dvorak: is great.
Unknown: Something strange is
going on. These are Trump
John C Dvorak: counties. And
don't tell me for a second.
Don't tell me for a second that
what we're not seeing is a
massive government push, voter
suppression
Unknown: operation.
You know, it's largely a
Republican area. Some people say
they did it for that reason. I
don't even think they're that
bad, but they probably made
random,
Adam Curry: random clip, random
clip, making it sound like Trump
is talking about some weather
modification, which is not they
are.
Unknown: They say they're
sending the storms they are
sending the storms. Tom Trump's
running mate, Janie Vance, found
a way to get in on it too.
Blaming it on immigrants,
you have FEMA, which is there
for disaster relief for American
citizens after a terrible storm
being deployed repeatedly to
deal with Kamala Harris' wide
open border and the migrant
invasion that it's caused. That
lack of focus on their core
mission, that distraction and
focusing instead on illegal
immigrants, I guarantee that it
has made the disaster response
worse.
Adam Curry: All right, so I want
to come back to those weight
theories.
John C Dvorak: What did he did?
He was that played on his show.
Adam Curry: That was van, that
last
John C Dvorak: part of the tip,
yeah,
Unknown: he played that.
That's dumb.
John C Dvorak: I'm saying that
because he's trying to build a
case, and then he throws
something out there which
actually is reasonable, yes, and
if I'm listening to so that's
interesting. I mean that this
is, these guys don't even know
how to do this, right? All
right. So
Adam Curry: I want to come back
to the weather modification and
conspiracy theories, but first,
let's get into your clips before
we drift. Yeah, let's
John C Dvorak: get these out of
the way. Yeah. This is a, this
is a series that's on NPR. This
is part of a long presentation
on hurricane overview, and it
brings in everything we need
that. It starts with Hurricane
overview, N O, A, A,
Unknown: the damage hurricane
Milton could cause is chilling,
but maybe it shouldn't be
surprising. Julie
is looking to be an
extraordinary one in a number of
ways. That
was Rick spinrad, head of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, last May,
rolling out the federal agency's
annual hurricane outlook, NOAA
is predicting an above average
2024 Atlantic hurricane season.
Of note, the forecast for named
storms, hurricanes and major
hurricanes, is the highest NOAA
has ever issued for the May
outlook. One
big reason for that record
breaking hurricane forecast,
record breaking hot water
temperatures in the Atlantic
Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
Now, the number of hurricanes
this year has not yet broken
records, but the intensity of
some of the storms has been
breathtaking.
It's just an incredible,
incredible, incredible
hurricane.
Adam Curry: Incredible,
incredible, really, that sounded
like a Dvorak repeats. No
sweetening. Oh, interesting.
John C Dvorak: All right, he
said that. All right. So that
goes on. This is like they're
trying to build a case for. What
do you think you're going to
build a case for? And it comes
up right away. I did early in
the clippage
Unknown: that hot water in the
Gulf allows storms to intensify
at unbelievable speeds, as
Hurricane Milton did on Monday
afternoon. A fact that Move
Veteran Florida meteorologist
John Morales nearly to tears,
he has dropped 50 millibars in
10 hours. I apologize, this is
just
horrific. Later in
that same report, Morales cited
those hot ocean temperatures and
explained where they came from.
You know, what's driving that? I
don't need to tell you, global
warming, climate change leading
to this and becoming an
increasing threat. You know,
Adam Curry: it's interesting.
You know, Tina lived in Florida
for 15 years, lived through a
number of hurricanes. And I
said, was the millibar? Was the
pressure ever an issue? Says, I
don't know anything about that.
No one ever talked about
millibars. It's always been the
wind speed. This seems to be a
new metric they're pulling in.
John C Dvorak: That's
interesting. You're right,
because I've noticed it before.
Now I think what's interesting,
also interesting, I hate to
overuse that word, but is this
guy's in tears. He's obviously
an emotional wreck. Probably
somebody shouldn't trust with
any with your children or guns,
or guns, definitely no guns with
that guy, red flag. And so you
so he so this is the guy that go
goes right to climate change. So
he's an unstable person. Now
he's going talking about climate
change. This is like, Okay, I'm
not gonna even, I shouldn't even
be listening to this guy if he
can't objectively report on the
news without crying about it.
Adam Curry: Well, he was doing
his job. He's an actor.
Unknown: NPR climate editor
Rachel waldholtz has been
looking into how a warming
planet contributes to these
storms and what climate change
could mean for the future of
catastrophic weather events. Hi
Rachel, hi. Ari, first. Helene,
now Milton, are these two
massive hurricanes in just about
two weeks, evidence that we are
seeing more frequent storm
activity than in the past. So
actually, no, no,
Adam Curry: no, you better come
up with something better than
that. So
John C Dvorak: that's why I
wanted to mention call back to
Chris Hayes saying they're more
frequent. Yeah,
Adam Curry: he's full of crap.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, he's
totally full of crap.
Adam Curry: The numbers are
there. Everyone can see the
numbers. There's just been less
of them certainly this year.
John C Dvorak: So let's go.
Okay, so onward to four.
Unknown: We haven't seen an
increase in the number of
hurricanes hitting the US, but
climate change is making many
storms more intense, so more
powerful with way more rain,
more dangerous storm surge, more
flooding. And so while the total
number of hurricanes isn't
increasing, dangerous storms are
becoming more common, and that
can definitely make it feel like
we're getting more overall. So
let's get to the climate change
piece of this. We know that a
warming planet and includes
warming oceans. Explain why
warming oceans helped a storm
like Milton explode into a
category five as it moved across
the Gulf before eventually
weakening. Yeah,
Adam Curry: yes, exploded before
it actually got to landfall, and
it was a three actually crapped
John C Dvorak: out. Yeah, it
did.
Adam Curry: It did
John C Dvorak: so. So we have
this, this narrative going on,
and it's like, right in the
middle of it, you have to do a
call back to climate isn't
weather? Yes, correct. They
pounded it into us. Climate
isn't weather, or weather is
weather
Adam Curry: isn't climate, I
think was the exact phrase.
John C Dvorak: Either one, yes,
it's the same thing. But the
point is, is that they'd always
bring that out when it was
freezing cold. We had this, you
know, yeah, yeah, it was really
cold. No, no, no, no. It's got
nothing to do with it. But now
there's a little disaster going
on. Yes, exactly. Oh, it's a.
This is what's causing it. Okay?
So, so they go on with a before
the five they go on this. I put
the word skip in there because I
skipped over a whole long
lecture about how the hot water
boy pushes up into the hurricane
and goes on and on and on about
this. And so did we end up with
this after, after listening to
that for five minutes, we go to
this. Okay,
Unknown: so warm oceans
translate to stronger storms.
But there's another element
here, which is that climate
change adds to sea level rise,
which can create a bigger storm
surge, right? Explain that?
Yeah,
so climate change is driving
rising sea levels, and some of
the fastest rates of sea level
rise in the world actually are
along the Gulf Coast. So that's
driven by melting ice on land,
like the Greenland ice sheet,
but also as water.
Adam Curry: So let me understand
so the ice sheet is melting, and
therefore the water in the Gulf
gets warmer. In the Gulf, in the
Gulf gets warmer from the
melting ice goes up.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, of course
it
Unknown: does. That's driven by
melting ice on land like the
Greenland ice sheet. But the
thing she said, got warmer. Let
me see driving rising sea
levels. And some of the fastest
rates of sea level rise in the
world actually are along the
Gulf Coast.
Adam Curry: I can't believe I'm
not how come I don't have
beachfront property here in the
heart of Texas. I should. So
Unknown: that's driven by
melting ice on land like the
Greenland ice sheet. But also,
as water gets warmer, it
expands. So then when a storm
like Milton comes along, driving
this huge wall of water in front
of it, and water levels are
already higher than they used to
be, that's a recipe for really
catastrophic storm surge. And
right now we're seeing
predictions of 15 feet of storm
surge in some places.
Adam Curry: I don't think it
reaches. Doesn't water expand
John C Dvorak: when you freeze
it, yeah, yes, doesn't it? Yes,
yes.
Adam Curry: Why are you bringing
logic to the show stop. Sorry.
John C Dvorak: You know.
Adam Curry: So it turns out
they've also, so not only have
they added this, this new metric
of barometric pressure, and at
millibars, yes, in millibars,
not, not inches, which is
interesting, we do that in
millibars, things because it
looks bigger in millibars, you
know, instead of saying 29.9 so
millibars because then it's
like, oh, it's 900 millibars.
There seems to also have been an
interesting reshuffling of the
category with wind speeds. And I
was unaware of this, but we do
have the best producers in the
universe. So a category one
storm is wind speeds of 74 to 95
miles an hour. That's a 22 mile
per hour range. A category two
storm, however, is 96 to 110
miles per hour. That's a 15 mile
per hour range. Why? Why? I
don't understand why. Then we
have category three, which we
call a major storm, is 111
John C Dvorak: I'm asking
questions
Adam Curry: exactly which is a
111 to 129 mile per hour? That's
a 19 mile per hour range. And
then category four. Now this is
the interesting a category four
is anywhere from 130 to 156 so
now all of a sudden, that's a 27
mile per hour range. So it seems
like they're driving everything
into at least a cat four, and
then a cat five is anything over
157 so this is a reminds me a
little bit of the of the changes
they made to the Richter scale
and became the momentum scale
for earthquakes, whatever
John C Dvorak: it is now, you
Adam Curry: know, whatever it
is. So now we get into everybody
spinning up and spinning out,
including friends of mine, good
friends of mine, like, oh, this
was to disrupt the election, to
which I say, Okay, I love that,
by the way, North Carolina blue,
so, so that wasn't the
intention.
John C Dvorak: Democrat
governor. Yes, it's a blue
state.
Adam Curry: But then you do
Florida, like, okay, so what are
you really disrupting? We have
an electoral college, you know.
So it's not going to make any
difference, you know, if you do
it in Pennsylvania, and,
John C Dvorak: yeah, that's
George.
Adam Curry: Want to do it? Yeah,
that's just Michigan. Steer it
that way. Blow
John C Dvorak: up Michigan.
Adam Curry: So I have to just
spend a little bit on on these
theories of weather
modification, because there's,
you know, you can look at it
several different ways. French
24 dove right into it more
Unknown: broadly. Do we know?
Are there ways to try and
mitigate the dangers of
hurricanes? Well, actually,
scientists
have long searched for a way to
at least attenuate or even
prevent the formation of
hurricanes, or at least to try
to change their track. It
started after World War Two with
the project Cyrus, that was
financed by GE but also the US.
Army. And what they did is that
they projected dry ice straight
into the hurricane, thinking
that, by
Adam Curry: the way, is very
irritating. But in in France,
they don't say hurricane. They
say hurricane. For some reason,
hurricane, it
Unknown: was going to modify the
cloud envelope and change the
structure of the hurricane. And
they did, you know, observe
somewhat, somewhat of some
changes in the appearance of the
hurricane, but they couldn't
establish a very strong causal
effect. So then there was
another project that was a
little bit more known, called
the storm fury project. It
lasted for 20 years. It was
funded by the US government. And
here they did what we call cloud
seeding. So here they dumped
what we call silver iodide, so
these are salt crystals, and
once again, thinking that it
would modify the structure to
increase the condensation and
change the hurricane from
within. And they used it on
several hurricanes in the 60s.
Esther Bulla, Debbie ginger, at
first, the results were
encouraging, but then they
stopped once again, because
there wasn't a strong causal
effect. They couldn't say that
the these silver crystals were
really the reason why the
hurricane had changed trajectory
or intensity. And
there's another idea as well,
Julia, this was a really, really
rather creepy one. And this is
dropping an atomic bomb to blow
out in inverted commas, a newly
formed hurricane. Tell us about
this? Well, exactly.
Thank God they didn't use it. Of
course, this would have produced
radioactive fallout in a big
way, and, of course,
environmental issues, but they
did consider it okay.
Adam Curry: So there's been lots
of experiments, so it's no
wonder that people discuss these
things. And one of those
experiments actually veered the
hurricane, often in a wrong
direction. People got very angry
at the government. Now it
doesn't help that Lyndon
Johnson, President Lyndon
Johnson was quite jitty about
the whole concept,
Unknown: the foundation for the
development of a weather
satellite
that will permit man to
determine the world's
cloud labor and
ultimately to control the
weather, and he who controls
John C Dvorak: the weather will
control the world. Yeah, He who
controls the weather to bring
back classic. It's a classic.
And you, you know, you listen to
the commentators, nobody. What
you're doing right now is should
have been done by every by Fox,
for example. You were more
interested in using the word
triage instead of
Adam Curry: prioritizing. And it
also doesn't help that CIA
Director John O Brennan also
kind of alluded to this, as
Unknown: promising as it may be,
moving forward on essay
Adam Curry: he's going to talk
about stratospheric. S was it s
Sai, Stratos, Stratospheric
Aerosol injection, promising
Unknown: as it may be, moving
forward on sai would also raise
a number of challenges for our
government and for the
international community. On the
technical side, greenhouse gas
emission reductions would still
have to accompany sai to address
other climate change effects
such as ocean acidification,
because sai alone would not
remove greenhouse gasses from
the atmosphere. On the
geopolitical side, the
technology's potential to alter
weather patterns and benefit
certain regions of the world at
the expense of other regions
could trigger sharp opposition
by some nations. Others might
seize on sai benefits and back
away from their commitment to
carbon dioxide reductions, and
as with other breakthrough
technologies, global norms and
standards are lacking to guide
the deployment and
implementation of Sai and other
geoengineering initiatives. I
could go on and on and on and on
about the things that fascinate
me? Yeah,
Adam Curry: of course it
fascinates him, because weather
modification, you can rule the
world. So this is where these
conspiracies come from. And we
have a we have a
John C Dvorak: just to defend
Marjorie Taylor Greene, she
didn't say anything wrong.
Adam Curry: She didn't it was a
very short tweet, and I think
she was spot on. It's
inflammatory, you know, it's,
it's what Marjorie Taylor,
John C Dvorak: that's what she
does. That's what
Adam Curry: she does. We have
job. We have a knight who is
very high up in and he wants to
remain anonymous, I have to say
carefully, in one of the larger
American weather modification
associations. And so he has a
lot of background. I checked him
out, so I can't, I can't talk
about him per se. But he says,
look, look. He said, There is no
evidence that there was any
weather modification done in
these two instances, I'm just
going to take him at his word,
and that's sure he's correct,
and yes, and he checks out, and
I can't believe that they don't
have someone like him on Fox and
Friends. No. Instead, we have to
deal with insane things, and
whenever. Where I get an eight
second clip, I'm like, wait a
minute, and even just listening
to this clip, because it was
only audio, I knew right away
that this was not the director
of FEMA. We
Unknown: plan to execute between
70 and 80 we plan to evacuate
between 70 and 80,000 people.
Adam Curry: So first of all, I
think the director of FEMA, or
the administrator is a woman. So
this is a black guy. It's Lloyd
Austin from 2021 and I remember
this because somebody sent you
this clip. Oh, it's all over.
You got the girls going like,
oh, is this the truth? Wanting
to come out? Oh, yeah, there's
Unknown: exceeded all
expectations. Yeah, that's
Lloyd, Austin. It's Austin. We
plan to execute between 70 and
80. We plan to evacuate between
70 and 80,000 people.
Adam Curry: So it's like, oh,
okay, please. This is a very old
clip, and it goes around and
people like, they're going to
execute people the other, the
other one that really got me,
yeah, the one that really got, I
think is fabulous, is now this,
this was people were getting mad
at me about this, because I was,
look, I have experience,
John C Dvorak: and if you're
gonna get mad, they should get
mad at you, yes, oh, they never
Adam Curry: get mad at you. They
should. You need to exalt the
older men? Yes. So this is a
clip of North Carolina, and it
only had titles over it, and it
had this really ominous music.
I'll play it with a Blackhawk
helicopter, and it would say,
Oh, look at them. It's unmarked.
They're coming over here.
They're rotor washing us. And so
I get emails from people I
learned a new term, rotor
washing. Look at what they're
doing to us. They're rotor
washing us. And I'm like, Okay,
it looks to me, just from a
pilot perspective. And I have a
lot of hours. I have more hours
on helicopter than fixed wing,
including a Chinook one hour.
But okay, so Chinook, and I said
the Blackhawk is very powerful.
Around 53 feet is when you're
gonna start blowing stuff away
on the ground. It looks to me
like they're coming in to figure
out where they can land, and
then you decide to take off. And
yeah, your tents are gonna fly
away, and your boxes are gonna,
you know, move around on the
ground. But if they were really
rotor washing you, which I have
done, I have rotor washed a
sailboat in Holland. It was fun.
The guys loved it. There was
there on the lake, and we came
out on purpose, yeah, but they
wanted it because we were
helping that we were giving him
speed, and they thought it was
hilarious, so we were blowing
their sail. And so I know you
have to come down a lot,
especially with that, you know,
53 feet is about where, where
it's at. And so now we get the
story was North Carolina
National Guard. They were
looking, they actually thought
they could land. And Well,
here's the story, the North
Unknown: Carolina National Guard
is investigating an accident or
an incident, I should say, of
one of its helicopters at a
Helene Donation Center. Viewer
shared this video of the chopper
coming too close to a
distribution site in Burnsville.
The National Guard says this
happened as the pilot tried to
land and deliver generators. The
National Guard says on approach,
the crew noticed that there were
too many people tents and
supplies close the landing
supply. So the helicopter took
back off. They also admit they
did not get clearance to land
from local law enforcement
station.
Safety is our number one
Paramount with our forces that
we have on the ground. And so we
are again continuing to
investigate that we do have some
communication with the landing
sites and the people that we are
going to take commodities to
it's matured over time.
Initially we had no
communication, so we were just
making a call and landing but
now the landing sites have been
more mature, and we do have
communication with emergency
personnel that are on the
ground.
Major General Todd hunt said he
is very sorry for the incident.
He says the crew is grounded for
now, and they're working with
the organization to identify how
much damage the crew caused.
Adam Curry: So, oh, so, of
course, you know this was not, I
mean, the implication this is
because there's so little trust,
or maybe just massive distrust
in our government at the moment
that people jump to this
conclusion that they're trying
to purposely hurt them. I just
don't think that was the case
and but the programming was so
strong when I even said, Hey, I
don't think that's, I don't
think this is their purposely
rotor washing. Because if you
really purposely want to rotor
wash, people would be flying
around on the ground. You know
this, this was they're trying
to, they're trying to do
reconnaissance. Can we land
here? They fly away and but
people are so spun up. Because,
for sure, the reliance on the
government has been so built up
we talked about in the last
show, so built up by people. Oh,
the government's going to come
and save me. And what's
happening in western North
Carolina. It's horrible. I mean,
we're not getting and of course,
all of that news is going to be
pushed to the back burner. We're
only going to be talking about
Florida right now. It's all
minimal because, oh, god forbid
we make anybody look good,
because you can't. The
government is not set up to be
the knights in shining armor.
They're not set up to save you.
They're not they talk a big
game, just like Kamala is going
to save you with, I don't know,
building houses. And they just
talk, the sooner we realize that
that's not the way it is, the
better it is. And we're just in
this horrible, I don't know, 80
or 100 year cycle. Well, you
know, we had Sir Mark and Dame
Astrid here, Sunday and Monday.
Fantastic. We had a great time.
And Sir Mark was telling us how
he went to the Fukushima, you
know, just check stuff out the
little tour up there. And they
went to this hilltop, and there
were three monuments, and he
says, Oh, is this the monument
for Fukushima? And the Japanese
guide there said, oh, yeah, we
do it for every time it happens.
This happens every 100 years. So
this is from 100 years ago. This
from 200 years ago. See, we
didn't, we don't hear all that,
but that's Mother Earth wins
every single time. So you know,
to throw in climate change and
all of this nonsense. It's, it's
dishonest, and it's, it's just
programming weak minded brothers
and sisters into believing it
and going along with the program
and eating bugs, and it makes
everybody else crazy and mad,
because they're, doing it.
They're doing they're doing it
to screw the elections. No, it's
just life Trump's fault. Yeah,
it's for, well, of course, it's
all Trump's fault. The same, by
the way, goes for the and Trump
is out there. He's, he's talking
this thing up too, which is bull
crap, this Kamala Harris 60
Minutes interview. What? They
edited it. They took out all the
stupid stuff. Okay, yeah, 60
minutes. Chopped down their
interview to get it into, I
don't know, 60 minutes. And yes,
they chopped out all the fluff
and the nonsense that she talks.
But they had put that. Let's
John C Dvorak: stop right there.
That's what you do. Yes,
Adam Curry: that's what you do.
With an interview
John C Dvorak: I used to guy I
knew, David Renson, who used to
write for Playboy. We were
talking one day about how I met
him because they were going to
do a piece of it involved me and
he's talked about the best
interviews in the Playboy,
interviews are extremely edited,
because that otherwise you're
going to bore people stiff. If
you look at something like
Interview magazine, when that
was around, they would do Waldo.
Their interviews are, were
straight up, and it was a lot
of, well, the way I see it's
like get it's like taking and
doing a transcription of Elon
Musk, who's gonna read this
crap.
Adam Curry: So when I, of
course, you know, everyone had
the side by side, it's about 15
seconds longer the unedited bit,
and we can certainly play it.
But the point is, it was CBS
themselves who put the whole,
the full answer Question and
Answer out. It was on Face The
Nation as a promo reel for the
interview. Because then, when I
saw this, like, Well, where did
this come from? This tape. Was
it leaked? Is there someone
within CBS? Because that's the
implication, oh, we got the raw,
unreaded footage. They just put
it out there. They was part of a
promo for the whole 60 Minutes
interview and and by the way,
the whole thing is chopped up.
You think that was you
John C Dvorak: have to do that.
That's what you do. You do this
is an entertainment at some
level. You don't bore people
stiff with the real deal,
because no one's going to follow
it. They're going to go nuts.
Yes, she's a hopeless case.
She's dumb.
Adam Curry: Yeah, she is. She
and if anything is a
John C Dvorak: dumb person, you
can see it in her eyes.
Adam Curry: I have actually have
a backgrounder here, because she
went on this, yeah, here, this
France 24 again, but they had a
good little summary of her media
blitz.
Unknown: We asked ahead of time.
With just four weeks to go, it's
her last chance for voters to
get to know her better, cracking
open a can of lager on Stephen
Colbert's talk show, Vice
President Harris continued her
week long, high profile media
blitz. Howard Stern's radio
show, whose listenership skews
white and male. She took a mix
of more hardline questions on
policy, but also showed her
personality. Sis.
Listen, I've been the first and
first woman in almost every
position I've had. Yeah. So I
believe that men and women
support women in leadership, and
that's been. My life experience,
and that's why I'm running for
president, and that's
in a bid to reach every
demographic. Four string of
appearances has included non
traditional outlets like the
call her daddy podcast, a Gen Z
millennial fan favorite with
biggest female listenership
body.
Unfortunately, Kamala Harris
doesn't have anything keeping
her humble. How did that make
you feel?
I don't think she understands
that there are a whole lot of
women out here who one are not
aspiring to be humble.
However, critics have argued
that Harris is still introducing
herself this close to the
election, and accuse her of
being unable to align herself
from Joe Biden's administration.
Would you have done something
differently than President Biden
during the past four years?
There is not a thing that comes
to mind in terms of, and I've
been a part of most of the
decisions that have had impact.
Look Bill Paris
eventually clarified that,
unlike Biden, she plans to put a
Republican in her cabinet, with
seven battleground states up for
grabs, and polls continuing to
show a tight race, the interview
burst is intended to hit a large
portion of the media spectrum
and dispel criticism about her
infrequent engagement with the
mainstream media. All right, so
Adam Curry: I've looked at all
of it. I looked at the 60
minutes. I looked at the view
all of call her daddy boy. That
was that was bored me to tears.
It was, I mean, no, it was
terrible. One blow job question.
It was so boring. And
John C Dvorak: that's the thing
that I mentioned in the
newsletter, and I just want to
reiterate it, yes, uh, Alexandra
Cooper, Alex, Alex, who split
off from Sophia with an F Sophia
Franklin, because they used to
be partners, and then they split
off, and Alexandra got a potload
of money because she was she
played her cards right, and her
and I've listened to her podcast
now and again, trying to get
some clips from it. Never been
able to, all she does is talk
about blow jobs. She is
preoccupied with blow jobs. Yes,
yes. And so it's like, and
she'll go on and on and on about
it with people. I don't think a
lot of people want to talk about
it and but she talks about and
talks about and so it so she
doesn't talk about it with
Camelot. But as I mentioned the
newsletter, there's a very
interesting irony here that,
because I don't think cameras
people knew anything about this
podcast, they just knew it was
big. Is second to Rogan at
Spotify, supposedly, and so it's
a monster podcast that has a big
audience, and that's all they
knew. It's this is like media
buyers. They don't know what
they're doing, and so they put
her on there. And the irony of
her being on a blow basically a
blow job podcast, did not elude
a lot of people, including me.
Adam Curry: So here's my
conclusion, besides her word
salad and saying nothing, which
is okay, if you gave me 10 women
and put them in a lineup and
said, Okay, you're casting for
president, she would be last.
There is nothing about her at
all that has anything
presidential. She has dead eyes.
She has when she talks, She
frowns when she talks, which is
very off putting she has a bit
of that vocal fry America
John C Dvorak: a wine, a
Berkeley wine, Berkeley
Adam Curry: wine. We
John C Dvorak: choose a Berkeley
wine. We
Adam Curry: choose our
presidents like we choose our
breakfast cereal. And this is
not what Americans go for. I
don't understand why the
Republicans and conservatives in
our country are so spun up about
it. She's not going to be
elected. Now, can they cheat? I
even doubt that you can't cheat
enough. Yeah, too big to rig.
She is really unappealing, just
unappeal She is. She's
unappealing, which is the whole
reason why she had 1% when she
was running for president, she
had to drop out. It was so
embarrassing, because no one
likes her. She's unlikable. And
I'm saying this from a
television producer perspective.
You
John C Dvorak: can say from any
perspective you want. I think if
you talk to a lot of women don't
like or, I mean, the only people
that like or don't have never
seen her do anything, they're
just voting Democrat. Huge
number of people out there,
Adam Curry: yeah, sure, huge
number, yes, but those are the
ones who aren't hurting in the
pocketbook.
John C Dvorak: Might be, but
they just vote Democrat. There
are people that vote Democrat.
There are people that vote
Republican, and there's a big
range of people that actually
take a look at Yeah, and they
decide late, I do
Adam Curry: want to play just
two clips from the 60 Minutes
interview, just to put some
content and. A to this segment
where we just slag women off
based upon their parents.
John C Dvorak: That's what you
did. I didn't do it. You're
guilty
Adam Curry: by association. Here
she is, and there's a lot of
hey, hey, you know, if you don't
mind me, excuse me. I'm talking.
Let me. Let me finish. That
John C Dvorak: does not work.
Adam Curry: No, it's very it's
not good at all. This is about
the border. Was
Unknown: it a mistake to loosen
the immigration policies? As
much as you dig.
It's a long standing edit,
Adam Curry: by the way, edit I
can just you can tell where all
the edits are. This thing was
completely chopped up, not just
this one bit immigration
Unknown: policies,
as much as you did. It's a long
standing problem, and solutions
are at hand, and from day one,
literally, we have been offering
solutions.
What I was asking was, was it a
mistake to kind of allow that
flood to happen in the first
place. I
think the policies that we have
been proposing are about fixing
a problem, not promoting a
problem. Okay, but the numbers
did quadruple, and the numbers
today because of what we have
done, we have cut the flow of
illegal immigration by half. We
have to cut the flow of fentanyl
by half, but we need Congress to
be able to act to actually fix
the
problem. Okay, so
Adam Curry: that's a very bad
answer, very bad answer, and
everybody knows it. And then the
other one is about her flip
flopping on all of our policies.
Let
Unknown: me tell you what your
critics and the colonists say.
Adam Curry: The columnist or the
columnist, pay attention.
Unknown: We tell you what your
critics and
John C Dvorak: hold that. Now I
should mention what's kind of
what, what
Adam Curry: columnist?
Columnist, the columnist. Oh, I
tell you the columnist. Oh, God,
lordy. Let me
Unknown: tell you what your
critics and the columnists say?
Okay, they say, the reason so
many voters don't know you is
that you have changed your
position on so many things. You
were against fracking. Now
you're for it. You supported
looser immigration policies. Now
you're tightening them up.
You're for Medicare for all. Now
you're not so many that people
don't truly know what you
believe or what you stand for,
and I know you've heard that.
In the last four years, I have
been vice president United
States, and I have been
traveling our country, and I
have been listening to folks and
seeking what is possible in
terms of common ground. I
believe in building consensus.
We are diverse people,
geographically, regionally, in
terms of where we are in our
backgrounds, and what the
American people do want is that
we have leaders who can build
consensus, where we can figure
out compromise and understand
it's not a bad thing, as long as
you don't compromise your values
to find common sense solutions,
and that has been my approach.
There
Adam Curry: was a whole article
in Atlantic magazine because
they're so mad. They're so mad
about Kamala and Trump going on
podcasts and like, well, it's
not real if you just want a
softball personality in your
head. Face it, mainstream media.
Face it, M, 5m podcasts are
taken over. Go sit behind the Go
ahead. Sit behind the the
paywall. See how you do.
John C Dvorak: I have a good,
just an interrupting clip here
about podcasts that was sent
over by Steve. And where is this
thing? It's actually kind of
fits right into what you're
saying.
Unknown: I'm looking,
John C Dvorak: I'm looking too.
Adam Curry: Oh NPR, the
candidates appear on podcasts.
John C Dvorak: Yes, okay. Vice
President
Unknown: and candidate Kamala
Harris have been stepping up
media appearances lately. She's
been getting criticism that
she's not spending enough time
in the public eye. Harris has
done traditional shows like 60
minutes and also hitting the
podcast circuit. Last week, she
turned up on the podcast all the
smoke, hosted by former NBA
champ Stephen Jackson and Matt
Barnes as
someone who's been the first in
a lot of spaces you've been in,
a woman of color knocking on the
door to possibly be the next
president. How do you protect
your mental health and your
mental space?
Number one rule,
Adam Curry: John, how do you
protect your mental space?
John C Dvorak: I really, I'm
very mental space. Yes,
Adam Curry: you protect your
mental space.
Unknown: You protect your mental
health and your mental space.
Well, number one rule, don't
read the comments. Fantastic. If
you
have a specific slice Sarah
people that you want to reach,
there is a podcast for that.
That's for sure. There's a lot
of them, but when you and I are
doing interviews, I mean, we
have. Journalistic principles
that we follow. So those
podcasts follow any of that
typically not. I mean, these are
typically run by hosts who are
influencers. Maybe they are
former reality stars or former
athletes. They are not people
who typically have journalistic
training, although you'll see
they prepare for interviews.
Sometimes they'll reference
sound bites. They'll try to make
sure that this interview feels
very authoritative, but at the
end of the day, the same type of
journalistic standards and
scrutiny that you and I would
pose on an interview don't exist
here. And so the reason why I
think you're going to have
pressure to do both types of
environments, formal sit down
interview with a journalistic
outlet like an NPR or, you know,
in the case of last night 60
minutes. It's because voters
want to know more about your
actual platform, as opposed to,
if you're sitting down with a
podcaster, they're just getting
to know a little bit more about
Adam Curry: you personally. Oh,
it's pretty much the same thing
in the Atlantic, the same thing.
Oh, there's no there's no
journalistic integrity. They
don't have producers and people
looking for stuff and digging
through and there's no critical
questions. What a crock. Totally
and I am, I will say
John C Dvorak: that, by the way,
I there's a lot of podcasts that
have journalists involved with
them. Yeah, I would say this is
one of them, but I don't like to
brag about that, but the whole
New York Times podcast is just
journal is yakking about stuff,
yes,
Adam Curry: but of course, you
know the really successful ones
where the money is, which we're
not making with our integrity
and our journal and our J school
diplomas like Joe Rogan. And I
have to say, I find it peculiar
that neither candidate has been
on Rogan I know why Trump, at
least, I think I know why Trump
hasn't been on is because at
least a while ago it was, you
know, Hey, you want to be on my
show, you got to come to my
studio. And Trump only does him
at Mar a Lago. So I understand
that there's, that's a I
understand Joe like, come to my
studio. I think Kamala should
go. In fact, it would be I
should
John C Dvorak: go on that show
in a million years. If she did,
she I think those bookers that
booked her on the call her daddy
show or idiots. I think they're
smart enough to not put her on
Rogan, I have to. I'd be stunned
if she ever showed up on Rogan.
I can
Adam Curry: predict, though, in
the future election, we won't
make it to the next one because
we only have four more years.
But in four
John C Dvorak: more years in
future, but the four more years
could be perpetual. Oh,
Adam Curry: okay, Dream on. So
in four more years, I can see
where an actual debate would
take place in a very in a
podcast, just two candidates
sitting down, arguing, yelling,
getting into it, getting into
it,
John C Dvorak: more likely that
a lazy podcaster would let them
go For because you sit back. I
mean, if you do enough radio or
any of these free content, yeah,
free content, you back off and
you just let them go for it,
yelling at each other, because,
you know people are going to
tune in, and
Adam Curry: you don't need a
moderator. There's no moderator
John C Dvorak: just having me
yell at each other. Yes, I would
pack them in. Just
Adam Curry: toss a question up.
All right, let's border crisis
go. That's all he needs to do.
In fact, I'm happy to facilitate
that. So let me play two podcast
clips from an NPR podcast. So
this is kind of meta where the
NPR politics podcast is talking
about Kamala on the call her
daddy podcast. It's meta, and
Unknown: today on the show, A
Look at VICE PRESIDENT Harris's
media strategy Harris is doing.
Why
Adam Curry: do they not get the
good mics in the good studio for
NPR podcasts? What is this
sound? I
John C Dvorak: think this is
just the bad sound that I'm
getting all the time, but you
came through crummy.
Adam Curry: This is them. This
is just how it sounds. It's bad.
And
John C Dvorak: today on the
show, A Look has better mics.
Thank you. Harris's
Unknown: media strategy, Harris
is doing a whirlwind of three
interviews today, which was the
impetus for our podcast. You
know, since she has become the
Democratic nominee, she's done a
mix of mainstream broadcast
television interviews places
like CNN and CBS, is 60 minutes.
And then she's also done
untraditional interviews with
podcasts to engage with folks
who might not be traditional
news consumers.
Adam Curry: See that they are so
irked, they are beside
themselves, because, you know,
come is not going to go on the
NPR politics podcast, which no
one listens to, but other
podcasters.
Unknown: Aline, I want to start
the conversation with you. What
is the thinking behind the mix
the combination of interviews
Harris has been doing. This is a
very
interesting strategy, this new
kind of realm of of podcasts.
Going on social media. You know,
that's kind of a clear hand out
to younger voters. No
Adam Curry: has nothing to do
with younger voters. What
picture the average Rogan
listener is older than you think
Unknown: to to kind of get them
involved in the places that they
consume information. And you
know, regardless of where she's
going, these are places with
audiences of millions of people.
John C Dvorak: That's just a
thought. Pastor, I think they're
equating podcast listeners with
tick tock listeners or viewers,
because that is a younger
demographic. I'm convinced of
it. I'm
Adam Curry: not even I'm not
even sure of that the people I
see addicted to tick tock are my
age, I'm not so sure about that.
Well,
John C Dvorak: okay, you got me
there. It's possible I'm wrong.
No, this,
Adam Curry: this is just what
you're hearing in their voices.
Bigotry,
John C Dvorak: by the way,
Adam Curry: is what they're
angry. They're angry. They're
angry because, oh well, they
have the big audiences, because
they're just influencers,
because they're just no good. I
mean, you're fighting, they're
fighting a system that is that
you always lose because, yes,
they have big audiences, because
they don't have a stick up their
butt like you do with a crappy
sound. You
Unknown: know, regardless of
where she's going, these are
places with audiences of
millions of people, and she's
going on these podcasts that you
know, are kind of more geared
towards younger folks. She just
went on on Sunday to Alex
Cooper's show called call her
daddy, which is a show mostly, I
mean entertainment podcast. It's
one of the top shows in the
country, and it's about topics
like sex and relationships. And
Harris kind of had this long
conversation about different
issues affecting young women
today, and talked a lot about
abortion. So let's talk
a little bit more about a couple
of these specific podcast
interviews she's done. Let's
talk specifically about the call
her daddy episode.
John C Dvorak: This idea of,
let's talk about, let's talk
about, I've noticed this on a
lot of these, these, this comes
from Amy Goodman. This will tell
us about, let's talk about,
let's talk about this. We've
never done that on this show,
what
Adam Curry: say you?
John C Dvorak: What say you?
Well, that's even worse.
Adam Curry: Yes,
Unknown: she's done let's talk
specifically about the call her
daddy episode. You know, I felt
like it was, in a lot of ways,
it was like an infomercial for
Harris. It was just an
opportunity for her to talk at
length.
That's what she wanted. It
almost to me, felt like the
point of that interview was to
do the interview, if that makes
sense, like her being on the
podcast just to say the words
Kamala Harris is on call her
daddy, like that in itself, is
something I've heard. You know,
folks around my age feel like,
oh my god, this is kind of crazy
because of what I said earlier.
This show is not known for
talking about politics.
Adam Curry: Politics. Have
another you want to hear more of
this, these two dingbats.
John C Dvorak: I want to mention
that if you listen to the
beginning of the call for call
for daddy, call call her daddy.
Call for daddy, there's a call
me your podcast. We're going to
start with a call for daddy.
Call for daddy. So
Adam Curry: it's a faith based
podcast, call for dad.
John C Dvorak: Alex goes starts
it off with an unbelievable
like, five minutes of apologia.
I'm using that word instead of
apology, but Apollo that she's
doing this at all. Yes, she goes
on and on and on about, wait,
don't do politics
Adam Curry: cross legged like
crisscross applesauce on her
oversized couch. Okay, all
right, daddy verse, whatever she
calls it, daddy verse,
John C Dvorak: daddy verse. I am
convinced that she was forced
into this by Spotify. Maybe, I
think so, because she was so
apology. Didn't want to do it.
There doesn't fit into the for
you blah, blah, blah. She went
on and on and on, saying she's
sorry for doing this, as you
know. So I guess they let her
get away with with that excuse.
But the whole thing was off top.
It was off. It was off. It was
off. What do you call it? It's
not off topic, but it's off.
Sucks,
Adam Curry: sucks. It sucks. Not
relevant. That's
John C Dvorak: it sucks, not
Adam Curry: relevant, not
relevant. All right, so Well,
that's enough of that, but let's
stay with the same podcast,
because they spent a lot of time
talking about the new deets. The
new deets on the case filed
against Trump for January 6. Oh,
no, there's new evidence. It's
hard evidence he's going down.
Oh, we've got something. We've
got him now. So
Unknown: we are in the middle of
a presidential campaign, and we
are still getting new details
about Donald Trump's efforts to
overturn the last presidential
election, this time in the form
of a filing from Special Counsel
Jack Smith. Can you just explain
what happened this week? Yeah,
absolutely.
There. There were new things to
learn, even though, and of the
January 6 committee on Capitol
Hill and many others have been
spending a lot of time and
energy digging up details. The
difference here is that the
Justice Department and the FBI.
Had subpoena power. They could
execute searches, and people
felt the need or compelled to
talk, and so we got some new
details. Maybe the most
significant to me was on the day
of the Capitol riot itself, on
January 6, 2021 the prosecutors
asserted that it was Donald
Trump himself who was sitting in
a dining room off the Oval
Office watching Fox News and
issuing some of the tweets
himself that day. In particular,
that tweet around 2:24pm, where
he said his Vice President Mike
Pence lacked the courage to do
the right thing. Remember, Trump
and others had been leaning on
pence to kind of put a pause on
the certification of the
electoral votes, and pence
refused. And you know, there was
violence at the capitol that
day. Within a minute of Trump's
tweet, Pence had been evacuated
by the Secret Service, and then
an aide came rushing in to tell
Trump that there was chaos and
danger at the Capitol, including
toward Mike Pence. And according
to this new filing, Trump
replied, so what? Oh,
no.
Adam Curry: So this is new
evidence. Throw the book at him.
Oh, but wait, there's more.
Unknown: So a lot of new detail
here. Additional new detail. The
former president allegedly said
to his daughter Ivanka and son
in law Jared that the details
about the election really didn't
matter, and election fraud
really didn't matter. You've
just got to fight like hell. And
so that is new evidence about
what Trump said and did on key
days, as well as his state of
mind and about his state of mind
Adam Curry: these people, I
mean, I'm throwing them out of
podcast index. I'm censoring
them, I'm throwing them out.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, you could
actually, technically, maybe,
Adam Curry: no, technically, I
could do it right now. I won't.
They deserve it and so, and I
know you have two, two clips on
this, which I think will
probably expand on this general
overview, because not only do we
have this damning evidence of
Trump saying you've got to fight
like hell and who cares? I mean,
oh my god. I mean, we need to
throw him in jail. No, no, but,
but that nut job is back.
Unknown: Donald Trump's
relationship with Vladimir Putin
has been scrutinized since his
2016 bid for President. The
Republican leader has long
embraced Putin, whose
intelligence policies were found
to have meddled in US elections.
Now, a new book by veteran
American journalist Bob Woodward
reports further explosive
details on the two men's
interactions, first
Adam Curry: of all, spook and
second of all explosive details,
the
Unknown: Opus titled war cites
and the Opus.
Adam Curry: What? What is an
opus?
John C Dvorak: What does that
even mean? Like, you know, Ben
Hur Yes,
Unknown: the Opus titled war
cites an unnamed Trump aide who
says the pair had spoken as many
as seven times since Trump left
office. The aide also recalls
one instance early this year
where they were ordered out of
Trump's office in Mar a Lago so
he could take a call with the
Russian president. However, the
book also quotes a Trump
campaign official who cast doubt
on the supposed contact. Former
presidents often speak with
foreign leaders, but it's highly
unusual to talk to a leader of
one of the United States
adversaries without first
clearing it with the State
Department. The book also
alleges Trump sent Putin covid
19 testing equipment for his
personal use in 2020 when many
nations were facing shortages.
In a statement, the Trump
campaign said these were made up
stories and called Woodward a
demented and deranged man. The
Kremlin, meanwhile, also denied
the conversations between Trump
and Putin. Woodward rose to fame
after he and his colleague Carl
Bernstein, exposed the Watergate
scandal, bringing down Richard
Nixon, he's written more than 20
books on American politics and
current affairs, including 14
bestsellers. What
Adam Curry: happened to America?
Man, we used to love people who
would do stuff like that. You
just say, I remember Ronald
Reagan, he was doing a speech
and something like a gun sound
went off, and he went, Oh, you
missed me. I mean, these funny
things and oh, now I remember.
Now it's an outrage and so
horrible. It's hilarious. We
need,
John C Dvorak: we need more,
dude, back back to this topic
you just broached. I do have a
three by three which covers it.
Okay,
Adam Curry: so I'm sorry. Here
we go. Now it's time for three
by three, yes, experiment by
successful experiment, comparing
stories from ABC, CBS and NBC,
lot of people get real happy
when they hear that. Music, oh
yes, it's a three by music. It's
happy. Music, yes, we have a
three by three of this topic,
this is interesting
John C Dvorak: now. We heard,
yeah, I thought I was this
again, Steve sent us in. So I
will say the first clip, owner
plays ABC. Now you heard the
part where, I guess Trump sent
over a piece of gear to to
Putin,
Adam Curry: yeah, like, like,
one of the one of those free
testing kits. You got four No,
no.
John C Dvorak: He said, This
gear you were talking about.
What do you think that was
Adam Curry: free testing? Kids,
it would have to
John C Dvorak: be a PCR testing
module. It has to be some sort
of, you know, equipment, right?
Well, you're
Adam Curry: gonna spin it up,
okay. Well, I
John C Dvorak: guess I mean,
what else would it be? They're
good. In this clip, Kamala
Harris is brought into the
convention moan, and she she
makes it sound as if, because I
think she thinks this, that what
Trump did, and he listened
between the lines, he didn't
say, no, no, it wasn't some PCR
gear. It was a bunch of kits.
Yes, you're those three kids
that you get four, four
household, 100 of them.
Adam Curry: Trump probably had
amongst his 17 grandchild, and
he probably had, you know, about
100 so he probably sent here
Senator Vlad DHL.
John C Dvorak: But we have to,
we're assuming it was a PCR
gear. It wasn't a bunch of boxes
of cheap tests that don't do
anything. But let's listen to
this. As the covid pandemic was
raging and the government could
not produce enough tests for the
American people, then President
Donald Trump secretly sent rare
covid test machines to Russia to
Vladimir's dictator's personal
use. That's according to Bob
Woodward in a soon to be
published book called War,
Woodward writes that Putin told
Trump to keep it a secret,
saying quote, I don't want you
to tell anybody, because people
will get mad at you, not me.
Kamala Harris seized on
Woodward's new reporting today,
talking about it in an interview
with Howard Stern, everybody was
Unknown: scrambling to get these
kits, the tests, the covid test
kits, couldn't get them,
couldn't get them, couldn't get
them anywhere. Howard
Adam Curry: Stern had 1000 of
them, hypochondriac and
Unknown: this guy who was
president of the United States,
is sending them to Russia, to a
murderous dictator for his
personal use, this person who
wants to be president again, who
secretly is helping out an
adversary when the American
people are dying by the hundreds
every day and in need of relief,
Trump also had some choice words
for Woodward, calling him a
storyteller who, quote, lost his
marbles. Woodward, though, is
one of the most respected
journalists of our times. And as
you know, David Trump has
frequently praised Vladimir
Putin and boasted about having a
good relationship with the
Russian dictator.
Adam Curry: You know, we don't
talk about this enough, but I
gotta blow I gotta blow taps for
Howard Stern. What happened to
Howard Stern, the king of all
media, The Man Who Would he was
fighting the man fighting the
FCC, fighting the government.
What happened? What do they have
on him? How did this? How did
this happen that he became a
photo. What's that in your
mouth? Howard? Now it's, it is,
it's sad. I, I used to love
driving into New York from
Jersey for years at the Lincoln
Tunnel, sitting there. Now, at
least Howard's on when it was
best of Stern, we were still
happy, and now it's just what
has gone wrong.
John C Dvorak: Well, you're not
the only one that's mystified by
this. No, it was very let's go
with the second, the second of
the three, three by three. So we
go with, let's go to CBS
Unknown: during the early days
of the pandemic in 2020 then
President Donald Trump sent
Russian President Vladimir Putin
covid 19 test machines.
According to the new book War by
Bob Woodward, Vice President
Kamala Harris responded today
during an interview with Howard
Stern, everybody
was scrambling to get these
kits, the tests, the covid test
kits, couldn't get them,
couldn't get them, couldn't get
them anywhere, right? This guy
who was president of the United
States is sending them to Russia
to a murderous dictator for his
personal use.
Even after he left office, Trump
stayed in touch with the Russian
leader. According to Woodward,
he cites an unidentified Trump
aide who said the former
president had as many as seven
private calls with Putin, even
one early this year, when Trump
was urging Republicans to block
additional aid to Ukraine in its
fight against Russia, the newly
revealed contacts raised
additional questions about
Trump's relationship with Putin
in the recent presidential
debate, Trump twice refused to
say who he wanted to prevail in
the war with Ukraine. Do
you want Ukraine? Time to win
this war.
I want the war to stop. The
vice president told 60 minutes
Trump would have allowed Putin
to conquer Ukraine.
Donald Trump, if he were
president, Putin would be
sitting in Kyiv right now. He
talks about, oh, he can end it
on day one. You know what that
is. It's about surrender.
Woodward,
who rose to fame investigating
Watergate writes in the book,
Trump was far worse than Richard
Nixon, a Trump spokesman
responded saying Woodward's
reporting is not true and that
Trump gave Woodward absolutely
no access
hit job.
John C Dvorak: Now a couple of
things about this, and the other
one is that neither report
mentions the fact that they talk
about machines, covid, PCR,
machines are here. They said it
here in this report. No, they
said it was machines. But they
never make the point that she's
talking about test kits, kits.
Yeah, by the way, clear that
this machines are not test kits.
Yet they play her talking about
test kits with no clarification
whatsoever. I have some clips
later in the show, if we get to
them, about some of the science
reporting on NPR, doing the same
kind of thing, leaving out
details that are necessary for
understanding. Leaving out
details that are necessary for
understanding is what these
networks are doing. And they're
doing a they're doing a
disservice to the American
public with this sort of
reporting just I it's just
beyond me What What I know is
going on. So I'm
Adam Curry: looking for an
excerpt in war would this is
from BBC in war. Woodward writes
that while the former president
was in office, Trump secretly
sent Putin a bunch of Abbott
point of care covid test
machines for his personal use.
So that is what was written in
the book. So Harris is
completely nuts when she's
talking about the test kits. And
have you noticed that Howard's
voice is lighter like he's he
does. He does. He talks a little
more in the front of his mouth.
He doesn't have that throaty
John C Dvorak: I didn't know
this is but you would, yeah. All
right, let's play the last of
the three, which will be NBC
Unknown: tonight in her ongoing
media blitz. Vice President
Harris telling ABC she wouldn't
change anything President Biden
did.
Would you have done something
differently than President Biden
during the past four years.
There is Donna thing that comes
to mind in terms of, and I've
been, I think
Adam Curry: she lost the
election on this. I think this
was the this was the loser. When
you say this, nothing comes to
mind, yeah,
John C Dvorak: and there's
plenty that just there was wide
days. It was a softball that
Sonny horses had to literally
read from a sheet. Yes,
Adam Curry: this was the, I
think this is the election
losing answer, right? There
Unknown: is not a thing that
comes to mind in terms of, and
I've been a part of, most of the
decisions that have had impact
later, saying she would name a
Republican to her cabinet,
former President Trump slamming
the response, calling it quote
her dumbest answer so far, and
Biden the worst president in
history. Meanwhile, Washington
Post reporter Bob Woodward
writes in a new book that former
President Trump secretly sent
Russian President Putin covid
tests for his personal use in
2020 please don't tell anybody
you sent these to me. Woodward
says Putin told Trump I don't
care. Trump replied, fine.
Woodward citing an unnamed aide
who claims Trump may have spoken
to Putin as many as seven times
since leaving the White House.
NBC News has not confirmed
Woodward's reporting. The Trump
campaign responding in part,
quote, none of these made up
stories by Bob Woodward are
true. Harris slamming Trump
today,
everybody was scrambling to get
these kits, the tests. This guy
who was president of the United
States, is sending them to
Russia, to a murderous dictator
for his personal use. Brother
John C Dvorak: NBC did the worst
job of it, because they didn't
even indicate that it was a
machine, no, which you easily
noted. It took you all of two
seconds to read from the from
BBC document from
Adam Curry: the book. Oh, gee,
there's
John C Dvorak: like these guys
even made it sound as though it
was test kits. NBC did so they
could that would would normalize
what it would make it more
sense. It would normalize what
Harris said, Good point by by
soft pedaling, what it really
was good. This is the kind of
NBC is going off the deep end. I
blame Comcast. I blame does
Brian L Roberts guy? The guy was
the CEO. Somebody should call
him out. Okay, well,
Adam Curry: might as well be
you, because no one else is
listening. Call him out. This is
another problem we can't do more
than four more years. It's not
going to be any media left to
deconstruct. We'll just be
talking about podcasts.
John C Dvorak: That's the way
it's headed. Yeah, I. All
Adam Curry: right, before we
take a break, there was one
interesting piece of news about
Tina Peters Tina Peters day is
her name. She was the she was
overseeing the election in Mesa,
Arizona, and she took issue with
the voting machines. Now, when
you hear this story, what she
what she really got convicted
for, is for allowing an
unauthorized person to take a
look at the machines. And
there's a whole bunch of other
stuff. There was screenshots
where everybody could see it was
near the password was one,
password, 123, and stuff like
that, which is important
information for people, but they
threw the book at her. Elections
Unknown: have consequences, and
so does breaking the law in
search of election rigging. Tina
Peters sentenced today to nine
years in her election tampering
case. Colorado's best known
election denier, the former Mesa
County Clerk, was defiant till
the end, arguing with the judge
at sentencing and bringing in a
parade of fellow election
conspiracy theorists to defend
her. Our Mark Salinger was in
court in Grand Junction where
Peters laughed at prosecutors,
lectured the judge, then was led
away in handcuffs. Tina Peters
is a hero to the people who
believe her lies, but inside
this courthouse, those same lies
made her a felon. You are a
charlatan, and you cannot help
but lie as easy it is for you to
breathe, a reckoning happened
today in judge Matthew Barrett's
courtroom. For nearly 30
minutes, speaking directly to
Peters, he made it clear that
words have consequences and lies
lead to prison sentences. Prison
is for those folks, where we
send people who are a danger to
all of us, whether it by be by
the pen or the sword or the word
of the mouth, prison is where
folks go, where punishment is
what we're focused on, because
the crime committed is so
significant that anything less
would unduly mitigate the
seriousness of the same Peters
granted conspiracy theorists
illegal access to voting systems
in our county as she searched
for proof of voter fraud, even
to this day, after finding no
proof of fraud, she maintains
the election was stolen from
Donald Trump, and told the court
She did nothing wrong. So
Adam Curry: okay, so you threw
the book at her, because she
after the election. By the way,
after all the election was said
and done, she lets in computer
experts, now known as conspiracy
theorists, to take a look at
these machines, and then in the
courtroom, the judge is making
it sound like, Oh, if you're a
danger, if you say things that
aren't true. He was really
making a big deal out of all,
you lie, you lie. So we're
throwing you in jail for nine
years. This, this is something
that actually kind of worries
me. Yes,
John C Dvorak: this is
worrisome. Yes, it's very
worrisome. She was sincere?
Yeah, yeah, it wasn't that she
was and what did she lie about?
What?
Adam Curry: Well, because there
was supposedly no proof,
whatever. Therefore she lied.
Therefore throw her in jail. But
there. But the real charge is
that she allowed unauthorized
access to these voting machines.
Yeah, after the fact, hey, I
know, I know these are
John C Dvorak: these.
Something's up with Arizona.
Yes, they stay away. Wasn't
really about her. This was about
anyone else who thinks they're
gonna
Adam Curry: poke around. Yeah,
don't do anything with with
those
John C Dvorak: you're gonna poke
around our area. Forget it.
Arizona's notorious for this
sort of thing, yeah, on both
sides of the of the political
spectrum. And
Adam Curry: with that, I'd like
to thank you for your courage.
Say in the morning to you, the
man who put the C in the covid
testing machine sent to Putin
Hey. Say hello to my friend on
the other end, the one only, Mr.
Jones in the
John C Dvorak: morning, to you,
Mr. McCurry, in the morning
should see boots and graffiti
the air subs in the water dais
out there. Hello.
Adam Curry: 1991 today in the
troll room.
John C Dvorak: It's good. The
average should be 1800 Okay, so
Adam Curry: we're doing welcome
Thursday. 100 extra trolls.
Hello, 100 extra trolls.
Welcome. Good to have you here.
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John C Dvorak: don't even if
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Adam Curry: Well, if California
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was a guy on LBC, and he was
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can't even get one jingle, even
a sound effect. That can't even
get a sound effect from this
company,
John C Dvorak: and LBC won't
provide him with that stuff.
Well, he
Adam Curry: says it takes 11
weeks. It's got to be, you know,
got to go through community,
legal,
Unknown: legal, it's got to go
through legal. Always go through
legal. And
Adam Curry: meanwhile, if I
said, Hey, give me a sound
effect of X, Y or Z, it would be
sent to me within five minutes.
I'd have it
John C Dvorak: at habit. One,
you're kidding. You get a dozen
even,
Adam Curry: yes, exactly,
exactly. And that's because
everyone is a producer of this
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mean, that's it's amazing that
we have these people in our in
our listening audience, and we
also have people in the national
it's
John C Dvorak: actually kind of
stunning. Well, it's a big
Adam Curry: club, and you're in.
If I
John C Dvorak: get to my science
clips, there's a there's a
couple of things in there where
I'm gonna actually request, oh,
good, some clarification from
people that are experts. Good.
We'll do
Adam Curry: it right after,
right after we're done, thanking
our our value for value
supporters. It's time, talent
and treasure. And we start with
the artwork that we chose for
episode 1701, we titled that
dork Maga. I was on one hand,
shocked on the other hand, kind
of mortified that I heard Kara
Swisher calling Elon Musk. Dork
Maga. Did we? Did she hear that
from us? Or did we somehow just
catch on to some kind. I
John C Dvorak: think we're in
the same way. Oh no, we, we were
on the same wavelength as Kara.
That's
Adam Curry: not good. That's
kind of disappointing. But when
John C Dvorak: he said, when he
said, dark, mega, the first
thing, I thought it was Darth
Magna, because I thought was
funnier, Maga, and then dork use
I think you said dork.
Adam Curry: I said, dork Maga,
yeah, dork Meg, I
John C Dvorak: wrote it down
immediately. And so you and Kara
are on the same wave.
Adam Curry: This is bad thing.
This
John C Dvorak: is bad. That's
why you listen to her. I must
repent you actually have a crush
on her.
Adam Curry: Oh yeah, that's it.
Uh huh, yeah, that would be it.
Right on. This was art which had
a DNA strand. It was it was
okay. We were happy with it. We
felt the choices weren't all
that. It was
John C Dvorak: a fallback piece.
Let's
Adam Curry: be honest. Tan
Staffel tonstaffel, who I don't
know if this is, is this
someone's nickname or I don't
know who is it? That's not tanta
Neal, it's Tom Stoffel. I
John C Dvorak: don't let
somebody new. It's not that. No,
no, it's not new.
Adam Curry: I think they've been
around. Well, no, not
John C Dvorak: long. First art
was submitted for episode 61
you're
Adam Curry: right, you're right,
but he's done
John C Dvorak: good work, he
Adam Curry: or she, he or she,
yes, a
John C Dvorak: lot of good.
Evergreen pieces, yeah, and it
must be a she, because if you
look at the logo of the tons, so
it's a girls, okay, well, then
she was for four months. She
Adam Curry: must be a Dutch
Master.
John C Dvorak: I we
Adam Curry: uncovered a new
Dutch master. Now we didn't make
it easy for everybody, because
we said, hey, you can't do any
Star Trek stuff. And I think a
lot of people had Star Trek
stuff in mind, because it was
episode 1701, starship 1701 USS,
Starship Enterprise. And I think
they got bummed out, and a
couple still did it. Of course.
I think no one had ideas. You
kind of liked the dog TV from
Dame Kenny Ben.
John C Dvorak: I did like it,
but it was simplistic looking.
Because if the dogs are more
dimensional, I think It'd have
been better and you would have
liked it. You hated it. But
okay,
Adam Curry: yeah, there you go.
I hated it. So, yeah, so we
didn't really have such a great
selection. Nose, little ham
radio, by the way, I just like
to mention so many people I
don't know about you. Are they
probably not emailing you
because they can't spell your
last name, but they've been
emailing me, hey, what radio
should I get? About a ham radio?
I
John C Dvorak: got a couple of
those, but not too many. And
Adam Curry: I would just like to
suggest that everybody we've
been doing this for over a
decade. I think,
John C Dvorak: I think you're
but wait, but your best line is,
wait, get a license. Yes, radio,
yeah,
Adam Curry: that's about what
I'm what I'm about to say, get a
license, not just because you
need to be licensed. And
actually, in an emergency,
anybody can use these things.
You know, the license deal is
not a big deal, but you go to
arrl.org, you find out where
they're testing. They do it once
a month. Just to reiterate, all
the questions for the test are
published with the answers they
won't ask you all the questions,
but all the questions they ask
you will have the exact same
answers, multiple choice, just
in a different order, so you can
memorize but you need, you
actually need to to do this to
figure out how this stuff works.
Because, you know, repeater
offsets and little things, just
little tips and tricks you need
to know in order to function
properly. Certainly on these two
meter or 70 centimeter ham ham
bands, you need to hook up with
some people. So don't just think
I can get a radio and then
Breaker, breaker, good buddy, Is
this thing on? Because it takes,
Unknown: it's
Adam Curry: not the Italian
guys, the span of security X,
security X, the hams are all
laughing now, trust me, now,
yes,
John C Dvorak: it sounds like
Mexican radio.
Adam Curry: Just do that. You
will not regret it. And it's,
it's easy, and it'll cost you a
total of 60 bucks to get it to
radius. By the way, that's with
the radio. You know, 60 bucks
with the radio
John C Dvorak: box is high.
Well, you looked at the prices
recently. Well, they
Adam Curry: got some really
spiffy the bow thing, things,
you know, they're about things
for 60 bucks, yeah, but you
want, okay, yeah, you can get a
lot of gear and and even
programming them is easy with
some software, but just get into
it. Spend a weekend, get into
it. It's worth it. You will not
regret it. You will not
John C Dvorak: regret it. And
you got a handy license you can
frame, yes,
Adam Curry: yeah. You can frame
your handy license, yeah, right
next to your Commodore ship,
next
John C Dvorak: to your Commodore
ship, next to your PhD next
year, your diploma from
community college and the
university. Whatever you got, I
have my
Adam Curry: Connecticut School
of broadcasting diploma. Very
proud of that
John C Dvorak: good they're very
proud of that long since
defunct, yes,
Adam Curry: but I still have
one. So thank you, tan Staffel.
Tan Staffel, for the artwork. No
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Rohnert Park, California, comes
in with $1,000 and he says, Hi,
John and Adam, Captain Luke
Knight of the Barbary Coast.
Here, when John cleans out his
PO Box, he should find my first
donation check of $1,000 that
both bumps me up to Baron and
gets me, gets me a bonus boat
driver title. That's right,
Commodore boat driver title. So
henceforth I should be known as
Captain Luke Barron of Sonoma
County and commodore of all
coastal and riverine operations
therein. And he would like to
request old casbier and Al tazaj
Chicken. What is that? Altaz?
Are you familiar with that? That
John C Dvorak: is, I believe,
the chicken that everyone talks
about that's made at their chain
of restaurants in Saudi Arabia.
Adam Curry: Did you guys get
that? Oh, did they say they got
it? I don't know how they got
that, but they got it in
John C Dvorak: Okay, so the
recipe is available. You can
copy it. Oh, I
Adam Curry: don't think they
made it. I think they flew it.
It's
John C Dvorak: a it's a lure.
It's a long,
Unknown: uh,
John C Dvorak: soaked, uh brined
chicken that's in season this or
very everybody brags. Everybody
who's ever had this chicken, if
it's saying, what I'm thinking
of goes on and on and on about
how fabulous it is. Well,
Adam Curry: we'll be trying it
later on at the round table when
we give you your title upgrade.
No jingles, but I need an F
cancer for my son in law and
special F glaucoma, glaucoma
karma for my sister. That's
horrible. Thank you for your
courage. Says Captain Luke. And
so we'll roll out a double for
them.
Unknown: You've got karma.
You've got karma.
John C Dvorak: Remind Captain
Luke and everyone else that's on
this list that you get your
Commodore ship documents. You
are document you go to no agenda
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so it gets sent to the right
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Adam Curry: Yeah, I'm excited to
get mine, because I want to take
the you should have
John C Dvorak: gotten it by now.
Should most, according to my
post office, you supposed to
have gotten it on Tuesday. I
Adam Curry: didn't get it on
Tuesday, and get it on
Wednesday. I'll check tomorrow,
and otherwise I'll go to the
post office and raise hell.
John C Dvorak: Uh, Terrell a
McMahan, I looked him up. I
couldn't find him in Bartlett.
Bartlett as in pair Tennessee
came in with 500 bucks. No, no,
no, nothing about anything. And
so we give him a double up.
Karma, you've
Unknown: got
Adam Curry: karma. Ronald,
sorry. Roland, Schneider
Granger, Texas, $500 and he
says, Commodore, SX 64 of Lake
Granger purchased SX 64 when I
was a teenager with money earned
from agricultural labor,
countless hours of basic fun.
Shout out down south to the
fishermen in CC, keep up the
good work. Got it. Thank
John C Dvorak: you. Game Bay
Area, wildfire, yes, forest
management. People get into that
Gilroy. She's in Gilroy,
California, and she came in with
another 500 bucks, and she is
saying, Your Bay Area, wire
wildfire, you guys are the best
stuck in us. Shout out to my
great friends, Kristen and Nikki
or Nick. Nick to another four
more years. Four more years.
Adam Curry: Mark alcoser Alco,
sir, I think Houston, Texas, 500
late. Congrats for 1700 shows
and happy early 17th
anniversary. Jobs karma, please.
Jobs,
Unknown: jobs, jobs and jobs.
John C Dvorak: Anonymous in
Silver Spring, Maryland, 500 and
all he or she says is Commodore
anonymous.
Adam Curry: All right, Commodore
anonymous, all right. Go to no
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out. Make sure we get your
address and you'll be Commodore
anonymous. Steve banstra from
Nashville, Tennessee, who
doesn't know Steve $500 he says,
Now, when I'm at a dinner party
and someone tells me that they
went to Vanderbilt, I can tell
them I'm a Commodore anchored
down Steve banter, Baron of BNA,
John C Dvorak: another anonymous
comes in with $500 and says to.
Four more years. Four more
Adam Curry: years. Colin McLane
Argyle, Texas, 333, he says,
Rogan, donation, donation. And
please deduce me.
Unknown: You've been deduced.
John C Dvorak: Eli the coffee
guy, yeah, in bensonville,
Illinois, 210, 10, and he says,
I'd like to wish my wife,
Jennifer, a happy anniversary.
Thank you for joining me on this
journey called life. You're an
amazing wife, a mother and a
business partner. I'm true and a
good designer, by the way, I
give her credit for that. She
designed the packaging. Oh, I'm
truly a lucky man. Can I get
which saves money, by the way,
yes, it does. Money saver.
Unknown: That's good. Can
John C Dvorak: I get a boogity?
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Adam Curry: all right, we move
on to ZEV green in Teaneck, New
Jersey, $200 Associate Executive
producership for you. He says,
Dear no agenda family, I'm
excited to announce that I've
crossed the $1,000 mark and my
sustainable donations have
finally paid off. My whole
family listens to every show,
yes, even the donation segments.
Well, of course, that's where
all the good stuff is. As a
technologist who travels
internationally for work, I
catch each episode as soon as my
podcasting 2.0 app alerts me,
but at two times speed, the show
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Unknown: Okay,
Adam Curry: your life will also
be shortened by doing that.
That's just me. Thankfully, no,
thankfully, I'm launching my
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please send some karma my way.
Also, I'm donating an additional
$200 in honor of my 49th trip
around the sun on Friday the
11th. Please Knight me as sir
ZEV mo protector of the digital
wallet for my round table, Neil,
I like to have potato Kugel,
more Jew food, he says. And for
drink kombucha. For jingles I'd
love to hear not a fan of the
kombucha for jingles, I'd like
to hear biscuit for my birthday.
Adam's favorite Reverend Al clip
and a deducing. Thank you for
your courage. Best from ZEV Moe,
green Teaneck, New Jersey. PS,
Adam, every time you speak with
a Dutch accent, it reminds me of
my Van Van apron. Family
originally from Nord problem, it
always brings a smile to my
face. Val, isn't that great? I'm
so happy
Unknown: for you. They always
give me a biscuit on my
birthday. The GOP
infighting is escalating.
Political says Democrats are
outright jitty happy to watch
the GOP approach.
You've been deduced.
John C Dvorak: Unbelievable.
Linda lupatkin is finishes up
our show, executive and
Associate Executive Producer.
She's from Lakewood, Colorado,
and she gives, comes in with
$200 and says, Oh, she wants
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Unknown: jobs, jobs and jobs.
Adam Curry: You're so proud of
yourself. I finally did it one
in a million. Hey, there you go.
Thank you to our executive and
Associate Executive producers.
We will thank the rest of our
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we appreciate what you do. Thank
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Unknown: Oh, my formula is this.
We go out. We hit people in the
mouth, shut up.
Slay All
Adam Curry: right, you had
something you wanted to play.
Yeah,
John C Dvorak: I want to do
these clips. This is a an
example. These are a total of
six clips. Oh, and it's they're
different, though they're not
just like one topic called Divi
depth. This is about the kind of
dingbats that you have doing
reporting nowadays, and this is
specific to NPR. Oh, well,
Adam Curry: like we haven't been
paying attention to them today.
We've been giving them a lot of
errors.
John C Dvorak: It's, yes, it's
like NPR kind of a focus to
let's focus on crap. Be
reporting. Let's start with this
one. This is the first this
dingbat report NPR on the this
is about the Honda. Honda's had
a big recall. And then we get to
listen to, I don't know, this
girl sounds like she's in the
11th grade, maybe telling us all
about the problem with the
steering mechanism on a Honda
car.
Unknown: Honda is recalling more
than 1.7 million vehicles
because of a defect in the
steering mechanism. Federal
regulators say the issue could
increase the risk for crash and
Paris Camila domino ski has
details. The recall
includes the Acura Integra Honda
CRV and the Civic family all
from model year 2022, or newer,
Honda thinks about 1% of
recalled cars actually have the
faulty part. It's a badly
manufactured worm wheel, the
part where the rotation from
turning the steering wheel turns
into turning a gear to turn the
wheels. Turns out that these
defective worm wheels can swell.
There's also a spring that's
wound too tight, add it up, and
you might get an abnormal noise
and a sticky feeling when you
turn the steering wheel.
Adam Curry: Wow, how
condescending is that.
John C Dvorak: So why do we even
have a reporter reporting on
something that you can just
read? The newsreader could have
read that, but they do this a
lot. I was looking at. In fact,
I went and looked it up on the
NPR personnel. They have
hundreds and hundreds of people
working there that just for this
purpose alone. That brings me to
the second group of clips. This
is the Sandia. It's about Sandia
Labs, which she pronounces
Sandia.
Adam Curry: I don't know why.
What is Sandy sand Sandia Labs
is
John C Dvorak: down in the
Albuquerque area, and it's a
should again. She might maybe
send Diaz the way it's
pronounced now, but this is a,
this is one of those examples
we've talked about it before in
the show where you have a
situation where you use the term
spokesperson instead of
representative, because you want
to make it clear that you're
using non, you know, language a
certain way. I believe NPR uses,
uh, brings on presenters that
are dei hires
Adam Curry: for their score,
their ESG score, for
John C Dvorak: their score and
and for bragging rights. And
they do it by they you could
bring in somebody who's who can
do presentation well, and they'd
be a dei hire, but if you're
listening on the right, you
wouldn't notice it. So that's no
good. So let's bring on a woman
that's got so much she's just a
lousy presenter. Can't she
screeches when she talks. She's
got see. I don't know if she's
black or Mexican or I don't. I
can't tell, but she's got a
ghetto sound to her that that
tells the listener, hey, I'm a
dei hire. Get over it, and here
we go. Do you
Unknown: worry that an asteroid
will slam into Earth and in all
life on this planet, perhaps
scenes from movies like
Armageddon keep you up at night.
We may have something to make
your sleep a little better.
Scientists may have discovered a
way to knock an incoming
asteroid off course. And for
anyone who ever wondered, why
don't we just throw a bunch of
nuclear missiles at it? Well,
you're kind of
right. So it's a little bit
different concept, but we think
it may even be more effective.
Nathan Moore led a team of
physicists at the Sandia
National Laboratories in
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Adam Curry: All right, here's
how the meeting went. Hey guys,
I think we really we've had some
issues with with a younger
audience listening to NPR. We
need to hip it up a little bit.
I want some sound effects. I
want, you know, a young, young
voices, multicultural voices,
and let's just be a little bit
looser with the scripts. Yeah,
that'll do it.
John C Dvorak: Do you that would
be the meeting? Sorry. Well, I'm
sorry that would be the meeting
now. I now the problem is
reporting here is, which brings
me to the last couple of clips
coming up. Didn't
Adam Curry: we always do this?
By the way, do we already?
Didn't already throw, like,
crash something into a asteroid?
Well,
John C Dvorak: yeah, but that
was the landed to steal
something from it, I meant this
difference. And the thing is, is
that they're going to tell us
something that it makes no sense
and it's never explained. And
this is what, what the galling
part is, besides her voice, here
we go.
Unknown: The Sandia National
Laboratories in Albuquerque, New
Mexico, they have discovered you
just need to set off a nuclear
explosion near an asteroid, and
the burst of X rays will send it
safely off target. The idea has
been around for decades, but the
only way to test it is with the
nuclear weapon, and
those are difficult to come by,
so we invented a laboratory
experiment where we could test
this idea. Him to generate an
incredibly strong burst of X
rays in the laboratory. His team
used magnetic fields to produce
these X rays and recorded their
effects on two mock asteroids
roughly the size of tic tacs.
Not only does it work, but it
works better than we thought,
and
on any size asteroid. But Nathan
Moore cautions that all
asteroids are not alike.
Asteroids
come in many different flavors.
They're made of many different
types of rocks. We've only done
a test on one type of mineral,
so it will be important to test
this idea on different minerals
in our laboratory experiments to
develop a full understanding of
how we would deal with every
type of asteroid,
but it's good to know we humans
have options that those
dinosaurs didn't when it comes
to asteroids or when they come
to us.
It's certainly reassuring to
know that if we are surprised by
either a large asteroid or one
that shows up with very little
warning, if it needs a hard
shove, we have a way to deal
with it. Bruce Willis,
thank you for your service. Oh,
Adam Curry: my goodness, I'm
surprised he didn't say Axelrod.
John C Dvorak: The worst part
about this report is not even
her. It's how do X rays, which
have, no matter push anything I
would. I'm sure that maybe it
does. They do, but I don't know
how it does. I mean, when I have
an x ray, I'm not thrown back
against the table. It's like so
there's no explanation for how
this X ray also
Adam Curry: rude. Bruce Willis
is, is a vegetable. It's rude.
Is, and
John C Dvorak: then the Bruce
Willis reference is like with
Bon
Adam Curry: Jovi music,
John C Dvorak: that's rude.
Adam Curry: I agree. This is
peace NPR, right here. It's
over. That's it's enjoy.
Finally,
John C Dvorak: it exemplifies
the crap that they produce. And
it's also not explanatory. It
used to be educational. You
should learn something, you
learn nothing. So here we go to
this second group. Now this is
all the same. This is about more
science led pipes. And I want to
this is about this has got so
much lack of information.
There's no real reporting. It's
just as let's get rid of lead
pipes. They they never explain
as we go along, I'll try to
throw in what might be going on
because I have, because I would
like it Wait,
Adam Curry: didn't you? Used to
be a lead pipe inspector, no.
John C Dvorak: Oh, okay, and so
I would say that there is lead
pipes inch. There's just
information in here that is not
explained.
Unknown: Let's go. There are
some 9 million homes across the
US getting water through lead
pipes, and now the Environmental
Protection Agency says those
pipes need to come out. The
science
has been clear for decades.
There is no safe level of lead
in our drinking water.
That's EPA Administrator Michael
Regan.
He says lead
is harmful, especially to
children. And VRS
ping Huang has been following
the story, and she joins us now,
hi, ping. Okay, so I gotta
admit, I was kind of surprised
this wasn't already a rule. What
is the Epta saying about it?
Yeah, you would think, right. I
mean, it's definitely something
that water advocates have been
fighting for for many, many
years now. And the main thing
about this rule is that, for the
first time on the federal level,
it requires most water systems
to replace all their lead pipes
within 10 years. Now, Leila,
this is a problem with a long
history, but it got a lot of
attention 10 years ago with the
Flint water crisis in Michigan.
And there, there was a change in
the water chemistry that caused
old pipes to leach high amounts
of lead into the drinking water.
And since then, some cities and
states have actually already
been swapping out those lead
pipes for copper. Okay.
John C Dvorak: What did she say
at the end
Adam Curry: happen. I don't know
what she said, and they're just
filling air time
John C Dvorak: to play the
little end part again and tell
me what she said, word by word.
Crisis in
Unknown: Michigan. And there,
there was a change in the water
chemistry. There, there
Adam Curry: was a change in the
water chemistry. Wait, wait,
wait, I'm listening to
Unknown: each high amounts of
lead into the drinking water.
That's the tiny legs into the
drinking water. Some cities and
states have actually already
been swapping out those lead
pipes for copper. Okay,
Adam Curry: that last bit I
could not decode. Let me listen
again. And
Unknown: some cities and states
have actually already been
swapping out those lead pipes
for copper.
Adam Curry: Well, some states
have been a lot the selected
lapping hopper.
John C Dvorak: I could I listen
to this 10 times that I couldn't
figure out what she said, the
Adam Curry: leech and lop and
slopping hopper. Let me just
slapping swapping out the
swapping out the lead for
copper. How about that?
Unknown: And since then, some
cities and states have actually
already been swapping out those
lead pipes. Hopper, they've been
Adam Curry: slopping out the
slopping out the headphones for
copper. She said, Hopper, yeah,
how can we? We don't get gigs
like this. This is a great gig.
I wanted to slop and Hopper,
okay,
John C Dvorak: so let's right
away. We introduced it turns
out, besides that last bit,
which is, I had to stop it
there, because it's like, what
did, I still don't know what she
said, lappa, Hopper, slop and
hopper. So we got, let
everybody's got lead pipes show
title, slop and Hopper, slop and
hopper. So everyone's got,
there's lead pipes are
everywhere. But in Flint,
Michigan, it caused a problem,
and everyone got poisoned, and
they made a big fuss about it,
because of the water chemistry.
Yeah. What water chemistry? What
water chemistry? What changed in
Flint that all of a sudden
everyone got lead poisoning when
there's lead pipes. It turns out
the whole country is filled with
them,
Adam Curry: slop and hopper. So
John C Dvorak: what? What do? We
didn't distant. Tell me
anything. All I know is, if
there's lead pipes everywhere,
and they've been here forever
and and I also know that
elemental lead, elemental lead,
is not toxic. Even lick lead,
it's not going to do anything.
It's the lead salts.
Adam Curry: Ah, are you getting
all that? Are talks getting all
chemistry on me now,
John C Dvorak: but they never
talk about any of that. Let's go
with clip to a word they where
they still tell us nothing,
Unknown: right? It was clear,
even back then that it wasn't
just a problem in Flint. Are
there parts of the country that
are more likely to rely on lead
pipes?
Yeah, places with homes that
were built before 1986 that's
the year that Congress banned
lead pipes, but the ones that
were already in the ground were
allowed to stay there until now.
So there are lead pipes in every
state, but some have more than
others. Those include Illinois,
Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New
York and New Jersey. All of
those states have over half a
million lead pipes. Wow. So
that's a lot of pipes. They're
gonna have to replace all those
in 10 years.
Wow. Yeah, it is a lot of pipes,
and for the most part, they will
have to but there are some
interesting exceptions. So
Chicago, for instance, has the
most lead pipes out of any city,
around 400,000 in Chicago alone,
and that's because they actually
required lead pipes there until
they were banned. So when this
rule was first proposed, Chicago
got a pretty big exemption,
something like 40 to 50 years to
replace all their pipes because
they just had too many of them.
And a lot of advocates pushed
back on that. They said it's way
too long. That's generations
more people growing up with lead
pipes. So in the final rule, the
EPA has tightened that up now,
instead of 40 years, they have
more like 20 to 25
Adam Curry: Okay, so a couple
things I learned here. One, no
wonder Chicago is retarded is
because they're all drinking
lead. And the other thing I got
from net Ned, he says Detroit
water was used until Detroit
kicked them off for not paying
their bill, and Flint switched
to a mothballed water treatment
plant from the Flint River that
was really polluted, just as an
aside, and we do better than
NPR.
John C Dvorak: Well, another
thing the question that comes to
mind when I heard that clip was,
why did Chicago demand the lead
pipes in the first place
Adam Curry: so that the
Democrats could keep winning
elections.
John C Dvorak: Well, that's an
interesting theory, but it's
like that. Why don't they tell
us anything? They there's, this
is a fact free Science Report.
They're, they're telling us
nothing, no. And, for example,
what is going on that causes the
let and even with the Flint,
Michigan thing. I still don't
know what the chemistry is. Now
I have some ideas. It's possible
that, for example, you can get
lead chloride. If you chlorinate
the water and run it through
lead pipes, you might get some,
some, some, some lead chloride
through to the drinking water. I
mean, that's one possibility. If
you look do any research at all,
and they don't talk about this.
If you have hard water, it coats
the inside of the lead pipe. So
the likelihood of toxic toxicity
is zero because there's a
coating. You know, anyone who
has hard water knows what the
problem is. It just calcium and
manganese just coat everything.
And so it makes the pipe
smaller, but it protects it, and
that's not discussed. And then
the sleeving thing, which is
what most people do in these
some of these areas, you run
plastic sleeves through the
copper pipe, and then you just
run the water through that, and
that solves the problem
immediately. And then there's
also solder joints they don't
talk about, which would leeches
through even when copper
Adam Curry: pipe. How come I
didn't call you for this Science
Report. Could
John C Dvorak: have called
anybody
Unknown: Shut up already.
Adam Curry: Science, yeah,
science, be quiet.
John C Dvorak: So they continue
with the non factual reporting
with the next clip. In touch
Unknown: with Brenda Santoyo,
and she's a water justice
advocate in Chicago, water
Adam Curry: justice advocate.
Nah.
John C Dvorak: Wow. Hey, water
justice, that
Adam Curry: should be our next
promotion. We can give out water
justice advocate diplomas.
Unknown: Okay,
Adam Curry: yeah, what? I have
a, W, J, a in Detroit. It's
Unknown: definitely progress. I
think that, like the city, the
state, should take, like their
own measures to
try to speed up that process as
much as it can.
We also don't want our water
systems to be set up for
failure, for them to take
shortcuts.
Yeah. She says that the timeline
seems reasonable, so long as
families are able to protect
themselves in the meantime.
Yeah. I
mean, even 10 more years seems
like a long time to be drinking
water that might have lead in
it. So what can families do to
protect themselves? Yeah, well,
step one
is figuring out whether they
have a lead service line. The
service line is the pipe that
brings tap water into your
house, and that would be the
most likely culprit. If you can
see that line, you can scratch
it with a coin. Try a magnet on
it. There's some guidance online
that can help you figure out if
it's made of lead, copper or
coated steel. And in case you're
wondering if it's easy to
scratch and a magnet does not
stick to it, those are some of
the signs that it could be lead.
They can also test their water
for lead. There are some water
districts out there that offer
free water testing so they can
check for that. And here's the
thing, even if there is lead in
the water, common home filters
can take them out. So pitcher
filters, faucet filters that are
certified to remove lead. All
these are really great
solutions, until the lead pipes
themselves get eliminated. I am
Adam Curry: very close to
banning NPR science reports on
this show. I'm very, very, very
close to it. This is bad. This
is very bad.
John C Dvorak: You have to
remember that NPR our national
treasure, and all these, these
public radio station began as
educational stations where the
where you should learn
something, you learn nothing
from these people. There's no
explanation for anything. It's
just blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah. Lead is bad.
Adam Curry: Yeah, that we could
have summed up that whole report
with what you just said there.
Blah blah blah. Lead is bad,
blah blah blah, all right, thank
you for this science moment.
You're welcome. I would like to
move to Israel and Iran and
what's happening. I have a
couple of clips, and I have some
analysis that I would like to
share with the group. We start
first with Biden and Netanyahu.
Finally speaking,
Unknown: President Biden today
spoke with Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The
White House called their
conversation direct and
productive. However, one of the
big questions that remains is,
how will Israel respond to the
Iranian missile attack, and when
Israel's defense minister warns
it will be precise and deadly?
Amish news reporter Josh einer
is live in Tel Aviv tonight with
the story
well as precise and deadly, he
said, But he added, and above
all, surprising they meaning the
Iranians, he added, will not
understand what happened and
how. But as you point out, the
big question is when and if the
Israelis have decided that they
aren't saying tonight, one year
after President Biden came to
Israel and wrapped Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
a bear hug, the two leaders have
seen their relationship sour.
Netanyahu prosecution of the war
in Gaza and now Lebanon, but
eight days after nearly 200
Iranian missiles filled the
Israeli skies, Netanyahu and
Biden today spoke on the phone
to discuss Israel's plans to
retaliate.
The US and the Israeli
government have been discussing.
Have had discussion since last
week
after,
certainly since after the Iran
attack, and so that those
discussions continued with the
President and the Prime
Minister, the
White House has been trying to
convince Netanyahu to choose
conventional military targets,
and not Iran's oil industry or
nuclear program. And it all
comes at the holiest time of the
year in this holy land. Will
they try to do something before
the end of the week? Because at
the end of the week is the
holiest day on the Jewish
calendar, Yom Kippur, the Day of
Atonement. And at this time,
there is so much uncertainty
about what's to come. Now
Adam Curry: I ask you, in the
world of cyclical happenings,
wouldn't a second Yom Kippur war
be perfect? Oh, just in the just
in the cyclical nature of
things, and I'll come back,
John C Dvorak: interesting idea.
Just even think
Adam Curry: of that. Just a
thought. Now we go to NPR, and
let's just get a little update,
short one from from NPR. There's
Unknown: a lot of speculation
over whether Israel will respond
and what would be its targets.
Iranian foreign minister Abbas
energy, in this video by AP
news, warned Israel not to test
his country's resolve by
launching an attack, saying
Iran. His response would be more
powerful than last week's
ballistic missile attack. That
was in response to Israel's
killing of top Hezbollah and
Hamas leaders. Ergy said Tehran
stands fully behind its so
called Axis of Resistance, which
includes Hezbollah and Hamas,
and that he would soon be
traveling to Saudi Arabia and
other regional countries to
discuss Israel's offensives in
Gaza and Lebanon. There's
intense debate here in Israel
about the scale and target of a
potential attack on Iran. Many
experts believe it could be
against its energy sector.
Adam Curry: Okay, so bear that
in mind, and he's also going to
be roaming around talking to
people now we go to our retired
generals, and the first one
coming right out of retirement,
known for his seven count, the
famous Wes Clark seven is, in
fact, General Wesley Clark, and
he's going to lay it all out for
us.
Unknown: Do you believe Bibi
Netanyahu will pull the trigger
on Iran?
I certainly do, and I believe he
should all the tragedy and
Hamas, all that's going on with
Hezbollah is traceable to the
source, and that's Iran. And so
this is the moment, and this is
the situation in which Israel
has to strike and strike hard at
Iran.
Adam Curry: Guys. Hey, it's
number seven on the list. We got
this the final one. We got to
complete my West Clark seven.
What
Unknown: do you make of the move
by Emmanuel Macron to withhold
weapons.
Well, I think he's responding
probably to domestic pressure in
France, but it's a certainly
misguided effort. If he wants to
make a difference, he should
endeavor to have religious
leaders in France call together
common a bring common aid in
Jerusalem, have the pope there
tell common aid to renounce his
claims, his efforts to destroy
Israel and kill all its people.
Adam Curry: I love. I love this.
First of all, I like they. Says
common a, common a, instead of
Khomeini, he says common A. So
his idea is, get the Pope, bring
the pope over, have common A and
the Pope, we got to do a photo
op, common A, and we'll all
shake hands like a big Camp
David though in Israel, and
Khamenei and the Pope. And what
it'll be good if you
Unknown: go to the source,
that's the way you deal with
this. And Iran is the source,
and Khamenei is the key person.
One
more question for you. There
have been some who say that if
Israel were to strike,
particularly Iran's oil, that
this would spark world war
three. Give us your perspective,
considering all the years you
have as an experienced commander
Adam Curry: in ruining other
countries in NATO,
Unknown: well, I don't think
their strike on their oil is
going to spark world war three.
I don't think World War Three is
in the offing right now, but I
do say this Iran is on the verge
of having nuclear weapons. Maybe
it has them. Now. It has those.
Everything's different. This
regime in the in Iran, it has to
go now. I can change its tune.
If it says okay to live with its
neighbors, fine if it continues
to insist that its whole effort
is directed at the destruction
of a neighboring state in the
21st century, that's not
permitted. No. So this is a
moment for Israel to assert
itself, to strike back and to
gain dominance in the region
over Iran. So
Adam Curry: that sounds to me
like regime change is what he's
saying here. We just have to
change those guys. Everything
else is fine. It's not going to
start world war three. No
proving once again, we have the
best producers in the universe.
One of our producers was at an
investor dinner. And I This must
have been pretty high end,
because they brought in as a
dinner speaker, General Milley.
And our producer gave me a big
Mike, Big Mike, General Mike,
John C Dvorak: the other big
Mike, the
Adam Curry: other big Mike, gave
me a little rundown of what he
said. Took notes, and I think
it's it's worth sharing. History
is cyclical. He said, The Treaty
of Westphalia in 1648 ended the
30 Years War and set the West up
for 100 years of peace between
large powers broken by the Seven
Years War, the French and Indian
War around 1750 then the
constant state of war, until
Congress of Vienna established
the Concert of Europe in 18,
5015 then there was peace
amongst large powers for 100
years, until World War One, from
Fort to 1914 to 1945 with World
War Two, we are now 80 years
into the current peace
established by rules based under
imposed rules based order
imposed after World War Two. The
next 20 years will be very
interesting. China, Russia and
Iran have every incentive to
overthrow the rules based order
that's governed the world since
the Americans came up with it in
new in a New Hampshire hotel in
19. 44 he says that was Bretton
Woods, China building the
military with an eye on seizing
Taiwan. Xi says he wants to take
it by 2027 which would be the
100 year anniversary of the
People's Liberation Army. He
says, maybe, but China lacks
experience and may underestimate
the difficulty of it important
that they continue to wonder if
the US would intervene. Ah,
that's so we need to keep
rattling the sabers. Gaza,
Israel is responding to this
horrific attack. Imagine what we
do. They've been fairly
successful with their strategic
goal of destroying Hamas about
two thirds of the way there.
They haven't gotten all of their
leadership yet, but it's coming
soon. Their challenge going
forward is that they lack a
political message. All war is
politics administered through
organized violence. That's a
good statement.
John C Dvorak: I like that one.
Adam Curry: All wars politics
administered through organized
violence, need an alternative
path to sell it to the
Palestinians continued
collateral damage, civilian
deaths makes it harder. It may
require an Arab peace
enforcement troops, maybe from
Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Notice, we have Netanyahu going
on a little tour Iran. Israel
will hit Iran, but they'll
probably wait until after the
High Holy Days conclude next
week, probably a mix of
military, economic and symbolic
targets. He said, Maybe I'm
wrong. They might go downtown
either way. Going downtown
either way, it will be a strong
message of, don't do that again,
but stopping short of delivering
a devastating hit, neither
Israel nor Iran won a full
direct war. But sometimes wars
happen even when they aren't
wanted. Would the US get
involved? Well, the country is a
third bigger than Iraq, with
bigger military, we could deal
with it, but at a significant
cost, so unlikely. Nuclear now,
they are only days or weeks away
from having enough uranium goo.
However, Millie says it will
still take quite a period of
time to package that into a
missile. So there's something,
there's something different from
from Wesley Clark,
John C Dvorak: it's always a
couple weeks away. Well,
Adam Curry: that's just for the
goo. It'll take much longer to
package it into a missile? Yeah,
they
John C Dvorak: keep changing the
target supremely. I'm I'm going
with our thesis that this whole
thing is a sham. I'm and the
fact that they've been talking
about the nuke, the nuke being a
week away, a week away, a couple
weeks away, four years, next
month, for a decade, years,
decade. Is it possible that at
some point years ago they
figured out they can't do this?
Maybe none of it works, and
maybe none of it works. And so
they're going to say, well,
let's, let's change our
policies, but we have to do this
slowly. So let's get rid of
this, these terrorist groups,
somehow we have to go in cahoots
with other people to do this,
because we can't do it, because
it would make us look bad. We
want to stay in power. And so
the whole, it's a whole thing
is, is is a, is a, is a sham.
The common needs, because
there's no evidence of the
contrary. And even if Israel
sends a couple of missiles over
there gonna hit anything, no.
And the 200 missiles that were
sent toward Israel, they didn't
hit anything. They killed some
one of them, but the poor guy
got hit by a fragment I sent you
that video. After the most
disgusting thing, you wonder
whether it's real car two that's
what I wonder about it. How does
Adam Curry: that even happen?
How does that even happen?
Anyway, he goes on to about the
future of warfare, which I think
is the final interesting point,
the nature of war doesn't change
through history, but character
of war does, tactics and
technology. Example, gun range
increased from 70 yards to 400
yards between American
Revolution and the Civil War.
Generals were slow to adapt to
it, and it was a bloodbath in
World War Two, the Germans,
Brits and French had had the
same new tank tech, radio comms
and air support, but the Germans
came up with the best system,
the panzer divisions, and
steamrolled Europe in 18 months,
including a larger French army
looking ahead, 1/3 of the US
military will be robots in 15
years, drone tanks, sailorless
ships, more UAVs, etc. China and
Russia will try to do the same,
armed robots, powered by here it
comes, AI and quantum computing
will have you
John C Dvorak: said, quantum
computing? Yes. Know what it is,
we'll
Adam Curry: have terrifying
capabilities. This way goes off
the rails, yeah? So we don't
need to invite General Milley
for our after dinner
conversation.
John C Dvorak: He's like, he
does have a historic he likes to
do his historic stuff, yeah,
doing historic stuff. And.
Analyzing it is hindsight doing
foresight. He's got nothing he
can't rope into the future robot
AI and quantum computing. Now,
Adam Curry: chum, I tell you, if
you really want to know what is
happening in the future of
warfare, we must look to the
NATO. And the NATO, as you know,
is now run by our former prime
minister from the Netherlands,
Mark.
Unknown: It's crucial for
Ukraine to prevail, and we have
to afford that. Putin has his
way with and in Ukraine, because
there's not only a problem for
Ukraine, there's also a threat
to all of us here in the UK,
Adam Curry: everybody, everybody
is threatened, huh?
John C Dvorak: I bought your
accent, yes, because I listened
to this. I think you, you've got
It's fabulous. I wish I could do
it, but there's a couple of
things you might want to do.
Okay? One, they go a lot more
than you do. Yes, okay. And the
other thing is, he changes his
Ruta, he changes his cadence, he
talks at a certain speed, then
he speeds up, and then he slows
down, and that little element
you have yet to Cat capture.
Adam Curry: Oh, okay, I will
John C Dvorak: just do it.
Adam Curry: Very good in the
future of us,
Unknown: here in the UK, all
over NATO, including Canada and
the US. If Russia would be
successful in Ukraine, it would
be a security threat to all of
us. So we have to massively,
massively learn how to speak
Russian. Continue what we are
doing first, and that is to put
military aid into Ukraine. Yes,
some aid to make sure that we
have enough training ready for
the soldiers, the brave soldiers
from Ukraine. And
Adam Curry: we must have some
training ready for the soldiers,
brave soldiers, brave very brave
soldiers.
Unknown: The brave people were
working there to the dead
people. You mean counter the
Russian Russian onslaught. At
the same time, we have to
implement what we agreed in
Washington during the summit.
But particularly, this is the
command we are now setting up in
Germany.
Adam Curry: Oh, command, oh,
Germany is going to take all the
hits. Great.
Unknown: Basically, coordinate
all the activities. Oh yes,
NATO.
Adam Curry: Oh yes. Let Putin go
get mad at the Germans allies
Unknown: and others to make sure
that this aid gets into Ukraine.
And of course, the so called 40
billion euro plus so
Adam Curry: called that is not
so called. It is heal, and we
stole it from the Russians,
Unknown: where we decided
collectively to make sure that
the money is available long
term. And this is, of course, at
least for the first year, but
then also longer term, we have
to find that money. Yes, and we
have to work on the bilateral
security agreements, as they are
now being negotiated between
Ukraine and various allies. He's
Adam Curry: negotiating between
Ukraine and various allies.
There's no letting up. We're
going to continue, continue to
how about the long range
weapons? But would
Unknown: you support Ukraine
being given access to longer
range missiles to be able to
fire those deeper into Russia?
Militarily, we've heard from
former senior commanders in
Europe saying that Ukraine's
allies need to be firmer that
dither and delay, as one of them
put it, is not in Ukraine's
interest. So would you
personally support the use by
Ukraine of longer range missiles
to fire deeper into Russia?
Adam Curry: Well, let me say
this about that.
Unknown: Let me be very
specific. First of all, Ukraine
is allowed illegally to strike
targets in Russia. When who
makes
Adam Curry: up these laws
Unknown: illegally? Leaders,
what
John C Dvorak: Yes, is there
some who edict? Was there some
is law passed?
Adam Curry: Is there some kind
of war? Law is Geneva? First
Unknown: of all, Ukraine is
allowed illegally, legally,
legally, talking about I mark
Adam Curry: Rita have said it is
legal. You can go ahead
Unknown: illegally to strike
targets in Russia when these
targets pose a threat to
Ukraine. So legally, this is
possible. Legally
John C Dvorak: go to court over
this. What are they talking
about? Yes, hello, Vladimir.
Just send the police in.
Unknown: And my second element
of my house will be that it is
not one weapon system which will
change the outcome of this
conflict. No,
Adam Curry: we need many weapons
spend the money. And
Unknown: then, of course, it is
up to the individual allies to
decide when they deliver weapon
systems into Ukraine, how they
can be used, what kinds of
commitments they give in terms
of for Ukraine, where is he
going to get specific like he
promised to use the systems?
This is not up to the alliance
as a whole. This is up to the
individual.
Adam Curry: All ally members.
Okay, one last clip from
Margarita about Ukraine becoming
a NATO member. We
Unknown: saw recently the Slovak
prime minister saying that as
long as he's in power, he will
block Ukrainian membership. What
are you going to do to try to
build consensus on that? Well,
clearly, what
we decided in Washington
unanimously is that there is an
irreversible path towards
membership of NATO for Ukraine,
irreversible.
Adam Curry: And then, of course,
yes, irreversible. Once they
start, they cannot go back. We
keep them going on the track
Unknown: towards membership of
NATO for Ukraine. And then, of
course, the question is, how to
take this to the next the next
steps and the next stage, and it
really has to be done step by
step. And that's something, of
course, amongst allies we will
discuss over the coming month,
including up to the Summit in
the Hague and beyond. Because
this is a very sensitive issue.
It is an important issue, yes,
but I said last week in Kyiv and
I visited Volodymyr Zelensky and
his team. Yes,
Adam Curry: with his team, we
had a nice team. I said, a drink
with his team. I visited
Volodymyr Zelensky. Is
Unknown: that one thing has to
be absolutely clear, one thing
that Russia does not have a vote
on this, and that Russia does
not have a veto on this? No,
that would not be legal. Every
country in the area of NATO can
apply for membership, and that
is a sovereign decision for that
inevitable country.
Adam Curry: What a sales guy,
and he comes across so
confidently. I'm Margarita. I
want to make it all happen. I'm
gonna get that Vladimir,
John C Dvorak: me and my boys,
irreversible. It's not
Adam Curry: it's it's legal.
Come on, man, pull the trigger.
It's legal. Do it? Do it.
Volodymyr, if anyone's gonna
start world war three, it's that
guy. Yes, that guy is no good,
and we know he's no good. The
Dutch know he's no good. We know
it
John C Dvorak: well. He's no
good, he's no good,
Adam Curry: he's no good. So
this came in, which I have let
me see. I think I have a longer
clip here. Let me play this a
longer clip. This is about
Google, Google and the
Department of Justice. And this
is interesting because I
received a document today that I
think pertains to it.
Unknown: So it is getting harder
and harder for markets to remain
complacent. Shares fell by more
than 2% yesterday, and as we've
been mentioning, alphabet is the
cheapest Magnificent Seven stock
by forward PE multiple. So yes,
cases, they can take years, even
if we have a decision, because
Google will appeal. But
injunctions, as we now see, can
take down walled gardens and in
the meantime, create openings
for competitors at Google's
bottom line, the judge in the
epic case ordered an injunction
yesterday that breaks open
Google's Android's App Store
monopoly. Now he ruled that for
the next three years, Google
must allow developers to bring
their own app stores to the
operating system. Now the aim is
to reduce fees for developers,
which currently must fork over
15 to 30% of their user payments
made within that Google
ecosystem, but by allowing them
to bypass it, bypass the walled
garden Google's App Store
transactions, they will take a
hit in 2019 the information
estimates that it made up 20% of
alphabets operating income. So
that is a significant amount.
Google says, for its own part,
that the verdict missed the
obvious, that Apple and Android,
quote clearly compete and says
it will appeal. But in the
meantime, this injunction could
do some damage. Now, the epic
case that's resulting in an
opening up, the potentially
bigger threat is a breaking up,
and that is in the cards for the
DOJ case, which we are expecting
remedies today, and it will
likely include a list of
options, from forcing Google to
give wider access to search
data, to restrictions on
exclusivity deals, to a breakup
of its business units. That, of
course, would be the most
extreme option.
Adam Curry: So this kind of
just, I mean, yeah, the epic
case has been going on for a
while, and the judge may have
some power to do some things,
but Google's going to appeal
everything, and they'll just
keep this going forever. But it
was in light. I played this clip
in light of a document I got to
just today, actually, from the
oil baron, from James Comer, the
Chairman of the Committee on
Oversight and Accountability,
with a scathing letter to Linda
Khan Khan, who is the FTC
Commissioner, and summarizing,
he's saying, Hey, you are a
shill for the Democrats. If
you're going out there, you're
doing all kinds of things. You
know. But you're, you're
shilling for the Biden Harris or
for the for the Harris team.
You're doing all kinds you're
running political cover, you're
threatening all kinds of
companies, and just reading
through this like, Huh? Do you
think that this what's happening
now suddenly that this is a
message to Google, like you
better. You better continue
doing what we agreed you do with
searches and how things show up
and what videos you surface or
don't surface on Google. On
YouTube feels like there's feels
like there's a little bit of
scam. Yes, yes. It's a scam. If
you're
John C Dvorak: going to go out
this idea about the about the
Google Store, yeah, what about
the Apple Store? Talk about your
walled garden?
Adam Curry: Well, Apple doesn't
have a huge consumer search
business.
John C Dvorak: Search thing that
that is different then, yeah.
And if the search is skewed, and
they wanted to remain skewed,
and they've got guests, they're
getting so much flack about it
that they're maybe they're, the
skew is not as bad as it should
be. It's got to be more skewed.
Yeah. I mean, this is the same
as the reports. I have a bunch
of clips on this. The New York
Times do it. Did I get these
clips? New York Times? Yeah,
yeah. This is kind of this talks
about, unfortunately, this thing
went on for 15 minutes. I don't
think I even got the gist of it
correctly, but it would. It was
just, was too hard, yeah, but it
was about how the left is
bitching about, and we noticed
this. Because you notice it. I
noticed it. If you go to
Mastodon, they're all these
lefties are on Mastodon,
bitching and moaning about the
New York Times are not going
after Trump enough.
Adam Curry: Oh my god, you mean
Jarvis and and Rose,
John C Dvorak: Jarvis and
everybody. Every journalist
that's on Mastodon is going on
and on about we should be more
proactive. Yes,
Adam Curry: you're not, you're
not doing it right. New the
broken hashtag, broken New York
Times,
John C Dvorak: yeah, and the
people that are still on the
dead bird,
Adam Curry: hey, get with it,
you old fogies podcast things
where it's at. And
John C Dvorak: so even play a
couple of these clips to see if
you can get a All
Adam Curry: right, just where's
this from? This New York Times
report. This
John C Dvorak: is a New York
Times report that another NPR,
fine,
Adam Curry: really. Sorry. Okay,
all right, here we go.
Unknown: Social media
influencers are a big part of
this year's election. They Whoa.
What happened to the podcasters?
Social media influencers are a
big part of this year's
election, they translate the
news for their followers, but
the news they spread has to come
from somewhere, often a news
organization. So we're talking
with a behind the scenes
influencer, Joe Kahn, executive
editor of the New York Times,
in people's minds, there's very
little neutral middle ground in
our mind. It is the ground that
we are determined to occupy.
Joe Kahn is a Pulitzer Prize
winning reporter who now runs
the times newsroom. We met him
at the Times headquarters
building in Manhattan. There is,
as you know very well, a long
standing conservative or
republican critique of the New
York Times, but the special
passion in criticism of the
times in this election cycle
seems to me to be on the left.
You're nodding. Why do you think
that is
it's a good question, and I
struggle with it often, because
the left has really high
expectations of the New York
Times. I think some of them
honestly distorted.
John C Dvorak: I just thought
that was such a giveaway. Yeah,
he's nodding. Yeah. I don't get
it. I don't understand why the
lefty, because they're always
been our biggest fans. Yeah, I
said we were, oh, that you said,
Oh, I
Adam Curry: know it's like 15 to
13. Now, I know, I know it's
bad. I blame Tina.
John C Dvorak: It does help when
you point it out. Yes. So let's
just part two of this. If you've
Unknown: heard about Project
2025, a conservative blueprint
for a future Republican
administration, one reason may
be that the times covered it a
lot last year. You
know that's something that you
want to cover deeply, fully,
fairly, and provide people with
some substance to analyze that.
I'm thinking of one particular
story that we could pluck out of
the river of Times coverage. And
I paraphrase here, but the story
used the word plan. Harris has a
plan for housing. Trump has a
plan for housing, and Trump's
plan is he's going to deport
illegal immigrants and make more
room for everybody else. And I
thought to myself, That's not
actually a plan, that's a
slogan, and I'm just trying to
describe it accurately. Is that
an example where maybe you were
trying a little too hard to be
fair to each side?
John C Dvorak: How is that being
fair to each side? And this guy
never what is Harris's plan? If.
It's never reported what his
what her plan is, and this guy
was doing the reporting from NPR
is obviously a Trump hater,
yeah, and it just comes through
with this discussion. And I
think part three maybe bring a
little more light to it. Well,
Unknown: I think what we've
tried to do with respect to
housing is housing's an
absolutely major problem. And we
basically took it to both
campaigns and said, What would
you do about this concretely?
Not just talk about it
rhetorically, but what are your
plans? And Harris and the Harris
campaign responded, and we
looked at their proposals and
what they would do to move the
needle on that subject, and we
asked the same thing of the
Trump people, you're absolutely
right. Their response was, we
will deport immigrants who are
occupying too much housing and
free that housing up for
American citizens. And I think
we frontally pointed out in that
piece that there's extremely
little evidence that illegal
immigrants who would be deported
are occupying a significant
chunk of housing, it would make
any difference at all in the
affordable housing crisis. That
was one of Khan's defenses
against the claim that his paper
is soft pedaling. Donald Trump,
John C Dvorak: what? How is that
soft pedaling? Donald Trump,
they criticized his whole plan,
never mentioning what Harris's
was, and this is somehow soft
peddling
Adam Curry: here. Jeff Jarvis
posts a link to a New York Times
opinion joy is working for
Harris. But can it close the
deal? Jeff Jarvis's post sigh,
the media trope that voters need
to learn more about Harris,
well, then do your job and
inform them That's your job.
John C Dvorak: Wow, yeah, you
probably just read those kinds
of posts on mastodon. They're
not on Twitter, yeah, and I'll
find them keep us entertained
for days.
Adam Curry: Hashtag. Brokenpost
calls this, we are going to beat
the reporters into retardation,
pugnacity, ridiculous peace. Why
might he lose women? He's a damn
sexual predator. Say it is the
Trump campaign's male dominated
culture losing women vote. Oh,
my God. And then he posts the
Washington Post. What a pissy
jealous piece of shit. This is
from the hashtag brokenpost. Oh
god. Jeff Jarvis, calm down.
Take a CBD. It's grab a gum,
John C Dvorak: grab something. I
mean, it's like, these are
posted. These
Adam Curry: are professionals.
John C Dvorak: It's journalism.
They're not opinion. They don't
do it. If they were just opinion
writers, and this is an opinion
that's fine, but that's not what
they claim to be. The whole
Adam Curry: thing is falling
apart. That's the point. The
whole mainstream media is
falling apart. They can't stand
that people get their news from
Twitter. They can't stand that
podcasts have millions of
listeners, and people like call
her daddy and Rogan make
hundreds of millions of dollars.
They're beside themselves with
envy and anger, and they just
take it out on anything they
can. It's all Trump's fault?
Well, of course, because he he
told everybody the fake news is
the enemy of the people. And the
people went, huh, that's an
interesting point.
John C Dvorak: What I the
biggest kick I get out of this
when he talked about it
initially, back in 2015 he said,
and he made a point, says, Well,
you know? I said, Well, they're
saying the news was the enemy of
the people. And they said, No. I
said, the fake news is the enemy
of the people, right? It turns
out that the original assertion
was true. It's the news. It's
not the it's all of them.
They're the, literally, the
enemy of the people. Yes, they
lie. And then you can see when
it starts to come out of guys
who are supposedly journalists.
And suppose you know reporters
and people are supposed to be
objective, they're not
objective, and that those tweets
from Jarvis are a good example.
That's not objectivity. Let's
give nothing but free coverage
to Harris, because she's such a
genius. She is a moron. Jeff,
she's an idiot. You can see it
in her eyes. You can see it in
her responses. She's a stupid
human being, and that's beyond
me that anyone does. Can't see
this. It's it's obvious to most
people.
Unknown: Go podcasting. I was
John C Dvorak: wondering what
you're gonna come up with.
Adam Curry: Do we need to play
more of this? We need to
John C Dvorak: know the last
thing is another, completely
different topic, and it's just
not important. All right.
Adam Curry: Well, then let me,
let me just play this one,
because you won't, you won't
read this on x. It will be
suppressed. You heard it here
Unknown: for months. American
billionaire Elon Musk has been
in the tug of war with the
Brazilian courts, but he has
proven to be out. Muscled X will
once again be available in
Brazil, as the Supreme Court on
Tuesday, ordered the
reinstatement of the social
network throughout the country.
X welcome the news. X
Adam Curry: is proud to return
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defend freedom of speech within
the boundaries of the law
everywhere we operate.
Unknown: Supreme Court Judge
Alexandra de Morice cited
insufficient safeguards against
disinformation when blocking x
in August, a ruling that ex
owner Elon Musk vowed to fight,
but instead he capitulated. In
addition to paying a fine of
nearly 5 million euros, the
social network has agreed to
appoint a new legal
representative in the country
and delete accounts with links
to the far right. One of the
reasons for Musk's change of
heart pressure from investors.
With its 22 million users,
Brazil is the largest economy in
Latin America and a major source
of revenue for X, another of the
American billionaires,
companies, Internet Service
Provider Starlink also suffered
from excess suspension. Its bank
accounts and financial assets
were temporarily frozen in order
to cover fines and post on x
Adam Curry: Oh, okay, I guess
money does matter over free
speech
John C Dvorak: free Well, it
would for you too. It would for
anybody's not dumb, no,
Adam Curry: but I'm not going
out there saying, Man, I'm never
gonna do it. We gotta Screw you.
Nugget, I preach speech. I mean,
What? What? Oh, what'd you say?
Investor, what? Starling, okay,
John C Dvorak: whatever you say
goes all right. Of course he
did. Of course he wasn't. It was
a foregone conclusion he wasn't
going to put up with his assets
being seized. And he knows these
South American countries, they
love to nationalize stuff. Yes,
that's nationalized. Starling,
yeah,
Adam Curry: I have one more
story here, just a little
update, because, speaking of
Elon, when is he going to take
over Boeing? Sticking
Unknown: with corporate news
talks to end the month long
strike at Boeing have broken
down and are not slated to
resume at this time, Boeing
seemed especially frustrated
with the union representing
roughly 33,000 striking
machinists, a Boeing executive
told employees in a note. Quote,
unfortunately, the Union did not
seriously consider our
proposals. As a result, Boeing
has ripped up an offer it called
its quote best and final that
would have boosted pay by 30%
the union, however, is not
backing down. Union members are
holding out for a 40% raise as
part of a long list of
grievances. Quote, they refuse
to propose any wage increases,
vacation, sick leave, accrual,
progression, ratification bonus,
or the 401 K match. The Union
told Reuters, adding both, they
also would not reinstate the
defined benefit pension. The
strike has pushed Boeing deeper
into the red. It's estimated to
lose $1 billion a month,
according to s&p Global ratings,
on top of the $60 billion debt
it is already carrying. With
production shut down, Boeing is
being forced to furlough
workers. It is also exploring
money raising efforts to remain
afloat while the picket line
proves to be an impenetrable
force.
Adam Curry: This is bad. They
have effectively, negotiations
are just done. They I was their
last and final offer. If you
remember, this is bad? Yeah,
it's bad for workers. It's bad
for our aero Defense, Space
industry, yeah, yeah, so, but I
don't know how we're gonna make
all those
John C Dvorak: flying unlucky
jets again and
Adam Curry: and these, uh, boa
and this is not really
discussed. Is this only the
aircraft division, or is this
all of Boeing? Does this include
the the bomb guys and the F 35
guy? What'd be everybody? Yeah.
I mean, how are we gonna get
John C Dvorak: to a billion a
month that affects all the
divisions, how
Adam Curry: are we going to get
Margarita all of his his
weapons?
John C Dvorak: Yeah, well,
there, there you go. That's the
main concern.
Adam Curry: Yes, I think Elon
should expand his military
contracting empire.
John C Dvorak: I think he
launched to take over bowling.
Yeah, he
Adam Curry: can pretend he
invented that it's no problem.
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here you go.
Unknown: Whip it out. There
it is.
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We have one report today. It's a
very mini report. You'll recall
sir Andre of the empty PayPal
became sir Andre of the broken
brain, and he had to go into the
hospital and is rehabilitating,
and half of his side is one.
Half his body is paralyzed. And
so the folks over there in the
Netherlands decided to do a
little mini meetup with mini
meetup with him.
Unknown: This is Frank aka Mike,
meetup report, sixth of October,
from Luz bake.
Hi in the morning, Dame Pam, in
the morning. So Andre night with
a broken brain, and I've got two
visitors in my hospital room
here, Frank aka Mike, and dame.
Pam, I'm so happy with all the
visitors that are coming from
the NA group in the morning.
Thank you for your courage
in
Adam Curry: the morning. I love
that. There you go. Connection
is protection. That's what those
no agenda meetups are about. You
meet people who will even visit
you in the hospital when your
brain is broken. I'm telling
you, you need to go to one of
these. And you could actually go
to the northern wake, publical
slave gathering six o'clock
today in Raleigh, North
Carolina, at hoppy endings, or
Saturday, Michigan, local one
assembles for the meetup by the
bay at two o'clock in Barb bark.
Wow, was it barqub. Barqub BC.
Barqu BC. Bay City, Michigan.
Check no agenda meetups.com. To
make sure I said that right. The
Treasure Valley meetup will be
taking place at three o'clock at
the Heritage social club in
Garden City, Idaho. Also on
Saturday, the six week cycle.
Threat number two, our democracy
Oktoberfest meetup, 333 at
sabalas Mexican Grill in Fort
Wayne, Indiana. And our next
show day on Sunday, the too many
eggs.com. Meet Up. Number seven,
margaritas, Keene in Keene, New
Hampshire. Here's what's on the
way. We have Charlotte, North
Carolina, on the 17th,
Fredericksburg, Texas, the big
one, curry and the keeper will
be there. Please join us for
that. Lot of people coming in
for that one that's right here
in Fredericksburg. The nine.
19th, Bedford, Texas on the
20th, Cincinnati, Ohio,
Okeechobee, Florida, Spearfish,
South Dakota, Alpharetta,
Georgia on the 26th LaGrange,
Illinois, London, UK, Ottawa,
Ontario, Houston, Texas on the
28th Minneapolis on the second
of November. Richland,
Washington, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, Emeryville,
California on the ninth,
Bedford, Texas and Bastrop
Texas. Whoa, are we doing duly
meetups on the 10th, Ocala
Florida on the 11th,
Springfield, Missouri, the 16th,
Bedford, Texas, again, shekopy,
Minnesota on the 16th,
Sacramento, California. 27th
we're into December. Goleta,
California on the fifth, West
Palm Beach Florida on the 15th,
and at Ventura, Florida on
January 19, just a few of the no
agenda meetups that go well into
2025, and beyond. Please join
one of these at least once. I
guarantee, I guarantee you, you
will want to go to more because
it's just like potato chips. You
crunch one and you can't stop no
agenda meetups. Connection is
protection. Go to no agenda
meetups.com, you can't Find one
storm one yourself like a
party. Like a party, like a
party, okay, ISOs. This is where
we choose the ISOs, the end of
show. ISOs that always leave you
with just that little, oh, boy,
I love that show.
John C Dvorak: I'll be at the
Emeryville meetup. Oh, you will
Adam Curry: nice. Is that
another get John out of the
house meet up where you just
Yes,
John C Dvorak: it is, and it's,
but it's gonna be at the trader
vix in Emeryville, and you have
the date there, and it is, see
Adam Curry: on November 2.
John C Dvorak: This is November
2. That's what it says. Yeah,
that will Are you available? Are
you available? That's family
friendly, so people can go there
with your kids, with the kids,
so we can get to see violet
again. Oh, specifically, okay.
Oh, nice. Um, let me see. Yeah,
I got ISO. What do you got? How
many I
Adam Curry: got four. I'll play
them for you. It's
Unknown: just wrong.
Adam Curry: Have that one I
have,
Unknown: of course I have, okay,
heads, I win.
Adam Curry: Tails, you cheated.
And so what? Okay, I think the
so what is at least worth
considering? Oh, okay, well,
sorry,
John C Dvorak: okay, let's start
with I have two, but they're
gems. One is sexy.
Unknown: How can those two be so
sexy? Oh,
Adam Curry: wow, already a
winner in my book.
John C Dvorak: And then this is
one of the podcast ones
Unknown: that is the best
podcast ever. Oh,
Adam Curry: I don't know which
one to choose. Ah,
Unknown: how can those two be so
sexy?
I like that. That is the best
podcast
ever.
Adam Curry: I think it's got to
be the best podcast ever. What
Unknown: do you think?
John C Dvorak: Yes, muddier
though, but it is more
appropriate. It's
Adam Curry: funny, it's funny,
it's good, it's good. What does
the troll room say? They're both
too long. Okay, trolls, thank
you.
Unknown: Hey everybody. It's
Adam Curry: time for that moment
at the end of the show, John's
Tip of the Day.
Unknown: And sometimes,
John C Dvorak: okay, so I have
to, I'm gonna do two couple
things today.
Adam Curry: Oh, you're going
crazy.
John C Dvorak: First one is, we
had to do a quick search on
something, right? But
Adam Curry: you got to stay on
the mic, because you, whenever
you like, I'm on
John C Dvorak: the mic. If I
wasn't on the mic, I don't know
what I mean, near the mic, it
was I'm right on top of it, off
Mike. If I was any closer to the
mic, to be behind me. Okay,
well, try that. First of all, I
want to kill the recommend a
previous tip. You're killing a
tip.
Adam Curry: Killing a tip. Does
it have to be removed from Tip
of the day.net?
John C Dvorak: Now you can leave
it there, but I think it has to
have a disclaimer. It's the
AliExpress.
Adam Curry: AliExpress is is no
good.
John C Dvorak: But that brings
us to today's tip, AliExpress is
no good because I purposely
bought two flash drives, some
drives, USB drives, whatever you
want to call them advertising,
whatever you want to call them
from AliExpress,
Adam Curry: I call them threat
vectors
John C Dvorak: that I knew were
phonies, because you don't buy a
terabyte USB drive for three
bucks. They just just no such
thing.
Adam Curry: Wow, there was no
shipping and handling, so you
pay it came to your door for
three bucks. So $6 total. You
got two terabyte thumb drives,
and what did you were they Pesta
spend? What were they? They were
John C Dvorak: used to they, if
you put them through a system,
which is what I'm going to
recommend, is the tip of the
day, there are products out
there. And the one I'm going to
recommend is a thing called
Check flash, which is written by
Ukrainian. And I think the
current version out is 1.1 1.1
7.0, and it was written by
Ukrainian, and it you've sticked
to when you buy the drive. You
had to do this at the beginning,
because it erases everything. It
will check to see if your
terabyte drive really contains
anything near a terabyte. So you
so if you get a bad drive, like
these phony drives I bought from
Ali Express. You stick it in
says, No, this is not a terabyte
drive. This not a or 500
gigabyte drive. It's a it's a
one kilobyte drive. But the
header inside the drive will
say, Oh, yeah, terabyte. You're
gonna got a terabyte. So you
start putting something on
there, and it just craps out.
After you put one video on,
there's they won't retake it,
and you realize the whole
thing's a scam. And what makes
them want to take Aliexpress off
the list is that they will
refund your money for these
phony baloney products that they
sell. But for a week, over a
week, I went to the return site,
website, and he's all down. We
can't do it now. Call back
later. So I lost like 10 bucks
or whatever it cost me for these
two products, but
Adam Curry: you gained a lot of
malware since you stuck that
thing into your machine.
John C Dvorak: No, there's
nothing on there. Well, for one
thing, I didn't stick it in the
machine because I ran check
flash immediately. Which
Adam Curry: a Ukrainian piece of
software? You're this is good
John C Dvorak: stuff. This
Ukrainian guy is a, is a
geneticist who just happened to
dream this piece of software up
this software i i check it
through this. The other thing,
so check Flash is the product I
like. It was written for Windows
eight. Still works fine, but no,
there are products out there,
and I get people can identify
the best of them, but they're
all over the place. The things
that check the download so you
can see if there's any malware
attached to it. Now, I got this
one from major geeks, and it
seemed to be okay. It didn't
seem to have any mail. Or I have
products that check that. That's
another tip. But the tip is,
when you buy a flash drive, and
Amazon has sold these, they have
sold these fake drives that say,
oh, it says, you know, it'll say
something like 64 gigs. And 64
gigs a buck. No, there's nothing
on the drive. Is bull crap, so
you have to buy one of these
checkers that checks the flash
drive. Anyone has a better one
than check flash let me know.
We'll plug it in the future, but
that's what you do. So what's
your I just bought a couple of
drives recently, and I ran them
through, and they're fine.
They're real. So
Adam Curry: what is the tip? The
tip is,
John C Dvorak: when you buy a
new flash drive, a thumb drive,
a USB drive, check it before you
use it to make sure it's legit.
Adam Curry: All right? And
that's what is that software
called, again.
John C Dvorak: Check flash,
okay.
Adam Curry: All right. And what
do you use these drives for? Do
you hand them out to the kids
who come up to the door? Hey,
kids, one one wants some files.
I use
John C Dvorak: them for a lot of
different things. For example,
if you want to take some old
DVDs and turn them into MP fours
and you put them on the drive to
give them to one of the kids.
Yeah, see the easiest way to do
it.
Adam Curry: Hey, kids want to
want some DVDs. Want some
movies.
John C Dvorak: No one has a
movie player. They don't play TV
like
Unknown: you. No, I
John C Dvorak: don't know.
There's no such thing as a DVD
Adam Curry: I don't have DVD DVD
drives anymore.
John C Dvorak: John, these thumb
drives for this stuff.
Adam Curry: We do. Will you send
me a thumb drive with some
movies?
Unknown: Yeah. What
Adam Curry: movie you want? You
know, the good ones
John C Dvorak: I those movies
are that's something between you
and Tina, this has been your
Unknown: tip of the day. Thanks
for listening. Y'all
come back now. There
Adam Curry: you go. Everybody, a
retracted tip and a brand new
tip.
Unknown: Check flash,
Adam Curry: find them at Tip of
the day.net. No agenda. Fun.com.
There you go. Hey, coming up
next on the stream. Let me see
what we have we've got. Oh,
interesting. Bandrew says is on
the stream. He's a comic strip
bloggers buddy. This is the
benefit of three minute shorts
on YouTube using shotgun mics in
untreated rooms. Yeah, he's a
mic expert. Don't get me started
on mics, but he's a mic expert.
So end of show mixes, we have
let me see D's laughs, David
kecta, and we got the brand new
guy, John Valentine, and I'm
coming to you from the heart of.
The Texas Hill Country home of
the October 18. No agenda. Meet
up here in Fredericksburg, Texas
in the morning. Everybody. I'm
Adam curry and from
John C Dvorak: Northern Silicon
Valley, where it's kind of
overcast, maybe chili and the
Blue Angels are flying around,
but you can't see them. That's
just great. I'm John C Dvorak.
Adam Curry: We return on Sunday
with another three hours of
media deconstruction, just for
you. Until then, remember us at
no agenda donations.com. Adios,
mofoza, hooey, hooey and
Unknown: such. I think of her as
America's wine mom. And then
there's, I'm being Stern, so you
don't realize how plastered I
am. And I'm making a point, and
I'm talking a little girl with
me now I'm gonna go upstairs and
don't knock on the door, because
I'm gonna pass out pumping
hyena, giving out the old
Berkeley humma, distracting you
for the next months into the
summer, no agenda, season of
reveal. It's here. Comrade
Kamala, hey, let's kick it and
stick here. Sweet Willie Brown
side piece, giving a horf at
service on her knees to get a
head cheese. Pastor Manning,
saying that he had her nose wide
open. Complete my joke, I said,
and was not joking. Shooting
back, matter of fact, cleaning
his gun on a stream. A Serious
Man, from what I can gleam,
Trump, saying that she had a
lunatic laugh, but put it in her
head now he's inside. Let's wait
for the gap saying that she's
gonna be so bad, not only video,
but the first campaign had true
social and not ex I said on the
far right, hell of a flex. Biden
is dead weight after the debate
progresses for the feeble
minded, but maybe I'll just call
him late. JD, Vance, stepping
up. I came to see my plane
kamalaka. Chameleon is wine
drunk again.
I don't know whether it'll be
peaceful.
He knows how to talk tough, but
more importantly, he
knows when the time for talk
is over and it is time to fight
for what is right. Ladies
and gentlemen. It's done. Meet
the fake press.
Deface somebody. They
can have a beer with you. Asked
for Miller,
pilot, Kamala flew to a
fundraiser in San Francisco, a
city she absolutely destroyed.
She destroyed San Francisco. It
was the best city in the
country, and now it's not good
at all. Well, families
desperately try to escape the
rising flood waters, and they
climb onto roofs. They did
anything they can to live, but
Kamala didn't send any
helicopters to rescue them, and
when people sent helicopters,
they turned them back.
John C Dvorak: They're pro
eating bugs.
Adam Curry: Entomophagy,
insectivore like cricket. You
Unknown: proper place for
breakfast. Salt and creamy, but
the cricket made us crushing the
buzz. Comrades, you owe nothing
and you're happy, it will be
sad. Comrade in the bugs.
Comrade, you owe nothing
and you're happy, it will be
sad. Comrade the roaster.
Spiders also taste it, not
approaching. Shake cheerleaders,
weebles, tell me what you're
going to make in the bugs.
Comrade in the bugs, aren't you
glad you owe nothing and you're
happy? Don't be sad. Comrade in
the bugs. Comrade in the box,
glad. You owe nothing and you're
happy. Don't be sad. Comrade, in
the buzz. Comrade, you owe
nothing and you're happy. Don't
be sad. Comrade, you owe nothing
if you're happy, don't be sad.
Don't be sad. Comrade, who
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