John C Dvorak: All right, right, right, that's exactly what it
is. Adam curry, John C. Devora.
Adam Curry: February 4 2020 for this award winning nation media
assassination episode 1631.
Unknown: This is no agenda. Analyzing the info
Adam Curry: mavericks and broadcasting live from the heart
of the Texas hill country here in FEMA Region number 60. In the
morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry.
John C Dvorak: And from Northern Silicon Valley, we're now I'm
wondering whether it's pronounced Gouda or Gouda. I'm
John C. Dvorak.
Adam Curry: Buzzkill well, you came to the right show for that.
It's right because it is officially howdah
Unknown: Gouda Gouda you got to do the Callaway Gouda Gouda no
is proud ah how
John C Dvorak: you hear with all these wind storms it
Adam Curry: was also not just famous for for cheese but also
famous for
John C Dvorak: a small town hall
Adam Curry: yeah the small town in Holland does fail how dice
famous sports cheese and one other export products Can you
name the products
John C Dvorak: wooden shoes
Unknown: no
John C Dvorak: strokes comfortable whatever that cake
is
Adam Curry: stirrups coffee Hey, that's a good one. That's Joe
title right there stirrups coffee no candles.
John C Dvorak: Candles
Unknown: Didn't you know that?
John C Dvorak: No. Never heard of it.
Adam Curry: Oh my god, they export I bet you that how to
exports that more candles come from Crowder than anywhere else
in the world.
John C Dvorak: Well the reason I brought this up is because I'm
watching a cooking show that I don't gorge normally watch by
watches pretty interesting. It's called a Scandinavian cook. Uh
huh. And this guy floats all over the place in Scandinavia
and he tells stories about one thing or another like the big
sausage strike. Anyway, so he says that he's making some food
at the at the end he says I'm going to take any says Gouda,
he's going to put some Gouda cheese you can use a hard cheese
or use Gouda. I'm thinking Gouda I never heard definitely I was I
was good because that's where we pronounce it in California when
we buy it at the store. Yes. And now I turns out we're it's it's
not even goddess gada
Adam Curry: I would say in America most people say Gouda
John C Dvorak: but you say how do I like some how to cheese
Adam Curry: soda if you don't put the how they're how they're
How do you get put in there otherwise it's not worth
John C Dvorak: it. Well, it's not gonna work anyway.
Adam Curry: But no one if you say how does he have to say
Gouda no one else will understand you in America. You
gotta say I just say Gouda
John C Dvorak: gotta say Gouda. But where did the word Gouda
come from then? I mean, let's move mispronounced it the first
time.
Adam Curry: I mean, come on you people pronounce things
differently in different countries. What are you my name
in Holland is od DME? Or, or alternatively Edom? Hello, Ed.
Edd, U M Ed. Ed DME come here. Don Adam. Yes, so did I hate
Englishness? I hated it when people call me odd dumb. Hey all
Duncan whichever Utah
John C Dvorak: like autumn like at UMN?
Adam Curry: No way. That's just the way you say Adam in in
Holland are Adam and Eva, Adam and Eva. Anyway? Well, it's
obvious what's going down now in this political year of 2024. In
the United States, we have two teams we have what is that? What
is that feedback? What am I hearing? You're hearing the
storm. That's the storm. It sounds like like nails on a
chalkboard. It's bad. The here's the strategy. We have the
Democrats on one side. And their strategy is war kill war war,
Iran war bomb bomb bomb war, and they got some Republicans to
participate in that. And then on the rights on the in this corner
over here, we have the Republicans and their invasion
at the border illegal migrants and they will do anything
possible to keep both of these things going and I would like to
start in my backyard with the caravan to take back our border.
Was
John C Dvorak: caravan of God. Yes. God's army. It's God's
Adam Curry: army, which resulted in 100 people going to the
border this is this is one of the most exciting rallies we've
ever seen a
Unknown: protesters from around the country flocked to a small
Texas border town to vent frustration over illegal
immigration. CBS is Jason Allen is there for us tonight. Jason
Nicky Good evening. This event has been peaceful here today
with a lot of these people telling me that they felt called
to be here hundreds of them caravan from brick by By
Adam Curry: the way, notice all the god references. They were
called to be here this is they're laying it on thick over
at CBS here
Unknown: today with a lot of these people telling me that
they felt called to be here hundreds of them caravan from
Virginia here to this South Texas ranch to protest the Biden
administration's handling of immigration issues here at the
southern border. Small but fervent group of people rallied
to take the border back in South Texas.
I think we all as a nation want this to end. Both
Democrats and Republicans. The gathering
was part religious revival and part Trump row.
Adam Curry: Let me tell you, I've been watching this and
we're getting some boots on the ground. This is not religious
revival by any stretch of the imagination
John C Dvorak: of Satan. This is CBS trying to make everything
out to be God's army
Unknown: crafts and Republicans the gathering was part religious
revival and part Trump rally. We need God
to fix this because we can't fix this. We don't know who these
people are. They could be our enemy.
The rally happened near Eagle Pass where there's a standoff
between federal and Texas authorities over border control.
CBS is Camilo Montoya Galvez is there.
The Texas National Guard is blocking federal agents from
patrolling this section of the US Mexico border near Eagle
Pass. As you can see it has been fortified with razor and
concertina wire. The US Supreme Court has allowed the Biden
administration to remove the wire, but Texas Governor Greg
Abbott has vowed to keep it in place. Some Eagle Pass residents
say they are not pleased with the national attention.
I think the political fight is up in Washington and it's at the
capitol in Texas. It's not down here
at the rally. People say they had to be here to send a
message. If we stay at home
and sit on our butts. We're gonna get mowed over this
country will be gone.
Tomorrow Governor Abbott is going to be in Eagle Pass with
about a dozen other Republican governors has learned that there
were threats that border protection learned about as a
precaution moved some migrants out of a processing facility
that was nearby. Oh,
Adam Curry: yes. So there you go. It was as predicted a
complete wet turd. There's nothing nothing going on. Sir
Jean is down there. And he sent me a couple of videos and you
know, it was a press event. That's all that it is. It's a
small little park. That is an area where they close it down.
locked it down. Yeah, we can't let the Border Patrol come in.
And then half a mile further up. There's an open gate and three
miles further up. There's there's not even a fence. So the
whole thing is a farce. And today I was waiting for it to
happen. I couldn't get any clips on time of Abbott's showing up
with a whole bunch of other Republican governors. Of course,
yeah, this is not political at all. Oh, and the timing is
perfect for Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, the
Republican extraordinaire to pull this stunt.
Unknown: He has signaled that this bipartisan Senate
immigration reform bill is dead on arrival in the house. As you
speak to him. Do you suspect there'll be anything that can
change his mind on that? Well,
Willie, it will be very interesting to hear his answer
on that point, because yesterday he made this surprise move he
introduced a standalone piece of legislation that would aid
Israel that is significant because aid to Israel was a part
of that border package that Priscilla was just talking about
as well as aid to Ukraine. So the question is Willie was that
move aimed at effectively killing that border deal? As
Priscilla just mapped out former President Trump has effectively
been calling on Republicans to kill the deal. Basically, he
thinks that would be a political gift to President Biden in the
middle of this tough reelection campaign. I spoke to spoke to a
top Republican lawmaker overnight who said there is
concern about not only what this means for the border deal, but
what this would mean for Ukraine aid what message does this send
all
Adam Curry: right so what he did here was he ripped apart instead
of trying to go through this process of which everyone was
pushing for was one big aid package for Ukraine Israel and
that had to have some border stuff and they got some border
stuff and instead he pulled what will now call a Johnson and he
said Oh no, I'm because of course the Speaker of the House
introduces the bills. Oh, no, I've got a new bill. We're going
to send 17 point 4 billion which as if it's nothing that 17 and a
half 1000 million dollars to Israel, because which is not
going to send a big check like Publishers Clearing House and
more bombs, more piles, more cool stuff that we're making. So
they had Mike show up on the Meet the Press this morning with
your your pal there. What's her name again?
John C Dvorak: Kristen Welker, Welker right.
Adam Curry: And she asked the obvious question,
Unknown: Mr. Speaker, as you know, that bill that you passed
in the House would be dead on arrival in the Senate, your
Republic Again, colleagues in the Senate have said as much so
I guess my question is, did you propose this standalone Israel
aid package to kill this compromise deal in the Senate?
No, we've made very clear what the requirements of the house
were. And that is to solve the problem at the border.
Apparently the Senate has not been able to come to an
agreement. They've been suggesting text should be filed
maybe today. But we've been told the same thing for months now.
We've been awaiting their action. We cannot wait any
longer the house is willing to lead. And the reason we have to
take care of this Israel situation right now is because
the situation has escalated. Of course. I mean, the Hamas
terrorist have not relented and their attacks on Israel. We're
now having, of course, US personnel being fired upon
there. And of course, with retaliatory strikes that are
taking place. The heat has been turned up there, Israel has
never been in greater need of our support. Oh, yeah. And the
house is serious about that, I believe will pass this with a
wide margin and take care of that responsibility. Oh,
Adam Curry: yeah. Oh, so Mike, he really he really, he really
relented on that one. Oh, they really need are never needed
more than ever. There was a small moment of clarity when he
said this,
Unknown: the President of the United States, open the border,
we've documented 64 specific actions that Joe Biden and his
ad agencies have taken to create this catastrophe. They did it
intentionally. That's why his approval rating is in the tank.
60% of the people who buy your latest poll, the reason the
presidency is imperiled, as your opening monologue stated is
because this is an abject failure of leadership that the
American people are done with this, the border has to be
secured. The President has the authority right now he doesn't
need another act of Congress. He could do it right now, but he's
unwilling to do it. And
Adam Curry: that's the message you'll be hearing over and over
again along with all the other great stories of migrants
wreaking havoc inside our borders. I think what's what
happens now is a couple of things. First of all the
immigration is it's not it's not even through the border to the
on the ground. And remember when you see these videos, look at
how clean their clothes are. Their shoes, sparkling clean,
no, no, no suitcases nothing. They're not carrying anything
that gets shipped on a big lorry.
John C Dvorak: You know that to carry anything was besides the
lorry when you have a credit card a bunch of money well
there's
Adam Curry: that it's not a credit card to debit cards
because to be honest, it's all the money is already there. It's
not even credit is it's good. Good to go. boots on the ground
boots on the ground from one of our producers. was in the bush
Intercontinental Airport going to LA for business 10 refugees
on the flight all carrying bags from the IOM the international
office of migration from
John C Dvorak: their logo on
Adam Curry: him Yeah, yeah, I think he took pictures and put
John C Dvorak: that in the newsletter that is so that is so
arrogant.
Adam Curry: And lanyard with IOM lanyards. Can you believe it?
This is all being shuttled over through. It's all on purpose.
It's all by design. They're raising $7.9 billion. The IOM is
through Amy Pope, former State Department afficionado the whole
thing and it's that's there's even one one part that's even
worse, these info Mavericks that are just sticking in my craw and
I put Brett Weinstein up there not a bad guy. But you people
get directed and you get directed by people who send your
messages and you know, you got it. You get insiders, we have
them all the time they've sent me on wild goose chases before.
I'd like to mention things like
Unknown: quantum dots.
John C Dvorak: Quantum don't have to mention quantum dot
quantum dots. But I do have something else that that you
will have to mention, but we'll do it later. Okay.
Adam Curry: So, along with this, along with this report from our
boots on the ground, our producer says 90% of the people
I'm seeing are military age men. And that is so that is what the
info Mavericks are directing you towards. The whole idea is to
get you to think about this. They just changed the
battlefield. Don't go looking at what's really happening. Think
about military aged men. And we've been hearing this over and
over again. And how did this start? It's all of a sudden
she's Oh, military age men. Oh, they're sending Chinese in.
They're going to take us over from inside out. And so Brett
Weinstein was on Tucker again to talk about his trip to the
Darien Gap. This was amazing. All of a sudden he's he's the
roving reporter and I pulled I pulled a little clip of him and
Heather, talking about his theme Heather's always there. No, no,
this is this is the dark horse podcast, I do want to start by
doing want to pull the talker clip this, it's more interesting
to pull it from that from the home podcast. So Brett, what's
your thesis? After going through the Darien Gap hypothesis
Unknown: that I want to put me in a hypothesis for
John C Dvorak: not a thesis.
Adam Curry: It's a hypothesis. And what's the difference
between a thesis and a hypothesis? A thesis
John C Dvorak: is actually a slight difference. hypothesis
would be the word you'd use in academia, for pretty much the
same thing. They're their son. As far as I'm concerned, they're
synonymous, but hypo was more. And it also a thesis is
something that's produced necessarily. So in other words,
I wrote a thesis, ooh, or someone habit or
Adam Curry: be more technically wrote it for him, maybe? Well
listen to his hypothesis. So
Unknown: a hypothesis that I want to put forward is that the
economic migration that is so evident that you saw at the
first camp is actually cloaking, this second migration with his
traveling a different route, which is housed separately. And
Adam Curry: so I have to add to this. So he had, he went to the
Darien Gap, and he saw two camps. One was, like South
Americans, people from Venezuela, Ecuador, you know,
hey, we want we want a better life, hey, they said, just like
that.
John C Dvorak: Dry your.
Adam Curry: But then there was this other camp where he was not
allowed to film when it was filled with Chinese,
Unknown: with his traveling a different route, which is housed
separately, and which on the ground has an absolutely
distinct character, and is treated in the inverse way, by
the authorities, they don't want it observed. They can't prevent
you from seeing it from the edge of the campus, they do not want
you getting any deeper into the thing. They don't want you
photographing it. And it's not obvious why they would have a
different policy, in fact, the opposite policy as they did in
the main migration. So anyway, the hypothesis that I want to
put on the table, and I'm not saying that I necessarily
believe that this is true, but I do believe it is plausible,
okay,
Adam Curry: so that means he didn't write it. Given this
hypothesis.
John C Dvorak: I also want to say at this point, I'm going to
change the definition of hypothesis because I can see
this coming to conspiracy theory. There you go.
Unknown: The economic migration out of South America is cloaking
a migration of largely military age, Chinese migrants who are
motivated by something distinct from they're not fleeing the
CCP, it's not obvious that they are concerned about the view of
the CCP, it appears that they're actually facilitated by it, that
they've left China with the knowledge of the CCP, and that
they have joined this migration, which we now try to talk about
his one thing, but if it's two things, that will confuse
Adam Curry: things. So his hypothesis, which he doesn't
necessarily agree with, is that the international office of
migration is obfuscating these military age people, he had a
picture of old women was what I saw, but okay, these military
age people who have been sent by the CCP, which I guess the
international office of migration, is bringing in to
take over the United States from the inside out. And all I could
think of was the former New York banker who said, Adam, we always
will be China, because their population is declining. And we
have an increasing population, not by young people having
children and starting families, but by open borders. And I think
this is a part of it. And I think they want they want these
Chinese, they're probably really smart Chinese, you know, the
good ones who got skills, who got skills to do stuff.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, we can get them those Chinese very easily
through the h1 B program that they don't have to sneak into
the country, especially the skilled ones. But how about
this? For some sort of counter argument all this? First of all,
this bit about Chinese losing as population is a bunch of people
that are on that bandwagon, but they don't explain the fact that
oh, yeah, then I kind of have anybody working for the old
people. They can't explain away the fact that 30 to 40% of the
young people in China can't get work. There you go. And that's
true. How does that make any sense with it in the scheme of
things? is declining and they're out of control? Yeah. Can't get
workers.
Adam Curry: I bet they're military age.
John C Dvorak: Well, they're yelling people. They're all
military. The
Adam Curry: whole thing is 40. The whole thing is we want them
here. We have to remember that this this was bet 2025 years
ago, you could walk across the border. They were corporations
going, hey, yeah, come on over. We'll bring you back at the end
of the day.
John C Dvorak: It was not my hypothesis. Oh, all right.
Adam Curry: Yours will be conspiracy theory.
John C Dvorak: You United States has a similar situation that
China we have all these young people that will never put up
with being conscripted. It's just not going to happen. That
boat has sailed. We're going to have a volunteer army for the
rest of our days of mercenaries and whoever so we'll bring them
in over the border. Hey, you want to become an American
citizen? Here's your path. Join the army. Put in four years, you
can re up if you want for two more, and you'll become an
American citizen after your two duty we're gonna put you in the
army. I'm with you. You're going to fight for America.
Adam Curry: I'm with you on this and the reason why is because of
steadfast dis defender 24 set up. Are you familiar with
steadfast defender no steadfast defender Well, here's a little
backgrounder NATO has
Unknown: kicked off its biggest military exercise in decades.
The Alliance Yeah, well carry out four months of drills
steadfast.
Adam Curry: Let me let me play it up because I'm going to I'm
going to prove your point here
Unknown: is that's the name and it aims to showcase NATO's
ability to deploy forces from North America and elsewhere to
reinforce Europe. 31 NATO members and Sweden are taking
part in the exercises which will involve around 90,000 troops.
The drills include naval vessels, dozens of aircraft and
more than 1000 combat vehicles. For more now I'm joined by
Island Motley up, she is a research fellow at the Center
for Security and Defense with the German Council on Foreign
Relations. It's good to have you with us CFR shields, NATO's
biggest exercise that we've seen it. Now,
I think it's should be clear that NATO is not acting in a
vacuum, but rather that NATO is reacting to what Russia has been
doing since essentially 2014, violating the sovereignty of
Ukraine. And obviously, that has been reinforced by its by
Russia's full fledged invasion of Ukraine starting in February
2022. And that is why NATO is in the process of planning this,
this big exercise actually the biggest since the end of the
Cold War. So
Adam Curry: so this is now underway. This was just a few
days before it started. And what did we hear all over Europe?
This is a psychological operation on the Europeans.
Yeah, it's Russia and then ah, conscription what Boris Johnson?
Oh, yes. Left Tennant. Johnson reporting for duty read my
column in the Daily Mail. Everyone's go like I'm not going
to be conscripted. I'm not going to God. You can track
conscription is drafting. I'm not going to go into I'm not
going to do that. Then we had Sweden. Sweden all Yep. Well,
the commander in chief over there. Be Dane General Michael
began, urged his fellow Swedes to quote prepare themselves
mentally for War. The Civil Defence minister called Oscar
Bolin stressed that war could come to Sweden, the German
Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius shared his wild guests
that a Russian attack on a NATO country could occur within less
than 10 years. The Dutch Admiral wrote Bauer Oh yes, we need to
be resilient. We have to have a whole of society approach. They
are doing everything they can to get cold war going. And they
need to do it now because they need money. See, France just
ordered 1.1 billion euros of vehicles, helicopters, some
other pew pew stuff. Because they know the minute Trump comes
in that gravy train is over. This is that last hurrah.
They're doing everything they can they're trying to scare
everybody into this. And I think you're right it's like Americans
we've given up but like no one no one wants to go into that
woke bullcrap. We're not gonna go into the army in them their
fourth No, no, get some shiners. I think you're absolutely right.
That's that's the deal. It's all the military industrial complex
is running roughshod on the whole world right now. No one's
in control of them. They just do whatever they want. blow stuff
up. And then and even get the Speaker of the House Johnson to
alright, you know, you hear 17 billion. So it's a tip for these
guys, but it's enough for now. Just a tip. People have to
realize this, this is what's going on. It's just all
military. Everything we can do for war
John C Dvorak: war war war. That's a moneymaker. And and
Adam Curry: it will be very interesting to see what Tucker
comes up with who has been spot In Moscow, if you actually go
why Oh, yeah to interview Putin, that's that's the big rumor. Oh,
yeah. Yeah. Well,
John C Dvorak: Putin will run circles around that guy.
Adam Curry: Well, Putin will get exactly what he wants. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: no, you will. That's what I meant this,
Adam Curry: this whole thing is, it's really disgusting. And
then, you know, instead of instead of just what this 86
Hold my hand, let me let me play this one clip. And then I think
it looks like you got enough stuff here to cover it. But I
just wanted to play this one. Where is it? In the region here?
Yes. This is from our last show. Just remember, we had a huge
huge gathering in Congress in the halls of the hallowed halls
of Congress. And this is what came out of it.
Unknown: And Mr. Zuckerberg,
you and the companies before us, I know you don't mean it to be
so but you have blood on your hands?
Adam Curry: No, no, Lindsay actual blood is on the hands of
dead people. With 86 military strikes, we're just bombing all
kinds of Lindsay
John C Dvorak: has blood on his hands.
Adam Curry: Yes. Yes. It's unbelievable. And so let's get
Jake Sullivan out. Let's get him out and talking to everybody.
Jake, Jake, Jake, Jake, how many do we kill? What do we get
what's going on how we do so the
Unknown: President has been very clear from the beginning, which
is that when American forces are attacked, we will respond. And
we've responded several times over the course of the past few
months. And then when three Americans were tragically killed
by the President and ordered, firm in serious response, which
we are now, which is now underway, it began with the
strikes on Friday night. But that is not the end of it, I
tend to take additional strikes, and additional action to
continue to send a clear message that the United States will
respond when our forces are attacked, or people are killed.
I
Adam Curry: mean, this message that they keep talking about, I
think the message is clear. Now, especially because you keep
saying it, but when this is not over. At
Unknown: this point, we are still assessing the question of
how many casualties there were a lot on your hands among the
militia groups, and our military will continue to provide the
President with those assessments. We do believe that
the strikes had good effect in degrading the capabilities of
these militia groups to attack us. And we do believe that we do
believe that, as we continue, we will be able to continue to send
a strong message about the United States his firm resolve
to respond when our forces are attacked.
Jake, do you know if any civilians were killed? Do you
know if any militant leaders were killed?
We do not have at this time. Any confirmation of any civilian
casualties or military? Looking at that what we do know? Right?
We're absolutely a valid targets valid view of containing the
weaponry and the personnel that were attacking American forces.
So we are confident in the targets that we struck. And I
will defer to a final analysis, the question of who was taken
out among militant leaders?
John C Dvorak: Okay, yeah, I got to stop you from these clips.
The you've jumped from the Texas trucking to an hour overseas,
all of a sudden, with a bunch of stuff in the middle that you've
just passed over. It was kind of a work of genius, but the show's
got to go on for three hours.
Adam Curry: Well, my point was, this is just two sides of a
political coin that's being tossed up in the media, and
Republicans are all about the border. And then, you know,
personally, I think, you know, the war stuff may be a little
more important. That's where all our money goes to. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: but that's, since we started domestically, I
wanted to stick with it because I got a bunch of domestic clips
I want to play Alright, as opposed to jumping into the war
already, which includes the three by three. And over
analysis of the attacks with the V one bombers, Yes, God. Yes.
And I said, just as an aside, I'll probably mentioned it, but
as an aside, the B one bombers aren't even stationed over
there. They're stationed in the United States.
Adam Curry: What are you going to do domestic or because I just
want to put this
John C Dvorak: point in a b one bomber cost $173,000 an hour to
operate. Just want to throw that in there. If you want to talk
about money wasting. Yes. I wanted to talk about a little
bit about Mayorga because Mayorkun is gonna get impeached.
And there was another big issue on the meat meat, the depressed
show that you mentioned earlier because he was on there. Yeah,
and she was hounding him about this. saying it was political.
But the reason I would like to play some Mayorga clips because
this is actually just for the benefit of the audience. This is
an amazing historic event to try to impeach a cabinet member. The
last time it happened was 150 years ago. And who was that? I
don't even know. It was somebody's somebody's cabinet
and it was just some data maybe the war guy. But I want to start
with a meteoric analysis from N T D.
Unknown: Okay, on Wednesday morning
Adam Curry: that this is the one impeaching my Orca.
Unknown: Me. Yeah.
On Wednesday morning, a House panel approved Articles of
Impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro
Mayorkas. He's accused of breaching the public trust.
Adam Curry: I see what I know. That's why I asked you meant
this clip. Joining
Unknown: us now to explore the impeachment of Homeland Security
Secretary Alejandro my arc is no
John C Dvorak: you were playing the right clip. This
Adam Curry: one says my Yorker analysis and TD
John C Dvorak: This one says Majorca analysis TD
Adam Curry: Yeah, the other one just says impeaching my Yorker.
John C Dvorak: Oh, okay. Well, once you skip to New York
analysis, go back to the beach in New York. Okay.
Adam Curry: Okay. And by the way, it's I think it's my orcas
Majorca is a is a seaside village in Spain.
Unknown: On Wednesday morning, a House panel approved Articles of
Impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alexandra
Mayorkas. He's accused of breaching the public trust and
refusing to comply with the law. And just hours later House
Speaker Mike Johnson I accused my Yorkers of being partly
responsible for the Fentanyl crisis.
Moms and dads brothers and grandmothers all of us are
losing the drug that has been smuggled across the border in
droves. Where in the world is Secretary Mayorkas on all of
this? He is the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
It's his responsibility to prevent these harmful drugs from
flowing into our country and the full
House could vote on my Yorker's impeachment as soon as next
week.
Adam Curry: Who was that speaking in? In the house? Who
was that?
John C Dvorak: I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you.
Adam Curry: Who was that? Is the wind that bad?
John C Dvorak: Is that bad? Who was speaking
Adam Curry: in the house there? Who was who was that was Johnson
was it? That's what I thought it was? I mean, this is also I
mean, they don't care. They don't care about people dying in
the streets. They don't. This is this is all taken leverage.
John C Dvorak: The fentanyl thing. They can leverage
bringing the soldiers over. Yes,
Adam Curry: no, they totally can leverage that. And that and
that, again, it's part of just let them die. So we can talk
about it. It's
John C Dvorak: well, I don't think that that callous, but no,
no, it's something you can leverage to get some attention
to the fact that you're trying to impeach this guy, and they're
going to impeach him in the house, but it's not gonna go
anywhere after that. Which, you know, begs the question, why
bother?
Adam Curry: But they have no election year. Hello?
John C Dvorak: Exactly. Yes, go to clip two.
Unknown: And on the note of how this impeachment is unfolding,
Democrats are calling this a political stunt. What's your
understanding of the legality here?
Of course, an impeachment is not strictly speaking a legal
proceeding. It is, as our founders, in particular,
Alexander Hamilton, one of the authors of the Federalist
Papers, told us that it is a political tool, but it's a very
serious one. And as one of the federal courts with regard to
these cases involving Mr. Marcus has said, Look, if if, in fact,
you in the Congress disagree with what Mr. Marcus is doing,
don't come to us, you have a tool available to you. That is
the Congress and it is impeachment. So the courts have
basically told the Republicans in the House of Representatives,
you have a tool at your disposal, it's up to you to use
it. That tool is impeachment
Adam Curry: question. Is this the same type of process with an
impeachment of a president where both houses have to impeach?
John C Dvorak: No, the MP did technically once you're voted
for impeachment. You're exactly the same if the house impeaches
you and then he goes to the Senate for trial. Oh, okay.
Adam Curry: All right. So
John C Dvorak: so it's exactly the same, right. According to
Johnson, when he was grilled by by Kristin this morning, the
show that you were referring to earlier as
Adam Curry: she was yelling up again, by the way, she was
really yellowed up.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, the hands I say put a little they've tried
to know lighten your hands not
Adam Curry: even trying. No, no, I don't think they're trying.
No, I looked at the hands you now you've got me looking at
people. You can't not look at the hands. You should sit on
your hands. It's no good.
John C Dvorak: So Dave Johnson had made it. He says, Well, it's
not as polite litical as it was with the Republicans, the
Democrats going after Trump because they didn't do all the
proceeds because you're supposed to go through a series of
meetings and committees and bla bla bla bla bla one thing after
another before you even bring it to the house, you just don't
bring it straight up the way a Nancy Pelosi did. There is he
claims because of procedure. There. There is a political
right, which is nonsense now. Hold
Adam Curry: on. I see another question. So if they impeach him
in the house, it means nothing. Correct. It's just a euro to
embarrassment to me, but he didn't want he doesn't get
thrown out. Does he get thrown off the job? No. Okay, only if
the Senate convicts him. Would he then be fired and maybe
serve? Yeah,
John C Dvorak: he's fired. Yeah. Yeah. So that's so this is
Adam Curry: not going to happen? Where
John C Dvorak: exactly. All right. Let's just do one. Did
they want to take the higher register? Right. This is all
election. posturing. Yes. But it's historic, because it's
different. And that's the only reason I want to play these
clips, because there's a lot of interesting little tidbits. The
guy that she's interviewing is the guy who was on the
impeachment committee, against Clinton. And he's gotten a lot
of experience with this. And so he has got some funny things to
say, that are interesting to note. And the fact is that if
you do have, it seems to me, you have a guy who's the head of
Homeland Security. That's a big deal. That can't keep fentanyl
from coming into the country is doing a shitty job. And that's
what I think the point you're trying to make. I never liked
this Mayorkas guy anyway.
Adam Curry: But you're you're not a house representatives.
Doesn't matter where we think. Can I interject one? Clip? Just
because we're talking about impeachment. Yeah, this? I don't
know if you saw this, the PBS Frontline documentary about
January 6. Yeah, I did see it. I'd like to play a little clip
here. Because this this accentuates the point of all of
these impeachments and hearings just being TV show. Is that
okay?
Unknown: Yeah, go for it. Thompson's committee had
gathered a trove of information, to challenge what to do with it.
The one thing that we knew was the information that we have is
compelling. The thing we needed to do was tell that to the
American people in a compelling way. So that's why we brought in
the former president of ABC News.
I got a call pretty much out of the blue from the committee.
They wanted, they wanted a storyteller. And while they were
brilliant, they were brilliant lawyers. Storytelling for a mass
audience is not what they do. To bring in a guy like this, who
would think outside the box really did prove to be fruitful.
And it was Goldston who really began to envision this as in a
way a kind of mini series that there would be sort of nine
episodes, and that these episodes would tackle particular
themes. On the Capitol, the investigation for first
hearing was primetime television is
the nation is about to witness a defining moment, the first
hearing before the country the results of the January 6
investigation.
This is an extraordinary moment in American history.
When it came to that first error. I noticed the
Adam Curry: parallel extraordinary moment in American
history. Never impeach the Cabinet member in 150 years
extraordinary moments investigation.
Unknown: This is an extraordinary moment in American
history.
When it came to that first hearing. When you how high the
stakes were
about to hold its first Primetime hearing. We were
either gonna, you know, make people realize that this is
important. You know, or once you once you've lost them, you've
lost them for good.
On the evening of June 9, fado 1pm, the doors opened. My heart
was beating pretty fast on June 9, and it was a real question of
can we do is this gonna work or not? Come
Adam Curry: on team. All right, everybody. Here we go. Here we
go. I'm pleased.
Unknown: I'm in this three control room right up the stairs
from Canon caucus. And we count down to to the style of the
hearing. And we're live people were great. One,
the select committee to investigate the January 6 attack
on the United States Capitol will be an order. Without
objection. We wanted
to make sure that this was a presentation that would grab the
audience and hold on to him Chairman Thompson love to say
it's got a pop.
Adam Curry: So we of course called this as it was taking
place. We talked about them bringing in this ABC news guy.
We talked about them doing this prime time they didn't even do a
series. They did a couple of them prime time. My question is,
if this is out there, it's on PBS Frontline. If everyone knows
that this happened if everyone saw it go down. Why don't the
Republicans do this? They're not doing it right.
John C Dvorak: Well, I'm I'm going to disagree with this. No.
I think that when the Democrats decided to get an ABC producer
in and put it on prime time, it had the veneer of a TV show.
Yes. Which nobody really takes that seriously. Because they've
seen so many of them I think, um, I think yeah, all right. I
think it I think the credibility went down not up because of the
overproduction values created by the ABC guy he was putting on a
TV show must have been law and order I watched law and order
all the time and after this, I don't want to change my vote or
anything afterwards. It it's just pure it becomes
entertainment. And I my system might up in my entertainment
desiring system sees it as entertainment, but it is
entertainment. I'm out of there after that, and I can go off and
do something else. I think it was a huge flop,
Adam Curry: but you're telling me that Taylor Swift won't
change your vote from Trump to Biden?
John C Dvorak: No, she won't.
Adam Curry: Alright, let's get back to your Majorca clips, to
get
John C Dvorak: my clips three.
Unknown: Now on that note, Speaker Mike Johnson is saying
it is Secretary Marcus's job to prevent harmful drugs from
flowing into our country and secure our border. How would a
Marcus impeachment help secure the border?
Well, that's a very, very good question. Because even if
Secretary maracas were impeached, and then removed,
which is highly unlikely, given the fact that you need a two
thirds majority in the, in the Senate to convict and remove
him, and the Republicans are in the minority over there. He
would be replaced by presumably somebody else ready, willing and
able to carry out Mr. Biden's policies? So unfortunately, it's
probably not going to solve the issue. But I think impeaching
Mr. Marcus is called for, and would send a very clear message,
at least to the American people, that a majority in the House of
Representatives is doing everything that it can to
correct the awful policies and failure to abide by the law on
our southern border.
Adam Curry: Yeah, basically saying what you said, Yeah. And
now I have to ask the question, why did they interrupt all this
without stupid blood on your hands? Zuckerberg bit? What was
the point of that? It hasn't stopped anyone from using social
media. Was that just that layer
John C Dvorak: now? Now? You got me thinking about that? I
haven't considered they was in that was? Well, that was? Well,
that was a Senate hearing if I'm not missing, right.
Adam Curry: Yes. And I'd look so and I looked at the bills that
they were talking about. And I went through them, you know, as
I do, like, really through through like the kids Online
Safety Act cosa. And all I find, yeah, yeah, I see some stuff in
there, like some interesting terminology, like addictive
feeds, okay. But all the stuff is everything you'd expect, you
know, in two years, we'll implement this. You have to you
got to adhere to guys. Nothing, nothing spectacular. I mean,
it's complete performative nonstop about
John C Dvorak: this. The Johnson himself has said this, that the
Senate is not going to do anything. There's no as one of
the reporters said, he got feedback from the Senate
Republicans that they're not going to do anything to rip. The
Senate is so divorced from that house. And so far, the
Republicans in the Senate are so divorced from the house, I just
don't Republicans, they're just doing stuff. This may have been
the Zuckerberg thing we made just to cover up the fact that
there's other that this impeachment is going on, so it
doesn't draw any attention to it. Right. I
Adam Curry: think there's me thinking people would care which
they don't smoke
John C Dvorak: screen, the cranium screen. So this is the
last clip and then we can maybe figure it out.
Unknown: On that note, what do you see as the next steps in
this case? Some are saying it could die in the House, the
Senate, as you just pointed out, or could we actually see a
conviction? What do you see next?
It will of course, now that the committee with jurisdiction, Mr.
Greens Homeland Security Committee has reported out to
Articles of Impeachment to the full house, it will be up to
Speaker Johnson to schedule a vote. Now, whether or not the
Republicans will be able to secure a majority for that is
itself a question because of the very, very slim majority that
they have. But hopefully They will have a majority. And if in
fact a bare majority votes on either one or both of those
articles of impeachment, it will, in fact over to the Senate
and the Senate will have to conduct a trial and then vote on
whether or not to convict and remove Mr. Mayorkas.
John C Dvorak: So this is a political ploy. This is done
just before the election. So the Republicans in the House it
Adam Curry: got a little bit of runway before the election.
Yeah, but
John C Dvorak: this if they get the impeachment to go through,
which will probably take you a month, and then they have to
send it to the Senate, this thing of drag on close to the
election, because they're just not going to be able to ram it
through that fast. It's a slow process. This and Johnson has
made a point of making it a slow process by going through all
these committees and beaten. And then there's the Biden
impeachment coming up.
Adam Curry: Oh, goodness, gracious. So we have it's, it's
just all political. It's just keep going on. For the
political. It's
John C Dvorak: okay, I'm out campaigning against the Democrat
or I'm a Democrat. I'm already an incumbent Democrat, and I get
a Republican coming up against me and the Republican can say,
this person voted, would refuse to vote for the impeachment of
the of the man who's, you know, poisoning the country with
fentanyl poisoning? got blood on his hands. So it's all Yeah,
it's totally political. But what else is new at this year with
this house and senate?
Adam Curry: Well, then I might as well bring this up. Because
I've determined now that the Taylor Swift up is actually
people talking about the OP. That's the OP. By
John C Dvorak: the way that I was at the meet up, went to the
Albany Mallard club meet up Yeah. And that's what exactly
exactly what they were talking about the opposite. They were
talking about Taylor's
Adam Curry: I have a couple of clips just to just to accentuate
the point. Because that's all it's Super Bowl. Marketing,
obviously. Yeah. But so first, they won't need her after this.
There's this fake clip that's going around, which was sent to
me several times by people saying, Look at this Good
morning, Taylor
Unknown: Swift is not a psyop Taylor Swift is not a sign.
Taylor Swift is not as Swift is not a sale Taylor Swift does not
assign or Swift is not assigned. Taylor Swift
Adam Curry: so they took that video, the very famous video of
all of the what was that news outlet that all had the same
screen? Claire Sinclair. Yeah. And they just added this, these
voices over it. Okay. Here's what actually was going on. Have
you
Unknown: ever wondered why or how she blew up like this? Well,
around four years ago, the Pentagon Psychological
Operations Unit floated turning Taylor Swift into an asset
that's during a NATO meeting. So is swift a front for a covert
political agenda? Primetime obviously has no evidence. If we
did, we'd share it.
It's a coordinated marketing campaign by Democrats to
leverage celebrities to excite their base into coming out and
voting. Why alienate
your vote?
John C Dvorak: So you had what's his name on there? Jesse was at
the beginning, Jesse waters, Jesse waters. And when he I
thought you I thought you're gonna play something else,
because I saw this clip where he he actually did on his show. I
don't know what that was. That was his short, the five or the
combination clip of some
Adam Curry: we played that clip, we played the whole clip of that
psychological art. We played the whole thing.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, with the woman. Yeah, we played Taylor
Swift's a good idea. We played the whole thing. Yeah. So why is
he kind of saying that doesn't that doesn't exist? Where did
you just seems that that this is just a comp congruence? This
Adam Curry: is just the compilation of idiots on
television participating in the OP, which is just to get people
to watch television and go online football and when it
ended before Megyn Kelly to talk about it and you know, and
everyone to talk about it. That's the whole point. Whatever
you do, don't look at the bombs. Don't look at the bombs, don't
look at the bombs. Look at the border, look at the border. Look
at Taylor Swift, the god
Unknown: of primetime obviously has no evidence. If we did we'd
share
it. It's a coordinated marketing campaign by Democrats to
leverage celebrities to excite their base into coming out
voting.
Why alienate
the your, your fans and Swifties you know, they come across from
every political ideology. Why put yourself in one area don't
get involved. Don't get involved in politics. We don't want to
see you there.
Let's not forget that Taylor Swift has made a career off of
writing songs about picking the wrong man so I don't think We
shouldn't take advice from her now. CBS
Adam Curry: actually took it one step further and brought in an
analyst
Unknown: All right, they're considered America's favorite
couple you know then pop star Taylor slays
Adam Curry: the Superbowl airing on CBS what station is Aaron
this year? Oh, I
John C Dvorak: thought it was on Fox this year. Okay. All right.
Unknown: That would make sense. All right. They're considered
America's favorite couple you know them pop star Taylor Swift
and Kansas City Chiefs star, Travis Kelce. But the attention
on their relationship is also inspiring some truly bizarre
conspiracy theories online. Some on the far right are claiming
the two are part of some kind of to sway the election toward Joe
Biden. Yeah, so how did these made up theories quickly spread?
Jolin Kent has the story.
Adam Curry: Joe link tell us pop
Unknown: icon indicating a superstar athlete mixing a trip
to the Super Bowl and you have the ingredients for an alt right
conspiracy. age of the internet
so is swift a front for a covert political agenda. Right wing
media outlets have spent weeks parroting the baseless claims
that swift and Travis Kelce are at the center of a liberal plot
against former President Donald Trump,
build them up, build them up, build them up. And then at the
moment of truth, they're going to endorse Biden,
but the bad blood which goes back years, in 2018, she
endorsed two Democrats in Tennessee. And during the 2020
election, Trump threw her support behind Joe Biden. Their
meteoric rise in popularity in recent months has riled up some
Trump diehards, including former GOP presidential candidate for
VEC Ramaswamy, leading many to speculate without evidence that
the Super Bowl outcome is quote, rigged to give swift a bigger
platform to endorse Biden again.
Adam Curry: So now now we're bringing sports ball into it
this whole thing, the whole thing is advertising for the
Super Bowl. And then yeah, oh, absolutely. They brought in some
AI.
Unknown: How quickly did these conspiracy theories proliferate?
So these will typically start to simmer in the dark web and kind
of the free dark web,
Adam Curry: John. Oh, it's the dark web. He should have said
podcast, but it's the dark web. This is where it simmers in the
dark web.
Unknown: These will typically start to simmer, simmer in the
dark web and kind of the fringes and underbelly of the internet
and then at some point, they gain traction, or
Adam Curry: what can you do have a directions to the underbelly
of the internet for me,
John C Dvorak: I'd really like to check the underbelly of the
internet.
Adam Curry: Check that out from time to time around
Unknown: other events. In this case,
it was a Super Bowl will seem Khaled is the CEO of Blackbird
AI, a company that monitors disinformation. Here, we can
see all these individual little small conversations all starting
to connect. LED
showed us how his company's AI driven platform has been
tracking conspiracies about Swift and Kelsey for months. So
here
we actually see that spread. We see it snowballing. And we can
actually see a narrative evolve, grow and become more harmful
over time, in fact, harmful often when we color code
something red that could be bought like activities.
There's proof that social media can take a kernel of a lie and
turn it into an entire corn on the cob.
Longtime pollster Frank Luntz believes that Trump and his base
may have turned on Swift because they worry about her influence
on the younger electorate. Last year, more than 35,000 new
voters signed up in one day after swift encouraged her
Instagram followers to register to vote, and for groups looking
to undermine Swift or anyone else's influence. Khaled says
the disinformation playbook is abundantly clear
whether financial motives or ideological that the tradecraft
that's developed cyber attacks developed over the years. It's
designed to be an attack on human perception.
Adam Curry: This whole it's unbelievable. This is all just
feeling airtime.
John C Dvorak: Yes. And I will say it is CBS here we were. This
is correct. CBS carrying the game, a lot of CBS data. That's
why the other thing is she she I heard, by the way 25,000 But say
she got 35,000 people to register to vote. Wow, I was
questioning in the last show the idea that she has 275 million
followers and if they are eligible to vote at all, that
well, let's assume that maybe half of them are but let's
assume a third of them are which is almost 100 million people.
You can only get 35,000 out of that group. It's worse than
that. It's worse than are getting people to donate to the
show. In terms of percentage Wow.
Adam Curry: Taylor's Taylor Swift can't even get get us to
get get people to donate.
John C Dvorak: So that's like bogus
Adam Curry: it's all it's at the end. They should what is the
Grammys airing on tonight wasn't Not
John C Dvorak: what's the opposite Grammys weren't the
Grammys last Sunday? No, they're
Adam Curry: this Sunday there tonight. That they were now that
tonight. there tonight. I
John C Dvorak: was. I was reading on that. Just going from
my news rundown. I'm looking at the winners. There is people
went Oh no,
Adam Curry: this has got to be tonight. Okay, well, I may be
wrong now. No. Um, am I going?
John C Dvorak: You're wondering you're wondering about yourself.
60s 60s
Adam Curry: Annual Grammy Awards. 66, by the way, should
be filled with lots of devil stuff. Oh, yeah. Well, it's
John C Dvorak: always gonna be good. Let
Adam Curry: me see. 60s is 66 is this February 4 2024. Tonight.
Okay, and they will have watching and they will because
thanks to COVID they will have a 16 minute dead segment.
John C Dvorak: Or they get dead segment is 16 whole minutes.
Yep. That's That's how many people are dead. And it says
thanks to COVID No, that's editorializing
Adam Curry: by yours truly. Just briefly on the AI thing, it's a
lot of dead you know, comics or blogger has put together
something called the no agenda. GPT Yeah, and there's a link in
the show notes and so people tried it out. And so there was a
question about no agenda social and here's what the what the AI
came back with. The platform was created as an initiative to do
the right thing for the community, but face challenges
in moderation and management. It was run by Adam curry initially
then managed by others including Ryan Seacrest at one point I
love AI it's it's a comedians dream
John C Dvorak: it goes along you know something fun find he's
going along and doing his thing and then some bond some
ludicrous bomb is dropped in there. I love it. This is the
product this is the same thing with self driving vehicles. It
was turned out that vandals like at a stop sign. Yeah, you know,
you could write put under stop war and then the car won't see
the sign correctly. And I mean, there's this all these little
things you can do to a self driving car to make it to
confuse it because it's crap. It's junk this the whole idea is
that if it wasn't for vandals and I actually think the Vandals
there was a thing that happened recently about the the Taylor
Swift and nude pictures. There was somebody being interviewed
about this. And on PBS.
Adam Curry: Again, talking about the opposite. The OP is that's
just what it is. Yes.
John C Dvorak: As part of the hour and by the way, if you want
to take part at least your own little way in the app, go to
duck duck go. Type in Taylor Swift and Ay ay ay nudes
brother. And I didn't want to do it. But after I watched this
thing on PBS, and I know these things even out there anymore.
Yeah, they're not. It's millions of them. I mean, this guy's got,
it's unbelievable. And so you Holy mackerel, and some of the
lewd material is just beyond the pale. But so I'm listening to
this woman and the guy asks or he says, so who's responsible?
Who does this sort of thing and then she doesn't know what to
say. She's the tech expert. She goes on and yak yak yak. And
what I would have said was vandals we have there in our
midst, they do their thing. And it's it's a good thing. They're
there because it alerts us to the fact that these These
problems exist and can be exploited so easily by what
amounts to just a bunch of punk kids.
Adam Curry: It's really nothing new. You know, they're just
nothing new
John C Dvorak: and just better catch him just better us all. is
nothing new. You can't catch them unless they're dumb, but
that must have been
Adam Curry: the, I think we've talked about in the last show. I
think that was set up just to you know, it was two days before
the Zuckerberg blood on your hands thing. So I think they
just abusing Taylor Swift now she should get out of the public
eye. This is a very, very dumb idea. This is going to backfire
on her it will not end pretty Yeah,
John C Dvorak: that's your basic thesis about media in general.
Yes, you use it for it always. And every time you always say it
and then about a year later it
Unknown: happens. Brands back Yeah. You
John C Dvorak: spiked the ball and we're done.
Adam Curry: Thank the Vandals Yes, we shall thank the vandals.
I just want to go back to because I know you have a three
by three about this. This whole The whole reason for launching b
one bombers and which is I think a lot more expensive than one
intercontinental ballistic missile or what Trump did you
know let's target one dude, let's get Soleimani he died like
a dog. Now which gave
John C Dvorak: I was always thinking they did that the whole
idea of these predators where he could pinpoint you know who you
want to kill I mean, they could do it. I mean, even American
citizens, but the sand $173,000 An hour bomber. Yeah. Which was
the United States in the Middle East and back.
Adam Curry: It's not it's not really targeting. It's not
surgical strikes. I mean, it's it's your carpet bombing with
those things. Yeah.
John C Dvorak: So beautiful place.
Adam Curry: It all started while it all started with tower 22.
And what we were led to believe, is that tower 22 had one of its
drones coming back. And they turned off whatever security
systems they had. And then the Iranian drone snuck in a one way
drone, which means it's one of those lawnmower duties, which
really have a very hard they have a very limited range. So
where that was launched from is interesting, but you know, so
there's been a lot of analysis about tower 22. And I don't know
if you've seen the satellite picture. Tower 22 doesn't have a
runway. They have helicopters, and they have a helipad and they
have helicopter taxiway. But if so what drone was coming back,
it wasn't a Reaper drone that needs a proper runway to land.
And that's a good point. And every single American aircraft
has what's known as an IFF if Friend or Foe transponder. So,
if something's coming in, you don't you don't turn off the
receiver. This thing stinks. I'm not believing that this went
down the way we've been told. Now that's whenever we lose
something. The first thing we want is we either destroy or we
retrieve our transponder that nobody wants anyone to unless
the Iranians now maybe have an IFF transponder. I'm getting
this from boots on the ground. And the idea of this Iranian
lawnmower drone coming in without a transponder, which has
a limited range. I'm told two kilometers I'll give it I'll
give it 20 kilometers doesn't matter. Where did it come from?
This it stinks. Stinks stinks. It all stinks of let's just go
and bomb something. We don't we're not even wouldn't have no
pictures. Do we even bomb anything? I mean, honestly, do
you have any pictures? When we did? Iraq? We did shock and awe.
That's what I was hoping for. Show me shock and awe. Now we
say we just said 86. We know if we killed anybody. You know, we
got the we got some militants? I'm even questioning that.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, you are.
Adam Curry: Can I play a couple of Kirby clips because he's
always the most fun to listen to when it comes. Yeah, I
John C Dvorak: just want to mention it before it played
through right through a Do we have a bunch of clips from Al
Jazeera about the situation and I kind of concentrated on a
Iranian professor at the University of Tehran to remind
us a number of things that I forgot about in that it's going
to be kind of a it's very interesting.
Adam Curry: So you want to do you want to play those first you
want you want to do the Chorale? What's
John C Dvorak: Kirby say here and your clips?
Adam Curry: It's Kirby. It's always fun to listen to a broken
knee bonehead Rear Admiral
Unknown: Joining us now to discuss more of this from
Washington is National Security Council spokesman, John Kirby.
John, good morning to you. It's great to have you back. So So
we've heard from you, and repeatedly from the
administration that these strikes against the Houthis are
intended to degrade their capabilities. But so far, it
hasn't stopped them. Is there any expectation that the result
will be different or more definitive after this latest
round?
Well, we'll see what happens the Pentagon is doing an assessment
right now with to see, to see what the effect was not only the
strikes in Iraq and Syria on Friday night, but the strikes in
Yemen yesterday, we are continuing to go after their
ability to hit us. And in the case of the Houthis to hit
international shipping, we are trying to take away their
capability make it harder for them to throw these punches.
Again, we think we achieved good effects in both rounds of these
strikes, both in Yemen and Iraq and Syria on Friday night. But
we're still doing the assessment on that, you know,
Adam Curry: I've always seen these videos and the video which
shows the missile going and then you all sudden there's a big
flash and then the camera goes dead. And that assessment is
clear. But there's none of that.
Unknown: But John isn't that the criticism, though? Like is
degrading their capabilities enough? I mean, what do you say
to these shipping companies who have had to travel 1000s of
miles to avoid this area because they don't have safety and
security in the Red Sea?
I tell them that the President has put together a coalition of
20 some odd countries doesn't even
Adam Curry: know the exact numbers just 20 some odd, I'm
telling you, John, this thing's
John C Dvorak: good catch. You would know exam? Yeah, yeah,
they know the number. Yeah, of course
Adam Curry: they know the number. It's none
Unknown: ships and aircraft and other capabilities in the Red
Sea to try to make that passage as safe as possible. Now, we
can't guarantee that there still won't be attacks on their ships.
But we are doing everything we can with the international
community to protect that shipping. We know how vital a
waterway the Red Sea is.
Adam Curry: All right.
John C Dvorak: Why don't did the Z ask him the simple question
which I would have asked if I was the guy there, which is the
Houthis captured a ship and they're using it as a tourist
attraction. Why don't we go recapture that ship? Because I
knew I didn't know they were a big tourist country. We're
always looking for tourist attractions, because I
understand now that the ship is tourist attraction number one,
and the Seattle fish market where you toss a fish is number
two for the tooth. He's living in Seattle for a while they're
going there Look at the fish. I mean, are we kidding me?
Adam Curry: No. Instead, let's remind our viewers of some
important information.
Unknown: And it's important to remind our viewers there are
multiple operations happening here. Because separately, you
noted earlier, the US launched those retaliatory strikes
against Iranian backed groups in Syria and Iraq. Of course, this
is a response to three Americans who were killed in Jordan. Is
there more to come with that operation? And how soon
Adam Curry: and I hate to be morbid about it. But we haven't.
I don't think President Biden was at the caskets coming home.
Which you should be it certainly if you're playing it. Oh, he was
there. Was he looking at it?
John C Dvorak: I took a photo. There's a screenshot of it. He
had the the look on his face was I've never seen I mean, it's the
worst Biden look he could possibly have his mouth. It's
just that screwball Look, he has i He was standing there with it
with his wife. I
Adam Curry: hate to be morbid, but you know, I've seen three
pictures. Three black Americans Brown, brownish black. One one a
woman, which Korean John Paul Pierre Cardew didn't even know.
Because, you know, she couldn't say Oh, three of our folks or
folks didn't even know. I mean, is this stock photography? I'm
really starting to question this now. I will really with AI, you
can just make face make new faces. I'm question
Unknown: there is more to come. What you saw Friday night was
just the first round. And it's not going to be the last one by
any stretch, I won't get ahead of military operations one way
or another what they're going to look like when they're going to
come. But the President has been clear, we are going to respond
in a forceful way three Americans were killed, dozens
were wounded. We have got to respond in a strong and
aggressive way. And we'll continue to do that. But there
will be more, there will be more response options as a result of
that
Adam Curry: attack. Now, the obvious question is why were you
just yapping and yapping and yapping for a week and telling
everybody it's common like you're doing again?
Unknown: Why did it take nearly a week though, to carry out
those strikes to that give the militants time to regroup, hide
and protect their resources?
Adam Curry: Oh, protect their resources? Well,
Unknown: it takes it takes time to develop the target sets to
make sure you've got enough visibility on the target just
Adam Curry: to be sure you Oh, wait for it, hitting what
Unknown: you're aiming at. And we feel like we did what
Adam Curry: we have the most sophisticated weapons in the
world, we got to make sure you're hitting what you're
aiming at. And we did Where's the video,
Unknown: but that takes time to develop. You know, there's also
the weather weather be a factor in something like this. I mean,
the strikes that we took on Friday night, we're using manned
aircraft, including bombers from the United States. And of
course, you want to make sure that your pilots are safe and
secure as they conduct these vital missions.
Adam Curry: Is this like D Day where we had to we had to wait
for the weather to clear up? Is that where we're at now.
Unknown: So weather plays a factor in all that, that it
wasn't, it wasn't an exorbitant amount of time here. We needed a
little time to prepare ourselves. You. For what as for
your other question, as you I'm sorry, I interrupted you. But
you asked us about what weather the Iranians are the Iranian
backed groups, I'm sorry. The militia groups moved anything
around. I can't speak to that. Specifically, we did the best
intelligence assessment that we can in terms of developing these
targets.
Adam Curry: So he knows nothing. We know nothing. The weather was
not cooperating. Did you call anybody over there? Did you say
did you pick up the phone and say, Hey, stop killing our
people? Anything like that? I
Unknown: wanted to just pick up on something you said recently
that the US is not speaking directly, no direct channels
with Iran in the region. Why not? Some say that's exactly
what should be happening to prevent further escalation.
Yeah,
Adam Curry: call somebody.
Unknown: It's not like we haven't had direct
communications with the Iranians before what I said was we
haven't had any direct messaging.
Adam Curry: Oh, they're DMing now this they were DMing when
they slide into your DMS moolah, but we're not doing that anymore
right communications
Unknown: with the Iranians before what I said was we
haven't had any direct messaging to the Iranian are
Adam Curry: they using Facebook do you think are they using
WhatsApp to DM audience
Unknown: since the attack
but isn't it now that now that people little moment for that
discussion, those direct talks. No, we
Adam Curry: got to shoot more crap. We're
Unknown: sending a pretty strong signal with these with these
strikes that we took on Friday night. And I guarantee that
we're going to be sending another strong signal to the
Iranians and to the groups that they're backing the IRGC and the
groups that they're backing over coming days.
John Kirby, thank you so much for your time this morning. We
do appreciate it.
Adam Curry: To me, this is outrageous,
Unknown: his salary ranges.
John C Dvorak: That brings me to some different group clips,
okay, there's this guy, Joe Pachinko. He's a colonel,
retired boy who they brought on this was yesterday. This is
Brian on the PBS
Adam Curry: retired in air quotes.
John C Dvorak: I think so yeah. Because when you listen to him
talk, he talks and he talks as a group and the group he
represents his the intelligence community. Okay. It's never set
mentioned but when you read between the lines just listening
to him, he's getting information. Why does he have
any of this information is retired colonel. What does he do
for a living they never say, but he's somehow an expert on the in
the on the topic and they brought him in to the first time
I've ever seen this guy. And he's actually pretty good. As a
spokes, you know, as the spokes hold for whoever knows what that
this is p sorry, PBS weekend one.
Unknown: As we come on the air tonight the United States is
carrying out a second wave of airstrikes against dozens of
Iran back Houthi targets in Yemen. We
Adam Curry: got to start using that as we come on the podcast
today. Here's what's going on.
Unknown: Today assault is in response to last weekend's drone
strike in Jordan that killed three US troops and injured
dozens more. Last night's Air Assault struck sites in Iraq and
Syria used by Iran backed militias. Pentagon officials
said it took just 30 minutes Friday night for B one bombers
and other US aircraft to hit more than 85 targets. Rockin
serious of the attacks killed at least 34 people, both members of
Iranian backed militant groups and civilians. Joe Buccino is a
retired US Army Colonel he was the top spokesman at Central
Command. Joe talk about how you design an event like this A
retaliatory strike like this
Adam Curry: is CENTCOM the guys who led all the planes come
through a 911 Wasn't that CENTCOM
John C Dvorak: Central Command? I have no idea. Please come to
her and think
Unknown: about how you design an event like this A retaliatory
strike like this. On the one hand, you want to do something
strong enough to get their attention. But on the other
hand, you don't want to do anything too strong.
So John, there's basically a range of options from low level
of violence to high level of violence, you know, the high
level you're talking about strikes inside of Iran. Low
level, you're talking about the kind of little precision strikes
we've done we've been doing since November. This is about
what we've done. You know, just tonight, and then last night is
in the low to medium range. Okay. So you present these
options to the White House. The Pentagon makes a recommendation.
Ultimately the National Security Council in the White House
renders a decision.
Adam Curry: Just it's bacino with a b b UCC Ino, and he is
under inspector general investigation as of May fifth
2023.
Unknown: That's interesting. Okay, look.
John C Dvorak: So they when they say b one, bombers, bombers
numbers, that implies there's more than one. Yes. I agree. So
I just want to say three. This is like a billions of B
literally billions of dollars. Or a million millions and
millions. Billions. Depends on probably a billion. It just
seems existing.
Adam Curry: This markup there's markup. Yeah, this. You're
talking wholesale? We're looking at retail prices here. Yeah, of
course, that rampant. The whole thing is, I hate to say it
because we have lots of military personnel. But I think they know
as well. It's everything is corrupt. And I and there was
this young man 18 years old at the church, and he's going off.
You know, he's a Marine. He did his basic training. Now he's
going to California. He'll be in this in the region within six
months. It's disgusting.
John C Dvorak: Onward.
Unknown: What is the response from Iran and from these
militant groups? What does it tell you?
I'm cautiously optimistic right now. Iran has denounced the
strikes. But they haven't said anything about a retaliation.
And there's signals here that Iran wants to hold back on some
of these Shia proxy groups that maybe they've gotten a little
bit out of control or out of the control of Ismail Connie. He is
the senior commander of the Quds Force in Iran in Iran. And so
maybe he wants to pull them back. So I'm optimistic about
that.
Does he have that control? When is he able to pull them back?
What we're hearing is
that, you know, you think about Kasim Suleiman Honey, you know,
this powerful figure shadowy figure who really controlled
these forces so tightly for so long, when when he was struck,
that really degraded Iran, it really took away their
capability. But it also took away their ability to control
these loose groups in Iraq and Syria and Jordan in Yemen. And
they've gotten a little bit out of control. And now he's trying
to pull them back. So there's concern in Iran, there's concern
in DC, nobody wants to escalate. So I'm optimistic about that. We
Adam Curry: don't want to escalate, we're just, we're
gonna do more, we're gonna do more, I'm
John C Dvorak: reminded of the we had a clip it was probably
six months ago for someone who says that a lot of this is this
was a scam between when we're still in close contact with Iran
to make sure that they get their monies and some other and get it
stopped a new program to some extent, or at least being in bed
with EMS. And the whole every all this is a cover for the fact
that we're really working with Iran. I mean, I don't know if
that's even a possibility. But that's what this one guy
claimed. If you recall that clip, I'm
Adam Curry: trying to think I don't have that per se. But I
did hear I know if I clipped it this morning, that what is being
done here is seen as nothing that doing nothing to Iran. I
think it was probably Mike Johnson. He said that, you know,
we should be we should be cutting their money off doing
stuff like that. Yeah, that makes it hold on a second. I
think I have it here. Yeah, this listen to this bit
Unknown: of what Jake Solomon just said, I listened to that
interview, it was interesting. We need to make absolutely clear
to Iran that nothing is off the table. You know, we maintain
peace through strength. That was the Reagan Doctrine. That's what
President Trump bombed them again, he continued, and that's
what we have to do right now. We should not be appeasing Iran.
That's what the Biden administration has been doing
for the last three years. We're projecting weakness on the world
stage. And frankly, Kristen, that is why our adversaries are
acting so provocatively, what we need to be doing right now is
turning up the heat on Iran, we need to act to decimate the Iran
Central Bank, the assets that they held there, we need to lean
on international banks to seize the assets of Iranian proxies.
We need to put big time pressure maximum pressure on their oil
exports. There's a lot that we could do to Iran to send a
message, instead of this appeasement strategy is just
including strikes,
Mr. Speaker, including strikes, just to be clear. It
shouldn't. It should not be off the table. Let me give you just
a quick example. You know, this is from this morning in the
Trump administration, we used a drone and three missiles to take
out Qasem Soleimani in near Baghdad, that sent a strong
message and it quelled all of the activity there what what
we're doing right now, we're sending we're using potentially
hundreds of munitions to strike close to 100 targets so far, but
we're not going right to the heart of the matter. I think
that's a real problem.
Adam Curry: So I think you're right. And I think Johnson is
agreeing here by saying, we're not really doing anything to
Iran. We're just shooting some stuff. We're just spending
money. And we should we should cut off their banking.
Unknown: Yay, gonna happen? No, because, well,
Adam Curry: if we do, then we just work with Russia, we just
bring in pallets of dollars. Remember, remember
John C Dvorak: that, like $4 billion in cash, just drop
Adam Curry: it off in cash. No problem. By the way, this, this
Pacino guy, he was suspended last year from command. And a
command climate survey found that 97% of his staff reported a
hostile command climate. Two thirds of them reported low
morale roughly another quarter reported they witnessed sexual
and or racial harassment. This is an interesting guy to bring
on PBS.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, that's what you mention it good work. ethic
run a clip three.
Unknown: Yeah. Some Republicans in Congress have criticized the
Biden administration for what they say waiting too long. This
strike was last weekend. That took a full week. What do you
make of that? What do you say to that?
I agree. I agree. Look, if there's an intellectual thrust
of the Biden foreign policy, it's conflict avoidance, and,
you know, avoidance of escalation. And that's generally
a good impulse for an American president here. It doesn't serve
us well. And if you look at the history of Iran, it doesn't
serve us well here. You know, for five days, we've been
talking about this for five days, we've been talking about
what we're not going to do. And I think it signals to Iran, that
they can continue to kind of push us around. They can
continue to strike at our bases. And we're not going to make them
feel pain, because what we do to the Houthis here in Yemen, what
we do to these Shia groups in Iraq and Syria, it doesn't
really manifest in pain in Iran.
Adam Curry: Yeah, that just so that that goes right along with
what Mike Johnson just said, it's not really doing anything
to Iran. We're just spending money. And getting everybody all
riled up. And I guess the thinking there is, hey, I'm a
war president. He better hurry up and someone's got to declare
war. How much longer can the can President Biden be authorizing
this stuff?
John C Dvorak: Before? The I think half of it's illegal
already? All of his work as a word. That's the idea is all
political idea that once you're got a war president, you gotta
keep them in? Oh, yeah. Don't
Adam Curry: change a warring team. Yeah, that no
John C Dvorak: one's buying that. I mean, they may have
bought it in the 50s. But now, this, I think I got one more.
Yeah, one
Unknown: more flying bombers halfway around the world to do
this. Obviously, there are their operational reasons for this.
They carry a tremendous amount of payload, they can fly
supersonically. But was there also a message being sent? This
is all about a message. So the message here is more important
than anything you've hit anything you destroyed any of
these shear groups that you killed? The B one bombers are
important, because, you know, they can fly under radar
coverage. And if you're going to hit inside Iran, you're going to
you're going to hit or inside of run with a B one Lancer. What
comes next? Well, I think what comes next is you're going to
see more passes in Iraq and Syria like we did last night,
you're going to see maybe more strikes on the coast of Yemen
here tonight, we hit the Capitol. I don't think we'll do
that. Again. I think we'll hit coastal battery sites. I think
this will go into next week for a few days into next week. And
then we'll see then we kind of wait, did Iran get the message?
How is Iran going to respond? How are these groups going to
respond? That's what's next, it'll be the same sort of
targets or the targeting change. Now you're gonna see the same
kinds of targets the same level of violence. And really, you're
going to see these bump there's a lot more bunkers. So these
these complexes that you know, if you think about doors or in,
in the East there in Syria, Abu Kamal, these are complexes that
have hundreds of bunkers within them. And so you know, you
there's a lot more targets you can hit there we hit 85. That's
really not very much. There's a lot more we can do here. Joe
Pacino, a retired US Army colonel, thank you very much.
Adam Curry: Retired. Do you still want to talk more war?
John C Dvorak: Wait, maybe this guy was put on the PBS NewsHour
as punishment? A lot of these guys don't like to do these
things. That's a good point. Okay, we get we need a
spokesperson to this. Yeah, you put him on? Because I've never
seen him before. And he's not bad. No, well, he's just kind of
give away the fact that he's getting he's got more
information than you think he should have.
Adam Curry: Unless you have to work for him. Doesn't sound like
such a cool dude to work for.
John C Dvorak: Well, maybe he'll straighten out. No, he does
sound like a good guy. He's not a manager.
Adam Curry: Can I switch to something else for a minute?
Because we're gonna lose people. We might as well play Africa and
China clips. You got Africa? No, no, no, I have. Have you ever
seen this guy? He does a YouTube channel. He used to be a tech
lead at Google. He's an Asian guy. And kind of like a know it
all kind of dude, but he was very popular YouTube. YouTuber.
Okay, and he laid out a Oh, should I say a hypothesis about
what's happening is how many tech? I think the big question I
keep hearing is all these tech layoffs. You know, even Jack
Dorsey laid off a whole bunch of people and it's been hundreds of
1000s in the past couple of years of technology. People have
been let go. Yeah. And I think as I was listening to Devorah
Horowitz unplugged. You know, this consensus is it's not like
there's some bad news coming, something else is going on. And
it's not necessarily that we oh, we're headed into some horrible
recession. And this guy had kind of an interesting thesis. I want
to share it because to me was like, Yeah, that makes a lot of
sense. And it it kind of started with Elon Musk, you want to hear
it.
Unknown: Of course, tech layoffs are surging over 25,000 rows
already cut just in the month of January, we saw PayPal cutting
9% of their worlds 2500 people gone Microsoft cut that 90 100
People from their gaming division unity cut 1800 people
that's 25% of their workforce, Amazon Twitch cuts 35% Discord
cut 17% And there's a whole string of other layoffs in the
tech industry here. We have a tech jobs chart here showing a
noticeable decline in tech roles according to indeed where jobs
and software it and information has just gone downhill coding
may just be debt. I mean, we're talking about So the fundamental
changes underway here coding is dead apps are dead. Now I've
missed this backdrop of tech layoffs. This comes at an
interesting time when so many YouTubers are quitting retiring
really rich. So there's this wealth gap between nine to five
employees and influencers, which is something I've talked about
before, where we have these two class of people, right? Half of
millennials are basically poor. They can't afford anything. And
they're stuck in these debt and nine to five jobs and the other
half. They're raking it in with Lamborghinis and Gucci and
Rolexes, living in these mansions traveling all the time.
And isn't that funny, we now have the social media trends
that watch me lose my job on tick tock tech workers are
filming their layoffs and sharing them on social media for
views. So what their nine to five jobs are burning down their
social media channels are thriving. And you see these
people finally waking up to that.
Adam Curry: And I think this may have something to do with the
extreme dissatisfaction of younger generation of workers
because it is that I'm seeing these trends a lot of the I'm
quitting YouTube is you know, just to get views like oh, I
didn't quit no all you begged me to stay. But there's a lot of
money has been made. And we even just saw recent, the Renewal by
Joe Rogan, although it's not quite the same as as his initial
deal. Same goes for color Daddy, you know, they're they're
upfront and revenue sharing deals. But I think people are
seeing this and then what used to be the big hero, a oh, we oh,
he's a ninja ninja coder. Remember that? Remember, we were
hiring ninjas ninja coder, and they were making 234 100 grand.
I mean, lots of money. And this guy says, you know, no, we've,
we've, we're done. We built it all.
Unknown: So here's what I think is happening. We essentially
reached a local maximum and technology where we invented
basically digital drugs, social media, where everybody is now
just addicted to this digital opioid. And they're just
vegetating in front of their screens, watching short videos,
Tik Tok videos, YouTube videos like this one. And nobody really
wants to do anything else. People are just totally content.
People don't need to buy anything. They don't need to
download new apps or websites. It's kind of like building
someone that TV and then asking them if they want anything more
from you. And the apps or websites or services, no, they
just want to watch their shows now. And so in the way content
became the new software where a lot of value creation shifted
from the tech stack to infrastructure of building that
first TV. Not that spilt. We don't need the builders for that
we just need someone to maintain this TV. And then value shifts
into the shows creation is kind of like the movie industry where
you have the sound engineers and the stage engineers and
production designers, they don't really get paid much but as the
show stars who get paid the most. And so similarly, at the
time when Twitch is laying off 35% of its staff, software
engineers, managers, college educated 95, folks, it's topstar
and streamer pokey main is leaving Twitch voluntarily. She
has not been laid off here, folks, with the rumors of her
finding and potentially $75 million deal. So it's just
funny. There's this divide where some people are leaving the
company because they're fired. And then some people are leaving
because they're they're retiring. Basically, they're
done. This
Adam Curry: rings true to me. Have there been any new exciting
app any new development? I mean, we have really nothing? I mean
AI? Really, Where's where's all the coders for that? I mean,
sure, buzz kill. There's, there's definitely a market for
them, but not, not for not for not the level that we had before
of, oh, we've got to build all this stuff out and you know,
once Instagram created their version of Tik Tok and Tik Tok
is tick tock. You know, this guy calls it the low opportunity
era. But still
Unknown: with all of this quizzing, whether voluntarily or
not, I think it reflects a low opportunity, low growth,
stagnant era that we're living through where there's just
nothing really exciting going on a lot of technology that should
have taken off like web three, the metaverse AI it didn't
really get too far. You know, AI may have some potential but it's
also the playground mostly a big tech companies that have the
data and GPUs to train on. Most normal people aren't going to be
doing that. The chat GPT store was kind of a buzz. It was just
wrappers on chat GPT, you've got Apple vision Pro, pretty
expensive, limited market. And that should be clear by now apps
and websites are long dead, people stopped using those as
soon as they began vegetating on short form videos. And so with
everybody vegetating on digital drugs, the game industry is also
suffering because it simply cost too much per minute of
entertainment. And we can see us consumer spending on gaming
here, which is down 14.5% In the past three years, and it's
basically a stagnant industry in an area where there continues to
be inflation and rising costs, so a lot of companies are seeing
weak consumer demand. Other meanwhile, YouTube ad sales
soared $9.2 billion in a blowout. quarter as they're
firmly back in growth mode after a quiet year last year.
Adam Curry: I don't know. To me it sounds sounds very plausible
that this is just they're done building. We got nothing. We got
no other ideas except quantum computing, but that's still on
the horizon that's still on the horizon.
John C Dvorak: It's an interesting hypothesis. I can't
argue with it. I mean, there are people that I've known this was
always been the case in high tech. I remember going back into
the late 70s When you had when you first had the s 100. Bus
come out.
Adam Curry: Oh, the s 100. Boss. Remember those days people? I
don't know. What was the s 100. Boss? I have no idea what that
is.
John C Dvorak: It was a bus, you know, a backplane that had 100
pins on it. And it was called the s 100. Bus and it was
developed. I think the Altair is the first one that they
developed a kind of a quasi version, they got formalized and
became a standard that wasn't the artist play until the IBM PC
came along with its own bus
Adam Curry: Rs 232. Is that what replaced it? Rs
John C Dvorak: 232 is a is an interface. Okay,
Adam Curry: bro, does not I don't know what you're talking
about. I don't either. I'm just throwing stuff out.
John C Dvorak: So there was this guy. There was the early days of
micro computing, which is what it was called. There was all
these graphic guys had come along. And anyway, there was a
guy, one guy who came out with a thing called a Hercules card. It
was Herky. I think there may have even been around here,
Hercules, maybe. But he Hercules. It made this graphics
card that became kind of a quasi standard because it was so good.
The guy made a shit ton of money. I mean, not by today's
standards, but by the standards back then. Yeah, a shit ton of
money and he as soon as he cashed out he just took his put
on some sandals and moved to Mexico and he never was heard
from again. And I knew that guy there was just uh yeah, I'm
rich. I'm out of here on
Adam Curry: smart man he didn't he didn't was not a serial
entrepreneur didn't didn't go no fall for that scam, like how to
spend your I'll use my own money, dumbest thing I've ever
John C Dvorak: done, I use my own money to make more money. So
this type of personality in tech is not an unusual character that
would just develop somebody making enough money to get more
than get by. But you know, you think you got a lot of money.
And you don't I mean, you do for like a year or two. And then
they bail out and they go away. And so maybe there is an element
of that going on. There's one
Adam Curry: other thing that he said, which is which I think is
something that is very DH unplugged. And it all started
with Elon and I think he has a point here.
Unknown: I think it was really Elon Musk, who kicked off all of
the firings when he fired 80% of Twitter's workforce, saving the
company massive amounts of money, cutting bloat, and so a
lot of other tech CEOs probably saw that too and realize they
wanted to cut through all of the management below as well. So
Instagram here is also announcing they're cutting a
level of management. The TPM role or technical program
manager is essentially been eliminated by Instagram and what
Mark Zuckerberg called the year of efficiency aimed at removing
layers of management. The result was 1000s of layoffs last year
and Reduction and Management ranks and this effect was
probably also compounded by over hiring during the pandemic, as
well as hopes that AI can possibly help improve some of
the efficiency of current workers. Although general
consensus seems that AI is not behind the current wave of
layoffs. That is coming later on. It's another potential
factor behind tech layoffs is section 174, a new tax bill that
came into effect last year, which essentially made software
engineering salaries, non deductible in the first year,
you have to amortize that cost over five years with only 10%
deductible in the first years. The industry is changing. These
days. Everybody entered dog is coding immigrants are coding
fresh college grads are coding check up, hazing is becoming an
oversaturated field where employers are realizing the code
base pay you 300 to 500k and free cafeteria food for two
hours of work a day.
Adam Curry: So that's the r&d tax credit that that that Joe
Biden overrode that with an executive order. Yeah. So know
John C Dvorak: that I didn't know. I didn't know either. See,
that becomes a big deal. You have to change everything. And
then because it changes the way you do the books, and which
reminds me since you brought up you said Zuckerberg was
mentioned I should mention this. Can you check the price of meta
stock?
Adam Curry: I think it's a it's probably way beyond the $400
that I was willing to bet we would never reach.
John C Dvorak: You were willing to bet you made a $500 bet. Oh,
I
Adam Curry: did. I thought you didn't take it. No, I
John C Dvorak: didn't take the five $5,000 Bet you wanted to
make.
Unknown: Okay. Well, here's
John C Dvorak: the clip calling names. And
Adam Curry: we've got a whole panel of douchebags who are
going to narc on you're constantly they're dead. Not
that it's like Facebook. How's that $400 stock doing?
Unknown: Let's get into you wait, you wait,
Adam Curry: I will bet you $500 Right now that Facebook will
never get back to $400. And unless they do some, you know,
unless they died the bets on him, okay, and that was the same
flow because somebody record this with the same float you're
not allowed you're not allowed to manipulate by changing the
float with a split or reverse.
John C Dvorak: There's never this bull crap did float is
never the same. There'll be some issuances. There'll be some
buybacks
Adam Curry: where there was a split or you're
John C Dvorak: adding a bunch of disclaimers. You don't want to
do the bad Oh
Adam Curry: I've done $5,000 5000 $5,000 Now I say I
say
John C Dvorak: I'll do the 500 but the reason I want you to
5000 because you can't afford it I never get paid boys coin made
Adam Curry: point made you're afraid you're afraid I have no
fear. So yes, I was alerted to this. I honestly did not
remember the way that went down that it's was about two years
and four months ago episode 1492 And after having hearing that
because of course people sent that to me. I apologize. I was
not only I defaulted to my carnal mind, I'm ashamed and
embarrassed because I called you names and I really I repented
for this I am very sorry and I want to thank you for having
grace on me for not taking my $5,000 and I will gladly pay you
the 500 from the bet and I'm sorry
John C Dvorak: well thank you very much for being sorry the
$5,000 Bet you're right you should thank me for not taking
the bet I but I in there I did say you wouldn't pay it because
you're not going to pay 5000 I bet nobody does. And that's my
tip to people out there who want to bet when people when somebody
makes an outrageous but don't do it because you're going to just
going to cause friction if I even get the $500 I'll be
surprised but I will take it if I it will go to a charity.
Adam Curry: Can I send it to you in Bitcoin? Come on,
John C Dvorak: I don't have a wallet
Adam Curry: count. I'll set you up with a wallet. You never
know. I mean it's like kind of doubling down for you.
John C Dvorak: If you really have cash,
Adam Curry: I'll send it I'll send a
John C Dvorak: pallet of dollars. But now we could.
Adam Curry: I am sorry. That was very embarrassing. I heard that
and I was unhinged and I said I defaulted to my my defaulted to
my carnal mind. It was not good. That's I don't like what I heard
there.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, so I will if you want I'll put the bed in
abeyance if you want to do double or nothing for Facebook
hitting 1000 No,
Adam Curry: I'm done. I've I will. I'll take my lashes. I'll
take my lashes. I'm not gonna go there. No, no, I'm done. I've
never been good with stocks. I mean, I'm the guy that sold all
my bitcoin at $900 thinking this is dynamite.
John C Dvorak: Hey, you so I've said it before. And I'll say it
again talking about this on dish and like, if I had bought, say
$200 with a Bitcoin at 25 cents. Yeah. The likelihood of me
keeping it past $400 Bitcoin is probably nil. The best the only
way you can do that is you buy it for 25 cents and then somehow
lose track of it. And then suddenly, years and years later
find the key to the kingdom. You old wallet that's kind
Adam Curry: of that's kind of what happened. But it gets worse
the story is actually worse. Because I took the money from
the Bitcoin I sold and I de traded it
John C Dvorak: Wow. Go into commodities while you're at it.
Alright, since
Adam Curry: since we're doing old clips, I want to play
something that just aired and I want to play a classic no agenda
clip. This showed up on Tucker Carlson. Some guy named Callie
Callie Ed, I think his name is and he he's as like a healthy
you know, he does. He's a healthy medicine guy. What do
they call it these days that there's a term for to keep for
wellness, a function of functional medicine doctor, and
I've ever heard this functional medicine doctor and he promotes
you know Everything except pharmaceuticals. And he's on
with Tucker. And he brings out a This clip was sent to me by many
people, usually for the same reason. He says, Oh, listen to
the I cut it down a little piece here. But you're
Unknown: saying that pharma buys TV spots, not to convince people
to ask for specific drugs from their physicians but to subvert
the news business.
Adam Curry: This is a this is an open secret working for Pharma.
I'd never thought of that as this is an open secret. The kind
of silly ads you see between the news breaks. The points of that
is not it's largely to impact the customer. But but the
farmers already got that they've already bought off the doctors.
They're good on that. No, this is an open secret. The news ad
spending from pharma is a public relation lobbying tactic,
essentially to buy off the news. The news is a referee. They're
not investigating Pharma. But I've noticed that the news has
become the news has become basically a referee, that you
are a terrible anti science Luddite for asking why, you
know, the shots that we require our kids to get that
fundamentally by their own advertising, change the immune
system of that child for life, why it's gone from 20 to 70. Do
even ask that question, the news referees that calls you anti
science when the two largest vaccine makers in the country
are literally criminal enterprises. GlaxoSmithKline and
Merck, in the past five years has settled two of the largest
criminal penalties in American corporate history for bribing
and misleading bribing doctors and misleading creating
misleading research, who are the two largest vaccine makers? So
you literally have the media playing referee, you can't even
ask a question. So this was a big revelation for Tucker
Carlson. And he really
John C Dvorak: what we've been talking about for how many years
Well, I
Adam Curry: went into barricade I went, I went into being it.io.
And which there's a new version coming, by the way, which will
be killer. And I was able to go back. I mean, we had other
mentions of advertising, but this was the most sinks, no
agenda, Episode 343. From September 29 2011. There we go.
Let's go back and see what we saw. What
John C Dvorak: choice does he have? He's running a commercial
show that has sponsors on a network that relies like
everyone else on drug advertising. What's he supposed
to do? He take the donation model and make less money. I
mean, I don't know what you expect the guy to do. He has no
choice in the matter. He is like everybody else in the media.
Everything that people watch out there is bought and paid for by
big pharma, Big Pharma as the right now probably one of the
biggest advertisers, they're making so much money on on some
of these sketchy drugs. That, you know, you can't say what?
And then you have the vested interests of the war on drugs.
Adam Curry: Yeah. But it's important for people to know
because Jon Stewart does come across as the guy Yeah, and but
he's not he too, is beholden to the pharmaceutical industry in
this case, and it's a six minute clips, I'm not gonna play it,
but there's a link to the actual video. There you go.
John C Dvorak: 13 years, 13 years, and it was a thing, and
it's always been a thing with us. Yep. Yep. And that has to be
able to want it. And we always mentioned that we're one of the
two countries in the world that allow pharmaceuticals to add
prescription to advertise prescription drugs, or IV.
They've always advertised aspirin.
Adam Curry: But but they control they control all yes, but they
get
John C Dvorak: the mechanism mechanism of control. So they
own the media. The media has been been co opted, captured.
Remember the capture they've been captured by big pharma so
they can't say anything now.
Adam Curry: It is what this is news.
John C Dvorak: What's
Adam Curry: going on in Canada right now. I, I pray this does
not come to the United States. What what is happening there.
This is about made, which is just a I love the acronym made
because you think of a me, I'm coming in here, I'm going to
sweep around and I'm going to kill you, which is medically
assisted assistance in dying. And the Canada has put a pause
on this. And this is very disappointing. To the to the to
the industry to the death industry. In Canada,
Unknown: the federal government is defending its decision to
delay the expansion of medically assisted death to include those
suffering from mental illness. It's the second time they've
press pause on the legislation. James Cameron is a member of the
Board of Directors for the advocacy group dying with
dignity and he joins me now James Collins, good to speak
with
Adam Curry: you get ready for this Google.
Unknown: So your organization says the work has been done to
move forward. Now. How do we reconcile that with the reports
and the statements from various governments saying Canada is
just not ready to do this real
life? You have to go back and look at what was said at the
time that the postponement, the sunset clause was extended last
year. And Minister lametti was very clear as to what the
markers were there needed to be the consideration of the report
of the expert panel, there needed to be an educational
program developed so that clinicians could be prepared for
this. It needed to be better data collection, and needed to
the regulators across the country needed to have time to
prepare regulations and guidelines. And all of those
markers have been met. So there are obviously some people in
this country who do believe that the system isn't ready. But many
more, those who are actually engaged, the Dan is doing
assessments and delivering made, testified before the committee
that they were ready and ready. personally disappointed that the
government now intends to, I want to go down the road for
some indefinite period of time. I don't know how long that is.
But I'm more disappointed for the relatively few Canadians who
meet the very strict criteria and were hoping and waiting for
the day to die and they'd be able to apply for med for made
and if they were successful, to receive that service.
Adam Curry: It's a service it's a service. And what this was
about was they didn't want to include mental disorders. People
want to die because they are depressed. I mean, that's,
that's like one of the hallmarks of depression. And this guy
wants to kill people over it's It's baffling to me.
John C Dvorak: It was kind of baffling about the whole thing
is that the Canadians have got this MA MA ID deal and I would
find somebody then they put them to I don't know what they do to
him but they die. Yeah. And you know, everybody's happy about
it. In the United States where we have executioner's row you
can't put anyone to death because all you know that this
doesn't work that doesn't work we can't get any more of this
drug. I mean, how can the Canadian so casually put the
normal citizens to death and we can't put anyone criminals How
does that work? Oh,
Adam Curry: I think we both had a clip about that about that
we're gonna suffocate nitrogen yes suffocate some guy.
John C Dvorak: That was the latest one Yeah, I think
adequate because it shows inheritance
Unknown: Alabama is set to execute a criminal with nitrogen
gas tomorrow, a method never used before. The US Supreme
Court just declined to block the state. The man in question
survived a different method of capital punishment two years
ago. I'm
Adam Curry: always surprised like oh don't kill him. That's
cruel. You can't quit but killing babies not as cool
that's all good let's go protest for that. I'm always I'm always
baffled by our attitude towards death in the United States
John C Dvorak: well I met baffled by the Republican and
Democrat schism regarding this the Democrats are okay with
killing babies and but they're not okay with death row. Oh, no,
we can't have the death penalty. Yeah, that's what I'm saying
Republicans are just the opposite they're not killing
killing babies will kill these bastards in jail. So I mean,
it's just like the both sides seem to have like a mitt, you
know, maybe you should switch some views back and forth. I'm
only person I kind of think is not a hypocrite is when it
doesn't want to kill babies or either won't kill everybody.
Yeah,
Adam Curry: if we're gonna kill everybody, I want the primetime
rights. I've said this for many years. Yeah, this is your goal
in life. This will be my exit strategy I want to produce
today.
John C Dvorak: We've got to be you'd be worth billions
billions,
Adam Curry: I'd be able to pay off that $500 bet in a
heartbeat. heartbeat.
John C Dvorak: Never pay out the $5,000 bet that's for sure. I
can do the three by three or we can go to the Iranian Professor
which I could also push off. Well,
Adam Curry: why don't I do two quick fun climate change clips.
And then and then we can do the three by three. How does that
sound? Alright, alright. So the first one is very underreported.
And it is climate change related but the farmers in Europe are on
the move. Everywhere. All countries, they're not
John C Dvorak: very well covered by the all
Unknown: tractors clogged the Luxembourg square and Brussels
Thursday during an EU summit. Their goal deliver their message
of less bureaucracy and better prices. A movement that started
several weeks ago in the south of France has not erupted across
Europe, with farmers not blocking roads in Portugal,
Belgium, Germany. Poland, Romania, Italy and Spain and in
France Dangar has moved from the provinces to Paris. Earlier this
week, farmers blocked major arteries into Paris with their
tractors. And yesterday, almost 80 people were arrested outside
the international food market to dish out the Paris at farmers to
send it on the area and were met by armored vehicles. Their anger
is centered around the need to make more money. They generally
say they need less red tape, less environmental restrictions
and protection from cheap foreign imports. France has
proposed giving livestock farmers 150 million euros per
year to ease their concerns. The EU Commission has responded by
suggesting the limit Ukrainian imports of sugar, poultry and
eggs. This will also ease restrictions on the use of land
left fallow for environmental reasons. But the plans still
need to be approved by the 27 country member bloc in the
European Parliament. By
Adam Curry: the way, not a mainstream clip. You cannot get
a mainstream clip that overviews all of these protests on all of
these roads, no all there's
John C Dvorak: nothing we're not covering it. And it's and
especially with the farmers where they have the armored
tanks and the tractors in one side. It's unbelievable. And
this is going on all over the place. And a lot of it does have
to do with this Ukraine war because they you just heard a
little clip.
Adam Curry: The older Ukraine, car
John C Dvorak: Guile owns Ukraine farms, and so let's move
to move them into Europe. Oh,
Adam Curry: you know what, and I wondered this the last climate
change clip but I got a PDF from one of our producers. And it's,
you know, opened it up here. This is celebrating 10 years in
Ukraine 10th anniversary of bowing in Ukraine a decade of
growth. I did not know this, in January 2014. That's the year of
the Maidan push that's when the United States primarily took
over the entire country. The very first engineers walked into
the brand new Boeing Engineering and Technology Center in Kyiv,
Ukraine a decade later, Kyiv is home to almost 1200 engineers.
Together they support engineering for almost all
Boeing's commercial platforms. Initially, the site start
operations no more than 50 engineers focusing on
engineering products related to the second generation 737 and
the Boeing 757. What are the chances that some of these some
of these things are coming out of Ukraine? And 10 years 10
years of Boeing and Ukraine? Did you know this?
John C Dvorak: No, I didn't until you just said it right
now. I didn't know it.
Unknown: I mean, that's really the cause. Why are
John C Dvorak: we sending them any jets? Why don't they just
make some f 30 fives right there in Ukraine. Boeing,
Adam Curry: they do the seven sevens, the triple seven triple
7x, the 737 that they do the 787 program, as well as payload
designed for 737 and triple seven and the Eco demonstrator,
whatever. The local Boeing team made the courageous decision to
continue their work during the war. Boeing global is providing
unwavering support ensuring the safety. I mean, come on. It's
like that's the last thing you'd expect that Boeing has been
there for. They're celebrating 10 years. We're not being told
anything. This is not news that you're watching people stop it
and get off social media. Of
John C Dvorak: course a day taken bomb the ant and off
plant. Yeah, which makes a better jet and Boeing
Adam Curry: is got more engines. Alright, here's, here's my final
climate change clip is just a, it's a classic because he brings
back some super tropes that we love. It's Christiane Amanpour,
the globalist on CNN International with her fellow
globalist Al Gore.
Unknown: So I just want to ask you, you know, James Hansen, the
NASA expert, who was one of the first on climate warnings, has
warned that, you know, unless there's some massively radical
thing to happen very soon, the magic 1.5 degrees number will,
you know, will be surpassed? And there seems to be a struggle
over the experts over that. Where do you come down on that?
Adam Curry: I like how she talks about the magic 1.5 number.
That's kind of a setup Matt's magic number. Yeah.
John C Dvorak: Which is exactly right. Yeah. Right. Language.
Adam Curry: magic number. Well, I
Unknown: have the deepest respect for Jim Hanson. And also
for his colleagues who have a slightly different view. I agree
on most things, you know, half of Oh, calendar days and 2023
were actually above 1.5. And in November, there were two days
above a two degree Oh, Narcan above the pre industrial
temperature. So yes, we were running out of time to solve
this in time. But and we're running some unacceptably high
risks with large global systems that are important for the
flourishing of humanity that are now
Adam Curry: another left Oh,
Unknown: hey allies. So the sooner the better. The issue
you're referring to is over how sensitive the climate is to more
and more greenhouse gas pollution. And now, ultimately,
they agree on far more than they disagree. They're all saying the
same thing. We got to switch away from fossil fuels as
quickly as possible and stop using the sky as an open sewer.
That's the basic problem. He's back to the sky as an open sewer
or putting 162 million tons up there every day. And the
accumulated amount it stays on average each molecule for about
100 years, and the accumulated amount today, Christiane is
trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 750,000.
Hiroshima class Oppenheimer era, atomic bombs exploding on the
Earth every single day,
Adam Curry: he's expanded into Oppenheimer era. This is
beautiful owl.
Unknown: I love it. Well, he
John C Dvorak: gets a movie reference in Yeah. Oh, yeah. So
for Dummies out there who don't know anything about Hiroshima
via Hiroshima, the old bomb and all the rest of it. We have to
bring in the movie reference so you dummies can understand what
I'm trying to talk about here. Nobody's listening to me.
Adam Curry: 750,000 Hiroshima Oppenheimer era bombs a day. I
want that on a t shirt.
Unknown: It's beautiful. Al Gore, Al Gore.
John C Dvorak: God love them.
Adam Curry: Hey, all we need is a price on carbon. Once we get
that price on carbon, we're good to go.
John C Dvorak: Then everybody can shut up.
Adam Curry: Did I? Did I tell you do we talk about the fact
that the IRS has, has had they've created some rules,
they've stopped a lot of them. But if you have a company, it
could also just be an LLC. If you do something that creates
carbon credits, you can sell those. So you don't have to be
you know, you don't have to be a big corporation. You can be a
small LLC. And you can I'm going to plant some trees that we've
talked about this strategy before. Yeah, I'd like 10 years
ago. Yeah. But but now they've they've they are allowing it
that you can sell your your energy tax credits to any other
company. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: they're trying to list a mechanism
Adam Curry: that they want. I'm sure that they'll have some
exchange. I don't know. But but there's this this is from the
tax guys who are telling me this.
John C Dvorak: And this is all it might be on the bush but that
doesn't mean you can do it.
Adam Curry: Well, it's it says it right there and I'd have to
look it up because it was a couple of shows ago I guess we
didn't talk about it. But yeah, this is part of the inflation
Reduction Act which is you know, you get half of half of anything
that you that you do you get tax credit for. So if you just buy a
car like an Eevee you don't really have to you don't have to
use the Eevee you can write off half of it in tax credits. Don't
even have to drive it it says it
I don't think inflation is going to come down anytime soon. I
think we're in for are they talking about? Oh, we'll be
cutting interest rates. Oh, now it'd be March oh, maybe it may I
don't think it's going to happen at all.
John C Dvorak: I don't think they should be cutting them now.
They should be raising the economy's going the way Biden
claims which is watching Welker on that show oh my god, you
know, the things are so going so well. We got no interest, no
inflation and no unemployment. Everything's the best economy
ever. I don't understand why that people don't see this and
vote for Joe
Adam Curry: I got an angry message about our millennial Gen
Z. Oh, there's so many so many beautiful emails we received
from
John C Dvorak: tons of good mail for the Gen Z's like to write
Yes,
Adam Curry: they are very long and they and some of them love
their job and you know, they they they just grind away and
the things that they were hoping they would
Unknown: they would do love my job and I love what I do.
Adam Curry: The things they were hoping to get into now that you
know they're just doing it as a hobby and they have the bought
homes and they don't live in cities and and they watch Little
House on the Prairie. But, but I got I got this one from this
one. One person who was like it was you know, boots on the
ground how bad the job market actually is. I work construction
had to leave the job. My boss was violently attacked my mother
I got a job as a cashier. My boss ghosted me after I was
hospitalized with like, just horrible story. And so I write
back and I say, Well, you know, that's that's not really much. I
mean, you've had some bad breaks, but it's not like that
doesn't happen to lots of people. and I get the message
back. You and John are a couple of old pussies. You would have
hung yourself a long time ago in my shoes. Okay, well that kind
of ended that conversation.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, you got the wrong guy in dialogue.
Adam Curry: That's right all right let's send everybody now
it's time for a three by three it's been around and by Jesse de
air we are hearing stories from ABC CBS the never ending never
ending three by three which means we have a three by three
and a plus and we're going to see just how program the news is
of course this flows through to your social media. It's all the
clips you see Megyn Kelly will get all upset about it and
remember code bond Gino at checkout
John C Dvorak: store with Mary Bruce at ABC. Oh nice
Unknown: night the powerful retaliation promised unleashing
a major Counter Strike on Iran backed militants in Iraq and
Syria, a direct response to the drone attack that killed three
American soldiers and injured more than 40 on a remote US base
in Jordan, the US saying the airstrikes began at 4pm Hitting
85 targets in seven locations inside Iraq and Syria, including
command and control operation centers and intelligence hubs,
taking out rockets missiles and attack drones belonging to
militia groups. And there are Iranian sponsors who facilitated
attacks against US and coalition forces. The US dropping more
than 125 precision munitions from multiple aircraft,
including b one bombers that flew from the US President Biden
tonight saying this is the first wave of a response that will
continue at times and places of our choosing. And warning the
United States does not seek conflict in the Middle East or
anywhere else in the world. But let all those who might seek to
do us harm. Know this. If you harm an American, we will
respond. Notably, none of today's strikes hit Iran
directly. The President remains concerned not wanting to start a
wider war. Just hours before a powerful reminder of the weight
of these decisions. The President performing one of his
most solemn duties as commander in chief witnessing the
dignified transfer of the three service members killed in
Jordan, one by one their flag draped cases carefully carried
across the tarmac. The President placing his hand over his heart
alongside the First Lady and defense secretary Austen
honoring the Fallen you know
Adam Curry: what gets me about this? It's like if you hurt an
American, we're going to come and get you with our b one
bombers. How about the fentanyl? We all recognize where it comes
from? How about Gonzalo Lyra? Now the guy who would Ukrainians
kills him? It's so disingenuous. Yes. Because
John C Dvorak: you're right. The whole thing is that facade is
bullcrap. And by the way, don't most of these ceremonies when
these when do when they come over a drape and right out of
the thing they have the families are there. They didn't have I
remember the families there because I remembered the time
during it. They didn't have families there. No, it was just
Biden and red flag, the phony Lloyd off the flag and and the
wife. But you remember that because usually the families
that are because I remember that one time there's a bunch of
people that came over and Hillary was the Secretary of
State and, and a woman I think we had a clip of it the woman
who was she said Hillary's so cold it was like it was like
hugging a lizard. You know, she went on and on about it.
Adam Curry: Yes, yes. I remember that. It's
John C Dvorak: like, where's the families? Ah, which brings me I
always even bring that up is because you brought up yes made
whole thing may be AI. I'm only it's I hate to theater.
Adam Curry: I hate to think. And you of course, if there's a
family that that is grieving over their service folk, then
that's horrible. But if they weren't even there, that doesn't
make it. We have we have military people. They'll tell me
what's going on. You know? Isn't the family by definition flown
in for this?
John C Dvorak: I always thought they were I don't know. I mean,
most of the time I've seen this event, which they don't like to
show anymore. They stopped doing it after the Vietnam War. But
they did it this time as a photo op for Biden, obviously. Yeah.
Even though he has such a look on his face. They can't use the
photo op for anything. Just like he's he has a grimace on his
face. Like he doesn't like being there or something. It was very
Adam Curry: Wow, it's
John C Dvorak: very well let's go back to the three by three
and let's move to NBC with Peter Alexander. Oh,
Adam Curry: I hope we have a launch sound.
Unknown: The American retaliatory strikes have begun
US Central Command saying late this evening, US forces began
striking more than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria. Syria using
numerous aircraft including long range bombers flown from the US
the targets Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Quds Force
and affiliated militia groups hitting their command and
control operations centers and intelligence centers, rockets
and missiles and unmanned air vehicle storage among other
sites. President Biden tonight saying our response began today
he will continue at times and places of our choosing, adding
let all those who might seek to do us harm know this, if you
harm an American, we will respond to us strikes common
response to that deadly drone attack by Iranian backed
militias that struck tower 22, a desert outpost in Jordan,
killing three US service members that attack among more than 160
Adam Curry: I'm sorry, I gotta stop this. Have you in any of
these reports or any report? Have you heard the names of
these three service members? Yeah, you have heard the names?
Yeah,
John C Dvorak: yeah, they read the names off on a couple of
shows Okay,
Unknown: killing three US service members that attack
among more than 160 against American targets by Iranian
backed militias since October, President Biden had previously
authorized limited strikes in response that even he
acknowledged had not deterred the militias, and the President
has been under pressure to respond more forcefully,
especially after American service members were killed. All
of it just hours after the commander in chief performed one
of his most solemn duties attending the dignified transfer
at Dover Air Force Base, as the remains of those three US
service members returned home. The President and First Lady
joining the grieving families of 46 year old Sergeant William
rivers, a soldier. They
Adam Curry: say that they draw pictures
John C Dvorak: of them standing I didn't see any family people
but okay if he says so they made me they were
Unknown: the President and First Lady joining the grieving
families of 46 year old Sergeant William rivers, a soldier
soldier, his cousin said 24 year old sergeant Kennedy Sanders,
whose family said she was always full of life and 23 year old
sergeant Brianna Moffitt, her parents remembering how she
could light up a room for us today also launching preemptive
strikes on the Iranian backed Houthis.
Adam Curry: All I see is pictures of them with other
service personnel. People in uniform I don't see necessarily
with families but okay, I mean, I I don't want to harp on it too
much. But
John C Dvorak: either way he also put it if you parsed it, he
could have been that Biden met with the families elsewhere.
They weren't on the tarmac necessarily. If you listen to
the way he presented that Yeah. But whatever that was, Peter
Alexander and now we're gonna move to Nancy Cordis. One of the
top rung of the reporters for CBS, CBS, CBS,
Unknown: Pentagon officials say to
Adam Curry: Oh, come on CBS. Is that a NAT POP they start off
with like a like a little like a little fart for the hour.
John C Dvorak: I think they should. Just did I think they
put the sound in differently but if I'm not mistaken, most of
these reports always showed the B one bomber taking off. Which
is quite a pretty sight. I mean, the B one bombers just a
beautiful pass no
Adam Curry: ands and off. Pentagon officials
Unknown: to b one bombers were among the military aircraft used
to strike more than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria to the targets
included command and control centers, weapons depots and
drone storage facilities, all of them linked to Iran's
Revolutionary Guard and affiliated militia groups or
their affiliates. The strikes were approved by the President
and launched just a few hours after he welcomed to the bodies
of three fallen service members back to US soil three
Adam Curry: welcomed welcome that this is this is disgusting.
Welcome back boys. Girl boys Welcome back. Come on. He
Unknown: were stationed in Georgia usage is dubious its
dubious by the President and launched just a few hours after
he is welcomed into the bodies of three fallen service members
back to US soil. All three were stationed in Jordan at a US
outpost known as tower 22 That came under fire last Sunday. I
Adam Curry: can tell you right now there's going to be a movie
titled tower 22 It will be Amazon Prime or Netflix
Unknown: the basis Well, you
John C Dvorak: know that the title is self that's there.
Yeah. For the taking up too good title
Unknown: bases air defense system had been temporarily
taken offline to allow a US drone to return from a mission
safely. An Iranian made drone
Adam Curry: this this is the lie. This is the lie. With no it
came
Unknown: under fire last Sunday. The basis air defense system had
been temporarily taken offline to allow a US drone to return
from a mission safely. Okay, so
Adam Curry: I just want to know what was this a helicopter drone
like Now a little bit more. And why did you have to take your
air defense systems offline? This is very this is very,
John C Dvorak: very I'm with you. 100% Okay, and I said it
again I'll take 100 with you 99.9% and
Unknown: Iranian made us go drone struck sleeping quarters
at the base, wounding 40 and killing Army Reserves soldiers
will reverse. Brianna Moffat and Kennedy Sanders. We know that
you can definitely feel our pain President Biden called their
anguished families this week. No, I really do now. I got a
phone call.
Adam Curry: This is Oh my god. This is not this is not how you
do this. You don't air the phone calls. Oh, let's do a zoom call
and let's release it to CBS.
John C Dvorak: And it's a good point never surprise it cause it
should don't wouldn't go on the air that is staged wrong.
Unknown: US officials blamed the attack on the Islamic resistance
in Iraq and umbrella group of Iran backed militias. I don't
think
the adversaries are a one and done mindset. And so they have a
lot of capability. I have a lot more wary
of setting off a wider war the US has avoided striking Iran
directly despite at least 165 attacks on US forces in Iraq and
Syria since the Israel Hamas conflict began last October.
Iran's President warned today we will not start a war but if a
cruel Force wants to bully us the Islamic Republic of Iran
will give a strong response
Adam Curry: this is some rocky level crap there Pullman here is
dumb. I can't believe that I'm I'm ashamed. I'm ashamed. The
shame I'm ashamed. Ashamed of this. Ashamed of what they're
doing ashamed of the reporting? A shame that people watch it a
shame there's money in this. Bring back Taylor Swift. That's
right
John C Dvorak: here we go with the CBC. This is like the bonus
clip. And this is Chris. Oh, we didn't do CBS yet. Now that was
CBS. That was yes. With a bad net pop. Yeah. Okay. Let's go to
CBC and wrap this thing up at 4pm.
Unknown: Eastern Time, US military forces struck more than
85 targets in Iraq and Syria. The strikes were against Iranian
Revolutionary Guard targets and other Iranian backed militia.
The facilities that were struck included command and control
operation centers, intelligence centers, rockets and missiles
and unmanned aerial vehicle storages and logistics and
munition supply chain facilities. Syrian state media
says the strikes hit near the border between the two countries
and several people are dead used in the attack. And again, this
is from US Central Command aircraft, including long range
bombers flown from the US, as well as 125 smart weapons
capable of precise target hits. US President Joe Biden said then
Paul, that the US will respond. And today the President is in
his home in Delaware after spending the afternoon at Dover
Air Force Base at a ceremony for those fallen soldiers. Well,
speaking of Biden, then any word on this from the White House.
The President just issued a statement, Paul shortly after
the strikes, he said in part and let me just read it to you
exactly as it is written this afternoon at my direction US
military forces struck targets at facilities in Iraq and Syria
that the IRGC and affiliated militia used to attack us
forces. Our response began today, it will continue at times
and places of our choosing the United States is not seek
conflict in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world. But
let all those who might seek to do us harm know this. If you
harm an American, we will respond. Defense Secretary Lloyd
Austin added to that in his own statement, Paul, he said the
President and I will not tolerate attacks on American
forces we will take all necessary actions to defend the
United States our forces and our interest
John C Dvorak: which again brings up your point about what
about that journalist guy character that's been detained
in Ukraine? Oh,
Adam Curry: he was killed he was he died in prison.
John C Dvorak: I know he died yeah. Oh, yeah. This
Adam Curry: is a weeks ago. Yeah.
John C Dvorak: So then okay, so they don't care what we do about
that? Nothing we okay. Now
Adam Curry: we don't care. No, but but we know we have to do we
have to spend months and months and months crying about what's
that guy, the journalist The Washington Post journalist.
Khashoggi
John C Dvorak: show shogi. Wasn't even an American. Then
Adam Curry: we didn't go over and blow up. Voice in America.
Well, that's why we didn't go blow up. So Saudi Arabia
John C Dvorak: well there's probably other reasons we didn't
blow up Saudi I'm just
Adam Curry: gonna say this is all this is all theater am and I
don't know the I'm still reeling over the fact that Israel
somehow let guys come over with motor gliders and then defense
was open the military industrial complex writ large is out of
control and they don't care
John C Dvorak: I think the don't care part is like I think they
do care and they and I think your earlier thesis or I'm sorry
hypothesis hypothesis
Adam Curry: yes was
John C Dvorak: about once they know once Trump gets in this is
the game might be spin spin spin as have some finalist rack up
the money, fatten up the bank account set up a Swiss account
list is ready to party. When Trump comes in with all
overtime. It's
Adam Curry: all ending people. It's all ending. With that,
thank you for your courage in the morning to you the man who
put the seat in the cutting bloat. Ladies and gentlemen say
hello to my friend on the other end one only Mr. Johnson.
John C Dvorak: Mr. Neal, Mr. Adam curry also in the Maryknoll
ships as he boots on the ground, feet in the air, drops in the
water. And all the days and nights out there and
Adam Curry: in the morning to the trolls in the troll room
listening online. They are our live studio audience. I'd like
you all to start don't choke out. You can't get them to sit
still not for a second like Cabbage Patch Kids. 2123 today?
Short, short. Yes, you shouldn't make fun of their physical
appearance. This show. They're all very short words for you.
What is it? What was the word? I missed it?
John C Dvorak: Said midget midget kiss a midget
Adam Curry: can't You can't say midget anymore.
John C Dvorak: No, you couldn't. You can't be able to say midget
you have to say little unless you're my age. For the last 25
years.
Adam Curry: They are short trolls. Indeed. Well, those
trolls are listening at no agenda stream.com We're probably
logged in at troll room.io. But we have a chat room you can
listen live, you can listen to all kinds of dynamite
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it really is a beautiful community that we have there.
And you can also always listen to those in the modern podcast
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I'll promote fountain fountain if they have a new version of
the grief, you gave me grief, you accuse me of taking money on
the sly from the open source
John C Dvorak: will you pay that 500 bucks off, I get it now.
Adam Curry: Hopefully I'll get 500 bucks from from Oscar Mary
over there at fountain where he and his brother literally work
on that together. But they have a new version out. And it's very
fast. And it has quick alerts. And the cool thing about all of
these apps, which you can find at modern podcast apps.com is as
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clearly could not get any advertising ragging on the Big
Pharma and medical industrial complex, as as early as episode
343. So we decided you know what, we'll just have everybody
support us and it caught on and people have been supporting us
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while people were putting on USB sticks. And everyone got afraid
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people like hey, you should put it on x. Why don't you put it on
x? I don't care. All we want is we want more people to hear more
people be able to access it and send us some some value back.
When you feel it's appropriate time talent or treasure. We
accept all of it. The time and the talent is comes in so many
different ways people organizing meetups, actually we had had
dinner last night with producer Ashley and her husband Ben they
were coming through Fredericksburg for her 40th
anniversary they had organized I think one of the first
Minneapolis meetups in the middle of winter and had 30
people show up and we're just blown away by by the community
that is comprised of the no agenda slaves and producers. We
also love it when you send us treasure that does keep the
lights on everywhere and we Want to start by thanking our
executive and Associate Executive Producer? Oh, wait.
Before we do that, let's thank our artists almost passed over
it. We need to thank the artists who brought us the artwork
because this is a big piece of time and talent. We have
multiple pieces to choose from every single show and we want to
thank networks. I said 40th and Tina's texting me that I'd not
say 40th birthday, as I say 50th or a 100th birthday. They make
her older than she is.
John C Dvorak: Plus she got a back channel going on with
teenager keep me keep me honest.
Adam Curry: Yeah, of course. Hello. She's a producer. She She
does a lot for the show stuff. You'd only be
John C Dvorak: very happy but that $500 rub it in. She's like,
Adam Curry: I know. Yeah, I know. I believe me. Trust me. I
know what's gonna happen there. I said 40th anniversary is her
40th birthday. Yeah, I got a back channel. She's the best man
should be happy. Where's your back channel with your family?
Are they listening?
John C Dvorak: Nobody cares.
Adam Curry: Networks brought us the artwork for episode 1630
That was titled potty mouth parrots. Which is a title you
were just dying to get out there. And there were a number
of candidates I have to go look at the submitted art the one we
chose to buy networks was Zuckerberg with blood on his
hands with a go bag that had a little transistor radio and a
toothbrush in there. And it would miss that. Oh, you didn't
see the transistor radio on the toothbrush? They were behind me
I looking
John C Dvorak: at it now. I see. It's obvious and I didn't get
the cane. No, it was the cane.
Adam Curry: I think it's the monopoly guy isn't it?
John C Dvorak: All right, right right that's exactly what it is.
The guy should have the top hat the whole thing perfect. Yeah, I
missed that too. That this this this work? Yes works piece was
dynamite. Yes. The
Adam Curry: more you look at it, it's like the Mona Lisa. You
know the more the longer you look at it the more you see it's
just beautiful it's a perfect piece
John C Dvorak: but you did like the piece next to it yes
Francisco
Adam Curry: Scott a manga had a go bag submerged in the water
with fish I just like the go bag idea so I was okay with I think
the the network's go bag was funnier
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I didn't get to fish in the wells because
all fish
Adam Curry: because you were you were complaining about about
flooding. It was your go bag because you are flooding sweet
cheeks submitted a that looks like a kind of designer go bag
which I wasn't quite sure that's not a Louis Vuitton looks like a
Gucci maybe I'm not sure it does Louie to tell it to me. I think
it's Gucci that that design is not left and that's Louie number
of people said in Taylor Swift small Taylor Swift which now
probably not going to do Taylor Swift
John C Dvorak: though is verboten? Don't do Taylor Swift
Adam Curry: there were two swearing parrots which didn't
quite didn't quite hit it a little sigh up on the prairie
funny but not great execution. I kind of liked Dame Kenny Ben's
false flag there's just cute but Unix that and it was anything
else we liked it was that it
John C Dvorak: anything to false flagged indicated much of
anything? No it's just uh just you know this this works piece
was hard to beat.
Adam Curry: Yeah, it was good. We appreciate the work of all of
our artists of course. That's a great example of time and talent
being put in they're doing it live you can look at it at no
agenda art generator.com. Another perfect example of time
and talents are Paul couture who puts that together for us and
keeps that running and this upgrade is just phenomenal. It's
so beautiful the way everything's set and the artists
have beautiful profile pages now with more information than ever
so this is the only way that podcast really can survive is by
support from the people who listen we do not call listeners
we call you producers and you have an obligation to produce it
can be it can be boots on the ground. It can be a jingle we
have lots of those we got some ton of good news jingles as
requested artwork, you name it. There's lots of ways you can
participate discord hit somebody in the mouth or send us some
treasure. We definitely need that and we want to thank our
executive and Associate Executive producers and we kick
it off with this is from the owl the Albany meet up this is the
get John out of the house meet up and the credit for this. I
guess they had some mechanism you'll have to tell us goes to
Eric. Eric tune, tune t o n 528 33. It's amazing how they
got the magic number in there. Now was this. Do you know
anything about this? But what up about how this mechanism, how
did
John C Dvorak: Eric, the guy who does the meetups, in who did the
meetup became decided that he's going to collect all the money
that he can? Person to person? Okay, and accumulate, but
there's others that send it give me a proper form, which is a
check here or something in an envelope of the note.
Adam Curry: And are they listed on the in this?
John C Dvorak: Yeah, they're in there. Oh, good. It's only a
couple of them. Oh, good. Because this, most of it came
through to the
Adam Curry: third. I want to give us a quick little update on
the meetup. It was about 45
John C Dvorak: people. Wow. To me, that's good. Is a big meet
up and was my head on a stick? No, your head was not on a
stick. Nor was mine. And I think that that's slowly fading into
the past. And that idea, and everyone was it was a wide
variety of people, including a poet from Berkeley, they'd we've
read one of her poems once a truck driver, who's drives
logging trucks. Nice. Who's and he says, Yeah, everybody, if
you're a trucker, you'd listen to podcasts. Yes, which is what
you do. I know. We had a guy who invented some new form a new
form using memes of a man has had some memes
Unknown: or memes. Memes. memes. Memes
John C Dvorak: mem m e m s, look it up. microelectronic Magneto
something. Is this a small moveable meme? It's it's going
to be the next big thing would and it always will be the next
big thing it always
Adam Curry: will be. He's invented that did he happen to
invent
John C Dvorak: he took memes and made a speech? Micro scopic
speaker that day if you put in an ear bug, but since it has it
has no there's no latency with the sound. It's crystal clear.
It's a fabulous is going to be if they get it out
Adam Curry: the door how many members brought it how many
memes that he have in this thing? As his one
John C Dvorak: man per side?
Unknown: So two memes. Yeah, two memes. Nice.
John C Dvorak: Okay, and he was there with his fiancee. Who was
so she was adamant about to Taylor Swift Kelsey, phony
baloney relationship and she was going to kill somebody about it.
Adam Curry: This is why Kelsey
John C Dvorak: only dated black girls. What's she doing with
this white woman?
Adam Curry: I heard he was gay. That was the latest. I know
she's
John C Dvorak: supposed to be gay. Taylor. Taylor Swift
supposed to be a lesbian? Nah, that's the latest.
Adam Curry: Oh, no. And here we are participating in the by the
way.
John C Dvorak: Yes, we are. And by the way, just download some
of those photos. She's obviously a lesbian. You can tell me what
she's up to. It's in the photos.
Adam Curry: There'll be a newsletter will in the
newsletter for next week. Sign up to the newsletter, people
sign up to the newsletter.
John C Dvorak: So that was just generally a good group. And they
had there was a lot of variety of people as usual. That was
attending, but I'm gonna keep an eye on these memes. Yeah, memes,
guys. Most guys memes. All
Adam Curry: right memes on that meme my exit strategy.
Unknown: So all these things? Yeah.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, yeah. It was just a good meetup. All
right. J i j showed up with the Brennan and
Unknown: Hey, when are they getting married? April, did you
get your invite?
Adam Curry: Yeah, but I saw that. Are they registered
somewhere? Because we got to send them a gift. I'm thinking
of sending them $500.
John C Dvorak: Can't afford it.
Adam Curry: All right. All right. Let's move on with our
next executive producer.
John C Dvorak: Well, Nexus SD GE in Oakland, California came up
with three and 50 laws if it made sense. And he just wants
karma. Or she could be she's s d G. That person wants karma with
a twist of Rev. L.
Unknown: You've got karma newsreader
John C Dvorak: $50.58
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John C Dvorak: And Christopher Lowery, which similar from St.
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John C Dvorak: do I don't know what my ring size is. I'm a
smokin hot girlfriend told me hers. I think I get that hint,
though she's getting the ring love you guys come at all
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Unknown: you've got karma
Adam Curry: taking some orders here that I see for the round
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Some? Of course, some of our favorite jingles. Trump going to
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a well known combo and a rev al crown hog day. And I don't
that's not an ISO per se. I think is it maybe it's series?
Yeah, I think maybe it's at the beginning of teleprompter I'll
see if I can get it a teleprompter I'm
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Adam Curry: All right, that's easy. Hey, sir Julian from page
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John C Dvorak: He's in page Texas growing in this Yeah,
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Adam Curry: Hey Sir Julian hit me up I want to put it on value
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of cool stuff with that thank you sir Julian Hey, look who's
back with an Associate Executive Producer ship as Sir era Darien
Yeah. There he is from trabuco Canyon, California. 250. He says
thank you. Well, thank you.
John C Dvorak: Thank you.
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John C Dvorak: Sir to is done Roman numeral two hope this
Adam Curry: clears most ciclismo I think so
John C Dvorak: does ciclismo in Rio Verde, Arizona, I believe so
250 bucks thanks for all you do, sir to Pope D I'm thinking is
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John C Dvorak: eel maybe I think
Adam Curry: it is. Carla heights ma isn't zaev older in the
Netherlands that's not anywhere near Oh da but she does give us
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John C Dvorak: sir Eric the grease monkey in Concord
Virginia tu tu tu tu tu tu as a road ducks. They get very
encouraged no jingles no karma. Sorry, the grease monkey and
Adam Curry: with a nice row of ducks to 22 dot 22. We have Matt
Lee, who sent us a note with a picture of his odometer which
shows 22,222 miles. John and Adam I stopped by the grocery
store a few days ago as I placed my truck into Park I was hit in
the mouth by my odometer. Thanks, guys. No jingles? No
karma. He says. I'll leave it up to you no need to read my note.
It isn't terribly interesting. No, it was nice. I liked that.
It's always fun to see. See what people donate for Paul
John C Dvorak: Schneider 204 ad and I made it a birthday list
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Unknown: jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs or jobs.
Adam Curry: And Sir rich Meister is in Mountain View, California.
Popey still has a gig there. It's been weird in Mountain
View. 200 ollars. Also, he
John C Dvorak: was at the meetup. Oh, he was $200. And
yeah, he left a note that just says Hey,
Unknown: thanks
Adam Curry: for the memories. I'm gonna give them a single
single karma then for that. You've got karma. And that
concludes
John C Dvorak: No, there's actually one more. I have to
read the next one. Oh, I
Adam Curry: see it. I see it. Yes, because it's $230.23 in
Canadian dollar at sir Spencer Sumner. And Sherwood Park,
Alberta, Canada Navia. And of course, we respect to the
Canadian dollar reduce and this will be a title change should
the PeerJ committee approved from Sir Spencer Baronet, to
serve Spencer Sumner via account of Alberta? I'm sure that's
okay. I'm not I do not hear any
John C Dvorak: objection to any objection. There is no other
vibe count of Alberta with
Adam Curry: deference to Sir Robert Gosh, go by Count of
Sherwood Park and struck Kona county who has already laid
claim to where my family and I call him okay, so you're good.
It has been nearly 10 years since I first donated to the
show.
John C Dvorak: And oh, by the way, I should mention you could
jump in become a Duke. That's right. Take over the whole
province,
Adam Curry: right and then and then making your slave it's been
nearly 10 years your serve 10 years since I first donated to
the show and over 15 years since I started listening as I began
listening in high school and turned 30 late last year no
agenda, man now and no agenda has been with me for over half
of my life. I don't know I don't know how I
John C Dvorak: feel about it. Best case for something.
Adam Curry: Doesn't feel good to me. Somehow. My keeper, my
keeper Patricia and I welcomed her first human resource. James
last fall. I'm grateful. What are you drinking? Topo Chico,
from you know, I thought it was from Texas but it's not from
Mexico. It's from Mexico.
John C Dvorak: Yeah. I was from Texas used to this
Adam Curry: what they drink and test what we drink in Texas.
Yes. Yeah. My keeper patrician i Welcome to first human resource
James last fall. I'm grateful for you living to be living in a
non spawn upstate, and to be raising our son with the same
outlook and values I'm sure you will be a fine human resource.
The show continues to have a profound impact on my life and
by extension the lives of my wife and son. Thank you for all
you do. Sir Spencer Sherwood Park, Alberta and we will have
your title change coming up shortly along with a night to
Dame we've got some meet up reports. And again, thanks to
all the executive and Associate Executive producers who came in
for us on this episode 1631. We thank everybody who donates all
you have to do is send some back if everybody says and some back
these donation notes, these segments will be short. That's
not how it works, not how it's ever worked in 16 years, but our
gratitude remains the same and John will take us through the
notes, which include all the way up to $50. Yeah, let's
John C Dvorak: start with Colleen Cahill from San
Francisco when 3333 got a birthday coming up for a
wonderful fiance Michael. Bryan Warner bow Creek, Michigan,
105 35 Baron lattic in Houston, Texas. 100 John Robert A 100
Daniel Schuler in Caledonia, New York. 100. Eric Ecuador in
Richmond, Virginia. 100. Angela Garcia, she was at the meetup
$100. She had Oh, she should be on here. She needs a D douching.
Unknown: D de deuced.
John C Dvorak: She also mentioned it was a Rogan
donation,
Unknown: oh Rogan donation.
John C Dvorak: So Angela Garcia was interesting. She has one of
those. I don't know I didn't ever ask her. I usually ask
people what they do. I forgot to ask her. She has a showbusiness
face. I don't know how to put it the other way. She has
exaggerated features that belong to the head age of a big head.
She her heads is busy, not too big as yours but it's just the
right size for showbusiness head.
Adam Curry: What are you talking about? She
John C Dvorak: has she needs to go into show business. Okay, she
gets she get picked all the time left and right. She's
distinctive looking. Looks like it looks like she looks like an
actress.
Adam Curry: I'm thinking the Bachelorette.
John C Dvorak: Maybe Anonymous is a hard that's a hard gauge.
Just go into cattle call you better off anonymous $100. See
attached note to I don't have it. Let's take a look and see if
there's anything on there for us. Yes.
Adam Curry: Hold on. He says anonymous as you should mention
the PIO box on the show more often. I'm sure there's a lot of
paranoid listeners who want to donate but don't want anyone to
know. Or leave a digital trail. While it's on no agenda.
donations.com
John C Dvorak: Yes, and also on devora.org/and A Yeah. And I put
it in the newsletter. Yeah, but I'll mention it. Box 339 l
Ciriaco. 94530. And you can run that back if you need to.
Richard Hufford in Tempe Arizona. 9999 Paul Eaton in
Albuquerque, New Mexico 99 David Cox in Dallas, Texas 808 I need
a deed douching
Unknown: bad deed deuced
John C Dvorak: Kevin McLaughlin comes in with 808 is the
Archduke of Luna he says ladies remember at 45 You should
consider an annual mammogram screening screening. Christian
Hold
Adam Curry: on, hold on. I want to say something about that. The
new thing is thermogram that's the new thing. The ladies are
getting a thermogram
John C Dvorak: so thermogram Yeah, so
Adam Curry: instead of the mammogram is really it's a very
horrible process. The thermogram is they they they use a sensor
to see if you're heating up it's a different process a different
type of sensor.
John C Dvorak: Christian Christian Christian, grey light
leash Grealish in Lakeland, Ohio 808 Sir her blam a Sugar Hill
Adam Curry: Georgia him again
John C Dvorak: yeah 808 saw the bad signal had to donate. Sir
Christopher Patrick Hill and Parkerville Washington, Western
Australia I'm sorry Western Australia 808 And that came in
from Australia via stripe. We now have stripe nice that you
can donate via and it makes it so go to no agenda donations.com
has a little link there so we had nothing but trouble like New
Zealand you couldn't donate to the show. That's right.
Alexander except for sending a check and they don't even know
what a check is there. Alexander saw that saw that as shower
solid showers like solace our tell us our in Shaker Heights,
Ohio 75 Daniel Carroll Laughlin, Nevada 7227 Sure becoming heroic
in sharer Ville, Indiana 6886, jiggly boobs so when he's trying
to get make that take hold Christie Jensen Meanwhile, in
Huntington Beach, California 66101. And she's trying to make
this take hold which is 6611 dangling balls and double Dix
Adam Curry: for the lay Ladies
John C Dvorak: Okay ladies out there that goes anywhere on
doubters Christie Christie Cameron lean in North Branch
Minnesota 6131 Sir Lady Boy in Mount Laurel Township, New
Jersey 606.
Adam Curry: Formerly known as Bobby brindle horse. Yeah, with
an eye Bobby with an eye.
John C Dvorak: Tim Kyzyl Hazel is 5809 another donation from a
crowd thanks
Adam Curry: Pay Pal. 5790
John C Dvorak: low pay pal. Don't understand why the that's
gotta be a refund or something. No, they
Adam Curry: just Gerald, they're listening over there. It's like
hey, these guys are using this this send something to them.
John C Dvorak: Okay now in Peru, Indiana. We have a guy named
Gerald Przewalski I'm guessing presume
Adam Curry: ski.
John C Dvorak: If you'd ever know pretty blue ski, but that
he's there in Peru, Indiana with $57 and he says he literally
giving us plasma for this program at $11.11 a month. Wow.
Adam Curry: He wants to do do you've been
John C Dvorak: donating Joseph with SOS in Spokane, Washington.
Adam Curry: That's time talent and treasure island was yeah
John C Dvorak: and plasma. Brian Furley 5510 and Alex recommend
and peck, Michigan 5510 Sir Tom Dorian DeForest, Wisconsin 5510
Douglas pilgrim in Hingham, Massachusetts. 55. Sir jump jump
in Elkton, Florida. 55 Get rid of the puppy lid Lydia Terry and
Clifton Park, New York 53. so touchy plus, in Bozeman, Montana
5272. John Ferretti. 5272. Angela Pickering and sour like
Texas, sour Lake Texas 3272. Bill Johnson and Grovetown ga
5272 What's karma for a mama give you that the end? This is
cheaper than therapy. Now we finally got to the $50 donors.
Charles Peterson and Alburquerque Jamie Sharon Mehta
and Napa knock. Jacob Martinez in El Monte California. Kurt
Patrick in 19 Amo BC Lin Melanau ski in Stafford, Virginia foster
Burch in New York, New York. Susan krijgt niche in Columbia
Heights, Minnesota and Simon Xiong in Lawrenceville, Georgia,
Ralph Johnson and Lake Isabella, California Brian Watson in
Raleigh, North Carolina Sir Brian Watson that is in Walker
Phillips in San Rafael, California. Brett Farrell in
Oklahoma City Ieg, Kanagawa in San Francisco Sir Mix in Fort
St. John BC and I JB, why, Kevlar in Amsterdam, and he says
I'm probably the biggest douchebag ever apologies been
with others as the daily source code, please de douchey.
Unknown: You've been de deuced and
John C Dvorak: that is our group of donators for the show 1631
Which helped boost it from its doldrums that it was going in
with and want to thank all these people and thank the sad puppy
Adam Curry: I met the wind is really howling there on your end
is crazy.
John C Dvorak: 50 mile an hour wind blast in the house.
Adam Curry: Yeah. Is that is the house literally moving on its
foundation is the tree next to the window is Oh, that's what
that screeching sound is Oh, okay. Well, thank you all very
much. And of course, we want to thank everyone who come came in
under $50. That is for reasons of anonymity, people do 4999 And
all the way down to the lot of $4. Still, that's from the early
days. And thank you to some of these people who showed up
again, and for people who said hey, it was time for deducing
it's been a long time. That's very much appreciated. That's
how it should work. That is how value value operates and we love
you for it. And of course, we have a Karma here for the people
who requested it. You've got karma for a mom out there and
thanks again to our executive and Associate Executive
producers for episode 1631 formula is this. We go out we
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Colleen Cahill wishes her fiance Michael a happy birthday he
turned 33 Two days ago on the set And Franny says Happy
Birthday to her husband. Kemosabe 55 years old today Paul
Schneider celebrates today as well Jeff Mauro will be
celebrating on the sixth and Sir Maddie of Central Oregon wishes
his dad Fred Couzens a very happy birthday as to we and
we're praying for healing there Fred, thank you all so much and
happy birthday on behalf of everybody here in the best
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John C Dvorak: One day one night sword. That's the
Adam Curry: one I've seen it before. Up on the podium please
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Yes, the no agenda meetups, this is where you can hang out with
your community. As we've said before, there is no spelling
community without unity. If you want connection, which is
protection you have to go to a no agenda meet up and this is
exactly what happened in Rogersville Alabama.
Unknown: This is that Dame stitchy woman from Rogersville
Alabama at the first Rogersville meet up at Menzies and I am here
with Hey, this is sweet cheeks from Clarksville, Tennessee.
Peggy from Pulaski, Tennessee
and Susan from Muscle Shoals Alabama in the morning Hey
Adam Curry: man, there's chicks over there. There'll be another
one I'm sure go get up you want some unity it's in that
community and Rogersville Alabama and of course we have a
meet up report from the get JCD out of the house meet up hey
this is Evan behind the lines with genocide John happy to be
here in
Unknown: the morning sir recalcitrant crazy Steve the
second we're here at get John out of the house meet up and I
just saw Lloyd Austin in the corner of the bar
with some pigs and human clothing A is is suited to be
searching and destroy and we
got John out of the house.
This is Joey see and I want to say to everybody here let's give
John a big
John C Dvorak: everyone's drinking polar seltzer
Unknown: in the morning,
thank you John and Adam. We love you guys.
Adam Curry: Wow, you were cutting it up there you got ever
you and everyone on you're just laughing about what you're
drinking. As you're just there was so it was staged the comedic
stylings of Jhansi DeVore I can meet up report beautiful, only
one meet up to mention until the next show, which will be on
Thursday on Tuesday, the sixth of February. The Naperville
freethinkers. Society meets at six o'clock at Quigley's Irish
Pub in Naperville, Illinois on the horizon on the 10th is the
big no agenda Austin meet up at Doc's backyard Sunset Valley is
what we call that you can find out more about it no agenda
meetups calm the 17 Fort Wayne. We have Tallahassee Florida Toms
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Kentucky, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Singapore on the 22nd
Kilkenny Ireland on March the second there's so much coming
up. We are truly international that's what the no agenda.
Nation is is an international community. You definitely want
to go to one of these man you need to cut the branches on that
tree?
John C Dvorak: Yeah, is that I'm noticing is that a crazy? Yeah.
I'm gonna have to get an arborist out here because when
we have these southern winds is a very rare condition. It blows
the tree into the Yes to
Adam Curry: get an arborist exactly. I
John C Dvorak: need an arborist it's a tree dude.
Adam Curry: It's out here we call that bird dog with a
chainsaw. If you'd like to learn more about the knowledge and and
meetups you can go to no agenda meetups.com easy to search easy
to find places near you if you can't find a meet up near you
just like the people in Rogersville start one yourself.
Unknown: Sometimes you want to go hang out with Dyson days
you'd be triggered.
You want to be where everybody feels the same.
Adam Curry: is like is like a pot and
John C Dvorak: I gotta go says this tree has blown around here
is an oak in very old oak. And it's very dense is a very dense
oak. And it's delicious.
Adam Curry: It's delicious. Have you tasted the oak, but I
John C Dvorak: use it for barbecues.
Adam Curry: Oh you go now don't you have to it's a living oak
though don't you have to dry it it
John C Dvorak: doesn't take very long you cut to take the
trimmings if it's trimmings it takes about six months is a big
chunk. Yeah, maybe I bought a pile of wood for
Unknown: ones
Adam Curry: last time you you cooked out
John C Dvorak: last Friday.
Unknown: What did you make?
John C Dvorak: I made a I made him do I made fillet. Now wasn't
the filets I can't remember I made either chicken or no I had
Korean style those you know when the Koreans make these this very
thin sliced meat that you can cook and yeah, just instantly.
That's what I made. Very good. It's like the shabu shabu meet
shabu BBQ it
Adam Curry: Alright, I'm gonna hit you with my ISOs they're not
all great. The two by Rachel Maddow.
Unknown: Yeah, write them in one army. Okay.
Adam Curry: I think that's a nonstarter another one by her
government schmuck government I have I want to be a globalist
How do I get in and
Unknown: things no you
John C Dvorak: talk to over that my play that again lay the first
one again.
Adam Curry: What the one the globalist know the Rachel Maddow
John C Dvorak: one
Adam Curry: oh you'd like that one?
Unknown: Yeah write them in what army them and
John C Dvorak: what aren't I don't like you because I
couldn't I which one would you play again? Because I couldn't
understand what she said. She says yeah right blah blah blah
blah Yeah,
Adam Curry: them and avoid army and then the other one was
Unknown: government government.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, what's that gonna do with the
Adam Curry: show? Nothing. It's nothing it's lame. Go What are
your joint what do you what are your eyes?
John C Dvorak: I don't have much better but I have better than
that. See what we got here.
Adam Curry: It looks like you're recycling.
John C Dvorak: Not necessarily okay. I got we great. I
Adam Curry: tell you what, we're great. Okay, we're also very
modest Yes.
John C Dvorak: Wow, good job. Wow, good job.
Adam Curry: I like that one a
John C Dvorak: lot. And then wow, wow, wow. Wow. No,
Adam Curry: I like Wow, good job. Okay. Because that you
know, that'll that'll make me feel like we did a good job.
Wow, good job. Yes. Good. I like that a lot.
It is. Good news, everybody. Jon's got good news. But he was
not able to keep it to one minute so this better be really
good news. To
John C Dvorak: 135 is still under two. Yeah, you were trying
to keep I had to leave this stuff and I could have edited
down a little bit. I took some spaces out but it was too good
of a report. I believe this came from Virginia. This is good
news. That girl and the chickens. A
Unknown: little girl in Blacksburg is looking to add old
hens that farmers no longer want or need. Since they no longer
lay eggs to her aging flock.
That's a news photo journalist Greg Moore shows us the passion
behind her unique rescue project.
So I've got these squishy apples for the chickens. They love
almost any food we have for chickens. Hi girls. is Fiona Hi
investigator. And then the other white one over here is feather
foot. And that's a brownie in there. A lot of people think of
chickens as egg or meat dispensers. I see them as
animals or personalities. This is feather foot. I want to adopt
more Supre fluffy, cheeky and investigator even
when she was itty bitty she was out there playing with the
chickens on TV. She could barely even talk at the time, but she
was hurting chickens. It was pretty cute.
They're really nice to just hang out with. So sometimes I like to
take my schoolwork out there and do it with them.
She says that she wants to start her own chicken sanctuary.
Nikita, yummy your chicken rescue center. So that's one of
her dreams.
If you have a dog or cat that you do you really love and you
get lots of snuggles and treats and toys. I do sort of the same
thing for my chickens. I like to hold them and snuggle with them.
Oh, how adorable. Yeah, I mean, chickens with personalities for
pets. Don't think of that.
Adam Curry: That's what America is about. Ladies and gentlemen.
That's what I'm talking about. Local good news covers that just
makes you feel good about the world. You know what I'm saying?
You know what I'm saying, John, come on. That visuals are even
better than that. props were fantastic. I mean, that's what
you don't want to hear launching missiles. You want to hear
chickens. You want to hear little babies going. Hey, girls,
that's beautiful news. Good news. Good news. Good news. Good
news. Yeah, very good news. And I appreciate the new jingles
everybody. That's super good news. We have a whole Skala of
good news jingles to choose from right now. It's very, very good.
We have some end of show mixes coming up. We got rxo We got Tom
Starkweather we got some classics. Classics on the way
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John C Dvorak: did from Northern Silicon Valley where Yeah, it's
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John C Dvorak: Oh my god right 3456
Unknown: Nothing on my face was saying that's what she was
saying. I don't follow mandates. I just looked the other way.
At least that's what she that's what she was saying. Can't
breathe I can't start like I got this freedom in my mind saying
without a fight because the government say Say Say Say say
gay gay gay gay gay. Takes a sick kid. And the camera's gonna
hate he also break gray gray gray gray
please and if I do is allergies
guess what they don't see
something is overloading is overflow make the rules up as
they go up as they go and they think that we don't know. They
think that we don't know but I keep breathing like God got this
greed in my mind saying not without a fight because the
governmental say Say Say Say say gay gay Gay, gay, gay. Get the
camera is gonna take a break break gray gray gray thank you
hey, just think what you've been getting down and out about the
media and the dirty dirty elites of the world. You could have
been getting out to the streets my best friend brought his new
girlfriend she's like oh my god please put on a mask to the lady
over there with the crazy add stairs just called Baby Give me
a break break break say Say Say Say say gay gay gay gay gay
gay he also great great, great, great great thank you to get off
rising intonation
someone makes a statement but it sounds like non renormalizing
escalation syndrome PIAA Pfizer You got any extra shots? sleeves
up in a COVID mRNA taftan
oh, we're having so much. You have to do this again for my
second shot.
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