Adam Curry: The brand and as the brand the brand lives in the
brand speaks and the brand listens and people connect with
the brand.
Unknown: Adam curry John C Dvorak.
Adam Curry: It's Thursday June 20 2019. This is your award
winning get my nation media assassination episode 1148
Unknown: This is no agenda
Adam Curry: under attack from for 51 errors and broadcasting
live from the south of Portugal in the Algarve in the morning,
everybody. I'm Adam curry, and from Northern
John C. Dvorak: Silicon Valley where Tom Cruise is not
representing the F 35. From what I can tell. I'm John C. Dvorak.
Adam Curry: It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
Yes, thanks for the info on Tom Cruise. And I feel so up to up
to date now up to speed. You know, ya know, I still hear that
ground loop.
John C. Dvorak: Oh, I don't have ground loop on my end. Would you
like a ground loop? I
Adam Curry: can send one over to you
John C. Dvorak: send me if I want a sugar coated
Adam Curry: sugar. Sugar coated ground loop? Yeah,
John C. Dvorak: I had ground loops for breakfast.
Adam Curry: All right. Hey, here I am. John in the Algarve in the
south of Portugal. The southern most tippy tip. Yeah, beautiful
area. Beautiful. And then the day that we have beautiful
weather is the day we do the show. I'm not
John C. Dvorak: a little late anyway. Oh, by the way, five
o'clock. She goes like Brazil and some of these other
countries. They don't even start eating dinner till midnight.
Adam Curry: But it would have been nice to catch a little more
sun. We had two days. Obviously. We got here Monday. Afternoon.
So it was beautiful Monday afternoon sacrifices
John C. Dvorak: we have to make for the low donations while
you're on the road.
Adam Curry: I'm leading up to that. Why do you always blow my
punch line? It's like I'm getting all the way. Monday we
arrived Monday. From from where were we? You were in Ireland?
Yes. Northern Ireland. That's right, in Northern Ireland. And
do we? We flew down here with the easy jets, which was
interesting because it was already filled with the rowdy
Brits.
John C. Dvorak: Was there a soccer game going on?
Adam Curry: No, man. It's just you know how the Brits they like
to go to other places outside of their own country and get really
drunk and obnoxious.
John C. Dvorak: Well, they do that in their own country too.
From my experience.
Adam Curry: They're a little extra extra bad when they come
to to the mainland. In fact, I
John C. Dvorak: was like you It's like your theory on
podcasts.
Adam Curry: What's that? What's my theory? People go on to
John C. Dvorak: a podcast. anything I want?
Adam Curry: Exactly. That's exactly what's happening. Yeah,
so the we We grabbed a cab to the, to the place we're staying.
And the first thought was great. This guy was 47 years old. So I
could try out my little trivia question on him. I said, Hey,
were you around him in the 80s? Yeah, I was about 13. So do you
remember a countdown and he does a double take? Oh, my God,
that's you. So they do still remember if they're old enough,
John C. Dvorak: you say Do you know who I am?
Adam Curry: Now, the phrase is surely you know who I am. But he
said, hey, when you guys go back, make sure that you have at
least two hours, be at the airport two hours ahead of time.
He says because when the Brits are going back, they're drunk.
They can't find their paperwork, their passports, they forgot
them that hold up the line. He says it is it's it's a mess.
Another travel tip from your no agenda show. It's actually a
good tip. That's a pretty good trip. The big problem, though,
has been the 450 ones. Explain error 451. This is an actual web
server error that is implemented and involves the general data
protection rules. So here's a just a small sampling of Adam
doing a show prep. I go to a web site. And we recognize you're
attempting to access this website from a country belonging
to the European Economic Area, including the EU which enforces
the general data protection regulations, and therefore
access cannot be granted at this time. And thanks for your
patience. Thank you for being a patron of the Dallas Morning
News. Unfortunately, our site is unavailable to European Union
visitors Well, we work with our partners to ensure your data is
protected. We are committed to serving our communities and
eager to become technically compliant to provide award
winning journalism to all of our readers. Unfortunately, our
website is currently available in most European countries. We
are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options
that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU
markets. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions
that will provide all readers with our award winning
journalism. In other words, I would say a good 15% of what I
was trying to access is not legally accessible or at with
for non VPN users, people who don't understand how you can
circumvent it is just not available.
John C. Dvorak: Did this just don't I mean, you must have had
this and we've had it
Adam Curry: before. Now, we've definitely had it before. We did
not believe in
John C. Dvorak: you. Now, you done three shows from overseas?
I did not
Adam Curry: have it in the UK. It was not in the UK. Oh,
really? No. And I didn't notice it. So this is the first one on
the mainland, and now I'm getting this nonstop.
John C. Dvorak: Oh, that's interesting. Yeah.
Adam Curry: And I would have noticed that I would have made
note of it,
John C. Dvorak: and that you would have that no, the way you
complain that it shows
Adam Curry: up after 11 years, you know, I'd be complaining
like a little bitch.
John C. Dvorak: I mean, you're complaining about somebody you
should have been complaining about two shows. And
Adam Curry: I'm just trying not to hear the ground loop. Yeah.
So and honestly, I was thinking about setting up the VP, I could
set up the VPN quite easily. But man, it's already I'm amazed
that we're talking to each other without massive delay. There's
maybe a megabit and a half each way on the on the Wi Fi
connection here. Oh, and the dongle has full bars but only 3g
If I can't get a 4g signal, so it's fine.
John C. Dvorak: Sounds great. You sound good. Hopefully. I'm
sure everyone I come on this show is finished out song II.
Well, I think about that. Because I'll be won't have any
good quality going through to your side by now. You
Adam Curry: sound actually You sound pretty good. By the way,
that's a time code notation. Thank you. So things I've
learned while here.
John C. Dvorak: What have you learned Adam?
Adam Curry: They have a new product here, which I think is
outstanding. Is Portugal Yes. And it apparently was invented
in Portugal. Let me see if there's a there's let me see if
there's a name who will Well, I did ask about it. So I know it
was invented here in Portugal wine in a tube. So they have
these, these tubes that are like a test tube, except it's the
width of a bottle neck. So you know, so that's about as a big
tube. Is it Yeah, it's a sizable tube. And I'd say it is about
see I'd say that's about it's about five inches. One Two know
maybe about seven inches. Boy, I should know. It's about 10
inches. And it's yeah, the top is the hole. It's the diameter
of of a of a wine bottle. So the the it has a twist off top and
they send they sell it's basically a one hit. It's like
you pour it into your glass. It's good for one glass one
John C. Dvorak: glass you can take with it. What's the
milliliters on that thing?
Adam Curry: Oh, hold on a second. I have I have the mil
John C. Dvorak: when one 200
Adam Curry: Got it from the Alright, got it from the
minibar. Here we go. 100 milliliter.
John C. Dvorak: Okay 100 mil makes sense. Well, this is these
kinds of things have been around in the trade for some time as
per tasting through wine tasters professionals.
Adam Curry: Oh really? Yeah, I thought it was for real
alcoholics because you just pop this in your in your in your
jacket and your purse. Bam, you got a cocktail. Wherever you
need a little
John C. Dvorak: middle flask is still best for there it
Adam Curry: is. Genuine wit bottle wi t that's the
registered trademark, Flacco wit. So those are the guys that
I guess trademark registered trademark. But it's that they're
putting everything in all kinds of wine. I just thought it was a
genius idea.
John C. Dvorak: Wine tastings would be perfect with these
things. Yeah. Yeah. And
Adam Curry: it's just handy to take along. You know, your
school.
John C. Dvorak: uses. Bam.
Adam Curry: You're drinking. It's fantastic. So yeah, not
much to report but the television coverage here has
been fantastic. As in, they got all the channels you'd want. Sky
News, CNN International, CNBC, BBC multiple BBC is which is
perfect because we have two major things going on here. One
would be the choosing of the next prime minister of the
United Kingdom's have Gitmo nation
John C. Dvorak: east? Yeah. And worse.
Adam Curry: Well, I will remind you that I said it would be
Boris and you were like, no, no, it's going to be gold. It's
going to be that guy. He's going to be a you were wrong that I
just said. No, you said no. Lie.
John C. Dvorak: I never said no to Boris. Oh,
Adam Curry: okay. I shall get out and get a clip for next
show. I want to I want to hear this clip. No, I'll get a clip
where you where you said, No, it's not going to be him. Okay,
that's what I want to hear. What was interesting is that all of a
sudden, as you kind of saw the flow. And now the way they do
this is very interesting. They have three, I think, three
rounds of secret ballots amongst the party. And each time you see
Boris Johnson is winning, he's winning, he's winning, they have
to whittle that down to two. That's after three rounds, then
they send the final to the number one and the closest to
after, in this case, Bo Jo, to a mailing vote of the Conservative
Party across the country. I mean, this, this is so just
begging to be a reality show that I don't understand. I mean,
they should have these guys doing mundane tasks like eating,
eating shitty live bugs, and you'll have to repel over over
some angry white water or something. Like to see that was
boring. It will be well, Boris will be fantastic. And so as you
see the flow of this, they kept trying to push the Rori guy. The
dweet is no good. Oh, but it was like all Rory, and I think it
was just like any bun but Boris please someone just bring roar.
And now he got kicked out. So he's out. So I think it'll be
Boris Johnson. And it was it. Hunt? No, no, no, no. Jeremy
Hunt. Jeremy Hunt. Yeah. Jeremy Hunt. Isn't he that? I think
he'll be number two.
John C. Dvorak: I don't know. Yeah, I
Adam Curry: think that's what's going on. But
John C. Dvorak: number two, and Theresa May was was?
Adam Curry: I don't remember. I don't remember. But well, it's
but it's again, it's it's fun to watch. And the cycle is so
similar to the hatred for Trump. It's the same thing.
John C. Dvorak: He's racism here.
Adam Curry: He's a bigot. Well, you know, part of that is, you
know, obviously, there's some similar He's like, he's a nut
job. He's a loose cannon. The my favorite, of course, is Hitler.
He's hit literally Hitler. And there was this fantastic. Prime
Minister question time. The other day where the if the guy
from the Scottish National Party. Ian Blackwell, I think
his name is we see under his name, the
John C. Dvorak: Blackfeet. Unfortunately, the guy that used
to represent them was Angus character, and he was probably
the best of the group.
Adam Curry: Well, Ian is doing pretty good. Because and this is
a this is a full two minute clip because it has to go back and
forth with the with the speaker intervening because, I mean, you
can't just be calling a Member of Parliament, a racist in the
UK, you couldn't do it in America, but not in the UK. You
can't just be doing that, as
Unknown: the Prime Minister agreed, with the front runner
set to succeed her that the Scottish people and their
minister race that should be placed in ghettos and
exterminated Well, of course, Mr. Speaker, words matter and
actions back to the man who published those words in his
magazine. The Prime Minister thought was fit for the office
of a top diplomat and he hasn't stopped there. He said that
Scott should be banned from being Prime Minister banned from
being Prime Minister. Mr. Speaker, this is a man who is
not fit for Office. And so I asked as the prime minister
realize, not only is the member racist, he is stoking division
and communities and has a record of this one.
Because the Prime Minister, honestly believe
if the Right Honourable gentleman is referring to a
current member of this house, I don't know whether he is.
Adam Curry: I don't know who he's talking about.
Unknown: In the language he uses, he should have notified
the member in advance, but I would urge him,
Adam Curry: I like this, you can call someone racist as long as
you notify him in advance. Perfect.
Unknown: I would urge him to weigh his words, history and
Blackfoot. And indeed, and I think it would be much better if
for now he would withdraw any allegation of racism against any
particular member. I don't think that this is the forum. I don't
think it's the right way to behave. Mr. Ian Blackford.
Mr. Speaker, I haven't formed a member but member has called
Muslim women letterboxes. I African people as having
watermelon smiles, and another disgusting.
Adam Curry: You can't be using our racist means you can't be.
That's America's racist meme. The Waterman watermelons my dad
can't be stealing that
Unknown: racist Mr. Speaker, I do know what is does the Prime
Minister honestly believe that this man is fit for the office
of Prime Minister. Prime Minister?
Can I just say, well, he's he's now the leader of the SNP in
this chamber. For some time. He's been asking Prime
Minister's questions for some time, he might actually
understand the purpose of Prime Minister's questions. But it's
whilst the Prime Minister about the actions of government that
is while she should be asking us about and I can say to the Right
Honourable gentleman, I can say to the Right Honourable
gentleman that I believe I believe any Conservative Prime
Minister in the future will be better for Scotland and the
Scottish nationalists.
Adam Curry: So it's been fabulous to watch. Yeah, it's
been great.
John C. Dvorak: You get those moments. It's very entertaining.
I like it. I'd really Scottish National Party still worst,
Adam Curry: but they're so sophisticated though. They're in
Parliament. I just like how they go about their business. Oh,
yes. You can call them racist if you'd let him know ahead of
time. It's thank you so beautiful. Then we have the race
for the President of the E EU Commission. This is the one that
you know, this is Yonkers job. Juncker the drunker and they are
having a hard time figuring out how to come to some consensus on
who this should be. I'm hoping for the show sake that it's
France Timmermans, the Dutch guy who's we we might be able to get
him to talk to us one day. Never know. But now, the the former
anti the anti competition. Minister Margaret Margaret, for
stat for strategists that she's in the running, she has put
herself in the running. Yes. So
John C. Dvorak: that's interesting.
Adam Curry: Yes. Let me see. I have two quick clips from her.
And she's playing the gender card. Of course, when you're
into it start with this one.
Unknown: There has never yet been a female president of this
institution. Do you think you're going to be the first?
Well, that I don't know. But I find that it's long overdue that
you have a woman on this person as well. Because women are not a
minority. We are half the European population, half the
world population. So I think it's about time that also the
commission reflects that fact. Because it is important that you
have more diverse for us to exercise power,
John C. Dvorak: European Commission's vice president
consulting No, one of your current colleagues is from the
biggest group EVP he said, it's out of the question to give you
the job of President, what's your reaction to that?
Unknown: Well, that's obviously his opinion. The European
elections were outstanding, because so many Europeans, they
took the decision, I want to be part of our democracy more than
50% voted. And that's a first. And second, they didn't vote as
they usually vote it. The EPP were losing, I think, around 40
seats, sad, we're losing seats as well. My social liberal
family gained seats so that the greens, so there's a new dynamic
in the European Parliament. And I think it's very important to
hear that call for change, no
Adam Curry: is a call for change. So there's 20 by 28
members, of course, or one for each country. And she wants that
to be what is the term gender balanced? Which means she wants
a quota or does or does she want a quota when you're
Unknown: in a, in a diverse group, when you sort of break
uniformity in how we look, very often you also break uniformity
in how you think you get better discussion, she gets better
decisions. You see that very much in business. And you also
see that in political decision making, in my experience. So if
you became
Adam Curry: Commission President, would you have 14
Women commissioners, 14 male commissioners?
Unknown: Well, you know, it may be 14 women and 13 men since we
may lose UK. But I think this is this is one of the the areas
where we can show Europeans that we change because a lot of the
changes that we're dealing with, they of course, the slow and it
takes time to realize that things are changing, but do you
believe in quitters? Well, I call it the coach app. I think I
don't think 5050 is a quota. And anyway, we have accepted sort of
informal milk Notice of 80 90% for not even decades but for
centuries, where women have not had the same access to
exercising power. I think it is about time that we get a gender
balanced commission.
Adam Curry: gender balance there it is. And I can tell her it's
not going to happen. Because Europe this is an old man's club
they're not gonna let any women come in run the show.
John C. Dvorak: Ah. can happen. No, no,
Adam Curry: it not not in house way too early Europe is still
way behind us, the US on all this stuff. We have rammed it
hard so fast and hard through everything that was still the
heads are still spinning. Okay. No, I think it's just going to
be dudes. You watch
John C. Dvorak: the she gets in? She's gonna shake things up.
Adam Curry: Ah, yeah, because there's a lot of power. A lot of
power there.
John C. Dvorak: A lot of power. I think that's the most powerful
spot
Adam Curry: now. And I don't have a clip, but I'm sure you
saw Angela Merkel man. She was with McCrone No, no, she was
with the Ukrainian president the new Ukrainian Ukrainian
president in Berlin. Yes, she's wound. There you go. That I
mean, I think that that could have come from dehydration. But
it was not a good look. That that there was like it was like
she had an attack of some sorts.
John C. Dvorak: And this reminds me of it so far. It's not a good
look. It's conservative when George HW Bush Fuchs puked all
over the Prime Minister of Japan Prime Minister and then passed
out that
Adam Curry: was not a good luck either. I agree. And it was
interesting that the the Ukrainian president maybe he was
really engrossed by whatever was going on. He didn't see that
didn't see that out of his peripheral vision that she like
wouldn't see me shaking like a like a leaf. It was. It was very
odd. It was sad to watch really
John C. Dvorak: low blood sugar or something.
Adam Curry: Maybe Maybe she was just trying to not morph back
into a reptile. And it was no, she's trying to stop the fight.
Fight fighting the transformation.
John C. Dvorak: Also, the outer skin could be constricting her
because he had been needed to
Adam Curry: know yes, it's time to shed and get a new one. Yes.
Shed shed time. Yes. All right. Hey, everybody, if you've never
heard this show, you're hearing it now. You know what we're all
about?
John C. Dvorak: Lizard. Yeah.
Adam Curry: And that's kind of what I have taken seriously.
That's kind of what I have directly from a way to do that.
One more thing.
John C. Dvorak: But did you get any mh 17 stuff?
Adam Curry: Yes, I did. I did. What do you guys have
John C. Dvorak: a clip from PBS. You kind of wraps it. I think
international prosecutors charged for men with murder
today for blasting a Malaysian Airlines plane out of the sky
over Ukraine in 2014. It happened in a region controlled
by Ukrainian rebels that were backed by Russia. The attack
killed all 298 people on the flight from Amsterdam. Dutch
officials say the suspects probably thought it was a
Ukrainian military plane. And they used a Russian missile to
destroy it.
Unknown: They assaulted that it was brought in in the area where
they were in charge and it was brought to the launch site. And
from this land Launch Site, site, the mhf D was shut down.
And they were responsible for this whole operation,
John C. Dvorak: Russia and Ukraine for bid extradition of
their citizens. But prosecutors say the suspects will be tried
in absentia, next March.
Adam Curry: Now there's a lot of weird stuff. First of all, this
appears to be once again a belling cat analysis. It hasn't
changed much. And they're taking credit for it. And then they're
on the team, the JIT, the joint investigation team, what what I
keep hearing is international court and international lawyers.
But I don't think this is not IPCC or they're not the ICC of
the International Criminal Court. This is a a court in the
Netherlands that is conducting this. As far as I can tell, I
don't maybe it's a division of but it's it's actually it's the
same guys are the same judge who prosecuted here to builders, for
racism for public racism, if you remember that. Yeah. So it's the
same guy who is the same judge who will be again, this is just
an indictment. This is not proof of anything. It's an official
indictment, and in March, they're going to bring it before
trial, which okay, we'll see. And I was able to get at least
one ditch guy to make fun of this. He was talking about how
clear it is that this has got to be divisions men.
Unknown: Prosecutors say they were commanding separatists in
eastern Ukraine in 2014. Losing on the battlefield, they found
senior military and government officials. As in Russia,
desperate for weapons and support. Calls intercepted by
Ukrainian intelligence, a part of the evidence unveiled today,
along with footage found on the internet of the missile launcher
dispatched from Russia and more.
There's forensic that there's witnesses that is wiretap. That
is data analysis. And when you go through all those layers,
then at the end, you can say 11185.
Adam Curry: There you go. That's how we do it in Europe,
everybody. Vaughn Vaughn, and Vaughn is 511185. That's how we
convict people actually three. That's how we convict people
here. Which I am submitting for the end of show ISO.
John C. Dvorak: Well, I only have one and I play my
industrial ISO, which I pulled from Trump's our 90 minute
speech. Okay, in Orlando, where he announced that he's running
for president winning, winning,
Adam Curry: winning. I don't know, I think 11185 I think,
John C. Dvorak: yeah, I think there's a slight funnier, I
Adam Curry: think I kind of got you on that one. We didn't have
breaking news just before the show started
presidents offering his first reaction now to the shoot down
of an American drone by the Iranians last night, the
President issuing a one sentence tweet saying Iran made a very
big mistake that coming just in the past couple of minutes. At
the same time, we're getting information that there is
scheduled to be a meeting here at the White House, to gauge
response to the Iranian shoot down the President's tweet arann
made a very big mistake, of course begging the question of
what the White House and what the administration is prepared
to do about it, if anything, any kind of response at all. I spoke
to Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary just
a few minutes ago. She said the President was briefed last night
and has been briefed again this morning on what the US military
knows about that shoot down so no indication at this point of
what any potential US response would be. But the President I
don't think you can call this saber rattling maybe just a
Twitter rattle but issuing a one sentence statement on Twitter
here in reaction to that shutdown, guys? I mean, there's
a reaction
John C. Dvorak: in the market crude oil is jumping on this
news. WTI.
Now up 5%.
Adam Curry: There we go. That makes somebody happy. Yeah. Is
this a deja vu? Twitter rattling? Yes. This is a deja vu
term or a moment for you as well. This they shot down a
drone? Did we just go through this? A while ago? They shot
down a drone. And then it was like, oh, and they didn't they
didn't they grab the drone?
John C. Dvorak: Well, they did. years ago, they grabbed a couple
of years ago, somewhere in Iran, if you remember, they were
trading it around. Nobody said much about it. Dan, on shooting
down the drone just cost money on Tuesday. And there's also the
debate whether it was over Iranian territory. Well, if you
look at why does it if it wasn't over the territory, what
territory would it be over?
Adam Curry: I I dispute this International Water bullcrap.
Because the Strait of Hormuz, it's like you're either UAE or
you're I mean, you gotta be right in some berries, small,
small piece of what are we doing? They're flying our
drones. Come on,
John C. Dvorak: we got a drone base, right, you're off to the
Adam Curry: Djibouti is on the other side. It's on the other
side. It's on the Djibouti is. It's on the other one. Yeah,
that's where we fly in from. But still, it's like, come on. I did
get this email on Tuesday, which is anonymous, I was staying at a
hotel in Cambridge, UK on Thursday night. Last week, there
were several pilots and CO pilots of F 15. Staying there.
They just flown over to the UK on their way to Iran refueling
in midair four times on the way over the pains planes were being
fitted out and checked before flying on. So something is
probably likely to occur over there in the next few days. And
I don't know if that's related to the drone. But I didn't know
that there were F 15 flying around and why didn't we just
use whatever we have on our in our fleet? Don't we have a whole
fleet that we sent over there with an aircraft carrier sitting
there? So why are we sneaking in F fifteens and the through the
back door is because
John C. Dvorak: it would be obvious when we took off from a
carrier. Now you can the carriers just a decoy.
Adam Curry: So we shut down our own drone, maybe just asking us
I just no idea
John C. Dvorak: that one of the FFTs took the drone out. That
was the first thing I thought possible. We can't trust
anything going on during this little moment. No. And this is
the classic false flag moment. We're just waiting for something
to happen.
Adam Curry: And so something that happened a month ago is now
become the big news about, oh, Iran. They're 10 days away from
enriching uranium weapons grade, which is bull
John C. Dvorak: crap. Go back to the 90s and hear the same thing.
It's
Adam Curry: just such bull crap. I mean, there are 3.6% to be
weapons grade you gotta be like 70 80% It's it takes a little
bit long longer, but it's always 10 days
John C. Dvorak: designed to bomb they haven't designed. We know
exactly you got to put that thing on Iraq supposed to be
supposedly they're using a Pakistani North Korea design I
have a clip across North Korean bombs, by the way are very
small. This is
Adam Curry: from Channel Four in the UK.
Unknown: It is a crisis which arguably began in Washington
when President Trump labeled these Iranian Revolutionary
Guards as terrorists back in April and tightened sanctions on
their country. Then the Americans sent an aircraft
carrier group and B 52 bombers to the Gulf. They said in
response to an unspecified Iranian threat. Last month,
President Rouhani announced that Iran was ramping up its nuclear
fuel production natural reducing its compliance with the deal
that President Trump walked away from a year ago. And today the
Iranians chose one of their nuclear plants as the venue to
announce that their supply of uranium will breach the deals
limit in 10 days time, what is a desperate bid to be allowed to
sell oil, so desperate that a spokesman even delivered it in
English,
there will be another set of actions. If after 60 days, they
will not
even amend their commitments. We are suspending we are not
revoking the commitments, we are not removing the commitment.
Iran's economy is being crippled by US sanctions, as the
Americans are threatening any company anywhere which trades
with Iran. The Chinese say they will defy Washington and carry
on buying oil. But the Europeans have tried and so far failed to
bypass the Americans. Today, they said they would keep trying
amid fears that nuclear deal will collapse.
So our focus is not to enter into a blame game or given
responsibility for a collapse of a deal that might come. Our
focus is to keep the agreement in place and keep the
implementation of it.
Adam Curry: Now when I hear them saying is, hey, Europe and
Russia and checking us out. I don't hear any strong Iran going
her. We don't care, we're going to build bombs. Now. Listen,
there's
John C. Dvorak: also the element has not explored much in these
stories, which is how much oil is China buying? And how are
they getting it there? And
Adam Curry: how are they paying for it? Well, the
John C. Dvorak: other thing is, I have to assume I don't know
what it sound like I know what to call my podcaster podcast, I
had to assume I would act like a podcaster here and I mentioned
that the Chinese probably aren't paying top dollar for the best
price. Always looking for best prices. And yeah, which is
probably galling to the Iranians, but the Chinese market
would suck up all the Iranian oil if it you know if I could
it's
Adam Curry: and that's and that's and that's part of what
Iran was asking for is circumvent this financial block,
which I don't like I really despise that. You know, the
John C. Dvorak: cutting people off advising swift Yeah, thank
Adam Curry: you cutting people off from the payment system.
It's so mean that's that's that's war war actions in my
book.
John C. Dvorak: Yeah, that's what happened. Alex Jones.
Adam Curry: What do you mean? What do you mean?
John C. Dvorak: Well, they cut him off from all the outlets and
Pay Pal and pick him up. I think okay. Yeah. And Alex Jones. I
think Pay Pal still picks him up. It was it was Wikipedia who
everybody dropped from payments. Remember, was it No,
Adam Curry: no, it was wiki leaks.
John C. Dvorak: I'm sorry. Yes, wiki leaks. I met WikiLeaks,
Adam Curry: but I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure Infowars got the
platform from payment systems to I'm pretty sure
John C. Dvorak: it could be Yeah. And then the latest of
course is MailChimp
Adam Curry: go yes yes, we can't have anything about it no anti
Vaxxer stuff they
John C. Dvorak: will gatekeepers of society when did this happen?
Adam Curry: Well yes, this is exactly what they are
gatekeepers of society this is more of our how we have been
looking at this D platforming this the big purge yeah in
MailChimp Do they not have a bit first of all, I'm sure they're
used by tons of brands and commercial companies who use
them to communicate with their customers and they just don't
want any controversy connected to their name. That's what it's
about we don't want any stories about our work service
John C. Dvorak: user name MailChimp is not know unless you
put the logo at the bottom. Okay, okay.
Adam Curry: Here we go. Here we go. Ladies and gentlemen, we've
got a headline here it seems that anti vaxxers are using
email systems like MailChimp to spread their message of
disinformation no film 11 That would be exactly why they would
want to take anybody who's doing that off I don't find that very
controversial make sense?
John C. Dvorak: make sense to you
Adam Curry: yes, it's it is quite interesting how many
people are mad at me for even suggesting that this is not
Silicon Valley actively trying to shut up people and censor
conservative viewpoints?
John C. Dvorak: No, I agree with you I don't think is that as
much as it is to brand the brand safe brand safe message
Adam Curry: in fact we have well there's a lot going on we
John C. Dvorak: have no want to be associated with that
Adam Curry: well, let me here's a little background are not
John C. Dvorak: derived to me if you're a service company Yeah.
Your service company does that mean that the cat guys who make
tin cans you know, they have to be this way to I mean, they make
Tin Can manufacturing products, FMC Food Machinery Corporation
they're making a big line of candy bar makers is going to put
the whole thing engineer candy bar system in a candy bar
factory, but the candy bars are going to be you know something
that's you know, hate Obama bar. Well, you can't now we're not
selling your equipment.
Adam Curry: Well luckily not far from here. We have the con lions
Festival, which I think is just close to they'll the big parties
are tomorrow night. And this is the big Advertising Festival.
It's always on the heels of the con Film Festival. Now all the
advertisers go there and they all hang out and drink with
potential advert. Well, it's really the agencies and they go
you know, they take the brand and the and the media buyers out
and they fly him around and helicopters get them laid on
stinky horrors. It's a fantastic. I've been there. It's
a fantastic event. And well here's just how to get you into
the vibe of how how the industry thinks. Here's an interview of
course we had CNBC oh no is now Fox, Fox Business News money,
honey. I'm Maria Bartiromo on the scene she loves to hang out
there and con. And she's talking to I think one of the big ad
buyer guys at Ogilvy huge advertising company. Just a
little bit about the industry a little background her
John C. Dvorak: joining me right now is Ogilvy worldwide chief
executive, John cipher, John, great to see you thanks so much
for joining us to be with you are also the president for the
creative effectiveness. Lions tell us more about that.
It's one of the toughest lions to win because you can't just be
creative in your work, you have to show that the creativity
actually makes a difference in the marketplace. So did you grow
the clients business? Did you improve the health of the brand?
So the standard of market outcomes is much higher?
When you look at this grouping of ads that we see over the ill?
Yeah, why is she getting
Adam Curry: but I want I want everyone to listen to this
because you understand how these people and I've been a part of
this industry, how they are completely just into the brand.
And as the brand the brand lives in the brand speaks and the
brand listens and people connect with the brand. This is why
things have to be brand safe
John C. Dvorak: last year. What are some of those that really
stand out?
Well, I think anything any brand that gets part of the social
conversation,
Adam Curry: so a lot of the the please pay attention to social
conversation.
John C. Dvorak: The submissions I've seen so far in the jury is
the impact of creating through cultural conversation, did we
get attention? Did people want to talk about us? Did they want
to share what they learned from that brand with friends and
family? And did it sort of strike a chord more broadly, and
culture? Those are the those are the ones that are really getting
the most attention. So
and those really resonate, because it's about issues that
we're all talking about. Exactly. It's
all part of a mash up of kind of everyday life from what I
consume to what my politics are to how I feel about the world in
general. It's all kind of coming together.
You know, increasingly, as I'm speaking to Chief Marketing
Officers this week, I'm finding that it doesn't matter if you're
the most successful brand or an emerging brand. Everybody's
dealing with the same issues and one of those issues is
attracting young people attracting women. How do you do
it? Well, every brand today is trying to be relevant and
authentic to who they are. So having a strong point of view
because it's not just about selling something that's a
better product. A lot of these audiences want to know what you
think What do you care about in a better product in the world?
Why should you matter to them? And then how do they matter to
you so every every brand is trying to think through how to
be more relevant and authentic and how it engages
its audience which is why somebody like for example, the
NFL is using their players yes to talk to you know resonate
with with viewers because viewers don't, you know, they
don't necessarily react to logos but they react to people. Well,
the
one thing we've said over and over is you can't fake it
anymore. If it's not true on the inside, no one's gonna believe
it's true. I totally react to your product and in the NFL
case, that will be the people playing the game. It's
authenticity.
Adam Curry: I know. I know. It was painful. You know, it was
painful to listen to
John C. Dvorak: the biggest load of crap. Probably the one of the
greatest clips you've ever played. You should put that
aside for the day, but it makes me so sick I'm not giving it to
Adam Curry: this shows you how insane people are about the
brand and why they don't want even MailChimp is a brand.
You're so stupid cheap with a with a with an envelope and a
little mailman hat. Yeah, people don't want their brand
associated with anything, no thought in authentic. That's not
exactly it's authenticity. It's all about and so that's why here
at the con Lyon Lyon Festival, the big advertisers, social
media have formed the Alliance they wanted to fight unsafe
content online. Yes. Procter and Gamble, Facebook, are now
addressing hate speech and other problems together. And this is
obviously it's the near the end the name of this thing is have
the actual name of this. What is this thing called this alliance?
The Global Alliance for responsible media and in this
participating Procter and Gamble, General Mills, Diageo,
MasterCard, Facebook, Twitter, alphabet, Omnicom WPP you've got
all the big ones there, right there. You don't need anything
else. And what they want to do is they want to have all these
rules and want everyone to to understand what is necessary for
for advertising to take place on the Silicon Valley Social
companies and on YouTube. Digital Advertising will make up
more than half of global ad sales for the first time this
year, according to the latest forecast by Magna global part of
inter inter public, but social media platforms have been tarred
by repeated revelations that they are hosting political
disinformation and malicious content. In one of the most
recent examples at&t Clorox, Nestle, McDonald's, and
fortnight publisher Epic Games paused or halted their YouTube
advertising. Following reports viewers were making
inappropriate comments on videos of young girls. YouTube later
suspended comments on most videos that feature minors, so
they're fighting her. Guys, so they are fighting. And it is a
full on war between established companies, companies, maybe even
who are just trying to compete, for instance, Vox media, which
is arguably a mainstream company where their NBC investment of a
quarter billion dollars, and I'd say so I, I'm not a big fan of
Nilay Patel. Like it's always thought he's kind of swarmy he's
the indie the boss over at the verge to the editor in chief or
something, which is a Vox media property. I got to give him big
props for really taking it to Facebook, and just just spewing
in their face in their eyes. With this recent revelation,
they got three of the content moderators, who worked for
cognisant, which is a company we've talked about many times
we've had, we've had many reports of people, you know,
looking through the through what, what do you people are
asking Google to do, but also pure content, moderation of
uploads to YouTube, and in this case, to Facebook. And not only
did they publish quite a great Expo ze of what really goes on
and there's always this poor, these poor people, they're all
their mental health, but screw that this is a direct hit job on
Facebook. And I pulled the a couple of quotes from a YouTube
ID a funny enough, a YouTube interview that has been
published, which I actually was hard to find again this morning
when I was trying to pull the clip from it. And you'll
understand taking the authenticity that oh, that's the
brand brand. You'll understand why there's a problem when this
is out there. And this is what you're dealing with
John C. Dvorak: content. Moderation is a really difficult
job, you have to take Facebook's policies which can change every
day, and then apply them to decide what stays up on Facebook
and Instagram. A lot comes down. A couple of months ago, I was
contacted by some moderators who worked for Facebook in Tampa,
Florida through a company called cognizant and they told me that
they wanted to go on the record so they told you we're gonna put
you in a queue of content that is dedicated to graphic violence
and hate speech.
Adam Curry: Yes, you would get the occasional random thing, but
for the most part, it was always graphic violence and hate speech
because that's all that was coming in for us what
John C. Dvorak: were like some of the kinds of things that you
would see that would be really hard for you. Where do I start?
Unknown: Animals, mostly animals, the abuse of animals,
I've seen them had a puppy with a rope hanging it. I've seen a
pit of pigs and they threw fire and you can hear the pigs
screaming. I don't wanna get emotional talking about the
animals.
Adam Curry: There was one where there was a baby that was there
were twin babies from like Saudi Arabia, and the mother was
dropping the baby on the ground. This is when we saw over and
over again, and then choke the baby. And you hear the baby
gurgling, and trying to breathe. And for days, it infected my
mind, I had to know what happened to this baby, because
I'd seen it over and over and over again. And luckily the baby
was okay.
Unknown: I just think about all the animals all the time. And
that's what I'm still thinking about, even though I
John C. Dvorak: left. Yeah. Do you remember the first video
that you saw, it was
Adam Curry: a video in a different language. And it was
these two teenagers, and they came across an iguana on the
street. And one of the kids grabbed the iguanas by the tail.
And they started to smash the iguana onto the ground. And you
could just hear the iguanas screaming. And that was one of
the first videos I saw on that queue. And they just, they kept
slamming that you go on onto the ground, and the guano just kept
screaming and screaming, and then screaming stopped, and it's
just a bloody pile. And the kids were just laughing at the wanna,
we're able to remove that video from Facebook. Now, since that
video had no title and no caption, we were supposed to
send it to a different queue for Spanish speaking. But I don't
think there really was a Spanish speaking cue that was taking
care of that.
So this whole piece in the video, which is 15 minutes long,
is reiterating that Facebook has you keep here, it came back and
there was again and it was re uploaded and we couldn't delete
it. We didn't know how to delete it. The rules say don't delete
it. And if you want to get any group of people riled up against
a company, make sure it's cruelty to animals, people gives
a shit, I choked the baby, what you killed any Guana people are
gonna lose their crap over this Well done. Well done Vox media.
Very, very good. Though no one will have to do anything. You
won't have to have all these these rules in Congress, in
which there's no legislation. You hear about the legislation
that they're proposing. Yeah,
John C. Dvorak: it's just a bunch of virtual signaling by
the Democrats are pulling a lot of stunts at the moment
reparation. And
Adam Curry: we'll get to that in a second. This, this is the
Hawley bill. And
John C. Dvorak: we're Smoot who, then everybody, a few people out
there, we'll get that joke going.
Adam Curry: So the the Hawley bill, essentially would have the
government appoint people who determine what is not as is and
is not allowed when it comes to moderation and or algorithms
that might be performing editorial tasks. And of course,
this will only apply to wet, you know, social, or companies that
have 30 million active users a month, or at least 500 million
in revenue every month. So it's really targeted at Silicon
Valley. Things like we're safe. It's no way safe. Oh, yeah,
totally. Well, no agenda. So this this is the next thing I'll
just touch on this briefly. I truly believe that we can just
let it you don't need to regulate this is all going to
take care of itself because advertisers the more of the
stories there are and there's plenty of incentive for
mainstream in particular print and television and you know,
mainstream guys to keep pointing out how evil these companies are
and how they can't handle AI can't do it. That's finally
starting people starting to figure that out that artificial
intelligence can't weed this stuff out. And and so it's
they're going to keep shutting down all of their properties.
You know, just like MailChimp take off anyone who might be
talking about vaccines being unsafe, get rid of everything
until you basically have an AOL. You're going to have an AOL
situation with YouTube, where people or even Twitter Twitter
may be a better example, where you're just in this box of
safeness. And people will keep telling you about hey, you know,
there's this mastered On there's this federation thing over here.
You should check this out. Oh, no, no, I want to stay here. It
was just like America Online. Everyone's eight. Can we get a
browser to the internet? No, no, no, you just use your key words
you can all the content you want here. It's okay. It's all safe.
And then they opened it up a little bit and gave you a crappy
ass browser. And people are like, Oh my god, this is great.
This is scary. This is all the cool stuff. people gravitate
towards that they're not going to want to stay in these
complete brand safe environments. It's boring. So
with that, I'm just making it prediction. gab.com is on July
4, they will become a part of the Federation. And already
we're seeing I'm getting emails now. Hey, are you uh, are you
moderating? Uh, no agenda? social.com?
Are you? Are you the moderator of those club? Oh, uh, yeah.
Well, you need to block God in advance, man, we can't have that
on the on the, we can't have that in the Federation. Where
it's like,
John C. Dvorak: like, Gavin.
Adam Curry: It's the stupidest thing. It's like, people, they
left Twitter and Facebook because they felt it was no fun.
And you know, and there were too many Nazis. I don't know what it
was. And now they're going to their little safe spaces and
blocking everything. You need controversy? You see, this is
this is what people don't get. What is it about just Twitter as
an example, you need the controversy with the you need
the drugs added in the hits, you know, like the dopamine hit,
like, Oh, I gotta like meet saying that someone's a shithead
I got more followers because you know, people listen to me
because I talk smack about them. And the drug element is what
will keep people going but if you remove the controversy, it's
just it's not gonna be interesting. So, federate or die
is my message. That's what it's going to be as cute. Here's Tim
Cook doing the commencement speech at Stanford virtue
signaling. Meanwhile, he has while he is in he hasn't created
but his company is in charge of one of the biggest components of
evil that exists today amongst social networking
from the first oscillator built in the Hewlett Packard garage,
to the iPhones that I know you're holding in your hands.
Social media, shareable videos, snaps and stories that connect
half the people on earth. They all trace their roots to
Stanford's backyard. But lately, it seems this industry is
becoming better known for a less noble innovation. The belief
that you can claim credit without accepting
responsibility. We see it every day now. With every data breach,
every privacy violation. Every blind, I turn to hate speech,
fake news poisoning our national conversation, the false miracles
in exchange for a single drop of your blood. Too many seem to
think that good intentions, excuse away harmful outcomes.
But whether you like it or not, what you build, and what you
create, define who you are. It feels a bit crazy that anyone
should have to say this. But if you've built a chaos factory,
you can't dodge responsibility for the chaos. Taking
responsibility means having the courage to think things through.
Yeah, well. Big talk. Tom Collins,
John C. Dvorak: what is it when he become a philosopher?
Adam Curry: Oh, please that's all he does. He's big talk for a
company that created the the box that the rage factory lives in
the chaos machine. It's alright, why don't you block all access
to the external X API's and ways for people to spy on you using
all the little bits and bobs inside the iPhone. It's really
disingenuous what he's doing there. Just and and get this
gabbed submitted a version of the browser that that I've been
using on the desktop, which is fantastic, has all the elements
of brave that I want it all the blocking and getting rid of
tracking and you know, little VPN action there that sends
tracking URLs to the bit bucket without all the overhead of the
crypto and all the stuff they're trying to make money with.
They've created a version of that for iOS and it was
rejected, rejected for questionable content. It's a
browser it's a browser. Now I think They may not be telling
the whole truth. I think well, there may be something else
going on because their, their developer account was they were
locked out of their developer account. And I don't know what
else is going on. But it without a doubt, without a doubt. It's
virtue signaling. We don't want anything with Brave on our, on
our devices. And really
John C. Dvorak: always go ahead is also the fact and they kind
of hinted at it. That the dissenter browser, which is what
you're talking about is allows for independence threads outside
of the normal back and forth that you have in comments. Yes,
yeah. And it's some of in some instances, I've run into there,
these these threads of comments from the descent browser
infrastructure are bigger. Yes, there you go in the comments
that exist within the normal system, it's really kind of
subversive
Adam Curry: it's a great idea that they came up with is like,
enable anyone to start a conversation thread around any
URL, any website, any video anything. And I think that's
probably a bigger issue. It's like, Oh, crap, it's like
they're taken away our audience. They're the siphoning that often
I using our systems. And they say that to the dissenter, gab
guy say that they sent it to Department of Justice it did,
probably at antitrust is probably should have gone to the
Trade Administration, I think, DC FTC commission, but it is
it's noticeable what's going on? It truly is. And so I think, let
him Let him let everyone run around do all their stuff. It's,
it could be five months, five years, 10 years. I don't know
what eventually, everything just has to be decentralized. There's
no other way about it. And the advertising model. Yeah, it'll
last for a long time. But it's not a growth industry is not
going to work because you cannot monetize the network in any
fashion. Not even with ads at scale. Because killing animals
races right. Never Ends. To good luck to him. Good luck to him.
John C. Dvorak: Will I be joined? I was a member of gab, I
must be a Nazi problem.
Adam Curry: What you must be a Nazi.
John C. Dvorak: I've gone on there. And it seems like Twitter
to me. I don't know why. What am I? What am I thinking? It looks
like Twitter feels like Twitter looks like Twitter. Here's
what's
Adam Curry: interesting. Yesterday. So as everything
moves towards a federated model, it will I think Twitter
eventually you'll also be able to follow someone on Twitter
from from no agenda social or gab.com whatever that's that's I
think, Dorsey actually is kind of painted that he sees that
happening. But when people who are running so Mastodon dot
social is a very big node on the federated network. And you know,
we've been domain blocked because we're, we were branded
quite early as, because of, you know, one or two people who
engaged in something with some social justice warrior. Then all
of a sudden we're on a block list and you people don't see
the irony of saying, we have blocked this entire domain this
entire group of people, because they're bigots and xenophobes.
Is not blocking a whole group of people based on the action of
one definition of
John C. Dvorak: bigotry and xenophobia. Thank you.
Adam Curry: They don't see this irony
John C. Dvorak: course not. It's for the better good I am
Adam Curry: so so proud of our value for value network and the
way we've done this and that we've been doing it for 11 years
I'm I'm I'm very proud of that. In fact, I'm so proud that I'd
like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning
to you the man who put the sea in the con lions festival John
sea good.
John C. Dvorak: Morning humans. I'm Karina monitorship. See
boots on the ground feet in the air substitute our names and
nights out
Adam Curry: there in the morning to our trolls at the troll room.
They are no agenda stream.com And they've been all over
everything today all over the all over the map but you can
join there anytime. There's great shows, listen to of course
the no agenda show live twice a week on Thursdays and but
there's many many other great shows, listen to and participate
in the troll room. You can sit there and you can say something
nice or troll or do whatever you want to just be completely
passive. It is where we all meet no agenda. stream.com also a big
in the morning to cesium 137 He brought us the artwork for
episode 1147. The title of that episode was Oh tarde and we did
go back came forth a few times about what we wanted to use.
This was the I heart dad Blackboard kind of for Father's
Day, which we are we're basically suckers for the
traditional artwork for a Mother's Day, Father's Day
Christmas, maybe Valentine's Day. We argued about the
artwork. Let me see what else was
John C. Dvorak: well, let's see what we got. We should probably
mention that once we rejected the funniest one, of course was
Adam Curry: Oh Jake for glove, the glove cast
John C. Dvorak: glove cast by Mike Riley, especially when with
the blood all over it. We felt that for Father's Day. This
might not be the most appropriate artwork.
Adam Curry: I mean, can you believe it? We didn't want to be
deep platformed from ourselves.
John C. Dvorak: We did platformed. But that was the I
think that was the best piece. Yeah. It didn't get picked. And
the other pieces were dubious. It was a good Father's Day. By
me. There's some other Father's Day one, but none of them was
quite as as jazzy. Yeah, it was it was a strong piece of cesium
137, which is very professional looking kind of gimmicky thing.
Yeah.
Adam Curry: So we appreciate what the cesium did there. And
that is, I just got a note from someone this morning. Who said
hacky here, he's doing a project for? It's like a he has a he
wouldn't maybe he didn't specify some customer and they're doing
podcast. And I've sold them on the idea that having art changed
with each episode is very good. suggests Yeah, this is the no
one's doing that I look genius by even proposing that. But how
do you do it? So explain to him where to what to do where to
change is part of the
John C. Dvorak: actual takes about 10 years? Yeah, yeah. Then
then the apps kind of figured out start spontaneously by two
guys. Yeah, there you go. Who just seemed to do all the
artwork in the early days, they disappeared. And
Adam Curry: And now Now we're up to what we must have 11 years we
have, I can tell you how many images we have. Now, of course,
we haven't used all these images, and many are completely
inappropriate.
John C. Dvorak: But a lot of them get used as evergreens to
get used in a newsletter. There's some of them get used,
Adam Curry: as of this measure more than you think actually as
a yes. As of this measurement, 13,580 pieces of artwork and 11
year period. That is not bad. Yeah, that's 10 times the amount
of shows. Yeah, so hallelujah. Anyway, as a part of our our D
platform immunity, we don't have advertisers that we've, we chose
this very early on. And we said to people, if you want us to do
this, we got to get paid somehow. And we came up with
this model, where you send us the value that you feel you
received out of listening to the program. And it turns out, a lot
of people get value, and they'd like to thank us for it. And
we'd like to thank them. By reading their donations on the
air. We like to start early in the show, just like Hollywood,
oddly enough with our executive producers, and associated
John C. Dvorak: session that he only notes that we are obliged
to read by rule, or those of the executive producers correct. And
people will continue to say in the olden days, when we started
we read everything that was we didn't have that many donations.
Now we got donations, and we got we got enough that was became
that we started getting more donations that we said that do a
cut off. So we started reading all the notes above $50. Yeah.
Adam Curry: And then people started sending big long notes.
John C. Dvorak: We ended up with at least two copies of war and
peace by a couple of the guys sending in $51 We gotta
Adam Curry: we gotta we gotta update we have to update that
from not Warren Piece, but it has to be the entire Lord of the
Rings series as something that we have to do a little hipper
than a Warren Piece or you know, Game of Thrones alt all three
books.
John C. Dvorak: Geez. Anyway, so we had these people writing
these long Tomes. And it was getting it was taken up to show
the show half the show was yeah, thank you reading these long
notes for people who donate $50 So that's when we cut off the
$50 notes and we you want to you get mentioned and we will read
occasional notes from the between 50 and 200 but 200 and
up the notes we are we feel obliged to read them we read
them in their entirety and some of them are quite long. And we
don't you know, we more or less appreciate the shorter notes and
push up because some people seem to have lost that memo and
they're writing notes as they're asking for jingo requests
they're
Adam Curry: also very they're also very happy many of them
when they achieve a knighthood or another status they're very
well we don't have a problem people just forget and you know,
so it's good to remind them that there is show to be done. So try
and kill
John C. Dvorak: we have a show to do and so, did we do it this
way we still get it A lot of people get mentioned a lot of
people get their notes read, and sometimes more than others. We
do have two executive producers and two Associate Executive.
Executive producers for today's show we we have a gender
balance. Nice. It's a nice nice balance. We start off with
Anonymous. It's $500. Gentlemen, your work is greatly greatly
appreciated. If you want to credit my nightly names sir. Sir
big third blog, third blog, their blog 30 for free, but
don't mention my real name. Perhaps I will be in town for
the Atlanta meet up keep up the great analysis. We read this
note last time. He's followed by no jingles No, nothing. That's
followed by Colin Preston in Oregon City, Oregon who sent a
check in and ran in a written note. Oh, we
Adam Curry: finally got a check again.
John C. Dvorak: Yeah, we've only got some checks. So
Adam Curry: good. Do you think do you think there was some kind
of done something? Do you think there was some some kind of
blockage in the system or I find
John C. Dvorak: it to be peculiar. I don't know what it
well, you know what
Adam Curry: comics or Blogger says, says donations are down
because you blocked him. On Twitter. He did a whole comic
strip about it. He did he did a cartoon. Yeah.
John C. Dvorak: I got to see it. Yeah. I've been listening to it.
I'm sure it's very flattering. To me to believe me. I've been
listening to and he wonders why he gets blocked. I've been
listening since episode 1089 33 times 33. Do we miss that when
it happened? 33 times 33 was 1089. I'm so sure we did your
media deconstruction is fantastic. And elevates my
critical thinking skills you have since become my primary
source of news. We love hearing that but
Adam Curry: it's good for your it's good for your sanity,
that's for sure.
John C. Dvorak: That's good for the big deal. It's
Adam Curry: not not much important stuff that you hear
otherwise, yes.
John C. Dvorak: Your idea to at least the naming rights of your
studio is a moneymaker. But the terms need to be defined, would
it be per show per week per month highest bidder Knights and
Dames only would multiple sponsors be allowed per show. I
am a small business owner and interested in this prospect as I
would rather give my advertising dollars to you guys, then to
some corporate firm.
Adam Curry: I have so 1.1 If we did naming rights of the studio,
it would have to be in a monthly basis. Otherwise, it's just
stupid. It's just too I'm a little concerned that he used
the a word there. I don't want to be advertising. I'm a little
concerned about that. I want to I want people to support the
show because they like the work and not because it's an ad
John C. Dvorak: well definitely needs more discussion. John. He
writes, the white stuff that oozes out of Sam and during
cooking has to do with the temperature at which the salmon
is cooked. It is harmless unappetizing looking coagulated
protein and it only happens if you cook the salmon too hot. Oh
try cooking it at 225 to 250 Fahrenheit instead of the usual
350 Well doesn't the ooze come out slowly the farm raised
salmon though it's not healthy.
Adam Curry: Doesn't I think it was just comes out slower if you
if you cook it at 225
John C. Dvorak: I had moments where it doesn't come out.
Please plug my business practical fusion.com
Adam Curry: Thank you I know you just did that for me. I
appreciate it. Good one.
John C. Dvorak: Practical fusion.com www practical fuses
makes sense for an American made stainless steel tank ranging in
size from 200 gallons to 2000 gallons all made here in
Portland Oregon. If possible, I'll claim the naming rights to
Adam studio for this episode. Please send an F cancer jingle
to my smokin hot wife for her everyone out and everyone out
there who needs it. Okay. Thank you for your courage Keep up the
great work sincerely Colin. Thank you can see
Adam Curry: Thank you Colin for reminding us we need to think
about the naming rights. But there is some apprehension here
is the requested and always effective. You've got karma
always gets people focusing their energy on effing the
cancer.
John C. Dvorak: Sheila demore Duran oh no mortar RAM but
Damodaran Damodaran
Adam Curry: tomorrow, the more the mortar and isn't this is a
famous famous family No.
John C. Dvorak: Is it? Yes
I believe 3456 Associate Executive Producer Forgive me
pod fathers. It's been many months since my last donation
but this one will take me over to Dame hood. However, please
note that I had to pay pal accounts and deleted one of
them. So my accounting is not great. But It's below in any
case, just to recap I did 13 My okay she tells him some numbers
here. I would like to be titled Dame Sheila the lady of Lisbon.
Oh,
Adam Curry: boy. All right, Miss bola.
John C. Dvorak: The synchronicity of Adam coming to
Portugal and a donation from coin bra on the last show met I
knew it was time to donate again I stopped for a while as the
synchronicity of Adam coming oh, I'm sorry, my sorry, jump lines.
I stopped for a while and me and my husband and spent the last
year building a house in Spain as studious to be exact in the
far northwest, which is just the opposite of the country where
you are. We've been living in Hong Kong for many years and
knew we couldn't manage the project from there. So we moved
to Lisbon rather than to be a tax resident in Spain after many
years without paying taxes legally I might add we were
weren't ready to submit to get mo nation Euro land just yet. So
he took advantage of the Portuguese NIHR scheme. Non
habitual resident Yeah, you can consult the book and knowledge
of your interest I
Adam Curry: actually got this stack send it to me, it's very
similar to the US if you buy a house of at least half a million
dollars or if you invest in a second home that you'll rent out
for $350,000 or if you invest a million dollars in the company
with at least 10 employees then you can come in and you're good
to go.
John C. Dvorak: Nice Yeah, it is pretty nice. It's very
controversial in the United States because apparently a lot
of Arabs and other people are just buying a deal building
stuff in New York and kind of the word right like they own the
place the word
Adam Curry: here is it's the French the French are coming all
over coming into Portugal and building and buying everywhere
used to be the Brits now it's the French Interesting.
John C. Dvorak: Well, the price the value of the of the pound is
not making it easy. Yeah. It's been an interesting ride. My
Spanish ain't great. My husband's is non existent. So
Google Translate and some helpful neighbors have really
big about getting a little stupid. Speak into these please.
I've really been our friend it says our neighbors had been our
friends but luckily they're very friendly and Portugal's one of
the great countries of associate the socialize a lot they love
it. Yeah, but luckily the house has turned out okay, there's a
pic below. Didn't see that. We're planning to use it when we
can and rent it when we're not Adam. Your note about Portugal
made me laugh. It really is the back end of Europe perched on
the edge of the Atlantic and feeling in many ways like Time
has stopped although the influx of foreign money from various
visas get parently it's really live a time was stopped years
ago, which you're not witnessing. Anyway, Lisbon
property blah, blah, blah. We like get to know the city quite
well in some parts of it really a time warp but as a soft
landing back into Europe after many years away. It's been kind.
The people are friendly. The younger ones speak excellent
English. This is true. As John says the wine is good. cheap and
plentiful is sunny a lot although gray and rainy today,
and it's a day drive to our house, which has worked out well
for us. Although I really miss good Asian food. Yes. Well, you
know, you can cook it yourself. You can this,
Adam Curry: you know, this is here. We had some good meals.
And by the way, everything. Everything is soon to be named
Sheila said. And let me add wine in a tube. That makes Portugal
wine YouTube makes Portugal fantastic.
John C. Dvorak: Portugal listeners out there. I'd love to
arrange a meet up. I reached there hearing all about it. We
do have about two or
Adam Curry: three. No, we have we have we have a couple.
They've all emailed me. And in fact, I think we've gotten some
special treatment at the hotel, thanks to some back channeling
and one of our producers nice. Yes. Very nice. Very, very
John C. Dvorak: amenable to that. Yeah, they are. I really
enjoy hearing about all the other meetups and I'm very
jealous. Should I just go ahead and list one it would be so
great. Yeah, you can just want to be so great to meet some
other like minded people here, and no jingles for me. But can I
have some home rental and business karma so we can
continue living the dream. Thank you both for keeping on keeping
on your show is a rare moment of sanity in a world that gets
crazier by the day.
Adam Curry: Thank you very much, Sheila and I look forward to
seeing you at the roundtable later on. Here's your karma as
requested. You've got karma. By the way, octopus. The octopus in
Portugal is great. I've never really been an octopus guy. And
I'll just kind of the look of it. But I've had it twice now
since we've been here and with this. They have this purple
sweet potato pool. It's very that they kind of put it make
into a puree and then they've got the just the Okta it's
dynamite is the done
John C. Dvorak: Get the food in Portugal's fantastic. Make sure
you get some lingua lingua okay. Oh actually used to smuggle back
some of the they have the sauce some it's gotta tell you about
this as a couple of sausages that are like to not salami
because their season totally alien but they're fabulous. And
the the lot of times you can use some of these sausages and
Salamis you just cut a little piece off and put it in
something and then that season's the whole dish is pretty
amazing. One
Adam Curry: of our producers said, hey, send me an email. I
replied and copied you which is why I'm going to tell you about
it because you never read my email. And he said, I'm working.
I started working on a best of a no agenda best off so you guys
could take a show off. And he wants to do it was from Chris.
No, no, this no Chris is separate. Chris Chris needs
people to send him your favorite bits. That's something different
Chris is Chris is going to come up with I know what Chris is
doing something just an outrageous best up Sir Chris
Wilson, you can find him. It'd be a whole show. But this
producer wants to do a best of just a food and wine
conversations. And I like the idea. But I don't know if it's
if it's a whole Best of Show.
John C. Dvorak: I don't even get an hour out of it. He
Adam Curry: says he can get two hours out of it.
John C. Dvorak: Well, it's possible but well, that'd
Adam Curry: be interesting for everybody.
John C. Dvorak: That'd be interesting to some some people
really I think it's really a minority of the listeners who
care.
Adam Curry: Maybe do one hour and then we could we could
package uses like a filler. But in the meantime, I'm on my
honeymoon. We're doing a live show. That's what we like doing
most. So onward with more thanks.
John C. Dvorak: Anyway, yeah, Portugal is fantastic. The wine
is great, you get a 10 P wine in a cooler friendly, and it's
photogenic. That's it. I just talked about just for a second.
I have always had, I like to take photos and I take a lot of
them. And there are some places that are photogenic just
naturally, you can just hold the camera up and shoot you got
something you have something you could blow up to five feet by
six feet. And it's just dynamite. In fact, I have one
I'm gonna frame shortly. And then there's other places that
you think are photogenic and their ditches impossible to
squeeze shots out of them. And it's something
Adam Curry: about the Earth and the light I think the actual
quality of the of the dirt some sum the sum something, I totally
agree with what you're saying.
John C. Dvorak: Well, the one cut displays that is always
gotten the best of me as New Orleans. I cannot get shots
there that are worth a shit. And finally, I decided that the best
my best bet and I actually got some good shots doing this just
shooting doorways, doorway, doorway, doorway, doorway
doorway, and you end up with a nice collection of pictures. But
generally speaking, newer, and that took me years to figure out
New Orleans is rough. Why? I mean, I'd love to get together
with a professional photographer who's actually can shoot New
Orleans and make and make pretty pictures because I've never been
able to do it. And I'm reminded of a story. And this is the
story of Marla Maples. I've told her on the show before and it
has to do with photo Marla Maples
Adam Curry: was previous girlfriends. What do you mean?
Oh, you married her? Yeah. Trump's second wife. Yes.
John C. Dvorak: Yeah. So I met Marla Maples, and she is one of
the most beautiful women you'll ever see. And I realized that
she was so outrageously beautiful that I've never seen a
picture of her that made her look as beautiful as she
actually is in person. So you said Uh huh, I have a quest.
Well, I didn't have a quiz. She's not gonna let me shoot her
but, but I was having my photo taken by some photographer in
New York for some magazine. And I just somehow the conversation
because he did art to art pictures. And like, a side story
there. But I mentioned Marla Maples. I said you know the
funny thing about her she's really so much prettier than any
picture I've ever seen ever and he guy goes nuts. He says you're
right. He says I was given the assignment to shoot pictures of
her and I spent days trying to capture this phenomenon and I
couldn't do it. So there's something there's a mystery to
photography then they get like a new should
Adam Curry: have just lowered your F stop. It would have been
fine.
John C. Dvorak: Yeah, next on the list. Sorry, I get carried
away at the store. I love a good story. 23456 from Sir otaku
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John C. Dvorak: you slaves can get used the Mac into
Unknown: the mac and cheese.
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You've got karma I knew ahead of me.
John C. Dvorak: You did. And last on our list is if I can
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that. As Michael Rennaker $200.33 says it turns out we had
three Associate Executive producers and I can't and
there's no note from him on here and I don't have any email from
him. Maybe you do
Adam Curry: I don't I sure don't. Well, he's got the 33 at
the end there's that's always good news means he's not a first
time donor more than likely but
John C. Dvorak: we'll give him some good tuit his karma with a
goat. You've got karma
yeah, there's our group of produce negative reducers
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John C. Dvorak: leave also want to get a make good to Andy
Cantrell, who wasn't called out on a $53 at night I'm sorry
about that. Wasn't called on a donation couple shows ago. So we
have a person we have everyone's all in for this woman named
combine I think she's running for District Attorney of Queens.
Oh, she is of the same ilk as a number of district attorneys
around the country that have build trade
Adam Curry: Let me guess he's that hate Trump is is that
John C. Dvorak: they all hate they hate Trump but they're they
don't believe in small petty crimes. Like Austin. Yeah, poop
on the street is coming. For sure. But let's listen to this
woman. This is combine one Democracy Now.
Unknown: Now another young Queens candidate is trying to
pull off a historic upset Tiffany come on a 31 year old
queer Latina public defender is running for District Attorney in
Queens. She's wanting to end cash bail to stop prosecuting
low level offenses to decriminalize sex work and to go
after bad landlords, cops and Immigration Customs Enforcement.
Her election would mark a major shift in the Queens criminal
justice system and yet against that an example for the country
to win. Come on, we'll have to beat out a crowded field of
seven candidates who are all claiming they'll reform the
system, including Queens borough president Melinda Katz, who is
backed by the Queens Democratic Party establishment. This is
Tiffany cbonds campaign that if you
have money, if you know how to game the system, you can do
whatever you want in the city. If you're a person of color,
you're poor, you're an immigrant. No one's on your
side. My family is from Puerto Rico, and my parents worked hard
to make ends meet. But no matter how hard they worked, the system
cared more about protecting the wealthy. A queer Latina from a
working class family. People like us are exactly who the
system is trying to keep down. That's why I became a public
defender to defend my community. I've defended over 1000 clients
who couldn't afford to defend themselves who were thrown on
Rikers because they didn't have Money for bail. They jumped a
turnstile. They struggle with mental health or substance use
disorder. I'm running for District Attorney of queens to
bring justice to working people to stop criminalizing poverty to
reduce recidivism. to decriminalize sex work to end
cash bail. With the corrupt Queen's political machine
doesn't want me to win, because they get rich off of
foreclosures, taken millions from developers and I can't be
bought and control.
Since announcing her campaign in January, Tiffany kabongo has
gone from Long Shot outsider to key contender in a race that's
garnered national attention. Progressive district attorneys
Larry crasner of Philadelphia and Rachael Rollins of Boston
have endorsed Gabon, The New York Times just endorsed her
writing the success of any prosecutor and of the city
itself depends on keeping people safe. Miss Gabon is the Democrat
best poised to become one of a growing number of prosecutors to
show that can be done without infringing on civil liberties
criminalizing Black and Hispanic Americans. And mistaking
punishment for the only form of justice The Times wrote
Adam Curry: question now. Is she already district attorney or
shooter? She's a running defender. But she wants to be
different district attorney. Yes,
John C. Dvorak: she's running for the district attorney
dropped dead I guess recently.
Adam Curry: It does. She has a serious contender.
John C. Dvorak: She's one of the top contenders Yes, she says a
good she has a shot this. This Melinda Katz woman is better
known and she's got she's got a better pitch. I think she's
gonna win. But this possibility does exist, this woman could do
it. But I want you to play just the last like five seconds of
that, which is this crazy things that Amy said at the end of that
the very end chart tell me listen to it carefully and tell
what it means.
Unknown: Writing the success of any prosecutor in the city
itself depends on keeping people safe. Miss Gabon is the Democrat
best poised to become one of a growing number of prosecutors to
show that can be done without infringing on civil liberties
criminalizing Black and Hispanic Americans. And mistaking
punishment for the only form of justice The Times wrote,
John C. Dvorak: thinking, punishment is the only form of
justice.
Adam Curry: Well, I can explain it. If you commit a crime, that
is a low level offense, such as stealing something from a store,
which you have to do because you know you need to eat. Then
John C. Dvorak: you get up in your car window in San
Francisco. Yes,
Adam Curry: you get a participation trophy. Wow, this
is this is part of who poor people are. I believe that a lot
of these nice people with these ideas. I don't know if they
understand exactly that. The Armageddon is upon us and people
fall off the edge of the money train the conveyor belt, and
that's where the ones that, you know, that are left to just poop
on the street. And so their idea is instead of fixing that, the
idea is well know what they have to steal the eat, or they have
to do sex work, you know, to eat. It's compassion, it's
compassion.
John C. Dvorak: Meanwhile, she had a tendency to do something
that kind of bothered me. When she was in a back and forth she
was on the show. And so here's the AMI asking her a question.
Unknown: Ocasio Cortez, you've said she's inspired you to run
coming from the same borough, and of course, the powerhouse
that she has become. And you said you thought of yourself
proudly as a public defender. Crossing over becoming the chief
prosecutor, the district attorney, what made you decide
you could do that? And what does it mean without the managerial,
managerial experience that someone like Melinda Katz has?
Sure.
Adam Curry: I was wondering where that was going. Good. You
got me? Sure. Good one. Sure. Well, it's it once we're back
and now we've we've moved our house. We moved to a new house.
We're married. We've had the wedding. We've had the
honeymoon. Now I can get serious about getting involved in what's
going on in Austin. I've got to make my voice hurts going
John C. Dvorak: through your uh, now. Uh, let your your the
landed gentry. You have property? Do right. You do
rights.
Adam Curry: I have. I have a stake in the game. You have a
stake in the game do i do i got a stake in the game? I got a dog
in the hunt. And I'm very cute. I'm gonna be a troublemaker. I
like what's going on?
John C. Dvorak: Talk to Mimi. Oh, my God, just a local
troublemaker. She is
Adam Curry: she i mean really good as she was she is the mold
for troublemaking shields. Okay, I will and well that's that's a
good tip. And the guy who wants to build the dome, I think he's
another good person to talk to Yes, good ideas dome, build the
dome around Austin and give all the cops flame throwers. I love
that idea. All right. Okay, let me see there's, there's a number
of there's a number of things we can do a number of places we can
go. But I'd like to talk about these reparations.
John C. Dvorak: Because I have a roundup clip from PBS.
Adam Curry: Okay. Is it a background or as explain what's
going on here?
John C. Dvorak: I little bit, I don't think it's as good as if
you have a real good background or it might be bad. I don't
Adam Curry: really have a background or but I can state
this that what we saw on C span which happened on the Hill was a
resurrection of a rather old bill House resolution 40. By was
a Conyers I think, who initially introduced it years ago in 2013,
maybe even. And it is a resolution that says we if we
agree on this, then we all agree that we'll put a panel together
and a steering committee, and that panel and steering
committee, they'll then go see how we do reparations, and maybe
it's x, same thing, maybe just just for people who do not live
in the United States of slavery, an explanation of what
reparations are, John, from your historical perspective.
John C. Dvorak: The idea is that and reparations is not a new
idea for anything, but the idea is that this people that were in
slaved against their will need to be compensated in a in
absentia, meaning that their current black community would
get the money for the inconvenience of being slaved.
slaved out,
Adam Curry: let's be honest, it was an inconvenience, the very
much of
John C. Dvorak: an inconvenience and it was it was a it was not
much fun.
Adam Curry: No, it wasn't.
John C. Dvorak: Oh, of course, it doesn't account for the white
slaves, the first group of slaves a lot of them were white
and there's all kinds of other kinds of issues that take place.
Well, you have a lot of people that people who showed up in the
country like FY 1800
Adam Curry: Right, we're talking about the D O 's database the
descendant of slaves so there's there's a database that you can
sign up to I guess, okay, so this is your
John C. Dvorak: I want to stop here and mention that this is
not the to me the believe movement and some of these other
people Candace Owens as some of these others are shaking up not
to any real extreme but enough so they're getting the black
community is getting a little out of line here and so we have
to virtue signal and promised them that we're going to do
something about this reparations is free money if you just stay
in the Democrat party to let's have the hearings while the
house is run by the Democrats and we're gonna mention everyone
look, the black look you black community out there always vote
for us Democrats are the tube
Adam Curry: dog to the tube. Or your tube Come on, man. Talk
them to the tube.
John C. Dvorak: Gear black community pay attention. We will
give you money if you stay with the Democrat party. We have done
nothing for you so far, but pay attention watch US
Unknown: Congress has held its first hearing on reparations for
slavery and more than a decade at issue was a proposal for a
bipartisan commission to study the question and make
recommendations. The House Judiciary Committee heard today
from witnesses ranging from actor Danny Glover, to Senator
Cory Booker, who's a Democratic presidential candidate. Author
Tanahashi Coates argued the legacy of slavery lives to this
day,
your enslavement reigned for 250 years on the shores. when it
ended, this country could have extended its hollowed
principles, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to all
regardless of color. But America had other principles in mind,
and the God of bondage was lustful, and begat many is what
this committee must know. Is that while emancipation dead,
bolted the door against the bandits of America, Jim Crow way
to the windows wide open.
John C. Dvorak: Mm hmm. Yeah. And that, by the way, trying to
slip the Jim Crow thing into
Adam Curry: it. Maybe we should explain Jim Crow. This is
bandied about so easily, all the times of extreme
John C. Dvorak: definition from the wiki page
Adam Curry: of Jim Crow. Yeah, okay. We can do that. Let's get
Jim Crow laws. Oh, here we go. I can do it for him. Jim Crow
laws. Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced
racial segregation in the southern United States. All were
enacted in the late 19th and 20th century by white democratic
denominated state legislators legislatures, after the
Reconstruction period. The laws were enforced until 1965. Okay,
in
John C. Dvorak: reparations for that, too. At least this guy
does. But let's listen to the other side of the argument which
very few people want to discuss. Another black guy comes out
another writer, this first guy who was a writer, this guy's a
writer with a different take on it.
Unknown: On the other side writer Coleman Hughes who said
he is descended from slaves owned by Thomas Jefferson. He
argued that reparations would create false victims.
I understand that reparations are about what people are owed,
regardless of how well they're doing. I understand that. But
the people who are owed for slavery are no longer here. And
we're not entitled to collect on their debts. repartee
reparations, by definition, are only given to victims. So the
moment you give me reparations, you've made me into a victim
without my consent.
Adam Curry: Well, unlike or very similar to Amy, I also brought
two versions of the story from two different sides to the table
was Judy by the way. Yeah, Judy, Amy, Judy interchangeable.
John C. Dvorak: Judy nowadays Yeah.
Adam Curry: I brought stars to the table man who was the first
person that was talking was that Cuba Gooding Jr. Who was the
first guy that had?
John C. Dvorak: Oh, he's a writer, very famous.
Adam Curry: She needs to put any of this. I know her. I know. It
is tahini. Tahini. We've, he's the guy that yeah, he's the guy
interviewed. AOC the big world war two interview. Yeah, right.
Okay. You notice they didn't invite Kanye? Kanye would have
been great at this hearing. But no, no one has that foresight,
because if you want to talk about the 13th Amendment, Kanye
is your guy that even met Kim Kardashian West for that, for
that matter. So just a quickie little setup. She was one of the
one of the head honchos, Sheila Jackson Lee from the great state
of Texas. She's a Democrat for Dallas
reparations. And the idea of this commission should be
welcomed by all Americans, for we are not asking one American
to give one payment. What we're saying is it's the only way that
slavery ended, was a governmental action of the 13th
Amendment, governmental action and reconstruction failed after
12 years, because it was imploded by governmental people,
and after Reconstruction, a reign of terror that had never
been seen, the hanging fruit, the lynching, the oppression of
voting, the carrying away of land, and the amazing concept of
the continuing de jure and de facto impact of slavery. Today,
1 million African Americans are incarcerated, that is a
continuing impact. The black unemployment rate is 6.6%. In
spite of what has been said, currently, more than double the
national unemployment rate. 31% of black children live in
poverty compared to 11% of white children. The national average
is 18% It was suggested the percentage of black children
living in poverty is more than 150%.
I love her numbers. Somehow, the percentage of black children
living in poverty is 150%.
John C. Dvorak: She probably means 100% More the
Adam Curry: children living in poverty is more than 150%. Even
in spite of the glorious overcoming of the talent that is
part of our community, the scrapping together of making
sure our children received education, the putting together
something out of nothing, we still have been impacted. Okay.
So here's my counter argument and I was incredibly impressed
by the by this guy. They had to cut it down quite a bit and take
out a lot of his own personal history. But Burgess Owens. Are
you familiar with Burgess Owens?
John C. Dvorak: Yeah, I heard his testimony. He's a football
player.
Adam Curry: Yes. He was. He was a All Star wasn't he wasn't.
Maybe it could be me see? Tallahassee, Miami. All all
American defensive back. Denver. Jets 1973. Anyway, what did you
think of his testimony?
John C. Dvorak: I thought it was good. It was a little long. It
was too long. And it was kind of like, you know, logically
challenged. Now.
Adam Curry: See, I disagree. I thought it was incredibly
logical. Well, I clipped it down for us, Burgess Owens. And I
thought, I thought he hit the nail on the head. Actually,
Unknown: we are at this point. This is not about black and
white. Richard poor, blue collar, white collar. We're
fighting for the heart and soul of our nation. We have a very,
very special country the story of the Judeo Christian values
that allowed every single generation become better than
the last and that has not ended. It has not stopped until now.
We're telling our kids a little bit something different that
they don't have their opportunities that we had people
change. I used to be a Democrat, until I did my history and find
out the misery that that party brought my race. We were
fighting for the heart and soul, our nation against socialism,
Marxism and evil it has brought to us in the stealing of our
history. Karl Marx said it best, the Aarthi the father of
socialism, and atheists, anti Semite, in a blatant racist
view. We teach his philosophy in our school systems today. He
said it. The first battleground is rewriting of our history. You
steal our history, you steal our pride now pass a pre staged for
our president, and our vision for our future and every single
urban city in our country is now experiencing that loss for
history of all black country about black America has been
stolen from us for decades, almost over a century. Booker T.
Washington 1880 82 began to ski University. By 1905. It was
producing more self made black millionaires than Harvard, Yale
and Princeton combined. The 40s 50s and 60s, it was a Black
Country, black community, the little country in the growth of
the middle class, little country turns man committed to marriage
was 70%. Now it's 30%. Little Country terms of the full
committed to business ownership 40%. Now it's 3.8% Men
matriculate in college we now have more a higher percentage of
men and it costs right in college. I do not believe
reparation. Because what reparation does it points to a
certain race a certain color and it points them as evil and
points the other race my race is one that has not only becomes
racist, but there but also beggars. I do believe in
restitution. Let's pull it to the party. That was that was
part of slavery. Take a que Jim Crow that has killed over 40% of
our black babies. 20 million of them. State of California 70 75%
of our black boys cannot pass down and reading writing tests a
democratic state. So yes, let's play Rest, rest, rest
restitution. How about a Democratic Party pay for all the
misery brought to my race and those after after we learn our
history decide to stay there they should pay also they're
complicit in every white American, Republican or Democrat
who feels guilty because of your white skin. You should need to
pony up also, that when we get past this reparation, recognize
that this country has given us greatness. Look at this panel.
Didn't matter how we think the fact is that matter of color, we
have become successful this country like no other because of
this great opportunity to live the American dream listeners
still hear from our kids, but tell them they can't do
Adam Curry: it. Here that's what they should have. That's that's
the message that they should have put on peanuts.
John C. Dvorak: What do you think about that message reminds
me of a clip I didn't get but but there was this funny
phenomenon in the sports world were Dwayne Wade, who is a
famous basketball player from Miami. He was an he's a maniac
father, who had Family Guy was being condemned for being for
being like golf about his kids. You know, it was like, there is
this movement as anti family bias that is prevalent, and it's
mostly coming from the Justice Democrats and others. They
really like to bust up and they don't want to have you know,
like the guy said, there was 70% of the blacks and some area
where, you know, families now it's only 30 It's just single
moms because single moms can do
Adam Curry: it. California, he was talking about California
specifically.
John C. Dvorak: Yeah, California and the Democratic Party. He
said this he said state is totally run by the Democrats.
She
Adam Curry: says hey, let's have the Democrat date. I liked what
he said Democrat party you should pay for it. Hey, if
you're white you feel guilty pony up fine. Get get it off
your chest. But he's I don't want I don't want my kids to be
to be explained to them. Oh, you're a loser. You're a beggar
you you got you need a hand up. And it seems like the minute
that the the Civil Rights Act came in, he's he's his date. His
timeline is up until 6065 It all went downhill from there.
John C. Dvorak: Well, again, the sociology of all this is quite
interesting. Yeah, I kind of felt the same way as myself
being a lifelong Democrat when I was you know, raised as a
Democrat working class family upper middle class and we I
decided the Democrats are just out to kill me
Adam Curry: you specifically sir.
John C. Dvorak: Yes, you are out to get me Wow, this thing is but
again, no, it's just mostly virtue signaling they're trying
to go Sure. people to vote Democrat in this next upcoming
election, which doesn't look too promising. And I I watched the I
couldn't watch the whole thing because it's pretty much have
you seen two or three of these speeches by Trump? Even one
you've seen them all because you It's just fun to watch how well
he handles the oh,
Adam Curry: this is his his announcement of his reelection
campaign in Florida.
John C. Dvorak: Yes. Okay. It's another announcement. He, it was
a rousing crowd. That place was absolutely packed. And
Adam Curry: by the way, not viewable here in the United
States of Europe. Not I mean, I could have gotten that on a
YouTube feed, I'm sure but it would have been two in the
morning. Now. Nothing they've shown. All I hear is it was
nothing new, same stuff. Does that accurate?
John C. Dvorak: No, it's always got something new. He really he
does things is the speeches are very this one was it was a
prompted speech though. It wasn't like as normal. He didn't
go off script a half or two hours. So he had talking notes
and he was in the state on on point because it was supposed to
be it had a purpose as opposed to just a rally that normally
just rallies get people all jacked up. I always noticed that
in the Washington speeches, he always has at least one or two
and maybe sometimes three big tooth comely blondes in the
back. It's wearing the right
Adam Curry: alright. All right, let's just stop for a second.
Trump is a television professional. Yeah. And after
we're done with this remind me because I have a clip of him
being a television professional.
John C. Dvorak: can put a reminder anyway, so Trisha, he
always has ended and is always there always eye catching?
Adam Curry: Well, hello, yes, yes.
John C. Dvorak: Looking at these girls, and they always have
flaxen hair very pretty the word Trump that they have
Adam Curry: the women for trauma and women for Trump t shirt.
Wear it
John C. Dvorak: sometimes. The ended she had this one girl that
was very caught my eye and this one was she had a Trump elephant
t shirt, which I've never seen before. Oh, yeah, it was an
elephant. There's an elephant in the with the word Trump that was
like Trump making an elephant was very interesting Trump
trunk. And so she was there and they always had but I've seen
these girls before. They always have the hat and the hat goes on
and off. It's a red hat. It goes on and off. And they always have
long blonde hair and it's not it's not that cheesy looking
southern hairstyle that is like you know looks down by a new
tower Dallas is good looking. Yeah, and but always the monster
speed. I don't even know if these women are attractive. But
they they have the right proportions of the face and a
monster smile. huge monster smile and they agree with
everything he says. And there's always two or three of them back
there. One was always catches your eye. And I'm always
fascinated by this because because if you look at a Bernie
crowd, it's a bunch of beat up old bastards that looks like
they're, you know, they haven't taken a shower for a month and
battleaxe is just not a good look.
Adam Curry: There's an Bernie of mainly dudes.
John C. Dvorak: It was a lot of dudes but a lot of women but
they're all gray haired and
Adam Curry: they're all no one's no one's doing any styling for
the for the event.
John C. Dvorak: No, they have definitely not any style stupid.
Hillary dressing bill and before her dad used to load up them and
I think bush to a lesser extent would load up the background was
military. Right?
Adam Curry: Right, right, right. Yeah, Bernie's got dudes named
Ben everywhere.
John C. Dvorak: What I noticed that what I noticed is the
Trump's you know, Trump likes to harp on these nicknames. And
he's this is the first compound nickname I didn't think much
about it. When I first heard it. I thought it was just casually
said it. But now I heard it again at this speech, and I
realized that this is gonna be Joe Biden's nickname. And it's a
comp. It's not the same as it used to be. We just had some
crooked Hillary you know, locker. This is a compound bit
that is a little bit that has to be noticed and this would be a
Trump speech, the sleepy guy.
Unknown: Remember the Safin from the previous administration?
You'd need a magic wand to bring back manufacturing. Well, we'll
tell sleepy Joe that we found the magic wand. The Sleepy guy.
John C. Dvorak: So it's sleepy Joe, the sleepy guy, the guy.
And he said this a couple of times. I've heard it before I
didn't think was part of the bit. I thought it was just
casually just dropped into sleepy guy. But when I heard it
this time, I said this is good. This is the nickname sleepy Joe
Adam Curry: just a sleepy guy. Well, I let's do a test. Since
we were using Pocahontas years before Trump even decided to run
this, this this time this time. We were using Pocahontas and it
was funny and it was just ours. And once Trump did it, then we
had to stop it. Right. I don't have a better nickname. But I am
a little surprised, but still anticipatory that Trump at a
certain point will just have to say, sleepy Joe. No wonder they
took the top of his head off twice. And he should be harping
on the brain surgery.
John C. Dvorak: I think he's holding it in abeyance because I
think I think he
Adam Curry: was waiting to drop a big one. Yeah, I'm sure he
does. You'll say
John C. Dvorak: sleepy Joe or sleepy Joe, the sleepy guy for a
while, but it's not that's not going to affect the Democrats.
If he starts talking to him about the brain surgery, it
would change the public perception. So he's going to
hold that back until the until the debates are over. And at
least it'll be at the very end when he pulls that
Adam Curry: that'll be your right it'll probably be one of
the it'll probably be one of these like, sleepy Joe. Sleeping
you know, Rama Rama. Hey, sleepy Joe. Sleepy Joe. Sleepy Joe.
Hey, sleepy Joe. At a certain point. Sleepy Joe say something
insulting and Trump ago, at least I didn't have my head
opened up twice. Something like that. That's probably
John C. Dvorak: what we'll do. You know why he's sleepy.
Adam Curry: We got to come up with something.
John C. Dvorak: It'd be something that happens now. I'm
waiting for the debates, because that's going to change. I think
that first debate is going to change the this, I think has
already been changed. I don't think
Adam Curry: the first debate is this is coming up soon, you
know, the end of the month, the 25th. This is the first
democratic primary debates.
John C. Dvorak: Yeah, this is gonna be the two parter days of
debates, I believe. I do believe that. Got Horowitz saying that a
lot.
Adam Curry: Did you call them on?
John C. Dvorak: I think that there that this thing is over in
me if Hillary gets into is still not going to change a lot. But
it's, it's gonna I see.
Adam Curry: I saw you walk. I saw you walking back to Hillary
a little bit on the tweeters. You were saying, well, if Joe is
the front runner, then she's not going to step in. But if Joe
kind of drops back then you think she's
John C. Dvorak: doing that because it's a courtesy, even
though it's hard to imagine a courtesy. Well, Biden stepped
back when she ran as true and said, I'll let you go. Now if he
takes too, if he takes the front of the pack and he kicks ass in
the debates, the debates is everything for Hillary. If he
kicks ass in the debates and wins, or at least he's up there
with the big with the top three, then I think she might relent.
But I staged there's no evidence that she's going to win. But I'm
just saying that it's a little insurance policy on my part. I
can't predict the vice president though. And I'm going to do it
now. Okay. The Vice President is going to be Kamla Harris.
Adam Curry: Do you think she'll accept that? Yeah. Good ticket.
It's a good show. You
John C. Dvorak: said she did She's perfect for the vice
presidency. She says Say nothing do nothing. A ladder climber.
She says this is at the top and you think she would accept it?
Hell yeah. Of Joe Biden's gonna be present. This guy could drop
dead
Adam Curry: any minute heels. Hi, Harris to the rescue.
John C. Dvorak: And so Harris could become our president,
which is something to consider. I don't think either one of them
gonna be Trump. But it's possible that if she did if they
did, what's a good it's a good ticket. Vice president no matter
who it isn't a skinny Sanders is getting it now beginning even
though on my contenders list, they still have Sanders at the
top because if a true popular vote was taken, and there wasn't
corruption in the media, who were promoting Biden, I believe
Sanders could still win the whole thing. And but they're not
going to let him so but it's still Sanders is the top guy
Hillary still number two in Biden's number three. And Biden
when he picks his they're promoting him. So if Biden gets
in which I now believe might be the case, he will pick Kamala
Harris because she is the best balance. She's black. She's a
woman. She checks two different boxes. She's actually mixed race
which checks a third box. And she's perfect. She's not to
troublemaker. She's not going to upstage Biden.
Adam Curry: Her answer to everything is that we need to
have an open and honest conversation about that.
John C. Dvorak: Yes, she that's why she's the perfect vice
president candidate. Yeah, it won't definitely would not be
here. Warren Warren's out. She's done. And it's not going to be
anybody else booted yet. Yeah, I don't think so. Now, and so it
looks like the ticket to where it's shaping unless Biden
stumbles. And then if Hillary got in and she she ran again, we
Adam Curry: say if Biden Biden has made a couple of stumbles,
and he seems a bit bulletproof in that regard,
John C. Dvorak: that's because the media is covering for him.
The media really wants Biden because the media has convinced
itself that Biden can beat Trump because Have these polls that
have come out showing Biden kicking ass and so they're
ignoring all his real you know creepiness creepy young, creepy
uncle Joe stuff. They're pushing that to the side and all his
other screwy things like this son who's got, you know, uranium
mines and involved in oil shale and
Adam Curry: dusty does have some baggage man, he's got some bad
eggs,
John C. Dvorak: but they can keep them under wraps. And they
will because they're not going to they're not going after him.
They they gave us a couple of salvos early, and he seemed to
withstand it. And so he's just now he's on his way. All right.
Can't be Trump.
Adam Curry: I like that. I think it's I think it's a good ticket
you're
John C. Dvorak: gonna get in, I want to do today get into as
early as I could.
Adam Curry: Yeah, that's a good ticket. I think that's the way
to go for them. But I just there's so many that you know, I
have to agree with your assertion he wants Joe to be the
guy so because that will be he sees that as easy. Especially
with the head thing.
John C. Dvorak: His head, but things are probably opened up
twice. That's rather problematic. I didn't know his
twice, but oh, man,
Adam Curry: there was, you know, there was a new story that just
I thought it was his recycle to what's going on all of a sudden,
we had Khashoggi in the news again, over here on all the
channels.
John C. Dvorak: And to for some unknown reason. Well, I
Adam Curry: figured it out. So this is being propagated by on
Yes. Calamar. And, and yes, Calamar is a special rapporteur
of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights. Oh,
H Chr. Now, the last time there was not this woman, it was a
different woman, the last time one of these women because it's
so far, it's only two we've looked at comes from the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. It was about Black
Pete In the Netherlands, and she was trying to get reparations
for the islands that the Netherlands colonize. And that's
really how the whole black peat thing started. And now it's just
a mess every year and children are crying as they it's a big
racial thing. It's just and it's all trouble started by Rob
Porter, Special Rapporteur, which means it's a side gig.
It's a side hustle. Because what she really is is a French human
rights expert. Wikipedia actually lists her occupation as
human rights activist. She is also the director of Columbia
University's Global freedom of expression project. Are you
following me?
John C. Dvorak: And I am it's getting worse by the minute this
Adam Curry: a 9095 she received a PhD in Political Science from
the New School for Social Research in New York. So yeah,
you see you, I see, you know what we're gonna operation. So
she shows up and I'm like, What are they doing about? What does
this what does she have to do with Khashoggi official
pronunciation? Jamal Khashoggi, there you go. And it becomes
obvious at the end of this report
Unknown: Saudi Arabia had knowledge of and is responsible
for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to a
UN Special Investigation into the killing. The much
anticipated report says Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed
bin Salman and other senior Saudi officials should be
investigated over the brutal death of the journalist in
October last year, he was brutally killed and dismembered
in the Saudi Embassy in Istanbul,
John C. Dvorak: can you stop Stop, stop stop. Of course, you
have to start that clip over why because there's a contradiction
right in the clip and I'm kind of have to listen to it from
from the beginning. Sorry Saudi
Unknown: Arabia had knowledge of and is responsible for the
murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to a UN
Special Investigation into the killing. The much anticipated
report says Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and
other senior Saudi officials should be investigated over the
brutal death of the journalist in October last year, he was
brutally killed and dismembered in the Saudi Embassy in
Istanbul.
Adam Curry: Did you have anything you found? Or?
John C. Dvorak: Yeah, I'm gonna bring this up. They start off by
saying he had knowledge of et cetera, et cetera, is according
to and thus must be investigated. Why did they not
do an investigation to come up with this assertion,
Adam Curry: while the Special Rapporteur the special Robert
tourister.
John C. Dvorak: If they already did the investigation, which is
what if you'd listened to beginning of that clip sounds
like he was investigated, and this is their conclusions, but
now he must be investigated. How is what were they talking about?
Adam Curry: Well, obviously it's cover for something else. The
first important courses and yes, here she is, here's here she is
the superstar doesn't really matter what she says but you
just get the idea sample.
Unknown: The first important conclusion of my report is that
the responsibility of the state of Saudi Arabia is implicated
into that killing. This was not a Rago parish. As they have an
SR DTS, all the elements pertaining to the crime,
demonstrate that the responsibility of the state is
involved. And I'm basing my analysis on a review of the
evidence and on the review of the legal framework regarding
state responsibilities.
Adam Curry: So this is what this woman does is she reviews
everything that's already been hashed out a million times. And
then says my reportage says it must be investigated. It is the
responsibility of the state of Saudi Arabia. So she wants to
shift the blame from Mohammed bin Salman, to the entire state.
And there's a reason for it.
Unknown: I have concluded that there is sufficient evidence to
demand additional criminal investigation into the liability
of high level officials. That includes a Saudi Al cattani and
the crown prince himself.
Correspondent Christina Jovanovski said Turkish
authorities are pushing for sanctions against Saudi Arabia.
Adam Curry: Oh, I forgot to mention one important thing
about this, this woman is that she has a master's degree from
buskin University in Turkey. So she's connected to Turkey, the
Special Rapporteur, and that's when it's important to note
here,
Unknown: and the crown prince himself.
Correspondent Cristina Jovanovski said Turkish
authorities are pushing for sanctions against Saudi Arabia
for the alleged part in the murder. While the
Turkish foreign ministry says that it supports the
recommendations of the United Nations those recommendations
included wider sanctions against the Saudi Crown Prince. The
Turkish president has said the killers us Saudi journalist
Jamal Khashoggi will pay the price as well as the report
shows that Turkey was being mistreated. Saudi Arabia for its
part has said that the report shows nothing new that they're
baseless allegations. Of course, a key response will be from
Washington. The US President Donald Trump wants to go ahead
with multibillion dollar arms sale to Saudi Arabia. But today
the US Senate is voting whether or not to block such a measure.
Even some Republicans has supported opposing this arms
sale or rare bipartisan show of support in the Senate. However,
two thirds of lawmakers will be required to block the arms sale
and as well as block a possible veto from the US President.
Adam Curry: And there it is, it's all about the arm sales
it's about nothing else but weapons. It's the military
industrial complex being kind of thwarted by somebody who maybe
Turkey wants to make some noise it's all about weapons has
nothing to do with Khashoggi
John C. Dvorak: Yeah, maybe well there's competitors to the arms
Sure. I mean there's the number of ban
Adam Curry: they bring in the shield from Turkey to to help
the stir the shit out because calamari
John C. Dvorak: imagine a couple of scenarios one turkeys doing
this on behest because the Russians want to get into the EU
on behest of the aerospace industry in the in the EU. Okay,
Airbus Yeah, because so here we go look at the favourite this
like doing them a favor. And maybe the Saudis will buy from
the Europeans instead of from us you also could be backdoor thing
for the Russians, the Russians and the Turks are still pretty
tight because
Adam Curry: Turks just bought their s 400 systems.
John C. Dvorak: Yeah. And so you end up with a lot of this is
political machinations that are involved that have nothing to do
with that murder is all to do with arm says you're right.
That's exactly what it isn't. We're being beef. The public is
being abused.
Unknown: I'm gonna show my school by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that
John C. Dvorak: we have a few people to think and we won't
abuse them. Oh, that's a good news moniker in Hamburg
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Unknown: You've been de deuced
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Adam Curry: I do. I have the whole thing here. I have
John C. Dvorak: Lord and Lady of Gitmo nation. I think you do.
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John C. Dvorak: Oh, get an airboat ride from this guy.
Adam Curry: He has an airboat That is very cool.
John C. Dvorak: Yeah, I've never been on one either. I've
Adam Curry: only I remember reading about them in the happy
haulers book. I love the happy hauler stirs go bombing around
the Everglades and they used to get all kinds of airboat rides
and Captiva and Sanibel
John C. Dvorak: the happy hour after all that folder all yes,
he's not even on the list. But the list of what nights
Adam Curry: he is. I'm just kidding. Don't do that to me.
Please do not confuse the system. And that was that was a
cold read by the way. I'd like to hear it for the cold read.
John C. Dvorak: Very good very concrete, especially with using
the Bologna accent
Adam Curry: pretty funny bologna
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Adam Curry: But then again, he says we Finn celebrate Father's
Day, the second Sunday in November. So this actually makes
me early.
John C. Dvorak: This is to my surprise. 93 year old dad, a
veteran a veteran of Finland's Continuation War against Russia
during the Second World War. All right, for fueling the war ended
in second place, but we staved off the Russian onslaught and
belong to a select few of European countries who never
were occupied by outside forces. Thank
Adam Curry: you dad. Props to that.
John C. Dvorak: Yeah. Thomas Gould in Huntington Beach 5650
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happy to do that. Thank you Bill
John C. Dvorak: Hello. Nice. Daughter Claire on the birthday
call this we got that. Hold on.
Adam Curry: I didn't hear you. Did you do did you do Dean
Roker? Yeah. I said Dean Rocha. We missed that. We missed it on
the string. All right. Then Rene Latour, Latour.
John C. Dvorak: Lead tour.
Adam Curry: Why is this of the famous Latour vintage to Russia
or
John C. Dvorak: the tour is named after a tower on the
property not after any people.
Adam Curry: Damn Okay. shows you what I know. Hey, I drink my
wine from a tube. Tube
John C. Dvorak: tube drinker. Guy drinks from a tube if you
know what I mean. Nicholas Lane $52
Adam Curry: You're good today man.
John C. Dvorak: Up karma coming up at the end. Eugenia
Rockwell's do you want 19 Andrew blank?
Adam Curry: Wait, I'm sorry. Eugenia needs a D douching and
an F cancer so we'll do the deducing F cancer at the Youth
band de Deus.
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Waters gravels back he's gonna this gravel is going to end up
with a nightmare. Soon. The dollars which is Universal City
these are following people I'm just gonna name and location for
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Adam Curry: And he has douching
Unknown: you've been de deuced
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And last but not least a pop money was very quick to hear
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Adam Curry: it was put money in another reality Villa rial.
That's right.
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Adam Curry: It is the 20th of June my How time flies. 2019.
Here's our list first our belated birthday sneak Bargo
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Happy Birthday to his son William who turned eight on the
18th. And now looking ahead, we've got hold on Rene Latour
Happy Birthday to her daughter Claire, and she'll be 17 on the
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we love named G money and Sir Ryan Knight of the Three Rivers
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best podcast in the universe let me see we got some oh I had a
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we do have a meet up jingle know what? That's right. Just like a
pot, no agenda meetup. We the list is growing no agenda
meetups.com People really enjoy doing these. I like hanging out
with like minded people who won't condemn. It's crazy. It's
like a very your own very little Mastodon instance with no
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York and on the 27th, Frisco, Texas, and then we jump ahead to
August 9. Murfreesboro, Tennessee. I'm thinking we
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man. That's the URL.
John C. Dvorak: Murfreesboro. Yeah, a bunch of other. There's
lots of people
Adam Curry: there. Yeah, of course. Of course. It's
exciting. Very cool. No agenda meetups.com You can find a meet
up or you trying to distract me because working
John C. Dvorak: is like adding a little bit little life to this
Adam Curry: thing. Okay, well, then, like a little music bed.
You mean?
John C. Dvorak: Yeah, that's it a music bed?
Adam Curry: Right. What? Give me a little more music bed. And
I'll finish up the segment. So yes, no agenda meetups.com You
can go find one near you. Or you can list one yourself. It's fun.
It's easy. And John, I would like to show up at your meet up
and now that certainly now that the keeper and I have some time.
We are considering looking around, see if we can find one
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John C. Dvorak: And that's important. Nothing.
Adam Curry: Why not want to support the Federation?
John C. Dvorak: Not supporting the Federation. Such a buzz
hammer supporting the rebels?
Adam Curry: Yeah. The red we heard the rebels. That's the
whole point.
John C. Dvorak: Yes. What they convinced you. So yeah,
Federation operates.
Adam Curry: Have you seen? So Bitcoin is just just pounding
along here?
John C. Dvorak: Yeah, well, let's talk about Libra then.
Adam Curry: That's exactly why I brought it up. First, the
current bitcoin price 99,391. And I'm sure having Facebook
come out as with their own crypto coin has somehow given
validity to the concept. But I certainly put question marks
around the implementation that Facebook's doing what do you do
you have a clip or something of something. I do have
John C. Dvorak: liberal Libra Facebook as does as Amy Goodman
would have it
Unknown: in a move that could reshape the world's financial
system Facebook has unveiled plans to launch a new global
digital currency called Libra. Facebook announced its plans
Tuesday after secretly working on the cryptocurrency for more
than a year. It plans to launch Libra next year in partnership
with other large companies among them Visa, MasterCard, PayPal
and Uber. Facebook said it wants to create quote a simple global
currency and infrastructure that empowers billions of people.
David Marcus, Facebook's cryptocurrency chief appeared on
CNBC on Tuesday.
John C. Dvorak: If you want to compare Libra with traditional
cryptocurrencies the first thing and the first big difference is
that it's bogus. Basically cryptocurrencies are investment
vehicles or, you know investment assets rather than being great
medium of exchange. And this is really designed from the ground
up to be a great medium of exchange, a very high quality
form of digital money that you can use for everyday payments
and cross border payments, micro transactions and all kinds of
different things.
Unknown: Facebook's plan has already come under fierce
criticism from financial regulators and lawmakers. French
finance minister Bruno le maire said Libra must not become a
sovereign currency. In Washington, the chair of the
House Financial Services Committee, Congressmember Maxine
Waters called on Facebook to pause its development of Libra
until lawmakers and regulators have an opportunity to examine
these issues and take action. Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown
tweeted quote, Facebook is already too big and too
powerful, and it is used that power to exploit users data
without protecting their privacy. We cannot allow
Facebook to run a risky new cryptocurrency out of a Swiss
bank account without oversight.
Adam Curry: It wasn't enough for these guys to just buy the
credit card payment information from the companies who do a fine
job of payments. No, they want it all. And this is part of
their downfall. This is this is a this is where they high when
they came up with this idea. This is so stupid.
John C. Dvorak: We'll always wonder where they were Beans.
Adam Curry: Beans, that was with Whoopi Goldberg. Yeah, virtual
currencies
John C. Dvorak: and some other one was June's or something. You
can't remember the name of this is an old idea.
Adam Curry: Well, this is a little different. Wait, it's a
little different? Because there's really there's Yes, it
is.
John C. Dvorak: It's a modified version. i By the way, before
you go on, I want you to explain. I have a second clip. I
want you to explain to me how Ron Paul's operation got busted
for making Ron Paul dollars. If you remember this during the era
of our show, yes. I do remember this and somebody got thrown in
jail for doing this. But this is okay. It was
Adam Curry: Liberty dollars. Yes. And oh, let me think
Liberty dollars. That was I mean, okay, so it wasn't so much
about they I think they busted one of the one of the guys who
was running it for they wanted it out. That's for sure that did
didn't want it to happen. And they had some mechanism to look
it up again. I you know what, I'm sure one of our producers
will know exactly what happened back in the day. But this is
this is still a very different idea. Because they're what
they're talking about here is, is becoming a central bank, they
want to be the federal reserve of this money creating and so
it'd be minting or burning, pet destroying money as they deem
necessary, which is novel, and they want to peg it to a basket
of currencies and short term investments, which is like the
venture capitalist dream. And and they have to be dreaming,
it's going to work, they've got to be asleep, right? It's it's
this will never happen.
John C. Dvorak: And well, let's listen to clip two. And this guy
brings up some real problems, which I think is why it will
never happen. We're
Unknown: joined by David de and he's Executive Director at the
American Prospect recently wrote a piece for the New Republic
headlined the final battle in big Tex war to dominate your
world. Welcome to Democracy Now talk about these major
developments David Day and explain exactly what Libre is
and what Facebook is trying to do.
So Libra as as Facebook describes it as a currency.
Cryptocurrency, you when you talk about that, you kind of
think of something like Bitcoin, but this would actually have
reserves, so they call it sort of a stable coin. It is backed
by actual money. That is various international currencies and
also government securities. And so that should prevent
volatility from the unit of exchange, Libra going up or down
very much. It'll it'll fluctuate a little but not in the ways
that you know, we think of when we think of Bitcoin. So
according to Facebook, that is the way that this can be used to
purchase goods on the Facebook app or on any other app or
website that offers payment in Libra. It's a way to transfer
money to other people on the Facebook app. Obviously, you
know, we have what over 2 billion people that use
Facebook. It's a way to transfer something of value between those
users. And it's because it's backed by international
currencies and can be used across borders. It's really, you
know, supplanting the need to exchange money. If you don't
have to go from dollars to Euros necessarily, you can just pay in
Libra. So that's sort of the pitch that Facebook would make.
The the other side of this is that there's no real regulatory
setup. It's displacing global currencies in some ways. There
are serious monetary policy concerns, serious regulatory
concerns. Could this be used as a to facilitate money laundering
or tax evasion? There are a whole host of unanswered
questions around this
Adam Curry: well yes of course this is the this is exactly it
would be as if bitcoin was stoppable and we said who come
and stop me this is the stupidest thing ever they should
have released it and moved on and gotten traction why that
this is this makes me suspicious that they never intended to do
this or there's some other thing they've got up their sleeve to
announce it and say we'll have it in a year makes no sense
trial balloon maybe
John C. Dvorak: that's interesting or test marketing
you can do that legally and
Adam Curry: for all these companies like yeah oh yeah, I
want to pay right
John C. Dvorak: you're right there's something else does
something up their sleeve? We don't know what it is know that
you can
Adam Curry: well, unless they just decide to go with Bitcoin,
but Bitcoin doesn't give them all the benefits that they
really want. And bitcoin does everything they just said only
with a decentralized architecture. No. And that's
another thing you know, they will be mining the coins is all
this man. It may be it's if it's just to discredit Bitcoin over
and over again. That's an interesting
John C. Dvorak: thought this for a possibility. Because already
they've gotten backlash from backlash from people.
Adam Curry: Between you went on between you and I were PR
professionals, we never would have done this, you know,
immediately that you got Maxine Waters now against you. Or you
made
John C. Dvorak: the point maybe that's six maybe exact
professionals Exactly.
Adam Curry: Well, so there we go. That that's what I was
worried about. What could they be as what
John C. Dvorak: you're doing and it's not for some others, the
only nefarious thing is you guys are on art. This is like writers
and people certain TV shows they write in and Simpsons is a good
example family guys another, they write in extremely
offensive bits. You end up getting pulled out by the sensor
so they can leave in other things.
Adam Curry: Bits. Yes.
John C. Dvorak: So you just saw this is just that this is like
an offering to the gods. All y'all you guys stopped us from
doing that you guys are always on our case, we can't do
anything without you, you guys involving yourselves, and trying
to run our business. And now they can whine about something.
Adam Curry: Well, for sure. Every single Silicon Valley
company that we've looked at the ultimate one of the ultimate
goals always seems to be that they want to be your bank. You
know, Apple with Apple Pay Google with Android in the end
in payments. They all want to be your bank. If that's that's like
some holy grail for them I once we get their money, and nothing
it's like, yeah, I'm gonna have those guys in charge of my
money. They can turn it off. No. Well, we're gonna have to see
what comes. I mean, if if it was a very smart PR move if there is
by some crazy realm, the imagination in another universe,
another curry Devorah Consulting Group, who came up with this one
two punch. I can't wait to find out what it was, but I'm not
there yet. I don't understand.
John C. Dvorak: Well, it will never be revealed.
Adam Curry: Mm hmm.
John C. Dvorak: Hey, I gotta go. We got a phone call from from
the Social Security.
Adam Curry: Oh, you did, huh.
John C. Dvorak: And I want to tell people out there yeah,
they're gonna be calling you.
Adam Curry: This call is from the Department of Social
Security Administration. The reason you have received this
phone call from our department is to inform you that we just
suspend your social security number because we found some
suspicious activity. So if you want to know about this case,
just press one. Thank you.
Hey, man, it's a deep fake.
John C. Dvorak: So thank you, Lizabeth Warren for putting a
stop to this.
Adam Curry: everything these days I'm just gonna say deep
fake. Just deep fake. I don't care what you say. Who came up
with a name? Deep fake.
John C. Dvorak: Or the name? That was just been an excellent
Yeah, it's
Adam Curry: some Newspeak shit. I wanted to play this because I
didn't get to it on the last show. I think it's incredibly
important. As we've been talking about ads online, things are
changing rapidly in Gitmo nation East in the United Kingdom. The
advertising rules have changed. And I'm not talking about online
I'm talking on television.
John C. Dvorak: Today, ads featuring harmful gender
stereotypes will be banned in the United Kingdom. The move
follows research that shows such stereotypes pigeonhole people
and restrict their choices and opportunities.
Unknown: So one of the new guidelines includes being
sensitive to the well being of vulnerable populations such as
new mothers, so ads can no longer suggest that looking
attractive, maintaining a pristine home are more important
than their emotional well being.
John C. Dvorak: They will also have to stay clear of depicting
children's activities as being inappropriate for any gender.
The ban also applies to ads and suggest that happiness is gained
by conforming to stereotypical beauty ideals, like I said,
which was accused of body shaming.
Unknown: So, advertising watchdogs are hoping to expand
choices so that ads like this one depicting a girl growing up
to be a ballerina, while a boy becomes an engineer will become
a thing of the past. In 2018, Stockholm
John C. Dvorak: banned both sexist and racist advertising
from its streets, but then also introduced similar bans in 2016.
Unknown: And some in the UK say the new rules are trying to be
too politically correct. But the watchdogs say it's just harmful
stereotypes that will be banned, not all of them altogether. Who
is
John C. Dvorak: a little girl wanting to be a ballerina? A
quote, unquote, harmful stereotype? Yeah,
Adam Curry: I know. And this is Miskin. I can't answer the
question.
John C. Dvorak: How come? How does making a little boy want to
become an engineer a harmful stereotype? I can't answer the
question. It's It's It's baffling is any woman black,
white, Chinese, any anything? getting all dolled up with a lot
of makeup? From a makeup company? A harmful stereotype?
If you're a makeup company, what are you going to do now? No.
Adam Curry: It's it's, as I said, it's baffling. And this is
actual rules. Now is that did she say it was a loss as
John C. Dvorak: the advertising agencies bringing it on
themselves? You can blame WPP and Omnicon. And those other
guys now? Yeah, calm? Because they're the ones who support all
this. You know, this this? Quote, not equality nonsense,
but all the kind of left leaning ideas that are out there that
are what's the movement that's called or it's, I can't remember
it. But this is this is them. They're the ones who are big
Hillary supporters that are pushing these agendas, and now
they're screw screwing themselves. You can not
advertise. If you can't do anything, and No. No.
Adam Curry: It's just, it's
John C. Dvorak: baffling. It's bad, more power to you boys.
Adam Curry: So apparently, Trump just said he finds it quote,
hard to believe Iran's downing of the drone was intentional.
Quote, I have a feeling it was a mistake.
John C. Dvorak: Was he saying
Adam Curry: that? Well, I don't know why. Somebody told him.
Zero said he was gonna send me a clip but I haven't received it.
That's interesting. So backing off ah.
John C. Dvorak: Apparently I guess there's something going
something's going on. We don't know about.
Adam Curry: Well, maybe he didn't like the whole false flag
idea. Maybe it actually was bullcrap. And he found out and
he's like, hey, you know, he doesn't know the full story.
That's pretty huge.
John C. Dvorak: All right. I do have a little news
deconstruction to do. Okay. I found that Amy Goodman does
democracy now. I was misleading. And
Unknown: I find what
John C. Dvorak: 40? So they the Trump losses. The Shanahan guy
who was Boeing executive? Yes. moved into kind of the Acting
Secretary of Defense. Yeah, and of course, the Democrats have
made a big deal about this. But let's play AMY GOODMAN on
Shanahan I want to ask you a few questions about what you learned
from this report. Acting Secretary
Unknown: of Defense Patrick Shanahan has resigned and
withdrawn from consideration for the permanent head of the
department. He's resigned his post as Deputy Secretary of
Defense as reports of domestic violence against his ex wife
circulated reports included details on a 2011 attack by
Shanahan's then 17 year old son who beat his mother with a
baseball bat. that she was left unconscious with a fractured
skull and internal injuries that required surgery. Patrick
Shanahan then wrote a memo arguing his son was acting in
self defense after his mother verbally harassed him. He's also
believed to have delayed his son's surrender to police.
Shanahan apologized for the memo saying it was only intended for
a son's attorneys according to The Washington Post court
records also revealed a previous incident in which both Shanahan
and his wife alleged they were assaulted by one another.
Lawmakers are raising questions about the vetting process for
administration officials and whether the White House knew and
deliberately withheld allegations against Shanahan as
early as 2017 when he was being confirmed as Deputy Secretary of
Defense.
John C. Dvorak: So the way she starts off, what is your
conclusion to this when you hear this story?
Adam Curry: This family is whacked literally.
John C. Dvorak: Well, what's going on? You think you have any
idea because it's really not explained? Except
Adam Curry: if you listened to beginning with some kind of
domestic abuse situation? The guy's beaten his wife. Yeah.
Domestic of debts. Yeah. But then it sounds like maybe they
were fighting and it was equal or it was confusing, but the
main no one really just said to domestic abuse allegations.
John C. Dvorak: Well, she did beginning Yeah. Okay. So at the
beginning again, I want to stop it. I will tell you when to
stop. Okay.
Unknown: Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan has
resigned and withdrawn from consideration for the permanent
head of the department. He's resigned his post as Deputy
Secretary of Defense, as reports of domestic violence against his
ex wife circulated reports included details on
Adam Curry: his ex wife.
John C. Dvorak: Well, yeah, they got divorced. Yeah. Is domestic
violence against his ex wife circulated? What does that sound
like to
Adam Curry: you? Sounds like an allegation. Sounds like a rumor
eating his wife. They have it sounds. Okay. Yes, but it sounds
like a rumor. Yes.
John C. Dvorak: This is Amy saying this guy's a wife beater
is very common. And then oh, all of a sudden the Son has got a
baseball bat and he's beaten a woman because it's like, you
know, this is the kind of thing that goes on in a family. The
bet dad's a wife beater and the son becomes one. Now it's pretty
extreme and his sons beaten them up a mom but that's okay. So
let's keep now let's play CBS his version of this and this is
the Shanahan ousted clip.
Unknown: Good evening. I'm Elise DuBois. This is our Western
Addition, another key member of the Trump administration is
leaving. Today acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan
withdrew from the formal confirmation process, even as
tensions with Iran are escalating defense and eight
other top administration jobs are now held by acting leaders,
including Homeland Security and Chief of Staff. Shanahan's exit
comms is caught and police records of domestic violence
surrounding his divorce were brought to light. David Martin
has more on that.
Patrick Shanahan and his wife Kimberly divorced eight years
ago, a year after a run in with police which began with this 911
call. My husband son punches at me. According to court
documents, he denied that and claimed she had punched him,
giving him a bloody nose. When police arrived she was the one
charged with assault, which was later dismissed after the
divorce fights over money and custody of the three children
who continue in 2011. Their 17 year old son beat his mother
with a baseball bat. I was knocked unconscious twice.
Kimberly declared in court documents adding that her ex
husband has taken the position that I provoked the assault. The
documents are all public and we're available to the FBI when
Shanahan was nominated to become Deputy Secretary of Defense in
2017. But a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee says
they were never told
that there was something in this nominees pass Patrick Shanahan's
pass that was deliberately concealed or mistakenly covered
up
John C. Dvorak: to White House officials told CBS News they
knew about Shanahan's family turmoil. When the President
announced last month he would nominate him as the next
Secretary of Defense got asked today President Trump claimed he
just found out I had heard about it yesterday for the first time
announcing his resignation. Shanahan said continuing in the
confirmation process would force my three children to relive a
traumatic chapter in our family's life. So
Adam Curry: as a hit job,
John C. Dvorak: so here is a couple of things we should know.
First of all, this is spousal abuse that nobody likes to talk
about. This is when the woman is the abuser. And this kind of
abuse is always passed on. It's always the man it's always him
in the red pill movie, by the way discusses this in great
detail. Let me read a few things here from this from a report.
Then the police investigated disturbance of the couple's
residents on 1am August 28. To find Patrick with a black eye
and bloody nose and Kimberly with a bloody forearm for Sue's
question Kimberly and say she had a strong odor of alcohol
along with bloodshot eyes and incoherent speech. They were
arguing apparently over whether or not to put their daughter
back in school for a senior year. During the argument,
Kimberly threw a pile of Patrick's clothes onto the front
porch then attempted to remove the propane tank from their
backyard grill to set them on fire. When that didn't work, she
tried lighting a roll of paper towels on fire in an attempt to
set the clothes ablaze is trying to pack up the clothes in his
Patrick was trying to pack up the clothes in a suitcase and
leave the residence When Kimberly tried to stop and she
alleges they fought over the suitcase. Patrick punched her
supposedly several times in the stomach according to her and
demonstrated to officers that she was struck in the face.
Patrick's account alleges that Kimberly was the aggressor and
came at him swinging your arms in a paddling motion, striking
him several times breaking his nose by the way, while he was
asleep and tried to cover his face. This was two sides of the
story. The sons the couple's son corroborated Patrick's version
of events and told police he saw Kimberly attempting to light the
clothes on fire. Anyway this goes on and they they rested the
woman so they get so they get this story goes on and on. So
your she moves to Sarasota, Florida. I'm gonna read this to
show what kind of person we're dealing with here. This was down
in under 2014 According to probable cause affidavit on
August 23rd 2014 Kimberly Jordans in who's her maiden name
was on a on the phone with the business partner Eric Goodman
when she had to cut the call shorter. Goodman called her back
and an argument ensued where Jordans and hung up on him and
then texted him get your piece of shit car out of my driveway.
Goodman was storing a 2003 Mercedes 230 at her house in 109
warbler lane, when he returned to pick it up the front end
where we're windshields were busted out and there were
numerous dents around the vehicle. Go. Goodman spoke to
her to her neighbor Gardner who told police he saw Kimberly with
a medium sized sledge hammer methodically circling the
Mercedes Benz that was parked in her driveway, and that she ended
the person observed Jordans and strike all sides of the Mercedes
including the front and back windshields with a sledge
hammer. I mean, this is a psycho.
Adam Curry: Wow. Oh, wow.
John C. Dvorak: By the way, Amy puts it this guy's a wife
beater. This woman is a psycho and if you had to think about
it, the son having to beat her back with a baseball bat. This
is nothing his son normally does with a mom.
Adam Curry: I want to play the AMY GOODMAN clip and now again
now just now that now that we have a thank you for that entire
deconstruction and for the work you did on it. Now let's once
again hear how that was portrayed by Ami.
Unknown: Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan has
resigned and withdrawn from consideration for the permanent
head of the department. He's resigned his post as Deputy
Secretary of Defense says reports of domestic violence
against his ex wife circulated reports included details on a
2011 attack by Shanahan's then 17 year old son who beat his
mother with a baseball bat. She was left unconscious with a
fractured skull and internal injuries that required surgery.
Patrick Shanahan wrote a memo arguing his son was acting in
self defense after his mother verbally harassed him. He's also
believed to have delayed his son's surrender to police.
Shanahan apologized for the memo saying it was only intended for
his son's attorneys. According to The Washington Post court
records also revealed a previous incident in which both Shanahan
and his wife alleged they were assaulted by one another.
Lawmakers are raising questions about the vetting process for
administration officials and whether the White House knew and
deliberately withheld allegations against Shanahan as
early as 2017 when he was being confirmed as Deputy Secretary of
Defense
Adam Curry: sounds like everyone's being right right
gentlemen, you know like now the kids and all this stuff I'm just
let the psycho psycho ex wife go away.
John C. Dvorak: That's big. One last point. That lot of this
argument was over custody of the children during the divorce.
Yes, all three children. Three of them are totally estranged
from the mom. And she got no custody. Yeah, so how is this
guy the bad guy?
Adam Curry: And why do they is this just to embarrass Trump
Democrats
John C. Dvorak: pulling their stunts Schumer comes out and
these other guys these other creeps from the from the from
the Senate come out moaning about this guy. How did you get
picked in the first place?
Adam Curry: What a bunch of douchebags destroying careers
ever since we invented slavery. Wow, that's a good one. John.
Appreciate that. That's deconstructing right there.
That's how it's done. Kids you want to do you want to do a show
that It's how it's done. What's shown will John do it I'll be
back in Austin for the next program. And I do want to thank
big thank to Jesse Coyne Nelson for end of show clip he's got a
funny one. And so Chris Wilson just did an amazing job on yet
another end of show saw him which now he needs to be, he
needs to be publishing this stuff to get just too good. So
thank you very much everybody for helping with the
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everybody, I'm Adam curry,
John C. Dvorak: and from Northern Silicon Valley. I'm
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Unknown: easy being green having to spend each day being color of
a new day when I think it may be nicer being red or yellow go or
something more revolutionary like that it's easy being green
It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary Congress to
surpass you because you're not standing out like impeachment
for Russia collusion, or invading Iraq is the color of
money. Man can be cruel and beggin like angry can be like a
wind. Important, like a carbon tax offset by truth if green is
just a green New Deal, it may make you wonder why. Why?
Because I am CS green. She's fine. She's beautiful. She'll be
our president in 2030.
John C. Dvorak: Meanwhile, the clicks to edge to edge the edge
the edge to edge to edge the edge
Unknown: referee to target customers stuck in long lines
when a computer glitch caused problems at checkout. taxpayers
who waited till the last day to pay Uncle Sam may have suffered
some digital distress Tuesday. As the US internal revenue
services computers were hit with a glitch ahead of the Midnight
tax deadline. Did you guys get affected by this I really want
to know how many people got affected by the Facebook glitch
in the past week. Your a meanwhile,
John C. Dvorak: clicks to edge to edge to edge the edge to edge
to edge the edge.
Unknown: technical glitch that caused chaos at London airports
on Friday has now been fixed and air traffic control systems are
returning to normal.
John C. Dvorak: They were deployed longer than any other
combat unit in Iraq and now they're fighting the Pentagon
over benefits. Their deployment orders were written for 729
days. That happens to be one day short of the 730 days needed to
qualify for benefits under the GI Bill. Well, tonight the army
is telling NBC News they predict this glitch will be fixed and
the guardsmen will be eligible for those benefits.
But I think the big glitch, the major glitch, the Whopper is
going to supersede everything you said and that is the
automated update of
Unknown: Windows Windows.
John C. Dvorak: That's things down everything that hobo
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