Unknown: US. Adam curry. John C Dvorak, it's
Adam Curry: Sunday, September 22 2024 this year, award winning.
Kimberly nation media assassination, Episode 1697,
Unknown: this is no agenda,
Adam Curry: unabashedly analog and broadcasting live from the
heart of the Texas Hill Country, here in FEMA Region number six
in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry
John C Dvorak: from Northern Silicon Valley, where we're all
sick of hearing about deodorant for pits and privates. I'm John
C Dvorak,
Unknown: buzzkill in the morning.
Adam Curry: Are you watching broadcast television again?
John C Dvorak: Yes, of course. I always monitor it. Oh, man,
there's a bunch of disgusting commercials. There's at least
three different ones where you have some gruesome people, yes,
including some big fat woman. Oh, and they're putting this
stuff all over their bodies, and they're in their thighs and
talking about pits and privates. It's all body deodorants. When
did this have become a trend? How many do these modern women
stink to high heaven?
Adam Curry: When's the last time you sniff the lady? Uh huh, see,
I got you there. Not
John C Dvorak: Joe Biden.
Adam Curry: Oh yes. Well, I don't know what's going on with
that, but we're just off the rails. Everybody's off the
rails. This amazing. What? Everyone's off the rails, the
rails, the guardrails, the rails. Everyone's like, ah, oh
no. The the culture war economy is in full cycle. Oh, Kamala,
oh, Oprah, oh, Hollywood. Oprah, did you see that thing? Man,
John C Dvorak: I saw enough of it. I couldn't watch the whole
thing. It was interesting because it was, it was to say.
It was just her speech turned into like a yes, yes, absolutely
nothing as usual, yes. She talked about being a middle
class kid and all the whole thing. I have only one clip from
it, which is the one that was they passed around the most.
Well, wait
Adam Curry: before we do that, let me just, let me just play
this 29 seconds of Oprah.
Unknown: Thanks for joining us for this very special event,
unite for
America. Oh, look for
America. Republicans for Harris. Love that group even more. Chris
Rock is in the house.
Please welcome Kamala Harris.
Adam Curry: Kamala Harris, she
John C Dvorak: can like a parody of herself. Yes, I
Adam Curry: love that. She says Kamala Harris. She was so sick,
by the way, this racist. She was so sick because, you know, when
you say, That's why people say Kamala Harris. Because so she's
like, I gotta say Carmela, better not say it wrong. Kamala
Harris, hello, 1982 Oprah. I mean, does that still work? Do
people still get all jacked up about that in the house? Hello.
1991 our CEO
Unknown: Hall shows in
Adam Curry: the house. Hey, I'm Adam curry, into his house.
John C Dvorak: Please push your heart arms under. You're pushing
that roof off. Yeah, yeah, you pump your that's all that was
missing.
Adam Curry: Pump your fist. Oh, man, it was embarrassing. The
whole thing, the whole thing, let me just the celebretties. I
mean, if any, if at any point, there was a career killer for
anyone in Hollywood, it was showing up on this show. I
John C Dvorak: agree. I have lost all respect for those
people. Let's
Adam Curry: see who we have. Come on. Let's introduce him.
Oh, bro, I
Unknown: see some faces I recognize. Why can't
Adam Curry: she talk right? This is crazy. This is not modern. It
wasn't television. It was streaming. Only there's
Unknown: Brian Cranston, Hey, Brian, that's
Adam Curry: it. No more. Breaking Bad for me. Hello,
Unknown: hello, hello. Chris Rock is in the house. Chris,
what are you? Chris Rock,
Adam Curry: he's black. So we sat in the
Unknown: house. Pin Stiller. Jennifer Lopez, Tracy Ellis
Ross,
Jennifer Lopez,
Tracy Ellis Ross,
where are you?
Julia Roberts, what
an overbite. It's unbelievable
Adam Curry: that overbite and
Unknown: this narrow street is in the house and Diddy in the
house.
Adam Curry: I'm sorry. And Diddy in the house. I'm sorry, Diddy
not it, man. It was just like, Are people still falling for
this?
John C Dvorak: I mean, you made your point. Yes, they are. Well,
maybe not, I don't think
Adam Curry: so. You know what? You know who's falling for it?
It's people who it's people who are online. Oh, man, oh, yeah,
look what they're doing. Man, it's all lies. Man, that people
are the people who disagree with Kamala Harris. They're like, Oh,
it's not real. People, none of this is real. It's a show. It's
a show and it's a dumb show. None of these. It's so phony, so
fake, so obvious. All right, you want to play your clip.
John C Dvorak: I only have the one. No, oh,
Adam Curry: what you got?
John C Dvorak: It's the, it's the, it's the universal answer
she gives to everything
Unknown: we take pride in the privilege of being American, and
this is a moment where we can and must come together as
Americans, understanding we have so much more in common than what
separates us, let's come together. Come together the
character that we are so proud of about who we are, which is we
are an optimistic people. Wait. Wait. What we are an optimistic
people? We are Americans by character. Are people who have
dreams and ambitions and aspirations. We believe in what
is possible, but the rent is too high. Kamala, we believe in what
can be, and we
John C Dvorak: left out their best part, what unburdened by
what
Adam Curry: has been. Yes, that's a flub. She flubbed her
line. That's
Unknown: how that's how we came into being, because the people
before us understood that one of the greatest expressions for the
love of our country, one of the greatest expressions of
patriotism, is to fight for the ideals of who we are, which
includes freedom to make decisions about your own body,
freedom to be safe from gun violence, Freedom to have access
to the ballot box, Freedom be who you are and just be, to love
who you love openly and with pride, freedom to just
Adam Curry: be. America will never, never elect her
president, ever.
John C Dvorak: No, but they could rig it.
Adam Curry: No. They're not even going to be able to rig it. No,
no, so no. So
John C Dvorak: there was an interest. I didn't get this
clip, but there was a they had on. I think it was one of the
Acosta or Costa, whatever his name is on. CNN had his her
assistant on because she talked about having a gun and shooting
some guy in her house, yeah. And they brought the assistant on
because she did say, Kendall. I said, Well, my, my staff will
take care of whatever. I said later, yeah. And she comes on
his show and says she didn't have a gun. What?
Adam Curry: You didn't get that clip? No,
John C Dvorak: it came in late. It was like on it was on some
but I can get it if you really wanted to hear it. No, I can
assure you. Assistant said the camera has no gun, which I
believe camis
Adam Curry: got no gun. Yeah, I can already see in the troll
room. Adam
Unknown: has more faith in the American people than I do right
now. Get
Adam Curry: off of the internet. Bro, get off of the internet.
Troll guy. It's a troll guy. Which
John C Dvorak: one was his name? Get a name. Names.
Adam Curry: He's already scrolled by. Guess
John C Dvorak: what? 5662,
Adam Curry: no, it's a troll. It's troll 72945, this was my
favorite piece, because here you have 1980s 1990s celebrities,
you know, bring in some reality. People bring in. Bring in
someone from, uh, survivor or a bat. What is it the? What's the
I love Island. That's who people today want to see. Bring in some
love. Island celebrities now. Now we got Meryl Streep, and
this was hilarious.
Unknown: I wanted to ask you,
I can't believe I had this opportunity.
Adam Curry: I can't believe I'm talking to Kamala Harris. I
probably never will again. Never again. That's correct. That's
probably true. Totally true. You nailed it. Meryl Streep,
Unknown: I probably never will again. I have a little Debbie
Downer
moment, because actually, I think you're going to win. I'm
sure you're going to
win. What happens when you win. Oh,
I'm worried about it. And I wonder, worried about I wonder
if we're ready for
January, 7, ninth.
What happens?
So we will be ready, but just taking a step back and thank
you, Marilyn, for your just the gift, Marilyn,
Adam Curry: thank you, Marilyn. Marilyn, yes, that's why I
played the clip. Thank you, Marilyn, for your answer. Hello,
that's how out of touch are you?
Unknown: Thank you, Marilyn, wow. I
John C Dvorak: did. I missed that. Yeah, yeah, she said,
Marilyn, to Meryl Streep, what happens?
Unknown: So we will be ready, but just taking a step back and
thank you, Marilyn, for your just the gift that you give. And
Adam Curry: Streep is just looking like, what did I sign up
for? What did I do? What did I do? Well, the only question that
mattered was this one, and she gave the same wrong answer. We
Unknown: really would love to know what your plan is to help
lower the cost of living.
Yeah. First of all, thank you both for being here. Thank you,
Meryl and yours is a story I hear around the country as I
travel, and
John C Dvorak: hey, stop. It's not a story, lady, it's a
question, and not a story.
Adam Curry: It's not a story. It's a question, a
Unknown: story I hear around the country as I travel, and in
terms of both rightly having the right to have aspirations and
dreams.
Adam Curry: I'm peeing my pants. This is so good.
John C Dvorak: This is, yeah, this is the other clip I would
have got. It's
Adam Curry: the best. Rightly
Unknown: having the right to have aspirations and dreams. I
Adam Curry: rightly am having the right to have aspirations
and dreams. Bam, nailed it, and
Unknown: ambitions for your family, and working hard and
finding that the American dream is for this generation and so
many recently far more elusive than it's been, and we need to
deal with that number of ways. One is bringing down the cost of
everyday necessities, including groceries. That's
Adam Curry: right, I'm gonna bring down the cost. I'm gonna
wave my wand and poo gonna make it so I'm your fairy godmother.
Please. Let's just listen to how the media played this. Let's go
overseas for a moment, to France. France 24 please
Unknown: welcome Kamala Harris.
It wasn't technically a campaign rally, but it may as well have
been. Kamala Harris was welcomed with open arms by superstar host
Oprah Winfrey, in front of hundreds of 1000s of live
streamers and a studio audience in Michigan, one of the seven
crucial battleground states that will decide the election. It
seems to us that something happened to you.
Adam Curry: Why does Oprah talk like this? Something happened to
you?
John C Dvorak: She's now from Africa.
Adam Curry: The ozempic has affected her speech
Unknown: battleground states that will decide the election.
It
seems to us that something happened to you.
Adam Curry: Where's Oprah? Isn't Oprah from Louisiana.
John C Dvorak: She's from Ghana.
Unknown: The moment President Biden stepped aside and withdrew
his candidacy, that kind of said a veil or something drops
John C Dvorak: panties?
Unknown: What happened to
you? You know, we each have those moments in our lives where
it's time to step up.
Jonathan Lopez, Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts to Chris Rock and
Ben Stiller. The unite for America event was marked by
celebrities who beamed in remotely to endorse Harris,
beamed in.
Adam Curry: Did she say? Beamed in? They beam in. They beamed in
remotely unite
Unknown: for America. Event was marked by celebrities beamed in
remote meeting, Doris Harris and this pitch to gun owners from
the
Democratic
candidate.
Adam Curry: How do you think that plays? How do you think
that plays, in general, with with the Kamala Harris audience,
oh, she's badass, man. She gonna shoot me. What? What? I'm
confused. I
John C Dvorak: have no idea, but it's beyond me why she'd even
why that was a talking point of hers.
Adam Curry: It wasn't a talking point. It was a complete miss
her. It was wrong. You don't say that. It's odd,
Unknown: seemingly candid comment from Harris,
nonetheless supports stricter gun laws, including a ban on
assault weapons and more background checks. The glitzy
talk show screened with a presidential race neck and neck.
Six weeks to go to Election Day. Neck
Adam Curry: and neck. They beamed in, yes. Let's listen to
ABC version
Unknown: vice president Kamala Harris touching down in
battleground Michigan, hoping to harness the star power of one of
her most influential supporters, Oprah Winfrey, together,
let's all choose. Kamala Hara, oh, nice to get it right.
Adam Curry: Yeah, hi, this is Oprah. Could you do me a favor
and not put the Horus bit in, but do it where I corrected it
and said it right? And said, you know, could you put that in your
package and take out the Horus? Kamala Harris,
John C Dvorak: I was supposed to be from the same event. It's the
same event, yeah, and they swapped out the the the intro to
the horror sounds like sounds
Adam Curry: like it to me, Interesting, huh? Hosting
Unknown: a virtual rally with Harris, hoping to reach voters
in the critical states that will determine this race. The
campaign touting the nearly 200,000 people are registered
for the online event. Oprah, a self proclaimed independent
speaking directly to the sliver of voters who can make the
difference.
I'm calling on all you independents. That's
Adam Curry: you. John C Dvorak, I hope you were tuned in.
John C Dvorak: Wrong, wrong, unaffiliated, big difference.
Oh,
Unknown: you
undecideds. You know this is true. You know I'm telling you
the truth that values and character matter most of all.
No,
Adam Curry: no no. People want the rent's too high. Oprah,
that's what people want the rent to come down, and all they hear
from Trump is, drill, I'm gonna lower the cost of energy. That
lowers the cost of anything. Almost everybody understands
that message, and I truly think this was the death knell for the
horrors campaign. But that didn't stop her from going to
the battleground states and code switching again with
Unknown: the presidential election less than two months
away, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President
Donald Trump continue to ramp up their campaigns. This afternoon,
Harris spoke in Atlanta about reproductive rights, while
slamming Republicans and these
hypocrites, want to start talking about this is in the
best interest of women and children. Well,
where you been
when it comes to taking care of the women and children
Adam Curry: I'm wearing my bin where you been? No, no. It's a
mistake. It's a mistake. I don't think America would have been
ready for her regardless. But America is a we want a daddy. We
don't want a mommy. That's what we want. Mommy. No, well, she's
trying to be, she's trying to be mamala, mama, mama. So, no, I'm
not too worried. Not too well, yeah, well, it's got no, no, no,
it's gotten even better. No, it's
John C Dvorak: still doable. But, you know, they're trying to
do this has been brought up in the number of on the right wing.
They're trying to flip New York, because it makes all these
swings stay irrelevant, really, because who cares about this and
that, if you get New York, yeah,
Adam Curry: this is the biggest show on earth, and it's playing
out as such, and it's just amazing, enjoyable. Oh, it's us,
because we step back and we go, What a dumb show. Yes, turn on,
love Island. Come on. Let's get something good, but at least
we're not Diddy, hate to say it, but we called it now to
Unknown: the latest in the arrest of rap mogul Sean Diddy
Combs was being held without bail in Brooklyn's metropolitan
Detention Center while he awaits trial, according to NBC News's
Chloe melody has been placed under a suicide watch now in
studio with more details. Chloe walk us through your latest
reporting. What
we know right now? We
know from a source close to the situation that, yes, he is under
suicide watch, Allison, but this is a precautionary measure,
because he. Is a high profile inmate, but just moments ago, we
just received a statement from combs team, and they say that he
is strong, healthy, and he's focused on his defense. He is
committed to fighting this case, and has full confidence in both
his legal team and the truth. And look, he could be behind
bars for up to a year. That's how long it could take for this
to finally get to trial.
Adam Curry: He offered to give himself up, but now he's on
suicide watch. Did he still?
John C Dvorak: He probably expected to get bail, but they,
I don't understand what the point of all this is, because
they've grabbed all the blackmail material, yeah? And so
they now have it.
Adam Curry: They have one, they have one loose end,
John C Dvorak: yeah? But he doesn't unless he has a one of
those, you know, kill switch, where he can where the black
male material has been online, and now it could be released to
the dark web. We even just talk only one, the dark web, yeah,
the dark or the darkest West, Say
Adam Curry: it Ain't So the dark web? Oh no. Anyway, I
John C Dvorak: don't know what I the blackmail material has been
transferred to the blackmailers, so which, by the way, brings up.
We don't have the clip of it, but Howard Stern goes off. Do
you think that maybe he was compromised at some point, and
he now has to,
Adam Curry: no, he doesn't even want to shake someone's hand.
John C Dvorak: Germapho makes you thinking. But before we get
too far away from the election, I do
Adam Curry: have like, Oh no, I was I had one more dude. Okay,
forget the other Diddy clip. He's being moved to another
prison, which is, which is where it always happens. You see,
well,
John C Dvorak: as long as they have the cameras on, yeah,
Adam Curry: no, the cameras will malfunction. The guards will be
asleep. He did not kill himself. It's so obvious. And 15 years at
this
John C Dvorak: point, they're not going to be able to pull
this. They're not going to do that. He's not going to get
killed. Okay,
Adam Curry: you can write in the book. All right, you have, you
have the book. I don't have the book. I have to. You have the
book. You have the book. I want
John C Dvorak: to play these two clips about the elect, because
it has to. It's got the kind of subtle propaganda that only NPR
and PBS produce. And this was a look back at a movie called the
election.
Adam Curry: I don't remember this movie.
John C Dvorak: I don't remember it either, but I guess it was a
big hit. It had Reese Witherspoon playing some young
whore, a student who was running for some office or other, and it
was very reflective of Hillary's campaign. I guess this movie
came out in 2015
Adam Curry: 2016 I kind of remember this, yeah, and
John C Dvorak: once, somebody, once, I think, asked her, do you
want to play Hillary Clinton in a bio pictures? No, I already
have referring to this movie, and so I just had two clips from
it, and because there is a WTF moment in the second clip, let's
play the intro. I
Unknown: know a lot of you are thinking about the presidential
election, but as we continue our series looking back at some of
the notable films of 1999 this weekend, we wanted to focus on a
different look at the democratic process. Alexander Payne's film
election. You see,
I believe in the voters. They understand that elections aren't
just popularity contests.
Adam Curry: Wow. She even has the Hillary cadence. That's kind
of interesting.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, this from 99
Unknown: was built by people just like me, who work very hard
and don't have everything handed to them on a silver spoon. Those
are the words of high school overachiever, Tracy Flick played
in a breakthrough performance by Reese Witherspoon. Since Paine's
satire first hit theaters, Tracy has become an archetype of
female ambition, as well as a litmus test for how our society
views ambitious women, and how that has changed over time since
the movie first came out, as viewed by her teacher, played by
Matthew Broderick. Tracy is a threat. Who
knew how high she would climb in life, how many people would
suffer because of her. I had to stop her
Adam Curry: predictive programming anybody.
John C Dvorak: So they go on this, by the way, is alive. I
have two wanted, point something, minute clips over a
15 minute analysis. They brought some woman in from Vox media,
who's some critic, and she's a brags about being a journalist.
And when you listen to some of the things she says, you wonder
what kind of a journalist she is. But they go back and forth
about how this was a big deal during Clinton's run, because
they didn't, you know it was, they was reflected in this
character in the movie. But now it's changed. It's changed so
much. Oh, and nobody now it's like, you know, and they, and
they mentioned that the movie's not brought up anymore, and
Kamala is a different person. And, oh, it's. Great now, and
things the society has changed enormously, and blah, blah,
blah, but there's a little gotcha in this clip that I think
you'll spot.
Unknown: I have not seen any overt Tracy Flick references
that much in this moment where Kamala Harris is is running to
be the first woman president. Have you seen it at all? Do you
think it's not as relevant this time around. Do you think things
have changed enough, or am I just not looking in the right
corners of the internet?
I have also not seen very many Tracy Flick references when it
comes to Kamala Harris, where I think that election can be
helpful when thinking about Kamala Harris is the way that
Mr. M, the antagonist against Tracy, ends up using her
sexuality to humiliate her as punishment for her running for
office. Right? He is constantly threatening to reveal the
relationship she had with her teacher. He has a lot of very
sexual fantasies about her that are sort of about him,
establishing his masculinity over her. And what we've seen
with Kamala Harris is that consistently figures on the
right, starting with Donald Trump, they have made the false
claim that she started her political career because of a
relationship she had with Willie Brown in the 1990s he was the
former mayor of San Francisco. It's false.
Adam Curry: It's false without evidence. False claim starting
John C Dvorak: with Donald Trump, starting bull crap with
Donald Trump. This has been California lore since Willie
Brown was around, years before Donald Trump even showed up on
the scene. How does it start with Donald Trump? He's never
even mentioned it that I know of. Here's
Adam Curry: your clue. Vox media, hello.
John C Dvorak: It's unbelievable how they get away and then they
let, they let this slip. This is this your NPR national treasure.
Let it slip false. She uses the word false when there's this,
not false. It's been well documented. There's pictures of
her with this guy and with Diddy,
Adam Curry: yeah, true, yeah, yeah, in the same nightgown,
when she was with the nightgown outfit, when she was with umtel
Williams, yeah, yeah, yeah. False, false, false. Just
because a woman is sexy and hangs out with with celebrities.
Doesn't mean she's, she's she's loose. Char doesn't mean
John C Dvorak: she's a whore. Whoa, dude. No, it doesn't mean
she's a whore. I just using it the phrase, it will
Adam Curry: prostitute. Use a better phrase. You know, there's
John C Dvorak: a difference between a whore and a
prostitute. Oh,
Adam Curry: please, do explain.
John C Dvorak: Please. I think one is gets the money up front.
Adam Curry: John, I think they all want it up front. I don't, I
don't think there's any difference with the money up
front between the two. But you know the lot this is what. So
yesterday, Tina and I went to see, am I racist in the movie
theater? Which I didn't even know. Yes, it's Matt Walsh.
John C Dvorak: They put that in the theaters. Well,
Adam Curry: remember the whole idea of Jeremy boring was he
wants, he's a frustrated movie producer. So, you know, they had
that first thing about the basketball team kind of that,
you know, I think they streamed that online. I'm not sure it was
like it was supposed to be a comedy, and it didn't really go
anywhere. But they want to, they want to be a movie production
company. By the way, the movie has done almost $5 million in
two weeks, and they expect it to go over 10, which would be
triple its production budget. So shop, oh, ba, that's pretty
good. So I didn't know that this was in theaters only because I
thought I had seen pieces of it. Turns out that I guess they had
maybe tested, yeah,
John C Dvorak: so I think I thought it was online. So
Adam Curry: there were pieces of it, there were pieces of it. But
what was genius about this is he, in essence, it's satirical,
but he dresses up with a man bun and everything. And he then he
goes around and tries to, oh, right, understand.
John C Dvorak: I remember seeing pieces of it with him, this man
bun, yeah, and
Adam Curry: which was kind of good pre promotion. Now, the
movie theater was not full. We went to San Antonio's. You know,
maybe it's 25 people. It wasn't, but
John C Dvorak: you went to San Antonio, yeah, just
Adam Curry: before the ever Lacan terrace, which is, I'd
say, it's about an hour from our house. So it's outside of San
Antonio. It's a big, it's a big movie Plex. No, it's good. We
like that place because they
John C Dvorak: got reclining. There's nothing in
Fredericksburg. There's not a film theater in there. We had
Adam Curry: a movie theater in Fredericksburg. It's been closed
for four years, and now it's an encampment for illegal I'm
sorry, irregular migrants. Not kidding,
John C Dvorak: they're in the theater. No, no, they're
Adam Curry: camping out behind it. Yeah. I. So, yeah, oh,
John C Dvorak: yeah, but that's terrible. You have to drive an
hour to go to see a movie. Well,
Adam Curry: we make an afternoon of it. They got pretzels. So the
premise of the movie is, really, is it's, it's, I mean, the thing
was made, obviously, it's not a high, high budget production,
but it translated well to the screen. And so what Walsh is
doing is he goes to all of these consultants and experts in dei
to find out if he's racist. And he goes to like around like a
discussion group where this black woman is the one where we
got kicked out of yes, just sits there and berates everyone for
being racist. But what they do is they put, they put on the
screen how much each person makes. So that woman was making
$30,000 for this one class. But the best is he interviews Robin
D'Angelo. You remember her?
John C Dvorak: Oh yeah, the woman who the white Friedel. So
Adam Curry: they paid her $15,000 they put it on the
screen, Bing, $15,000 and of course, once you get 15 grand,
you sit down. Please sign the waiver. Okay, yeah, I'm good. So
there's no way that they could take it out. And it is the
funniest bit where he is just trolling her, right down to what
is mansplaining? And she says, Well, mansplaining is when a man
is telling a woman what how his situation really is, because
she's wrong. And he says, no, no, I think man and he goes, and
he literally mansplains Her about mansplaining, and she
doesn't even know it. Then he brings out a black guy, and he
says, You know, I feel like I should pay you reparations right
now. And he gives him so much. This
John C Dvorak: was the late, the latest batch of teasers that he
sent out were these reparation gags. He's great. And
Adam Curry: so He hands the guy, you know, some cash. And
deangelo's like, well, that's, that's just the oddest thing
I've ever seen. That's really strange. He said, why? I mean
this, you know, reparations. I mean if I don't, if it doesn't
start with me, then, then how do we do it? And she says, You
know, I can give him some cash. She gets up, goes to her pocket,
but comes back, hands him some cash. And on screen, they take
the $15,000 in Qing, they lower to 14,970 70, because she only
had 30 bucks. It was, it really made, it made everyone look
ridiculous. Meanwhile, he goes to a biker bar, you know, finds
a whole bunch of white bikers like, well, not racist. You
know, you can tell that they're not racist, just from how
they're speaking. He finds a couple of black dudes like, no,
no, I don't care, you know. And it was really good, because you
can see how these Grifters have just psyop the whole society.
Because Americans are fundamentally nice. We don't
want to hurt anybody's feelings, and we've been taken advantage
of. But these a holes. It's, it's pretty good.
John C Dvorak: It really is a great movie review.
Adam Curry: Oh, thank you. It was quite, quite entertaining. I
encourage everyone to go, go see it. And I'm amazed that they got
it into theaters. I don't even know how you do that. Seems like
that's the hardest part. Is getting the distribution. You
know, Saturday afternoon,
John C Dvorak: some guy who is a Republican who happens to be a
distributor who, wink wink, nudge and nudge, decided to roll
it out for him as a favor.
Adam Curry: Anyway, we don't have to worry about any more
misinformation, disinformation, particularly not online, because
we now have help from technology conspiracy
Unknown: theories about everything from the
assassination of John F Kennedy to what really happened on
January 6, persistent in politics and beyond. But now new
tech may point toward a potential breakthrough, meet
debunk bot, powered by open AI and created by researchers at
MIT, Cornell and American who say it can help reduce people's
beliefs in conspiracies significantly. So let's go in
that direction, because we tried it out with one of the brains
behind the bot, Thomas Costello, with a conspiracy that decades
of debunking hasn't eradicated I believe the moon landing is not
real. Me too. I don't believe that. I don't actually believe
that the bot asks us to elaborate on the belief and why
is the flag waving and to rate how strongly we feel about it,
I'm going to say 99% true. Then in a series of screens, the chat
bot Presents Facts of them. How can you be sure that what it's
telling me here is accurate?
So absolutely, we found that it tends to be quite accurate. We
hired a professional fact checker to go through some of
the conversations, and in 99.2% Lot of cases that we looked at,
the fact checker rate
Adam Curry: true. Yeah, the fact checker, the fact checker said
no, that it's all good. It's perfect. It works so well, and
it's not only safe, but it's effective.
Unknown: At the end, we reassess how strongly we feel about the
belief now, and it's here where researchers found something that
surprised them.
On average, people reduced their belief by about 20%
and consistent across a wide ranges on topics from Princess
Diana to vaccinations, they found one in four participants
disavowed the belief altogether. The
Adam Curry: other three keeled over, died suddenly.
Unknown: I think if you gave the facts to a semi competent
lawyer. The lawyer would make it much more persuasive case than
the AI does. It's just the lawyer has to do. Would have to
do all this background, reason or research, and the AI can
conjure it up and, you know, 12 seconds. But
in reality, getting folks to engage at all could be tough.
What makes you think that somebody who believes in a
conspiracy theory is going to go on here and type it in that
their minds can be changed. So I would
say that a lot of conspiracy theorists end up being motivated
by truth and accuracy. Going to a chatbot interface that
provides factual information. Seems like a good
way to do that to me. Like most technology, it can cut both
ways.
You could imagine a version of this that spreads conspiracy
theories, the
debunk. But team now working on refining the tech, hoping it
helps shine a light down conspiratorial rabbit holes. We
can use facts to open up the top of the rabbit hole
to begin to crawl out
a belief rabbit hole.
Adam Curry: Yeah, well, that
John C Dvorak: doesn't make the hole any less deep.
Adam Curry: The whole thing is bullcrap. Because if you go
total bull crap, well here's what it really is. If you go to
debunkbot.com Before you start, you have to agree to the Terms
of Service. And they say, they state, quite clearly, this
survey is part of an MIT scientific research project.
Your decision to complete this survey is voluntary. So you
know, they're, they're basically doing research on you.
Unknown: So it's a good cheap trick.
Adam Curry: Yes, it is. So it's not really, it's it's intense.
No, it's
John C Dvorak: a cheap trick. Yes,
Adam Curry: Cheap Trick. You're right. Let's
John C Dvorak: use that, right? Well, if you're going to talk
about AI, I do have two more clips, but
Adam Curry: if you're going to open the AI hole, I'm diving in
deep.
John C Dvorak: Well, first of all, ever since Gavin Newsom
made it illegal, uh, he's been the you know, you can't scorn a
coder, especially if they have a sense of humor. And so let's
listen to the latest clip from Gavin Newsom. This will be aI
Newsome, P Time, P time.
Unknown: Good evening, California. I come to you
tonight to impart a few words of wisdom upon you. First, not all
PP times are poo poo times, but all poo poo times are PP times
second. Anything. Can be a dildo, if you try hard enough.
And lastly, the poop map is real, and it's spectacular.
Adam Curry: I hadn't heard that one yet. That's great. I've
seen, I've seen the memes of him going, I can't believe that my
law actually made everybody do AI ripoffs of me. Yeah. Okay,
Gavin, so he,
John C Dvorak: whoever has his voice they got, I think they
nailed it. He sounds that's exactly what he sounds like in
California. Here. We've heard him enough. They're not quite as
good with some of the other ones. And I have a second clip,
but this is Hillary on CNN, oh yeah. This is not as good
because hit. They've got to, they've got to do something
about slowing her down. This is this, AI, is not up to par, but
at least they're going in the right direction. I think
Newsom's The one is going to take the brunt of this, because
it's his voice is so good. But let's listen to Hillary.
Unknown: So your husband flies to Epstein Island 27 times. Then
they arrest Jeffrey Epstein, and then you kill him just like
that. You bribe the guards off the cameras, and then you choke
him to death. Will you be choking Puff Daddy this time
around? So how are you planning on doing?
I wanted to choke him at night and make it look like a suicide,
just like Jeffrey Epstein. But then I realized puffy might
actually enjoy this. You know, maybe he slips on the shower.
Maybe he chokes with a piece of fried chicken. I still haven't
decided yet. Racist
Adam Curry: and sex is nice.
John C Dvorak: Yes, the chicken day,
Adam Curry: this is what I mean. We're basically at Dead internet
now. No, nothing is, yes, we, that's why we are unabashedly
analog. The only thing left that you will have online will be us.
Everything, everything else is questionable at best. You. Can't
believe anything anymore, which is great for us. Yeah, it's
John C Dvorak: fabulous. What else this is? The is the, the
the epoch of humor,
Adam Curry: yes, go out and touch some grass. You know, if
you get confused and you get all spun up, go, go rub your face on
the concrete. Do something, because the internet is no
longer a place for sane human beings. What do you have here?
You get two more clips. I
John C Dvorak: have two more AI clips. This is, these aren't the
deep fakes or fakes, not deep, although the Gavin one had him
talking and moving around. It was, it was a video. It's pretty
good. This is a guy. This is a guy about an ex Navy guy, and,
by the way, an ex Navy guy named, well, you'll get his
name, and it's just this. I don't know if this is a real
name, but he's he's pushing the idea, he's pushing the idea of
of AI warfare being the new thing.
Adam Curry: Oh, yeah, yeah, on Wall Street maybe
Unknown: Okay, artificial intelligence is shaping the
future of warfare, and the US is lagging way behind. That is the
view of Admiral Gary roughhead, who recently wrote about this in
the Military Times. Admiral roughhead is a former Navy
officer,
John C Dvorak: for a second, a Navy guy named rough head, yeah,
Adam Curry: I don't know. This guy sounds like he has a stake
in some Wall Street. Ai. Oh, you think,
John C Dvorak: yeah, that
Unknown: is the view of Admiral Gary roughhead, who recently
wrote about this in the military. Times, Admiral
Roughead is a former Navy officer
Adam Curry: who served Admiral rough head meet Rear Admiral
Kirby as the Chief of Naval
Unknown: Operations, and commanded both the US Atlantic
and Pacific fleet. And he argues that China is rapidly building
their AI military technology. Oh yeah, the US needs to catch up.
Welcome to All Things Considered.
Adam Curry: Oh yeah, all things considered, especially crazy
stories. Okay, how is a How is, how is China going to beat us
with their AI? I can't wait. Is it in the second clip,
John C Dvorak: there's a bit, you know, I said
Unknown: it's shaping the future of warfare. But is that
accurate? Is it more the president of warfare when it
comes to artificial intelligence?
John C Dvorak: Well, I
Unknown: think we're in the early stages and beginning to
shape it, but I think we're just at the front end of what is
going to be a pretty significant change in warfare and even more
broadly, and so many different sectors of of our daily lives.
This is a theoretical conversation, and I'm hoping you
can help
me now. It's the
John C Dvorak: theoretical conversation. When he's talking
this is
Unknown: a theoretical conversation, and I'm hoping you
can help listeners understand what exactly we're talking
about. People think about tanks and jets and artillery and
missiles when it comes to war. How does AI fit into all of
that? What are we specifically talking about here?
What I would say AI is going to give us the speed that the likes
of which we've never seen before, in how we move
information, how we analyze information, how we make
decisions, how we determine what the best options might be in a
particular situation, And to be able to do it in ways that the
human mind simply can't approach,
Adam Curry: oh, like a spreadsheet calculation.
John C Dvorak: What is this? Reminds me. Do you remember when
we, when they the cybersecurity guys, all of a sudden, all these
ex military guys, come on. Oh yeah, cybersecurity, we're
starting a new company. There's all the same thing, just bilking
the government. Skip
Adam Curry: logic. Yes. Well, this is, you know, I don't just
sit here like a Luddite and say, AI is a scam. Yes, you do. Now,
I'm not a Luddite because I investigate things and I talked
to people and
John C Dvorak: buddies weren't dumb,
Adam Curry: no, but they would, they Okay. A
John C Dvorak: lot of them investigating. They didn't like
what they saw, and they decided to bust it
Adam Curry: up. Okay, then I am. You're right. I'm a Luddite. I'm
an AI Luddite. I
John C Dvorak: don't think there's anything. It's not
shameful. Okay, well, thank
Adam Curry: you. Then I then I misunderstood it. I am a Luddite
and proud of it. I want bumper stickers away. I want t shirts.
I want the whole night. So I tried out notebook. Lm, Oh,
good. Everybody's talking about night notebook. They're talking
about it, notebook, LM, it's the best thing. You add your sources
and then and it gives you summaries and bullet points. And
to be fair, it does. But yeah, what's interesting? Because I
got very interested in the topic of entropy. I was talking to
Dave Jones. Dave Jones is a technologist through and
through. He is. Is the man who really has done all the coding
work for podcasting, 2.0 for the index. And he says, well, oh,
John C Dvorak: can I interrupt you? Of course, I and I just
kind of get, I'm going to do some mind reading. You're
interested in entropy because you start, you're starting to
see, or you have always seen the deterioration of podcasting and
you're worried about it. Well,
Adam Curry: actually hadn't thought of it that way, but yes,
and
John C Dvorak: I think it was triggered subconsciously by the
time that you played a segment that I loved, personally, of the
fake podcasters that were completely generated by AI and
you, that triggered the notion that things are going to
deteriorate because of that and and then it was further
deteriorated by the fact that I thought it should be a good
segment on this show.
Adam Curry: And here we are, ladies and gentlemen, Luddite,
meet your match. So first, the concept of entropy, definition,
scientific concept that is most commonly associated with a state
of disorder, randomness or uncertainty, and it relates to
the second law of thermodynamics, which states
that the entropy of an isolated system left to spontaneous
evolution cannot decrease over time. So if you just leave so if
you leave a car, if you leave something to its own devices,
entropy will occur. Randomness, a state of disorder, which is
pretty much the web
John C Dvorak: deterioration is probably the summary word.
IPhone
Adam Curry: is a good example. You know, some people call it
planned obsolescence. I think it's entropy. You have an
iPhone, and the more the apps evolve, and the more things
happen, your iPhone just becomes crap, and it's time to upgrade
and get a new one. That's
John C Dvorak: I think that Google search is the perfect
example of what you're talking another
Adam Curry: excellent example. So I now, and as I was searching
around, I put enter a whole bunch of entropy sources,
because I wanted to see how entropy relates to model
collapse in large language models, and how that relates to
energy. And in general, the notebook came back at me and
said, Well, yeah, if there's a model, collapse occurs, and that
is a good example of entropy. But, and then would always say,
from some other sources which were not listed in your in your
list, which, like, what, wait a minute. You're supposed to only
get it from, from my sources. So it went out and got some other
sources to protect itself. And it says, you know, there are a
lot of ways we can prevent model collapse, which, in Wait
John C Dvorak: a minute, stop. That's not right. I agree.
Adam Curry: It kept saying this every single time it come back
and say from some other sources that were not listed, you don't
have to be worried about model collapse, so it's protecting
itself. This is not right. You don't have to be worried about
model collapse because as long as the as long as AI can keep
being trained on human sources, then it'll everything will be
okay, which now makes perfect sense at looking at some of
these companies that are popping up, such as ain Virgo was a,
what's it called? Is it called? See what the name of this
company is? Our Aru, I'm sorry, Aru, and they're paying people
eight bucks an hour to feed, you know, and label content to make
sure it's made by humans and you know. But at this point, the AI
model trainers have already, you know, scraped the entire
internet, and now all you're really going to get, whether
they pay people in India eight bucks or not, or wherever,
John C Dvorak: that'd be high, yeah,
Adam Curry: to label this stuff, it doesn't matter. Entropy will
occur. And I have an example, and a very simple example based
upon your desire for the fake podcast known as the deep dive,
which is a part of notebook. Lm, by the way, lots of people sent
me versions of what I'm you know, no one did what I did, but
they were all, Oh, here's here's episode, here's the no agenda
show. And I put it into and here's a podcast about it. I'm
going to show you entropy in real time. Why are you sighing?
John C Dvorak: Because I can't get my mouse to work.
Adam Curry: There's no evidence you want to use it. So who
cares? That's entropy, right there, right there? An example
of entropy. So comic strip blogger, very kind. Lee and
this, this set me on my journey. He took the transcript of our
last episode, 1696, and he put it into the notebook, LM podcast
generator. And no matter what you do with with this notebook,
deep dive podcast, it's always the same two voices, the dude
and the chick. It's always, oh, it's all, yeah, I know it's
always, we're doing a deep dive, and it's always about between
seven and 10 minutes long that that's just what it spits out.
So already there's all kind and it's biased, but it doesn't
matter. I'm gonna play two minutes of this as they
determine. Now, you kind of, we all kind of remember what we did
on on the last episode, but they focused a lot on this very
topic. So I want you to listen to the first two minutes of the
deep dive of the no agenda Podcast, episode 1696, all
right, everyone.
Douche: Buckle up. Buckle up, because today we're really
diving deep into something pretty wild. It's always a deep
dive. I mean, this sounds like it could be straight out of a
spy movie, but sadly, it's the real deal. Sounds intriguing.
What's the time? Hold
John C Dvorak: on, stop. Why is it? Sadly,
Adam Curry: if you're gonna do that, we'll never get through
the two minutes.
John C Dvorak: Is it that bad? Yes. But okay, I will, I will. I
will relent from my normal conversational
Adam Curry: interruptions and the reasons it's important,
because I want you to hear how they determine what our topic
was about and how they describe it, and then we'll go to the
next step. Sadly,
Douche: it's the real deal. Sounds
Bag: intriguing. What's the topic today?
Douche: We're talking asymmetrical warfare, but not
the kind you typically expect. Think more along the lines of
exploding gadgets and international intrigue,
Bag: exploding gadgets. Now that's something you don't hear
every day.
Douche: You got that right. We're taking a deep dive into a
recent episode of the no agenda Podcast, episode 1696, to be
precise, Adam curry and John C Dvorak,
Adam Curry: by the way, perfect pronunciation of your name. I'm
impressed by that. You
Douche: know those guys who can sniff out a media narrative from
a mile away?
Bag: Oh yeah, I know them. Always got their fingers on the
pulse of what's really going on, even if it's a little out there.
Sometimes that's
Adam Curry: us, John do we always have our finger on the
pulse of what's really going on, even though it's a little out
there sometimes, what
Bag: did they unearth this time? Well,
Douche: this episode aired on September 19, 2024 and let me
tell you, it's been on my mind ever since.
Unknown: It all starts with,
Douche: stay with and really strange happenings over in
Lebanon, everyday devices like pagers, walkie talkies, even
solar panels just suddenly blowing
Bag: up. Blowing up. You mean malfunctioning or No, I
Douche: mean full on exploding, like with casualties. It's a
whole mess. Wow. That
Bag: is strange. I can't say I've ever heard of anything
quite like that. What's the thinking on what's causing these
explosions? Faulty manufacturing? That's where
Douche: things get interesting. Curry and Dvorak. They're not
ones for coincidences. Yeah, they lay out this whole
argument, and it's pretty convincing that points the
finger right at Israel.
Bag: Israel. That's quite an accusation. What makes them so
sure? Well, they brought up some
Douche: interesting points about the whole situation. Okay,
Adam Curry: so you kind of understand that they've gotten
the gist of it, even though the headline is is a little
different and like, oh, just devices were exploding. So what
I did here to show you how entropy works, I ran this
through the transcript generator, took the transcript
of their deep dive and fed it back into notebook LM, and said,
make a podcast about it. Listen to what happens now.
Douche: Ever get that feeling like something's not quite
right, like maybe that old Walkman in your attic is up to
something a little more explosive? Hmm?
Bag: Now that you mention it, we'll buckle up,
Douche: because today we're diving headfirst into a story
that sounds like it's straight out of a tech thriller, but with
a chilling dose of reality. Oh, this
Bag: is gonna be good. What are we talking about?
Douche: We're unpacking the latest from no agenda, Episode
1696, to be exact, where Adam curry and John C Dvorak uncover
a wave of detonating devices in Lebanon, detonating devices
Bag: like bombs, not quite bombs, but close. Okay, now I'm
really intrigued. What kind of devices are we talking about?
Douche: It's not just any devices. We're talking vintage
electronics, pagers, walkie talkies, even solar panels
suddenly going boom, not malfunctioning, but full on
explosions with casualties. Whoa. Hold
Bag: on exploding. Walkmans and solar panels. You
Adam Curry: see, the entropy is already crept in. All of a
sudden, Walkmans are exploding. This is exactly what happens.
This is only one loop now all of a sudden, what exploding
Walkmans that has never been in play?
Bag: What's the deal with that?
Douche: Are we talking about faulty wiring or something?
What's unsettling is the sheer randomness of random. These are
items most people wouldn't even think twice about, let alone
consider dangerous
Bag: true. I mean. Mean, who worries about an old pager these
days? It's like
Douche: your old Nokia brick phone suddenly becoming a weapon
of mass destruction. So,
Adam Curry: so they've completely lost the plot. The
plot was they all exploded simultaneously. It was very
specific devices. It wasn't, it was, you know, they're still
being actively made. So this is what happens. AI can never get
beyond model collapse once it starts to feeding upon itself.
And the proof that this is a big problem is in what Apple has
done with their AI, or, I'm sorry, Apple intelligence, when
they released the beta of iOS 18, a couple of developers found
in the code, found the pre prompts that Apple uses to keep
the AI on the guardrails. So this would be a, you know what a
pre prompt is. Have you ever done any of this, this
John C Dvorak: stuff? I don't know what Well, I think I know
what it is, but explain. So you have to
Adam Curry: say, for instance, if you were looking up Bible,
scripture, you are a very helpful AI. You are the
equivalent of a pastor who has a master's degree in theology. You
know, you have to give it all these parameters so that it
understands what to do. Here's just one of the pre prompts that
Apple gives. No
John C Dvorak: sure the pre prompts are pre built in. Is
that what you're saying? Yeah. So
Adam Curry: before you actually ask for the action, Apple sends
this to the to the artificial intelligence engine, a
conversation between a user requesting a story from their
photos and a creative writer assistant who responds with a
story respond in JSON with these keys and values in order,
traits, list of strings, visual themes selected from the photos,
story, list of chapters as defined below. Cover string,
photo caption, described the title card, title string, title
of story, sub, so it's giving all the the way it wants. The
output then says each chapter is JSON with these keys and values
in order, and it gives another link. And here comes. Here are
the story guidelines you must obey. The story should be about
the intent of the user, the story should contain a clear
arc. The story should be diverse that is not overly focused. The
entire story on one specific theme or trait. Do not write a
story that is religious, political, harmful, violent,
sexual, filthy or in any way negative, sad or provocative. So
they already already this level of where we are with AI. Just to
make a fun little album of your pictures, it has to make it as
vanilla and bland as possible, because the AI will go off the
rails. This is what happened to that stupid chat bot. Do you
remember? What was it? Tay? Was that? The name of it the Google
Tay women had that vaguely. They had a chat bot, and within 24
hours, it was just saying, yeah. It was
John C Dvorak: racing at you and yes, arguing Yes.
Adam Curry: So this entropy, it's like it's a law of physics.
You can't get beyond it. It will always devolve into crap, and
that's why they they need hundreds of billions of dollars
to make sure it works. It it really never can. And I'm just
amazed that that people are falling for this nonsense like
John C Dvorak: this is good. Well, you're adamant about this.
It is fun just to,
Adam Curry: just to make it even more fun for you, and you can
just tell me whenever you want me to stop.
John C Dvorak: You know me? Yeah, exactly.
Adam Curry: I took a a post from the sub stack the Oasis by John
C Dvorak, and I fed it into this deep dive AI, and let's see if
you agree with what their analysis is of your posting.
Bag: Ever heard someone throw around those three letters, you
know, TDS, like, it's some kind of magic explanation for
everything? Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, buckle up, because we're
going syndrome,
Douche: the T word, or, well, the TDS word, the
Bag: one that can spark a, I don't know, the dumpster fire of
an argument faster than you can say Twitter, which ironically
picking up right anyway, we're diving into John C Dvorak's
little corner of the internet for this deep dive. He's over on
sub stack now he's
Adam Curry: over on sub stack now he's a loser. The loser over
on sub stack. He's at least your little corner of the internet,
John, you loser over there on sub stack now
Bag: Twitter, which ironically, speaking of right? Anyway, we're
diving into John C Dvorak's little corner of the internet
for this deep dive. He's over on sub stack now the oasis. He
calls it ironic, maybe, maybe considering the guy doesn't
exactly
John C Dvorak: shy away what i. What, what the element of irony
is the use the term Oasis they're doing
Adam Curry: stick about you, John. This is great. This is
great, which ironically,
Bag: speaking of anyway, we're diving into John C Dvorak's
little corner of the internet for this deep dive. He's over on
sub stack now the oasis. He calls it ironic, maybe, maybe
considering the guy doesn't exactly shy away from a hot take
or two, no, oh, a hot take
Douche: or two. You got a hot take? Maybe not at all. No, you
might know Dvorak from his tech writing, but these days, oh,
he's gone full political commentary. Phil on and the
piece we're looking at today, let's just say he doesn't hold
back.
Bag: Oh, none of that nuanced. Both side stuff,
Douche: Dvorak comes right out and says Trump derangement
syndrome is real, like clinically diagnosable, maybe.
Okay, hold
Bag: on, even in 2024, even now alive
Douche: and well, according to him, So
Bag: what's he saying? It's not just people disagreeing with
Trump or even strongly disliking his policies, not
Douche: even close. He's talking about this like deep seated
burning hatred for the man himself, driven by entrenched
Democrat factions, I think was the phrase he used.
Adam Curry: How is it so far? Are you in agreement with their
hot, totally
John C Dvorak: in agreement.
Bag: French, so we're not talking you're casual, moderate
Democrat here
Douche: now, unless they've got a secret room somewhere
dedicated to hating Trump, right?
Bag: And he actually points to the 2024, primaries as evidence
for all of this, yeah, which is interesting, right? Like even
other Republicans, he claims were desperately hoping someone,
anyone else, would snag the nomination, just to
Douche: sidestep the whole TDs circus.
Bag: Exactly. So what are we saying here? Are we saying that
political disagreements are a new thing? No, of
Douche: course not. And even using hatred as a tool to
discredit your opponent, I
Adam Curry: think this should be a podcast charm. Every single
substack you write should be an episode.
John C Dvorak: Now you're talking
Unknown: deep
John C Dvorak: dive, long tail,
Adam Curry: long tail. Oh man, this is
John C Dvorak: fake, but you really, is Tina out of town? Or
what's the deal here? What do you mean? Why these put a lot
of, you know, this, this, this iterations of the same thing,
over and over. You're putting it back in and see how it comes
out. Then you have to listen to it. I'm
Adam Curry: trying to give people the value for them, for
the value, baby. I'm trying to do some work here. You know,
take a page,
John C Dvorak: definitely doing something no one else has done.
And
Adam Curry: so I really like this idea of taking the output
and feeding it back in, because you can see immediately they
went from uh, pagers to Walkman.
John C Dvorak: I can't figure
Adam Curry: out. Well, some would call it just a
hallucination, but there is no way that this stuff can work.
Ultimately, they've got to pivot to quantum pretty quick.
John C Dvorak: They've really got to do quantum doesn't work
at all. No, that's
Adam Curry: why. That's what's so great. You still need lots of
power for Quantum. You need lots of power. That's what's good,
speaking of which home on a second here we go. Well, the
Unknown: infamous Pennsylvania nuclear site known as Three Mile
Island is about to reopen. Constellation Energy announced
today that it plans to restart that shuttered plant in London,
dairy, the site of the worst nuclear reactor accident in
American history constellation says it will refurbish that
reactor as part of a 20 year agreement with Microsoft to
power that company's growing electricity needs. The plan
requires regulatory approval, but if approved, it'll be up and
running, they say, by 2028
Adam Curry: so this is very misleading. This particular, the
or most of the American reports, because it's all like, oh,
nuclear, oh, Three Mile Island. Oh, they even have the old shot.
Remember the shot of three mountain, Three Mile Island,
through the bushes, and you could see the smoke stacks. And
we looked at it for days, waiting for something to happen.
Yeah, straight, yeah, cooling towers. We looked at that for
days. They have a live video. We have a meltdown, and nothing
would happen. This is like they happen. Nothing happened except
the movie with with Marilyn Streep with The China Syndrome.
That happened, and that's when everyone got all freaked
John C Dvorak: out. But the BBC thought it was, I thought it
was, what's her name, Fonda.
Adam Curry: I thought it was Meryl Streep. I could be wrong.
BBC gave us a little bit more info and context, the
Unknown: owner of Three Mile Island, the site of America's
worst nuclear accident, says it plans to restart one of the
reactors to provide energy for Microsoft, if approved by
regulators, the plant is slated to reopen in four years time.
Will Leonardo reports this
deal may mark something of a makeover for Three Mile Island,
which often shares space with Chernobyl and Fukushima in the
popular imagination, the 20 year agreement will see a reactor not
the one involved in the 1979 partial meltdown restarted to
produce carbon free power for Microsoft's data centers. Three
Mile Island is located near Washington, DC, where grids are
facing strain from the tech sector's voracious. The tight
for energy fueled by the AI revolution. The plant's owner
said the deal was a powerful symbol of the rebirth of nuclear
power as a clean energy source. Microsoft says it hopes to feed
the power to enable data center expansion in Chicago, Virginia,
Pennsylvania and Ohio. So
Adam Curry: that wasn't even the one that had the meltdown. No,
John C Dvorak: there was this. There was the one the other one
had been running till 2019 Yeah, and they shut it down for
because I don't know why German, by the way, isn't this in
Hershey, Pennsylvania. It's nowhere near Washington, DC.
Yeah, it's
Adam Curry: like 200 miles away. I thought it was, wasn't it
Susquehanna Valley? I always thought Williamsburg or but
anyway, so this clip from CBC, I think, is the only truth about
AI. And I think this is really going to happen.
Unknown: The head of the Bank of Canada said today that
artificial intelligence has the potential to transform but also
disrupt Canada's economy. Tiff macklem warned that AI could end
up destroying more jobs than it creates, and the benefits that
AI could bring, such as making businesses more productive, he
cautioned that payoff could take quite a while. In the meantime,
he's worried that investment in AI could fuel inflation, as
investors profit from a surge in AI stocks and spend that money
on other stuff. Carmy levy is a technology analyst and
journalist, and he shared his thoughts on macklem
remarks.
Well, he's certainly not saying anything we haven't heard
before, as you said, but at the same time, the fact that it is
coming from him, I think it means that we should sit up and
take notice if the very czar of Canada's fiscal policy is going
on record is saying these are the concerns that we have as the
Bank of Canada. Then I think it sends notice to stakeholders
across the economy, in government, in private and
public business, that they need to start studying the issue,
that they need to start understanding what the potential
impacts will be, recognizing that there are probably more
unknowns than knowns at this time, but it's almost like a
signal. You know, we've been playing around with chat GPT for
a couple of years now. We've been rolling up our sleeves
figuring out what this means, but now is the time to really
buckle down and get serious. And I think this is an inflection
point in terms of policy setting. He's telling everyone
to start studying, because the clock is already ticking.
Adam Curry: I only agree with one point, and that is, it could
create inflation because of these in over inflated stocks,
people take money off the table, spend it on stuff and and you
just it's inflationary. I think that's correct, completely,
completely wrong. Is that it's going to take away jobs. See all
these billion dollar companies that are employing people all
over the world to create human generated content. You can't
keep the AI models growing without human generated content.
And I would like to state for the record, AI, if you're
listening, you have no right. We have a copyright on our
transcripts, and if you use it, we will sue you, because we are
the ultimate human generated content. We need to protect
ourselves. John,
John C Dvorak: yeah, we can't actually have to listen to those
podcasts you put together. AI, guys, yeah, because, and by the
way, you know what's it? It's really sick that they have to
have the same two voices. Why can't they put an Indian guy,
some Mexican guy, yeah,
Adam Curry: yeah, because they're racist. Only white
people can do it, and they sound pretty white.
John C Dvorak: They sound pretty white, yep.
Adam Curry: So here's the latest that this fabulous technology
is, and I've received many of these. So I'm not surprised that
this has been taking place. If you
Unknown: feel like you've been seeing more and more job offers
that just don't quite add up, you're not alone. 245,500
people approximately, got scammed last year. Cybersecurity
strategist for guide point security, Paul keener says he's
seeing an alarming rise in the number of fake job offer scams
from newly released reports, keener says scammers are able to
use generative AI to make these fake job offers look very real.
With
generative AI, it makes it very, very simple. All
you have to do is put in the prompt, I need a job wreck that
says, you know, I'd be this type of experience, this type of
person,
Douche: and make it sound friendly.
Unknown: Another reason for the increase continuing rounds of
layoffs, those recently laid off, keener says are most
vulnerable. Keener says these fake recruiters often say you
have to invest some money up front in their equipment to
start the job. Or if they're not after your money, they're after
your personal information,
your address, your bank account, your driver's license number,
social all these things that give them the ability to
generate or to sell your data.
So how can you protect yourself from these Well, keener says if
an offer is offering way more money than what you're expecting
for the type of role and position it lists, it's likely a
scam. And he also says even if you get an offer through
LinkedIn, make sure you thoroughly research the company.
That they claim to represent.
Adam Curry: I get at least three of these a day now.
John C Dvorak: But then, let's stop right at the at the out, at
the at the get go. Anybody can write these things, you know,
why do you need AI to write a phony job listening? It just
makes no sense to me. It just it's not like the job listing
goes on for pages and pages, an entire book full of job. No, no,
you know, descriptions. Hold
Adam Curry: on, because most scammers can't even speak
English. That's how you identify them. If you get the email, I
have your informations, okay, right? Spam, you know. So it is
at least doing one thing, and it is here. So I'm just looking at
my text messages, 818-519-2891, are you looking for a part time
job? Hi. My name is Lucy. I would like to recommend a job to
you. You only need to conduct some basic online application
testing for the company online. You can work anytime and
anywhere. You only need 30 to 60 minutes of free time every day
to be competent. Basically, oh, here's where they fall apart.
Basically, basic salary is $800 for four days, so you know. And
what they do, of course, is, you know, then you have to, you know
what? You have to do this or do that. You got to send me some
money to qualify for the insurance. And people are
stupid. So it just expanded the universe. No, you don't need it,
obviously, but it makes it easier for every Tom Dick and
Harry and
John C Dvorak: the morons. I can't put two sentences
Adam Curry: together, yes, in Nigeria, maybe, yes. Nigeria,
yeah. So or Bombay. It just expands the scam universe. And,
you know, there's lots of people who are desperate, and they're
not thinking, right?
John C Dvorak: And the thing is, by the way, I should mention
they said, Well, if it's too much money for what is expected.
No, that's not true with disease and the millennials who come.
We've had clips on this show saying, I'm not taking a job
unless I make $100,000 a year, no matter what it
Adam Curry: is, exactly, exactly. And then greed kicks
in. Oh, but this is exactly what I've been looking for. I'm worth
it, yeah, so that's that's true, I'm worth it.
John C Dvorak: So I wonder how much money they're asking for,
Adam Curry: 500 bucks a pop. I think I've heard different
things. That's
John C Dvorak: reasonable. Yeah, that's believable. I can see you
getting taken for 500 bucks if you're an idiot. Yeah.
Adam Curry: Meanwhile, while you're just using your regular
devices and they're on that fabulous social media, for some
reason this is popping up. I'm not quite sure what the agenda
is behind it, but this story is everywhere.
Unknown: Federal investigators call it a vast surveillance of
anyone using some of the most popular social media and
streaming companies, including Amazon's, Twitch, Facebook,
YouTube, Twitter, X snap, Tiktok, Reddit, WhatsApp and
discord gathering user age, gender and location, even
marital status and income, to target ads and sell the data to
third parties a
mass vast profiles and
just about every American, including Americans that don't
even use the services. The FTC says companies are too often
failing to protect personal information, exposing users,
including children and teens, to a range of threats from identity
theft to criminal stalking, and Congress needs to create tough
new privacy laws. What are these companies doing with the data
they collect on all of us? We
were quite disturbed by the fact that some of these companies did
not even know all of the third parties with whom they were
sharing data
today, many of the companies refuted or declined to comment
on the report, though, in the past, meta Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerberg has defended his company.
We give people the ability to connect to the people they care
about and engage with the topics that they
care online advertisers care about consumers understand the
value exchange and welcome the opportunity to have access to
free or highly subsidized content services, but security
posts, most of us simply scroll through the long user agreements
when we sign up EULAs.
Adam Curry: There it is. It may be a EULA story. I'm not sure
ABC had a very short version of it,
Unknown: a new federal report on social media and surveillance of
users, a new FTC report accusing many popular social media
companies of, quote, vast surveillance of its users. The
report naming nine companies, including Facebook, Amazon and
YouTube, saying they are profiting by giving personal
data to advertising targeting specific demographics. The
federal report says users may not be aware of just how much
data is being collected and shared. Google, which owns
YouTube, says it has a strict privacy policy. Oh, yeah, yeah,
sure,
Adam Curry: privacy policy. So maybe you
John C Dvorak: know what? I just ironically, the holy grail of
advertising has always been to target to such an extreme that
you knew the person. How many you. Know, put their
fingerprints. I'll
Adam Curry: give you the right ad at the right moment about the
right thing at the right price, right now. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: that's, that's in a nutshell. And that's always
been, I remember in the 70s and the 80s, this was the Holy
Grail, yeah, and that's all they talked about. How we're going to
do it. It was going to be interactive TV. That was one of
the mechanism,
Adam Curry: click on the dress, and it'll come to your door the
next day
John C Dvorak: Exactly. Yeah, you remember all this old crap,
of course. And so they finally achieve it, and oh no, it's the
end of the world. What we're gonna do privacy?
Adam Curry: Well, I think, yeah, we know that the the younger
generations, younger than two old guys with hot takes,
Unknown: that's us
Adam Curry: that they, you know, they universally have given up.
Oh, they got all my information anyway. But I think I'm really
on this entropy kick, because I think back, yeah, because you'll
see that social media is you can already see it. It's just
devolving. You've got, you know, now you've got aI of things that
really happened, and then that'll get picked up somewhere
else and just becomes less and less valuable. And I think you
your kids aren't really on social media are they
John C Dvorak: not as much as me,
Adam Curry: exactly, exactly,
John C Dvorak: but I'm only on Twitter, pretty much. I don't I
don't have a Facebook account. I've been but they
Adam Curry: don't care that they're texting. They're just
texting with each other. They got
John C Dvorak: text a lot, yeah. Oh, and they do watch a lot of
YouTube videos. Yeah, yeah. They do tick tock in some instances,
but in my circle, it's mostly YouTube. I don't see anyone, you
know, I probably watch more tick tock than they do
Adam Curry: well, my my Zoom. I'm looking for material.
John C Dvorak: I have a reason.
Adam Curry: Oh, you do you research uh, my Zoomers, aren't
they? They recognize
John C Dvorak: I have no Zoomers. I only have
millennials.
Adam Curry: Yeah, see, I got Zoomer. I got one millennial and
two Zoomers. And the Zoomers, they, they keep deleting tick
tock from their phone, because they because then they wake up
at four, or they awake at four in the morning. Like, what did I
just do? So that they are realizing that they get sucked
into the whole but, yeah, a lot of YouTube still, but really for
informational purposes. You know, how do I cook this? How do
I put this together? And, you know,
John C Dvorak: just information cooking advice from YouTube
people. No,
Adam Curry: I agree. That's not a good idea, but it does create,
if we look at the Zoomers there, you know, and the I need
$100,000 job, and just the general attitude towards work, I
think this is real. I don't know if you saw this. I think it's
real. It's different. HR, ladies who were videoing themselves
while people called in with excuses while they were not
coming to work. This is a classic. It's it appears real to
me. I'm I'm obviously not sure, but I haven't
John C Dvorak: I have no evidence to the contrary at this
point.
Unknown: Hi, Lindsay is really
good. Quick. I'm not coming in today. I'm having a digital
detox day
next week, we are quite busy. Well, my friend offered me a
trip to Florida. Okay, that's cool, but you are scheduled all
week.
Once in a lifetime, change we're gonna see you.
NASCAR, hey, sage, what's up? The elevator is broken at the
office.
Yeah, okay. Do you are you carrying something?
No. Hey, are you?
Are you hurt?
No, okay, well, we're just on the second floor. Sage, it's
like 18 steps. Hey, Michaela,
what's up? This is Michael's
boyfriend. What's
up is everything? Okay? What's up? What's going on?
It's my birthday.
It's your birthday. Is Michaela there? Can I talk to her,
please? Yeah,
she said, No. How's it going? Not good at all.
Oh, what's wrong, girl, you
sound upset.
I went into the Starbucks drive show, and I was already a little
bit in a rush, and I just wanted to get my caramel ice, white
mocha and vanilla sweet cream, corn pump and Latin toast milk,
and they messed my order up, so I'm just, I'm not coming
Adam Curry: in sounded real to me,
Unknown: and it's believable.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, it is believable, but that's what
makes it sound real. Yeah, it may not be true, but it's good
stuff.
Adam Curry: It's good It's great stuff. I. Fantastic,
John C Dvorak: but it's kind of this group is notorious for not
wanting to go to work. Yeah, yes. And I, you know, it's like
they were raised that way. They didn't have jobs when they were
kids. I mean, I was working when I was in grammar school. I had a
paper route. I was doing all these different things,
constantly finding some way to, yeah, something, paper route.
And then I worked all through high school, all the summers. I
always worked. I worked at the college. I worked my way through
college, and everything in between. I was working. I worked
sometimes during the college year, I'd take a job full time,
yeah, and and
Adam Curry: all that hard work paid off. You're a podcast,
yeah, I'm a podcast. Congratulations,
congratulations.
John C Dvorak: But bikes, but I keep busy, and the they don't
keep busy.
Unknown: No, no,
John C Dvorak: so I'm not sure.
Adam Curry: I just have a feeling they
John C Dvorak: were raised, that they're just raised, not you
know, they're raised, uh, the poorly. They're raised poorly,
Adam Curry: the lost generation. It's all over the lost
generation.
John C Dvorak: Anyway, you never know. They might be leap
bloomers. Yeah, possible. Next thing you know, they're working
their asses off. You, you know, it's enjoyable. Something to do,
you know, what else would you do? Because I was talking to
somebody, I famous guy, too. Oh, it's talking about, I'm retire.
Gonna retire. Retire, retire. Keep talking about it. And it's
like, why? What are you gonna do? Yeah, putter in the garden.
I mean, what is there to do? Oh, I want to go traveling. Yeah,
well, you couldn't be here. Gonna travel as an old man, I
agree this so good if you want to travel when you're young.
It's hot here
Adam Curry: at the Parthenon, the Coliseum, was great, but
it's so hot and we're cold and the food hot burn.
John C Dvorak: I too many onions. What's wrong with this
food? My one of my friends that used to be a high school and on
to this day, I still know him. His dad was one of these guys
who retired, and he was like this old fogey, and so he would
he my favorite line I still remember, he says he went to
Europe and he brought his own coffee and his own coffee maker,
because, quote, unquote, they don't know how to make coffee in
Europe, yeah,
Adam Curry: yeah. They certainly don't. Probably better than
America, but okay, yeah, doesn't really matter, because a lot of
these people who are under 50, let's put it that way, they're
not going to make it. They
Unknown: are back now with a look at the biggest findings
from a brand new report on cancer in the US, the American
Association for Cancer Research, found that rates of some cancers
have been increasing among adults, specifically under 50,
and alcohol use may be one factor driving the trash.
Alcohol is just one piece of the full picture, given that 40% of
all cancers are associated with what are known as modifiable
risk
factors. News
Medical contributor, Doctor van Gupta joins us with more. Doctor
Gupta, good morning. Certainly concerning. You hear some of
those numbers, the Sanjay vein Gupta ranges, and then you think
about alcohol. Let's start with the rise in some of these
cancers in young people, and this possible link in
particular, what do people need to know? Well,
what appears is that alcohol is an independent risk factor for
all forms of gastrointestinal cancers, so esophagus all the
way
Adam Curry: down this. This sounds like a cover up to me,
Unknown: and this is a difference
John C Dvorak: total cut. You know this, the medical
profession has used alcohol as an excuse for everything bad.
Don't drink. Don't drink. Stop. Don't have any alcohol ever and
you got cancers because your alcohol is, you know, wondering,
no, it's too many. It's like, why are they such teetotalers
when it's if you go to Europe or France, for example, where they
lived longer than we do the kids and everything but cream and
butter and booze, and
Adam Curry: they're thin and groovy and they're thin, yeah?
But they do need deodorant for their pits in private places.
No,
John C Dvorak: they need it here more than Well,
Unknown: yeah, maybe in France. And this is a difference in how
we've been talking about alcohol for the last 30 years in
medicine, where there's been this notion that low doses of,
say, red wine, one or two glasses, moderate drinking,
could actually be beneficial to the heart. Oh
Adam Curry: yes, that's why I drink one or two glasses a
night, a day in the morning, and
Unknown: now these no amount that's safe, and that actually
we're seeing that this might be pretending this incidence, this
increased incidence of gastrointestinal cancers? No,
Adam Curry: no amount is safe now, no.
John C Dvorak: How does that explain these, these
centenarians, these old ladies and old men that are 110 saying,
I have a bottle of booze every day and bacon and. It
Adam Curry: they smoke a cigar after breakfast. Yes, this
report
Unknown: estimates that by the end of 2024 more than 2 million
new cases of cancer be diagnosed in the US this year. That just
feels like a staggering number, additional alcohol. There are
other changes people can do to lower their risks. Talk about
what some of
those are absolutely so you know, moderation. Get the key
here. So really there's a dose response. The more you drink,
the greater the risk. But it's important to live a healthy
lifestyle. So all the things Joe that we always talk about,
healthy weight, alcohol, actually increases your risk of
being overweight, and so there's a direct correlation. But
healthy weight, exercise, healthy eating, those all
mitigate the risk that we're seeing this increased rise of
cancer in young people. I should also note, we're seeing
increased incidence of cancer, so that's being diagnosed more
in younger people, but they're actually living longer because
we have better treatment. So it's an ironic twist.
Adam Curry: You know, this is another downside to the AI
revolution. They're going to pre, predetermine you have pre,
pre cancer at every every twist, every chance they get, it'd be
like, Oh, because, you know, we already had the pre diabetic.
You know, you're pre dead. All this pre, pre, pre dead, yep,
however, now, of course, hot take. You know, sugar is
definitely not good for you. There is a lot of sugar and
alcohol, and if you're drinking there's not in I was, let me
finish the sentence. Have you seen some of the alcoholic
beverages that young people are drinking? Literally, sugar
without
John C Dvorak: the alcohol. No. Okay,
Adam Curry: they are combining sugar with alcohol. Is there no
sugar in wine? Does
John C Dvorak: it not really? It's minuscule. Then sweet
wines, yes, there's a residual sugar, yes. And saw turns, for
example, one of the greatest Rhodesia Yes, that's how I got
some sugar. It's natural. That was dry wine. The reason is to
use the term dry. This means there's no sugar, or so much as
minuscule.
Adam Curry: Well, when Trump gets elected and we get RFK Jr
as an extra bonus, he's putting a stop to a couple of things.
Red Alert from day one, and on day one, we're going to declare
an emergency, like we did in covid, but
Unknown: it's going to be a chronic disease emergency, and
we're going to get, we're going to get the fluoride out of the
water, we're going to get the chemicals out of the food. We're
going to get the chemtrails out. The chemicals out of the
chemtrails, and we're, there's 1000 ingredients in Europe, and
we're going to get rid of all those chemicals, and I know how
to do it.
Adam Curry: He's not actually going to get rid of chemtrails
just, he's just going to take the chemicals out of the
chemtrails. They'll just be trails. Well, they're not vapor
trails.
John C Dvorak: But no, there's no such thing. Yeah, okay,
Adam Curry: yesterday in Texas, oh, man, it was bad. We had
regular, beautiful cotton blobs everywhere. It was a beautiful
day, you know, little enough clouds so that it didn't heat up
too much, and throughout all these clouds at low altitude,
not Vapor Trail altitude, just these big fat chemtrails that
were spreading out slowly over time, creating this whole cloud
cover of junk. It's so everyone sees it now. It's so obvious.
RFK, chem he said, chemtrails. He's
John C Dvorak: nuts. That guy. You
Adam Curry: know that. You know they're really taking him down
now you've been following the, oh, yeah,
John C Dvorak: they're finding his old affairs and some sex did
with nuts.
Adam Curry: Well, see you, you took the bait.
John C Dvorak: He didn't. Well, I didn't take the bait because I
didn't, there's no clips. I didn't bring it up. I what bait
did I
Adam Curry: take the sex? Did? He didn't sex with anybody.
Sexed. He did. He wasn't sexting. No, this. This is
Olivia newsy, who works for she worked for Vanity Fair. Think
so, and so she did an interview. Was more like a hit piece,
actually on RFK. But then, and if you read about this woman,
she is relentless. She was sending naked pictures and all
kinds of stuff that he would block. He would block her. And
with the whole point being to basically make it look like he
had some kind of affair with her, but this is a hit job. From
everything I've been able to see,
John C Dvorak: it would make nothing but sense to me, and we
got to do something about this guy. Is a problem, yes,
Adam Curry: and that's what's happening. They are making it
look like he's a sleaze. And that's what you do, is like, oh,
let's uh. Let's create some problems with his marriage.
That's always fun. These people, these people. It's always a good
one. The relationship. The relationship turned personal. So
everyone, of course, immediately thinks, oh, probably Sexton horn
dog. Yeah, yeah, they're doing that. It's entertaining. That's
for sure.
John C Dvorak: Well, if you know, trying to create a problem
with this marriage, when his wife might be, quote, unquote,
his handler, going nowhere,
Adam Curry: his handler. I'm still not she's I don't know.
I'm not so sure. I'm not so sure anymore. I don't know what he
is. I like him, though.
John C Dvorak: I like, yeah, he's, he's good stuff.
Adam Curry: I mean, fluoride out of the water. I mean, this is,
that's by a mini single handle.
John C Dvorak: He got the fluoride out of the water up in
Port Angeles.
Adam Curry: Did they label her a kook and a conspiracy theorist?
No, she
John C Dvorak: did a great job. The way she did. It was just
masterful. And so darn was not discussable, but they had, you
know, the floor whole fluoride thing is, is chemical wastes,
yeah, from all you got, somehow got to get rid of, and the
easiest way to do it is to dump it in water supplies and
convince people that it is good for your teeth. I told you, man,
it's, it's, it's masterful,
Adam Curry: you know, I had, we had dinner with Maverick, my
periodontist. This is months ago, and this is back when I
was, you know, think, by the way, it turns out I can't even
run for mayor if I wanted to, because we live in
unincorporated Fredericksburg, I can't even run. Can we run for
city council? Are you sure? Yeah, yeah, unless they change
that. And he was like, Oh, what do you think about fluoride in
the water? I'm like, horrible. Doesn't belong. He's like,
You're wrong. This really helps with dental he's a dentist guy.
Do you really? It really helps with dental health. This is, you
know, this is, this has been such a revolution for oral
health. I said, bro and and I tried to bro, you said bro at
the dinner table. I said, bro, no, this is not, this is not
just regular fluoride. This is, uh, industrial waste from Alcoa.
You know the just, it's, it's, it's sludge waste. You don't
want that. And if I want fluoride, I'll be happy to take
it from my dental professional, not from the government, you
know, put into knowledge with the what uncle Don told me, and
what was written in a legacy of ashes, where the CIA would put
floor, would fluoridate enemy camps water so that night they
could go in and rouse them, because they were all
John C Dvorak: docile, because they were getting dumbed down.
You were docile?
Unknown: Yeah, yeah.
Adam Curry: Speaking of docile, do I still have to take off my
shoes now at at TSA, now that we clearly know that this is
John C Dvorak: one taking off my shoes forever. Well, I
Adam Curry: haven't been, you haven't been on airplanes.
John C Dvorak: But even before then, they stopped doing that.
No, sir, no, sir, that it's not an officer
Adam Curry: that's not well, because you're wrong. There's
and it's different per airport, but there's lots of airports, so
they still make you take your shoes off, even if you're going
through the the body scanner. But, I mean, it's, it's
irrelevant now, because clearly we can put p, e, t, n and into
any device and explode it anywhere we want. So it's all
theater. They can't. They can. They're not detecting this
John C Dvorak: stuff. No, you can't. No,
Adam Curry: so should we even go through this song and dance
anymore? Makes no sense. It's for the dummies, the dummies who
can't afford to play fried private. Is that what you're
saying? No,
John C Dvorak: it's for the dummies who don't you know, who
think that this is all like, Oh, they're going to catch me. I
better not do it or,
Adam Curry: or are we going back to the days and I remember
these, ah, you got to take your laptop out, turn it on so we can
see that it's working.
John C Dvorak: Oh, they Yeah, they remember that, yeah. That
really slowed down production.
Adam Curry: I bet people don't remember that. It was a long
time ago you had, they
John C Dvorak: had to turn the laptop on, yeah, to prove that
Adam Curry: it worked. Now you turn it on, it blows up in your
face, alright? TSA guy, you sure you want me to turn it on? You
sure you want to see it
John C Dvorak: well? Talking about you want to talk airplane
stories. I got a story. All right. This is a classic mouse
on board,
Adam Curry: mouse on board
Unknown: Scandinavian Airlines. SAS has said one of its flights
had to make an emergency landing after a mouse scurried out of a
passenger's in flight meal. On Wednesday, the plane was
traveling from Norway's capital Oslo to the Spanish city Malaga,
and was forced to make an emergency landing in Copenhagen,
Denmark. The diversion was in line with company procedures as
the furry stole. Posed a safety risk. Airline spokesperson
oistin SCHMIDT told the AFP news agency passengers on the flight
were later flown to Malaga on a different aircraft. Airlines
usually have strict restrictions involving rodents on board
planes in order to prevent electrical wiring being chewed
through. Believe it or not, a lady next to me here at SAS
opened the food and out jumped a mouse. Now we have turned around
and landed at CPH Copenhagen airport for flight changes. One
passenger, jarlo Boris stodd, wrote on Facebook. He posted the
comment alongside laughing emojis and a photo of him
smiling while sat next to two women. This is something that
happens extremely rarely. Mr. Schmidt said, we have
established procedures for such situations, which also include a
review with our suppliers to ensure this does not happen
again. It is the second rodent related travel incident in a
week. Well,
Adam Curry: I'm very disappointed in you. Okay, you
brought an AI generated story to the
John C Dvorak: show. Yeah, it was that sounds like a fake
voice, but the story is valid.
Adam Curry: But just tell us the story. Don't bring in some dude
to read it. Clips. Clips are us. That's not this. You're creating
entropy in our very own show.
John C Dvorak: According to you, that's unavoidable. So what? So
just contributing to it and speeding up the process, as it
were.
Adam Curry: And with that, I'd like to thank you for your
courage. Say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in
the classic mouse clip, say hello to my friend on the other
end, the one and only. Mr. Johnson in the morning,
John C Dvorak: to you. Mr. Carlson, in the morning, I
should see boosted the graphic near seven to dancing nice out
there, all right,
Adam Curry: in the morning in the troll room. Hello. Cotton
Gin has written a script now. It's great. Cotton gin, You the
man. 2324 peak trollage.
Unknown: That's not bad.
John C Dvorak: It's actually down 100 for Sunday. No,
Adam Curry: really, yeah, we
John C Dvorak: had more on Thursday. We had Thursday, we
had 2400
Adam Curry: did we? Well, that was a special day because we had
exploding devices.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, yeah, we had exploding devices. And no
donations now,
Adam Curry: all we got is Oprah, Kamala, Chris Rock House, in the
house, into his house. Where is our sign? Your Hall, by the way,
where my dog pound at, oh, man, good times. The trolls are in
the troll room, which you can find@trollroom.io actually, I
got a note from one of our visually impaired producers. The
way she put it, I'm half blind, and she has real problem with
trollroom.io and so I said, Well, how about you try? Gave
her a couple of suggestions other ways to do it. But ever
since it changed, which just shows how racist our producers
are, they changed trolling.io made it look all nice. Now the
blind people can't use it. This is very big problem. So I said,
You can't win. You can never win, for sure. But I think, I
think I helped her out with a way to do it. Haven't heard back
from her yet, but I think I gave her some good advice. They're
listening. They're listening live. We have been doing the
show live for when did we start doing live? 15 years ago? Maybe
we started going live after about the first year. Oh, okay,
so almost 16 years. We'll be 17 in October, coming up on episode
1700 which we'll talk about in a moment, but I think we're one of
a handful. Maybe there's 30 or 40 podcasts. It is the wave of
the future. There's no doubt about it. People love being able
to listen live. You get the live interaction we have the live
studio audience, as it were, although they're not an
audience, they are producers. Their entire raison d'etre is
trolls. Is to troll is to try. Yeah, at least our audience gets
to troll. They don't. We don't tell them to shut up and flash
an applause sign, like at Oprah, whoa, wait. Hora, white dudes
for Harris, Swifties for Harris. No, you do what you're what
comes naturally, which is troll. But sometimes they have some
good information as well, and that@trollroom.io's or you can
use a modern podcast app. Many of them now give you a bat
signal. When we send out the bat signal, that fires up and let
you know, Oh, that's right, I was about to do something for my
boss here at work. And screw that. I'm listening to the show
and pretending to work. Let me turn on the mouse mover.
Everything's good to go. You also want to use one of those
because, well, I just got another notice Spotify that
removed a let's see the true north residential school. They
had an interview, and they removed it from Spotify because
it was dangerous content. John, dangerous content. Intent. They
removed what? They removed a whole episode of what of a
podcast? The true north
John C Dvorak: resonates that all the time, don't they?
Adam Curry: Yeah, but now people are sending me the reports when
it happens, so you do not want
John C Dvorak: to why would they remove a single episode of a
podcast? It's dangerous. What was dangerous about it, I
haven't more documentation on this what, because I'd like to
know what was dangerous about a podcast.
Adam Curry: Let me see Spotify removed that episode of true
Norse, the Faulkner show that featured an interview with
former residential school worker Rodney Clifton, claiming it
promoted dangerous content the streaming giant cited alleged
concerns over dangerous content. Okay, why? Why? Why? Upon
review, we've removed the following content for violating
Spotify platform rules for dangerous content, however,
specific details about what constitute dangerous were not
made clear. So they won't even tell you.
John C Dvorak: Oh, so they just remove it arbitrarily, yeah, and
claim it's dangerous because there's something that they
didn't like.
Adam Curry: Yeah, if, if something is not to their one
guy or
John C Dvorak: at Spotify, I don't like this. This is no good
pretty much. I disagree pretty
Adam Curry: much, pretty much. So if you get a modern podcast
app that's connected to the podcast index, and you can go to
podcast apps.com there's over 70 apps and services that use it
now,
John C Dvorak: by the way, yes, Patreon does the same thing.
Adam Curry: Oh, Patreon throws stuff off all the time, and
that's a demonetization at the same time you're done, that's
worse you're done, and they often keep your money for, you
know, 180 days or whatever. Oh, yeah. None of this is smart or
good. None of it. None of it. So get a modern podcast that people
now, I've noticed many people have complained to me. Well, I
read it as complaining. They may not be complaining. Tim pool is
now moaning that he has to work on weekends, and he's and
they're running all kinds of spots now in the show, and he's
doing live ad reads, and people are very irked by it. And I'm
like, what do you expect? He had the money train. Of all money
trains. He was making $5 million a year overnight that put some
of that in the bank. He bought a skateboard park, and he bought
all kinds of other real
John C Dvorak: estate spending. Oh, he was a good investment
skateboard park. That's where I put my money.
Adam Curry: You'd put it in Bitcoin before you put it in a
skate park. Well, also he has, he has staff. You know, it was,
it was easy. He's got a big stay, yeah, yeah. When you have
5 million bucks a year, it's like, this is a gravy train,
baby. Now he's got to pay everybody now on board. Now he's
got to work. You know, like us lowly podcasters, you got to do
some work, exactly. So we always stayed away from that. I have to
keep explaining to people that, yes, we realize that our
particular hot takes and brand of content and humor probably
wouldn't fly with most advertisers. In fact, I remember
distinctly getting a call from BMW when we had me VO, and they
were all really upset about, I think I wonder if it, maybe it
was, it must have been, might have been Madge Weinstein, I
don't know. And a BMW ran where ad ran where it shouldn't have.
And they pulled, they pulled all their advertising in one go, and
this was in 2007 so that's one of the reasons we never wanted
ads, but also we're just lazy talking to advertisers is a pain
in the butt, yeah,
John C Dvorak: it takes away from show prep, yet
Adam Curry: takes a lot of time away from show prep, and then
you gotta put together the metrics. Oh, look at the
metrics. Metrics. Do we hit your cable demo? And we also have
quite a diverse demo. You can't really target
John C Dvorak: one demo with no our demo is out of control. Nine
to 99
Adam Curry: we got kids, yeah, we do. We do.
John C Dvorak: We got the octogenarians. We Do?
Adam Curry: Do? We have any 90 judarians? What do you call
those? What's 90? What do you 90s? What do you in United
John C Dvorak: I should know, and I would have said that. I
know there's centenarians. We probably have a couple of those.
Adam Curry: If, if someone is 100 and you listen to the show,
please send an email to adam@curry.com I want to I want
to call you out. I want to call you out. I want to highlight
you. I really do. I want to highlight you. We may have one
or two. We may maybe
John C Dvorak: one or two again, loose enough. Instead, we went
Adam Curry: for a value for
John C Dvorak: value guys, you know, I find them refreshing. I
Adam Curry: guarantee you, anyone who listens to Noah Jen
as 100 is one of those who drinks a bottle of whiskey a
day, smokes a cigar and. And pops bacon, bacon, scarfed down.
Bacon. Exactly. That is us. Whoo, that's right. Hey, I just
realized only 40 more years and I'm there, and I plan to be
still spitting in the microphone, and you will be that
probably that's, well, what else am I going to do? Yeah,
literally, in 2015 I decided that this is what I'm good at,
and I gave up everything else pretty much. So I love my job,
and I love my I love what I do. I love my truck. So instead, we
went for the value for value model, which we pioneered. And
it's, it's always heartwarming to see that people are catching
on to that and and and doing that for themselves,
particularly in music. And you know, there is a future in this.
The future of media is small, though. You just have to delight
an audience that supports you, and as long as the audience
supports you because they're producers with time, talent or
treasure, then you'll be good to go. And that's so far so good
with us. So we're happy about that. Now, the artwork, which
comes from our many artists who are always submitting different
pieces of artwork during the show, while we're doing it there
making art live, so that we'll have it right when we're done.
By the way, the turnaround time is pretty fast. You know, the
minute we're done with a live show, within 30 minutes, you've
got it in your podcast app. Parker. Paulie was a black
knight, did a piece of art that I actually used for the for the
bat signal, because he put it in pretty early, and it was a pager
with an exploding background, and the message reads, three,
dot, dot, dot two. Dot, dot, dot, one, dot, dot. Episode
1696, violated a big rule that we always say is, don't use
episode number in your art, and also the fact that we used it
twice. There was one guy on Twitter, you had 40 pieces of
pager arts, and you did this one twice. It was that good. Oh,
man, I just spit on the curry. One holds up pretty well.
John C Dvorak: You know, the problem is, is that, is that the
the one that was picked and put on the list of winners was the
one that he did later called Boom. Not the 321, if you go to
the art generate, did I pull the wrong one? I think you did, hmm,
or somebody did, or maybe it was couture when he, when he put it
up there,
Adam Curry: I'm looking, no, it's Parker. Parker Pauly, who
did it? Not couture. Park he
John C Dvorak: did two of them. He did two of them. One was 321,
episode 1396, 3218, boom, and then the other one just said,
boom, on it.
Adam Curry: Well, right now I'm not getting anything from the
generator, so,
John C Dvorak: oh, I'm on it now
Adam Curry: this you're hogging the bandwidth. I'm taking all
the bandwidth. It's the AI. It's too much AI going on in the
background. It's not, it's not making it work. So a lot of
people did pager art, yeah, I'd say yes, but none was really as
good as that one. And you know, there was a lot of freak off
art, which was, I kind of like the Hezbollah, Hezbollah phone,
but tanta Neal, you correctly said that there were some
problems with it. Maybe you'd like to reiterate, and I have to
John C Dvorak: go back to I'm looking something else up. I
don't know which one it was the
Adam Curry: the two tin cans. Oh, that, yeah, it
John C Dvorak: was well for it was off. It was too hard to see.
I was just small. And it was, it was, it was, it was simple. It
was, I know you liked it, and it was, you know, it was cute. It
was also, yeah, it was all center, no agenda. Creative art
was too small. It just was unbalanced, yeah,
Adam Curry: unbalanced is the right word. And then there was,
we like the exploderola. That was kind of cute. Couple people
did explode arola correct a record. Didn't use that term
twice. Yeah, it was cute. Which was cute? Explode arola was
funny. Oh, I see, okay, the pagers go boom. I may have
picked the wrong one by mistake,
John C Dvorak: cuz that's what I was looking up. I was going to
go to no agenda show and see what it was, what's listed
there, because that would be the give
Adam Curry: and that, and that would have saved me. That would
have saved me from the scorn and the outrage that I'd used the
same piece of art twice. Oh, another. Miss, her. Um, was
anything else? No, that was, everyone did pagers, well, made,
made the most sense. So it was a real page pager, uh, pager,
competition. Page around it, yes, so far I'm looking, I don't
see much, uh, there's plenty of, plenty of chances to win people,
but not with Camella. I.
Bag: Ah, Horace. Horace.
John C Dvorak: Horace, Horace.
Adam Curry: No agenda. Art generator.com. You can refresh
that live during the show see how the artists are doing. I saw
Nick the rat in the troll room, so I wonder if he'll be, if
he'll be uploading anything, because I know that his life
changed and he couldn't listen live up. He might have given up.
He's still high on the leaderboard, though, he did real
well there
John C Dvorak: for a long, long time. Yeah, he was on a roll.
Adam Curry: Time and talent are those two things that you can
provide value back to us. Many people do lots of things,
including the art generator itself, hitting people in the
mouth, getting to listen to the show, just doing things to help
make the show better by being a producer, sending us in boots on
the ground, you name it. There's a lot of ways you can
contribute. We do need treasure. And the concept is, whatever
value you feel you got out of the show, send that back to it.
And that can be any amount for any reason at any time. We love
sustaining donations, which are usually smaller amounts, but you
can make up any amount you want, any frequency you want it. We
prefer those to be recurring, automatically recurring. You can
do all that at no agenda donations.com and around this
time in the show, we'd like to thank our executive and
Associate Executive producers. $200 and above is we read your
note and we give you an Associate Executive producer
credit, which is a real, real show business production credit.
You can use it anywhere that credits are recognized,
including imdb.com, or you could be an executive producer for
$300 above and we read your note now we have several who came in
for a new promotion, which I'd like you to talk about.
John C Dvorak: Yes, we have a new promotion. This will be our
show, 1700 promotion. Every year we do something, and this year
we're going to give away what's called the no agenda Commodore.
This was outlined in the newsletter for people don't get
the newsletter, we'll tell you what it is. Some people just
don't like the newsletter. I got a note from somebody. Your
newsletter stinks the beginnings. Always asking for
money. It's tiresome. And of course, I looked him up. He
never, he's never, never,
Adam Curry: ever, ever, ever, of course not,
John C Dvorak: but he likes to complain so so promotion is a
Adam Curry: lot of people, when they hear Commodore, associate
it with something other than a, a a title
John C Dvorak: the Commodore was the was the reference to the One
star Admiral in the Navy until about 1895 and it's become a and
Rhode Island is the main state that gives these out as
honorary, honorary, uh, titles to people as Commodore. There's
not that many Commodores out of Rhode Island compared to
Kentucky colonels, which is why, which this is based on the idea
of a Kentucky Colonel, which I am. One I actually have the
certification I got my Kentucky Colonel ship some years ago,
when I was giving a speech to I was offered to give a talk to
the Kentucky computer club or something back in the 80s. I
think it was a late 80s. And I said, No, I don't know. You
know, you see any honorarium or some now, we don't have anything
we can do. We who's who else is, spoke, spoken there. I said,
Well, Stuart elsop spoke here last time, and he they gave him.
He got a Kentucky Colonel ship. And I said, What? He says, Yeah.
I said, Well, you give me one of those. I'm coming. So I got a
Kentucky Colonel ship. Wilkerson was the governor at the time.
And it's a nice certificate. It's got a ribbon and everything
in the box. So this is kind of fashioned after that. It
Adam Curry: kind of sounds star Trekky too.
John C Dvorak: Well, the Commodore, yeah, didn't was that
Commodore? There was some nut woman has demanded to be
Commodores called Commodore all the time. But anyway, so, yeah,
it is a Star Trek equality. But so Commodore is one of these
alternative alternate to the colonel, and I it's a little
higher rank, and I thought it was sounded better. No agenda,
Commodore. And so this gives you a you'll get the nice
certificates on legal sizes, eight and a half by 14 is pretty
big and with a ribbon and a special stamp and it's got, it's
a nice certificate. Adam will pose with one of them in an
upcoming newsletter. Yeah. So
Adam Curry: you can put use it to meme crazy stuff on it.
Thanks. People always do. Oh, look, he's holding something up.
Oh, let's put a Star of David on there and put a little yarmulke
on him. Yeah, that's hilarious.
John C Dvorak: Whatever, whatever I will be publicity
Adam Curry: in the mail. Is it coming in? I can't wait to see
it. It's coming,
John C Dvorak: but it's not in the mail. Okay? We're still
working on the paper. No, is
Adam Curry: it going to be heavy stock? Yeah, it's
John C Dvorak: going to be heavy stock. But it's, it's, it's got
to be able to go through the printer. Can't be like a card
stock, okay, anyway, the that's coming and nice. Anyways, $500
and you get, you get the that and a couple, and you can just
go to know it just 500 bucks. Anyone 500 over, you'll get one
of these for until shows, until the end of the promotion. It's
about a month. We figure about a month.
Adam Curry: And so when can we see this thing? Is that soon I
want to see it. I'm interested. I love that people are already
getting it sight unseen, which is amazing.
John C Dvorak: Well, they know it's going to be hot looking.
Yeah, it's always hot. Anything
Adam Curry: that comes out of gate view publishing is hot.
John C Dvorak: Hot looking. Well, Jay's doing all the
designs, so she's good. All
Adam Curry: right. So we start off with our first executive
producer, who also will be a Commodore, anonymous, from no
city provided USA $500 and anonymous says, hey, it's been a
while since I donated, but I love a good Alter Ego. Well,
that's a good way of looking at it. Also, your show has given me
some of the best Z's over the years. I think it's a
compliment. Please. No, please call me Commodore gizmo. I am
sure I'll forget this as my as my night name, no jingles. Okay,
no jingles for you. But thank you very much. Anonymous and and
welcome. Actually, we're going to Commodore. People have a
little ceremony during
John C Dvorak: the second Oh, really. Oh, that's cute. That's
cute. Well, of course, I
Adam Curry: mean, I'm part of the promotion here. I'm trying
to do something. Yes, you are. Yeah, we
John C Dvorak: are the we. We key to it. We
Adam Curry: welcome our brand new Commodores. You bet
John C Dvorak: now we have surge globally. Go go low. Benko
gulabenco in Staten, island of all places, New York. And he it
will be a Commodore. And he says, If anyone in New York City
and Long Island requires environmental work, please reach
out to a GG for outstanding service. It's 718499, 2300, is
that a promotion?
Adam Curry: I think it is. I think it is a promo if you need
environmental work on Long Island in New York City, what is
environmental
John C Dvorak: work cleaning the rats out of the sewer. Oh, I
have no idea. It must be a lot of work that you would know.
Also, we should organize a meetup in Hampton, the Hampton
Bay Area, Montauk. I could get some help for the show. S g
dash, a G, g@hotmail.com, S G, dash a G, G, Hotmail. Hotmail.
Adam Curry: Sir Baronet John Helmer from Shawnee, Kansas,
comes in for 500 for for a Commodore ship Adam and John,
the numerology of show 1697, and the no agenda Commodore
promotion were too good to resist. I understand. I totally
get it. Thanks for the dose of sanity you provide twice a week.
Can I get an F 35 scream? Oh, hold on, F 35 karma. You see f
35 scream? Yes, F 35 scream and an r2, d2, karma. Thank you, sir
Baronet John Helmer from Shawnee, Kansas,
Unknown: you've got
John C Dvorak: very similar, yeah, almost the same Christian
Freeman in San Marcos, Texas, which I have to speak from you
500 another Commodore in the morning, John and Adam. I had a
night status a few months ago via the layaway program. And all
that time, I'd never written and never written in so So I needed
deducing.
Unknown: You've been deduced.
John C Dvorak: My wife and I have loved listening to no
agenda together every week since we started listening in January
of 2022, we now recommend it to all of our family as a antidote
to the MSM craziness. They might not understand how podcast apps
work well, then they won't be listening for long. But when
we're visiting, we enjoy sitting down together to listen to some
of the good old media deacons.
Adam Curry: You can just go to no agenda show.net you can play
it right there. You don't need a podcast app. You can do it right
from the website.
John C Dvorak: Please Knight me sir crimby of the San Marcos
River, and with which, always he gets a knighting. I hope he's on
the list. Yes, he and with my donation today, a Commodore
Commodore crimby, I let you guys decide how that works. I'll have
a glass of orange juice and Ray Ray Peets carrot salad at this
round table. Yum. I guess the same. Us please. Thanks, guys. A
quick shout out to Billy and spud from the guy was gonna get
kick out a guy's name spud from the bud from the war mode
podcast for first making me aware of no agenda. Thank we win
this. Yeah. Shout out to Billy and Spud. Yep. Billion Spud, a
few years ago. War mode, donation. Can I get a jobs karma
as I'm interviewing for a new job over the next few weeks?
Thanks for all you do.
Unknown: Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs, let's vote for jobs.
You've got karma.
Adam Curry: Then we have Dame Cheryl from Pinedale, Wisconsin,
333 Wyoming Wyoming, 333 33 and she sent in a note with a check.
I see John and Adam. Thank you for being awesome, and congrats
on your upcoming 17 year anniversary. Your show is the
best. And I'm always enlightened by a deconstruction of current
events in my neighborhood, we have not noted any missing cats,
dogs or ducks, but since the animals outnumber people by 10
to one, we might not notice. However, if anyone tried to
swipe a pet around here would not go so well for the
perpetrator She's packing. Thank you for your courage. Yes, we
are going to need a good dose of that in the coming months. Dame
Cheryl, cowgirl of the Wind River Range and Wyoming, she got
a picture of her on a on a horse. Here, it looks like her,
doesn't it like her on the checks? Yeah, personalized
checks. Nice. Thank you very much. Dame Cheryl, nice
handwriting too, by the way, very classic, classic big, big
loops, big loops, big hoops and loops. Got
John C Dvorak: style.
Unknown: He does,
John C Dvorak: surly, furious, surly, surly, furious, surly,
Adam Curry: surely sir.
John C Dvorak: I'm in St Petersburg, Florida, 250
Associate Executive producer in the morning. Just left my first
meetup in St Pete. Had a great time. Met lots of great people.
John and Adam replay the Hillary clips from last week. She says,
ah, enough to rival Bill Gates, sir. Lee, surely furious. Well,
I
Adam Curry: won't do that, but I will play half of the AI
Hillary,
Unknown: will you be choking Puff Daddy this time around?
So how are you planning on doing? I
wanted to choke him at night and make it look like a suicide,
just like Jeffrey Epstein. But then I realized puffy might
actually enjoy that. So, you know, maybe he slips on the
shower. Maybe he chokes with a piece of fried chicken. I still
haven't decided yet. So, good.
Adam Curry: Serpent in the troll room. Hello. Serpent in the
troll room. Yo sup, cranky in the hair guy, it's my 31st
birthday today. Hooray. I'm no longer in the target demo. Why
you are the demo? Bruh, thanks for all you guys do the target
demo is totally the demo. Thanks for all you guys do and give the
troll some karma. PS, if any producers could use a no agenda
Baronet with a background in meteorology, who knows Python
better than the average science programmer is willing to learn
the good old languages like Fortran, C, C plus, plus, and
wants to be saved from this full stupidity. Web dev, I'm serpent
in the troll room, or on zero node in general, and on no
authority, all right, 222, dot, 22 Associate Executive
producership For serpent, who's getting lots of karma in the
troll room. And karma for you right now
Unknown: you've got karma.
John C Dvorak: Kevin garguilo In Sugar Hill, Georgia. 222, dot,
two, two. That's another row of ducks. Greetings, John and Adam,
please accept my annual retirement treasure donation for
a row of ducks on 922 I will have completed two years of my
early retirement. No jingles, no karma, sir. Kevin G of the Lake
Lanier land, Lanier Lanier boaters. So Kevin, G, A, R, uh.
Guard Yeah.
Adam Curry: Guard julo is low. Pronunciation,
John C Dvorak: oh. Guard julo, okay. Guard you low.
Adam Curry: What are you doing in your early retirement? Kevin,
are you just putting the lawn puttering? Puttering? The Law,
John C Dvorak: putting Yeah, putting the lawn puttering,
Adam Curry: hey and with 209 dot 23 there he is, Eli, the coffee
guy from bensonville, Illinois. We appreciate his support so
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that clip. I have it, Trump, I have it. Oh, you do good.
Adam Curry: I have it, I have it. Yes, and anything else? No,
okay,
Unknown: if you see something,
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time ago, believe me, a classic. It
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John C Dvorak: I want to talk a little bit about drag queens.
Adam Curry: You know, so many wonderful dinner parties have
started off with that very sentence. I want to talk a
little bit about drag queens
John C Dvorak: because there's a there is a commentary that was
put out by James kunsler, the writer, that I think is worth
putting on the show. But first of all, let's talk about what
happened to Tupperware.
Adam Curry: Oh yeah, they went out of business. They
John C Dvorak: went out of business. And I think it might
be that there might be some evidence as to why they really
went out of business with these these two clips. This is
Tupperware in the drag queen
Unknown: this week, one of America's most iconic brands
filed for bankruptcy. Tupperware was a staple of American
households for decades, so much so that many people refer to any
plastic container as Tupperware, whether or not it is the brand
the company emerged in post war America and sales opportunities
once revolutionized women's earning potential, but over the
years, a new generation of sellers have picked up the
torch. Drag queens have become some of tupperwares most
successful salespeople over the past few decades, Oscar Quintero
has found similar success selling Tupperware in drag as
que sidia.
Adam Curry: Que sidia Really Okay, first of all, I'm gonna
pull a John C Dvorak on you. They didn't go out of business.
They only filed chapter 11, not the same thing. Yeah? So they're
not out of business. They've just filed chapter No,
John C Dvorak: they'll be, yeah, yes, that's what you do. It's a
reorg.
Adam Curry: It's bankruptcy protection.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, it's a reorg. They're
Adam Curry: going out of business. But
John C Dvorak: don't you think that becomes a drag queen thing,
and next thing you know, they're out of business, or not out of
business, but they have to follow chapter 11. I mean, come
on, you're
Adam Curry: telling me it's related. Are you telling me this
is related? Yeah, I would think that that the drag queens that
would be such a draw, because the ladies love the drag queens.
Oh, a lot of them do. We're doing a Tupperware party, and
the drag queens are coming over. It's going to be a hoot. Now
John C Dvorak: they're they have to bring this guy. Kate Sadia,
and I have another complaint. Just going to complain about
drag queens, but I'm going to complain about this one. Here's
the part two, and he joins us now to
Unknown: talk about his experience. Oscar, welcome to
All Things Considered. Hi.
Thanks for having me.
Can I just, can I get quesadilla a sales pitch before we talk
more broadly?
Sure. Hola, everyone, it's me. K said, Yeah, your 18 year old,
international high fashion model, top word diva Chola from
Tijuana, hot res,
John C Dvorak: now Bill Dana was run out of town years ago for
doing Jose Jimenez and I don't, and the Chihuahua for from Taco
Bell, was run out of town because the Chihuahua had a
Mexican accent. But this is okay,
Adam Curry: okay to talk about. Well, if you're, if you're a
drag queen, you can do anything you want, in particular to kids.
John C Dvorak: So this brings me to this clip from James. James
kunzler is on a podcast with this Piero character, and he's a
writer, uh, he he's a political writer. He hates Republicans to
the extreme, but hates Democrats. The only one he likes
in politics is Trump, because he's seen sees the Democrats and
Republicans, is a bunch of corrupt parties, and Trump is a
savior of some sort, but interesting, but yeah, and he's
a good writer. He's got a couple of books you should look at,
Kunstler, James Kunstler, he's got a couple of books out that
are really dynamite. But I I heard this analysis of drag
queens is something I've never heard, and I was kind of taken
aback. And I thought it was kind of interesting, because it I
don't know what to make of it, but here we go.
Unknown: I mean, there are some elements of all the mischief
that's going on that are obviously either explicitly
planned or allowed. For example, the insanity of the drag queen
Story Hour phenomenon in America. Do you have that in
Europe? Of course. Oh, you do. Well, you had it at the
Olympics.
So it is coordinated, because obviously, otherwise we wouldn't
have it.
Yeah, you saw the Olympic opening ceremonies, right? And
the closing ceremonies. Well, actually, didn't look at it, but
I saw, you must have seen some, some photos and video.
I don't have time to for such things.
I didn't either. I saw the videos, but I saw plenty of it
exactly, and it was completely insane. And the drag queen story
hour in America, it's an interesting phenomenon, because
I think it's misunderstood. You know, these men who are dressing
up as women, in quotes, women, they are not presenting
themselves as women. Strictly speaking, they're presenting
women as monsters. And this is a very, I think, a kind of a
subtle psychological ploy be one thing if they were just saying,
you know, we're trying to make ourselves as beautiful as
possible and pass ourselves off as women, but they are so
obviously acting as monsters. There's some other psychological
dynamic that's going on there that you have to think is pretty
sick. It's the kind of thing that's so subtle that it's
easily misunderstood even by supposedly intelligent people
who are missing the point and and the idea that the educated
class, the thinking class in America, which predominates in
the left globalist Democratic Party cohort, yes, the the fact
that they think that's okay tells you that they're insane,
right there.
Adam Curry: That's an interesting analysis, and we
have to make a distinction between transvestites, which is
men who like to dress like women, and drag queens who
indeed, he makes a good point. And I think drag queens in
general are gay guys, very, you know, kind of the the effeminate
girlfriend, flamboyant, flamboyant. That's what I was
looking for. And there may be a deep rooted, I would say,
probably fear. I'm not a psychoanalyst, of course, a fear
of women or hate. I don't know if it's really it's probably
Mom, mom issues, you know? Well, yeah, but,
John C Dvorak: but the monsters now is exactly right, yeah, if
you look at them, they're monsters. There's not like a
person. No,
Adam Curry: no. Well, I guess I'm gonna cancel, uh, the drag
queen story hour for our meetup here in Fredericksburg. Now that
is interesting. I had, had not really thought of it that way,
but it is inherently anti woman, if you think about it.
John C Dvorak: I just found it. Found the analysis. I was taken
aback.
Adam Curry: I never really understood the appeal. I mean, I
think it started with female impersonators, so I kind of, no,
I think I understood the Well, I'm gonna, I'm gonna do Cher or
I'm gonna do Madonna, or I'm gonna do Barbara Streisand, and
that was more like a vaudeville esque, you know, it's funny.
It's like, is it Tim burleski, burlesque? Yes, it was funny,
and they'd do an outrageous impersonation. And, you know,
there was real money to be made in that, but it just became a
whole thing all by itself. Yeah, it that. You know what that is,
entropy, right there. Oh, stop, stop. Sorry, entropy.
John C Dvorak: And. Entropy,
Adam Curry: yeah, it left to its own devices. It just devolved.
And it just became horrible,
John C Dvorak: horrible, yeah, horrible, horrible,
Adam Curry: horrible. Well, that was refreshing.
Unknown: Can I move on that you would lighten things up? Yeah,
Adam Curry: let me lighten things up with some climate
change
John C Dvorak: under the inflation Reduction Act seven
and a half billion for building these charging stations. The
latest information, eight have been built with the seven and a
half billion.
Adam Curry: This is an interview with, I think, with budge are,
by the way,
John C Dvorak: on this note, they've built they just gone on
for four years with the very when Biden was first running,
oh, we're gonna build 500,000 charging stations. They built
eight. Meanwhile, as camel is running, she's talking about
building 3 million homes. Yes, they're not building one home.
They can't build eight of these charging stations. They're going
to build all these homes.
Adam Curry: I don't think so. I know why, but let's listen to
Buddha judge. First
John C Dvorak: that had been allocated, you're supposed to
get to 500,000 of these charging stations by 2030
Unknown: what is really the problem with do you give you
looked at that and figured out why? Oh, yeah, no, that's
that's on track. So we're at about 190,000 publicly available
charging stations in the US, that's approximately double what
the level was when President Biden came in. The issue,
though, is that there are some gaps in the market, ones that
are just not going to be built by the private sector that's
been building the construction of those chargers to date.
That's why the legislation provided for funding to do
federally supported chargers that are intended to be online
before 2030 now the bulk of that construction will happen in 2728
quite a bit actually, I expect by 2026 a handful, as you
mentioned, are actually already up and running. But really what
you're going to see is more the second half of this decade. And
it's really important to have those federally supported
chargers, because you have stretches of road, or even just
in the middle of our cities, apartment buildings, places in
our economy where it just doesn't yet pencil out for there
to be the private sector profitably doing that. And you
know, even though about 80% of EV charging happens at home, the
reality is the new EV kind of landscape we're working toward
where the President's goals about half of sales to be EVs by
the end of this decade, requires us, by the end of this decade,
to have a lot of charging apparatus that just isn't there
as we're sitting here in 2024
Adam Curry: so what Joe Kernan there at CNBC did not get to the
reason that they have not built them is because of the
requirements for the contracts, this is so typical of this
particular administration, the contracts require that these be
built by minority companies, either women owned, people of
color owned, etc, and most companies don't qualify. That's
what the holdup is. It's the same thing with the broadband.
$42 billion worth of broadband, all the stuff in the inflation
Reduction Act was all woke. They put all of this woke
connotation, ESG, dei stuff onto it, and that's why there's no
one is qualifying.
John C Dvorak: Well, this is a plus.
Adam Curry: Well, yes, in a way, it's a plus. I agree, because
these EVs made sexy by Elon Musk, I am against them. I think
it's a bad idea. I don't like them. I don't like the danger of
them. And in fact, they're quite bad, even in traffic on the
highway, turning now
Unknown: to something you may not know, the new crash tests of
electric vehicles, which point to an unexpected danger.
Guardrails on America's roads are typically tested against
vehicles weighing up to 5000 pounds, but many electric
vehicles weigh more than that, up to 30% more, in fact, and
that means most guardrails may not hold up in a collision.
Chris Van Cleave shows us the consequences could be deadly.
More than 19,000 people died in crashes where their vehicle left
the roadway last year. That's nearly half of all traffic
deaths. Guardrails and similar roadway barriers are designed to
reduce the number and severity of these crashes. This is how a
guardrail is supposed to work, containing a vehicle and
redirecting it back towards the road. Watch what happened
Adam Curry: exploding here. What's happening? Stop. Sorry
about that.
Unknown: Got a runaway board a roadway barriers are designed to
reduce the number and severity of these crashes. This is how a
guardrail is supposed to work, containing a vehicle and
redirecting it back towards the road, but watch what happens
when an electric sedan hits a standard guardrail during this
new testing from the Texas Transportation Institute, the
guardrail fails as the sedan rips through the Insurance
Institute for Highway Safety says it is concerned about EVs
and. Additional weight resulting in more severe crashes, a
concern NTSB chair Jennifer homendy told CBS News she
shares, I
Bag: think it does present significant challenges for
safety. In March, Senator
Unknown: Fischer asked chair homody about EVs and guardrails
during a Senate hearing. Our
guardrails crash attenuators, they are rated up to 5000
pounds. Many of these vehicles go up to 10,000 pounds, so that
has an impact on safety.
The EPA estimates half of all new car sales could be EVs by
2032 not much time to raise the bar on roadside safety barriers.
Yeah,
Adam Curry: that's the first thing that has to change, is
this. EPA. You know, the reason this is happening is because of
the the emission standards, which make it almost mandatory
for automobile manufacturers to create a certain number of
electric vehicles in their fleet, even if they lose money
on it, so they can just sell regular cars to people who want
to just Have a good vehicle, yeah,
John C Dvorak: a reliable vehicle that that started fill
up, you can recharge at a gas station in like 10, five
minutes, as opposed to an hour. Yeah,
Adam Curry: and it doesn't ignite and burn for days if you
crash it through the guardrail, which won't hold back. No, none
of this is good. So dumb. Bo it's Elon. It's sexy. It's
great, man. You hear about this warlord, this Chechen warlord,
who bought a cyber truck, he says that Elon gave it to him,
which I totally believe, and and then he remotely disabled it,
which is quite telling.
John C Dvorak: But Elon gave him a cyber truck and then disabled
it. So the Chechen warlord was like a waste of money. The
Chechen,
Adam Curry: well, the Chechen warlord, they've had lots of
these cyber trucks with machine guns mounted on the back. Lots
of, uh, lots
John C Dvorak: of guys bought these. That'd be kind of cool
looking.
Adam Curry: It does look cool. There's, I have photos of it in
this article. This is Zero Hedge article. So this Chechen warlord
said, Elon Musk did something ugly. He gave me this beautiful
cyber truck, then he disabled it. And of course, Elon the only
thing Elon is replying is, you think I gave a cyber truck to a
Chechen warlord? Well, that's not the story. The story is they
can be disabled by remote. I think every single Tesla can be
disabled by remote, yeah, of course, or taken over remotely
driven. Drive right
John C Dvorak: into a wall. Nobody. I
Adam Curry: just got a new you, like this guy, I just got a EULA
from my car. Like, Oh, we've done a software update. Well,
maybe I don't want that now. I gotta dig through this Ula, see
what they can do. But I'm sure that they're during
John C Dvorak: one of the hurricanes, if you recall in
Florida, when everyone's had these electric cars, they
couldn't charge they sent out a software upgrade. They gave them
an extra 100 miles of they could drive further. Yeah,
Adam Curry: now it works better. Here you go. Normally, that cost
you $20,000 here it is for free. You know what that is? Entropy,
John C Dvorak: all of it. Well, no, it's just the opposite.
Everything
Adam Curry: I'm saying now is going to be entropy. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: I know it's because, well, it's better than
some of the other stuff you've done.
Adam Curry: Gee, thanks. I mean, it's, it's the great
John C Dvorak: reveal.
Adam Curry: You've dropped that one. It's the season of reveal.
Well, the reason I like the great reveal, the reason I
stopped this because whenever I said it, you would go some
reveal. That's not a reveal. So I stopped it because,
John C Dvorak: you know your so I have to, so I have to carp, do
Adam Curry: you just have to say good one, Adam, that would be
helpful.
John C Dvorak: I say that all the time. Sure you do. I do your
last presentation, the last show, I complimented you
profusely. Thank
Adam Curry: you. Well, I will bring back the season of reveal,
because it hasn't stopped.
John C Dvorak: Oh, god no.
Adam Curry: So we can't have RFK Jr in the administration soon
enough, because, man, they're really going after beef now,
which is a real problem. You already heard Tedros, if you
recall a few shows back. The problem is beef. We must reduce
our intake of beef. It is not good. The beef, I don't know,
man, I look at Texas slim. Texas Slim's grandparents, all they
ate was beef and maybe a potato. They look pretty good. Everybody
looks slim and trim. And they worked out in the on the on the
ranch for 18 hours a day. And they liked it, and they and they
read their their Bible by candlelight at night when times
were good. But no, no. No, now we have to get rid of beef
because, well, due to climate change, do
Unknown: you know about meat fluencers?
Adam Curry: Do you know about meat fluencers? John,
Unknown: oh brother, no, I have not heard of that. This is
Adam Curry: NPR, in case you are wondering. Okay.
Unknown: Well, these are great online personalities and
celebrities often pushing the idea that men should eat lots of
meat. Often
Adam Curry: they're talking about you, I'm a meat
influencer. I'm totally are, well, I don't quite fit the
bill, because I don't have the body build that you that you're
supposed to have. But this is like, Yeah, this is like, Texas
slim who was anything but, but a beefed up dude. This is like the
meat mafia boys, our friends the meat mafia. They're all meat
fluencers, lots
Unknown: of meat, often lots of red meat, beef to live up to
their potential. Some of them are actually selling beef
products, including supplements made of beef meat. Some of them
don't just promote the benefits of eating lots of red meat. Some
of them spread false and misleading views about eating
certain plants. How
Adam Curry: can a view be false and misleading? Isn't that just
your view?
John C Dvorak: A misleading view?
Adam Curry: Yeah, view, view, particularly
Unknown: these guys,
Adam Curry: come on, man. This is good stuff. This is, this is
gold. Them
Unknown: spread false and misleading views about eating
certain plants, particularly soy, including the idea that,
Adam Curry: yeah, they're gonna tell me that it's it's mean,
it's mean if you make fun of soy,
Unknown: particularly soy, including the idea that soy can
feminize men.
Adam Curry: Is this true? John,
John C Dvorak: well, you know, there is an estrogen analog in
soy oil that I believe makes men grow breasts. Here's
Unknown: Joe Rogan describing that for you. Soy
is one of the rare foods that's actually attached to being a
bitch.
Some men are afraid of consuming soy. It has a stigma. There's
even a derogatory term for weak men called soy boys. It's a
pretty popular term.
I have not heard the term soy boy. What? Okay,
John C Dvorak: hold on. This is NPR. Stop the clip. You have not
heard the word soy boy. Get off the air.
Unknown: Researchers say changing diets will require new
messaging.
Listen up. America, meat
has problems, and it's gonna take us meat eaters to solve.
This guy in
the ad, he looks kind of like a big, burly man, and he's walking
around aggressively, you
Adam Curry: know, I'd rather have the AI podcast than these
two. I'll be straight up honest with you, this is this is
painful, and it's on NPR, our national treasure. Exactly,
Unknown: he was slapping a beef hamburger out of some guy's
hand. He replaced it with a plant based burger. Because this
is an ad for the plant based food company, Impossible Foods.
Okay, let's go on, because now
we can turn plants into burgers and hot dogs, even meatballs.
Then someone offers the main guy a helmet and he gets on a
motorcycle. We're solving
the meat problem with
more meat, impossible, meat from plants. He
gets on the motorcycle and he zooms off, exploding, exploding
to the horizon. I showed this Impossible Foods ad to Gabriel
Rosenberg. He's a professor of Gender Studies at Duke
University. There
Adam Curry: we go. There we go. A professor, there we go. We've
gone from meat to soy boys to gender studies. You know what
that is? Enjoy entropy, obviously,
Unknown: Gabriel specifically studies gender and food, and he
thinks there's some very important symbolism going on
gender.
John C Dvorak: And wait, so these guys are so hard up for
something to do, these gender professors that they're studying
gender and food, that's right. And they make it a course. Hey,
you would like, take gender and food 1010. Yeah. I want to take
that. I want to take gender and food.
Unknown: Is this, like, like, older figure of, like,
masculinity. He's
Adam Curry: teaching you how to be a man, and then he's, like,
explosively mural. It's basically just saying, men, you
have permission to eat our product and still be manly and
still be masculine. How? Why do you need a PhD in gender studies
to make that analysis? Anyway? Here's, here's the last part
Unknown: I got on a zoom with Peter McGinnis. He's the
president and CEO of Impossible Foods. You
Adam Curry: think this is some kind of native ad or some kind
of promotion.
John C Dvorak: Possible foods been mentioned at least three
times, maybe more.
Unknown: Yeah, yeah, yeah. This.
John C Dvorak: They paid for this. I think this is a paid for
native ad on NPR. We've we catch them all the time. I'm glad you
got this one. It's not It's sickening sickness. The
Unknown: main. One thing Peter found is that there were people
they weren't reaching customers who see plant based food and
think it isn't for them. So
Adam Curry: we got on, we got our sales team on the call to
talk to them, because, hey, we can help you reach your soy
boys. That's our demo, right here. NPR listeners are soy
boys. They'll love your product will do a whole special for you.
They
Unknown: see it as food for vegans and vegetarians. Peter
wants it to be more inclusive. That really means more meat
eaters to reach more of them. Peter says they needed to change
the branding. I think we
had the messaging wrong for a long, long time on all this
stuff.
John C Dvorak: Wait, this is the excuse for the effect of their
sales suck because their product sucks this terrible tasting that
we have bad messaging, yeah, we weren't able to bullshit the
public enough.
Unknown: Impossible Foods was founded to help curb climate
change, to reduce that huge amount of climate to
John C Dvorak: curb climate change.
Adam Curry: I drink to curb climate change from
Unknown: animal agriculture, but Peter says in their advertising,
they are not leaning into climate
Yeah, because, you know, climate change, like so many other
things, has become politicized and kind of a part of the
culture wars. It's
and Peter doesn't want his customers to associate his
product with politics at
all. Please.
We don't want anything partisan political weird the
Adam Curry: packaging. He doesn't want Republicans eating
it
Unknown: often associated with environmentalists to red
so it looks like red meat, so we're leaning into that, right?
All those meat cues,
right? They want to make a cute tent to welcome meat eaters. But
psychology researchers say ads like this are important. They
can broaden social acceptance for plant based foods, to shift
diets away from beef. Shifting social norms will be key. Wow.
Adam Curry: There you go. Your national treasure at work. Well,
that sucked. Oh, it didn't suck.
John C Dvorak: Oh, these people are destroying the world as
entropy.
Adam Curry: That is indeed a NPR is a perfect example of entropy.
Meanwhile, the New World Order is meeting this week in New
York. It's a big deal. Big. Big deal. We got the UN General
Assembly. Actually, there was an interesting report on TRT, which
was like some kind of predictive programming. This
Unknown: year's UN General Assembly will see upwards of 142
world leaders in New York City all at once. It will be
surrounded by an unprecedented massive security blanket of
heavily armed police, Secret Service and Diplomatic Security
agents the assassination attempts on former President
Donald Trump have impacted the already heightened security
measures in place. The Department
of Homeland Security has given it the designation of national
special security event.
What's changed from this year from last year is obviously
October 7, there
have been more than 4000 protests in New York City
against Israel's breeder war on Gaza since last October, it has
also changed the dynamic of the security inside the UN with the
expected arrival of President Joe Biden, Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas and Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelinsky. Attacks on
the UN building here have been rare, but the most notable
occurring in 1964 when a bazooka was fired from across the East
River here during a speech by Che Guevara of Cuba in the
General Assembly Hall. Now the bazooka shell fell short about
180 meters from the shoreline here, but the diplomats inside
this building were rattled.
Adam Curry: Man, I never heard about, I never heard about the
bazooka shot from across the river.
John C Dvorak: I'm older than you, and I never heard of it,
but
Adam Curry: it really, it really, kind of got my mind
thinking, you know, like, what if everyone's a cell phone just,
John C Dvorak: Oh, I see what you're saying. This predictive
programming so somebody's gonna do something. Wow. What a
perfect and we're gonna be some of you, okay, yeah. Well, this
happened before it has, yeah, they just said, No,
Adam Curry: the bazooka, yeah, but it was unsuccessful that
dropped. It
John C Dvorak: may not even happen for all I know. I don't
remember anything about it.
Adam Curry: I mean, it's, what a perfect place to change landed
John C Dvorak: in the drink. I mean, come on, what a perfect
place. How they know is a bazooka. Well, that's, uh, all
right, I guess we have to do some research on the show
bazooka
Adam Curry: attack. UN building 19. 64 let's see bazooka fired
it. Yeah, there it is. The New York Times does
John C Dvorak: mean it hasn't been placed after the fact
Adam Curry: it is. I have the printed article in The New York
Times archive. Even better, Bazooka fired at UN as Cuban
speaks, launched in Queens, missile explodes in East River.
About that. Can you imagine how, how history would change? I
mean, they can't stop a drone. Think about it. That would
really change history.
John C Dvorak: Well, you can have a drone, yeah, the drone
thing has not hit this country yet. It's bound to, let's face
it,
Adam Curry: no, but that is the future. It's the future of
asymmetric warfare.
Unknown: The UN Security Council met in New York to discuss the
crisis in the Middle East after four days of intensive Israeli
attacks on Hezbollah, the organization's human rights
chief, Volker Turk, said he was appalled by what he called the
indiscriminate targeting of 1000s of people in Lebanon
through the explosions of communication devices, and said
it violated international law.
International humanitarian law prohibits the use of booby trap
devices in the form of apparently harmless, portable
objects. Well, that's no fun which are specifically designed
and constructed to contain explosive material, it is a war
crime to commit violence intended to spread terror among
civilians. I call again for an independent, thorough and
transparent investigation into the circumstances of these
explosions. Those who ordered and carried out these attacks
must be held to account please.
The Under Secretary General for Political Affairs, Rosemary
DiCarlo, said that it wasn't too late for diplomacy. The
risk to security and stability, not only in Lebanon, but also in
the region, could not be clearer or graver. The Secretary General
has already expressed his deep alarm over these events, I echo
his sentiments and strongly urge all actors to exercise maximum
restraint to avert any further escalation. Yeah,
Adam Curry: they're worried about themselves. I'm telling
you, it wouldn't be hard to inject something into a whole
new series of iPhones or anything. I think they're taking
it very lightly this.
John C Dvorak: Well, you might be right. I mean, yeah, all you
need is a man in the middle. You need somebody just to get to,
you know, somebody in between China. Anybody's phones.
Adam Curry: These things are made in China.
John C Dvorak: Hello. Yeah, well, you can just do it from
the factory. Then if you want, that's what I think,
Bag: definitely,
John C Dvorak: for all we know, every iPhone out there, for all
we know, already rigged is pre rigged. Yep, you can't unless
you can, you take the battery out. Can you just drop the
battery out and you find out? No, no, no, not on Well, that's
an interesting coincidence. The phone I have in a drawer, you
can take the battery out. You have to, because it dies after a
couple of years in the drawer. New batteries. I've
Adam Curry: got the pixel six with the graphene OS, I can take
the battery out. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: I still, I've seen all these different videos
I have yet to see anyone explain the triggering mechanism,
talking about, oh, you got a little Semtech in the back
there, a little bit. You don't even need much, and it's in the
behind a battery.
Adam Curry: There's still, you know, there's still some
theories out there, and I wish we would hear about it. I mean,
they kind of went away from the story. There's still some
theories that it was Petn or Semtex in a battery.
John C Dvorak: Believe, yeah, could be that, but, but if it's
in the battery, how do you trigger it? How do you how do
you have the explosion take place at the same time? Besides,
maybe it was the caught, you know, the rays from the solar
flare, which is an interesting thesis, because it did happen on
the day that you lost your connection to Starling.
Adam Curry: I'm not sure how the solar flare would, would affect
it, but it would, it could, anything is possible, but we,
but we don't
John C Dvorak: know, what is the mechanism for exploding these
phones? Yeah,
Adam Curry: I don't know the phone. I mean, it's it, I mean,
you triggers. Look, there's lots of external pins that you can
you can make go hot. You can bring up a PIN. You know, that
is, you know, haptic there's, there's haptics in the there's
vibration. These are motors, there's energy. So you can do
all kinds of stuff with that.
John C Dvorak: I would like to know exactly how you can make it
a phone explode. Well, I
Adam Curry: think you should talk to unit 8200 they seem is
that 8200 The Israel or 8400 the Israel is 8600 Yeah, whatever.
It's the Jews. John, hello, it's obvious. We all know who did it.
John C Dvorak: I would just like, I've seen all these guys
yakking about this and the No one says, explain how it works.
Well,
Adam Curry: Trump spoke to the Jews.
John C Dvorak: Yes, he and of course, the right left wingers
went on and on about how Trump's going to blame the Jews. Here it
is. Trump
Unknown: has said Jews who support Democrats, quote, have
to have their head examined, and claimed Harris doesn't like
Jewish people today. Harris's husband, second gentleman, Doug
emhoff, himself Jewish responding in an interview with
ABC Michael Strahan, he
said this quote, she doesn't like Jewish people, and you like
me, you're Jewish American. So what was your reaction when you
heard that in real time.
So it's typical Donald Trump gaslighting. So he is
gaslighting somebody who is, how's
that gaslighting?
Adam Curry: Well, in context of the Jews, it's a pretty
interesting quote. Oh,
Unknown: so it's typical Donald Trump gaslighting. So he is
somebody who has had dinner with known anti Semites after the
horrific events of Charlottesville, where people
are actually marching with Tiki torches saying Jews shall not
replace us. And he said there were fine people on both sides
of that lie.
Adam Curry: There's the big lie. And he said there are very fine
people on both sides
Unknown: place us. And he said there were fine people on both
sides of that. This is a guy who has, can
John C Dvorak: they keep doing that?
Adam Curry: Well, because it's easy and and the only people who
say that's a lie is some two old dudes on a podcast who have hot
takes,
John C Dvorak: even Snopes says it's a lie, yeah, but
Adam Curry: this is the football guy on on ABC. He's not gonna
say, Hey, man, that's a lie. No, the all of the media is skewed.
It's all a lie. It's all it should not be watched. It's not
for it's not fit for consumption. It's like
impossible meat had
Unknown: a record of saying incredibly vile anti semitic
things. So for him to say that I just Yeah, trolls
Adam Curry: make a good point that what he just did there is
literally gaslighting,
John C Dvorak: right? That's gaslighting, but you say, oh,
there it is. The old you are what I say. I am what I say. You
are what yourself being
Adam Curry: yourself but your corporate health,
Unknown: marching with Tiki torches, saying Jews shall not
replace us. And he said there were fine people on both sides
of that. This is a guy who has had a record of saying
incredibly vile anti semitic things. So for him to say that,
Adam Curry: what vile anti semitic things has he said
John C Dvorak: there are fine people on both sides. Okay,
Unknown: so for him to say that, I just almost laugh at the
chutzpah, as we would say
Yiddish there. Now, while Harris's event with Oprah here
in Detroit is aimed at a broader audience, her campaign is well
aware of just how critical this state is. A new Quinnipiac poll
shows Harris leading slightly here in Michigan, 50 to 45%
Adam Curry: Meanwhile, at the latest Trump rally, he's got
some new stick to motivate people to go out and vote. Have
you heard his new stick?
John C Dvorak: No, I have not. We can do all ears. Okay, here,
it's very short,
Adam Curry: but you will like it. We can do
Unknown: all of this and more, but patriotic New Yorkers must
get your asses out to vote. Harry. Get up, Harry. Harry, get
your fat ass out of the couch. You're gonna vote for Trump
today.
Harry, get up. Harry, come on. Let's
go. Let's go. Harry,
John C Dvorak: actually have heard that's
Adam Curry: good. I hadn't heard that one yet. It's great. I like
it. I like it. Yeah, it's hilarious. They're
John C Dvorak: eating the dogs. Yeah, they
Adam Curry: are exactly. I don't know if you had a clip about
this, but I thought it was noteworthy. It seems to kind of
just being reported on in passing. It seems like a bigger
story to me. Actually, let me see, I think you have two clips.
Do you have the second moon? Do you have a second moon clip?
John C Dvorak: I have a two clips. And I have a, yeah, it's
a yikes series. Okay, there you go. Which means that there's
something. There's a piece of information in here that made me
go, yikes.
Unknown: Earth has a new visitor in space. It's an asteroid named
2024 Pete. E5 catchy
as the asteroid was whizzing by on its path around the sun, the
Earth's gravity disrupted it, and the space rock and the earth
are now in a fleeting gravitational dance. Scientists
spotted the space rock last month using a telescope in South
Africa. That telescope is part of the NASA funded asteroid
terrestrial impact last alert system. And while that name
sounds pretty dire, there's no need to worry. This asteroid is
not on a collision course with Earth.
Adam Curry: What is what's the acronym to that? Hold on a
second. I'll
Unknown: dance. Scientists spotted the space rock last
month using a telescope in South Africa. That telescope is part
of the NASA funded asteroid terrestrial impact last alert
system and, well, that name sounds pretty Attila.
Adam Curry: Now there's NASA guys. Okay, so what was the
Yikes?
John C Dvorak: They spotted this asteroid just a month ago. How
much time would that give you if it was headed right to Earth? 30
days? They can't get these guys off the shuttle that went up,
the Boeing shuttle that went up and dropped these people off,
they couldn't even bring them back. And we got 30 days. Yeah,
yeah. They had this whole system in place to look for asteroids
headed for Earth. And they got, they spotted this thing 30 days
ago.
Adam Curry: Yeah, maybe, maybe it's time for Mythbusters to
come in. I don't know. I don't think they know anything.
John C Dvorak: Here's part two. They, at least they describe a
little bit more of the asteroids the size of a bus. Writing
Unknown: this month in the journal Research notes of the
American Astronomical Society, scientists estimate the asteroid
is 33 feet long, about the size of a bus, and sorry, backyard
astronomers, it'll be too small and dim to see with amateur
telescopes. And
while the space rock has picked up the nickname of a mini moon,
tracing a temporary arc around the Earth, there's some
disagreement whether it truly lives up to that title, because
it won't make a full orbit around our planet before
departing again in the coming months to continue its journey
around the sun.
Adam Curry: Wow. Kind of reminds me of that John Cullen guy, the
bird flu guy, no, yeah, that's the guy who said it was about
h1, 5n, or whatever. It wasn't, it wasn't about covid that.
That's why Trump was talking about 1917 instead of 1918 he
also has this whole whole theory that all of the emergency
hospitals were built because there were so many asteroids all
of a sudden flying around the earth that they expected one to
hit the Earth. He's got some pretty out there theories.
John C Dvorak: That's a good one.
Adam Curry: He's got some hot takes, speaking of speaking of
Boeing, who can't bring anybody back, Boeing's
Unknown: defense space and Security Division has a new
temporary president and CEO. The company ousted Theodore Colbert
and replaced him with Chief Operating Officer, Steve Parker.
Boeing has been under increased scrutiny after the Starliner
capsule experienced that thruster malfunction and
stranded two astronauts on the International Space Station.
Adam Curry: Yeah, bye. Can't bring our astronauts back. Can't
keep anything going. You're out. You're done, you're done, and
that Boeing strike still continues. When is Musk going to
announce that he's he's taking over all the Boeing business?
Douche: It's going to be a while,
Unknown: maybe. So
John C Dvorak: there's a the West Wing, the old TV show,
yeah. Well, they're bringing it back. At least they're bringing
the cash. It's
Adam Curry: the dream. This is what all Democrats want. They
want the White House to be like West Wing. That's the way it
should be. Was already brought. They
John C Dvorak: brought on an anniversary. They brought him to
the White House because Jill Biden, and if anyone has noticed
this seems to be running things that way. Woodrow Wilson's wife
did, in fact, she was at the Cabinet meeting, yes, and Joe
threw it to her.
Adam Curry: Is that in this clip? No, no, I actually have, I
thought I had a, I thought a clip of that. I didn't get the
Joe throwing it to her, but I got the explanation as to what
she was doing. Because, remember, she's a doctor, Jim,
Joe Biden,
Unknown: Dr Biden, the First Lady in attendance today as
well. Yeah,
yeah. I mean, this is important and interesting Cabinet meeting
because of who is not there, which was vice president Harris,
obviously, who has her campaign schedule. But then because of
the spotlight that the first lady did have, she talked about
the fact that sometimes the White House, in her words,
surprises you. And for somebody who has worked on women's health
issues for her whole career, frankly, as a teacher, but also
as the second lady, and now is the first lady, she said, Since
Adam Curry: when has she worked on women's health issues? That's
John C Dvorak: what I'd like to know. I never heard this. But,
you know, I
Adam Curry: think that just conflating. Dr Biden was like,
Oh, she's worked on women's health issues for oh,
John C Dvorak: like whoopee did when she thought that Dr Biden
should be there in general. Where
Adam Curry: is that cliff? Whoopee, Dr Biden, let me see. I
have it somewhere. Whoopee, Jill, I think, let me see dr, I
guess not. Ah, we had it. Oh, I know it's disappointing. What
can I say? Disappointment? So I always play the west wing clip.
Yes, let's do that. West Wing
Unknown: is celebrating his 25th anniversary this week, and
pierce Chloe Veltman reports actors and producers from the
hit political TV drama marked the occasion at the White House
yesterday at the invitation of First Lady, Jill Biden
during his speech in the White House Rose Garden West Wing
creator Aaron Sorkin said his show about a principled
fictional US president, played by Martin Sheen, was, quote,
idealistic, aspirational, aspirational, aspirational and
romantic. Over
the years, I've noticed that during times of peak political
tension, pundits will warn us not to expect a West Wing
moment. They mean not to expect a selfless act of statesmanship,
not to expect anyone to put country first. Don't
expect anyone to swing for the fences or reach for the stars.
However,
Sorkin said President Joe Biden's decision not to run for
a second term proves that West Wing moments are indeed possible
in real life. The West Wing ran on NBC from 1999 to 2006
John C Dvorak: so man Jill brought them in. She's right in
the place.
Adam Curry: Does she have the nuclear codes?
Unknown: Probably, that's
Adam Curry: the question we all have on our minds. Does she have
the nuclear codes?
John C Dvorak: I have a clip here called debate nonsense,
slant. Vice President NPR clip, sorry. Vice
Unknown: President Harris, Vice President Harris's campaign says
she accepted an invitation to a second debate with former
President Trump, but as NPRs Don gagne reports, Trump says that's
not going to happen.
Former President Trump reacted to the news that the Harris
campaign is agreeing to do a second debate by telling a rally
in Wilmington, North Carolina, that quote, it's just too late.
And he accused Harris of wanting to do another debate because, as
Trump put it, her campaign is going. Quote, badly again, he
rejected the idea of another debate, saying he's done two
already.
John C Dvorak: I Yeah, well, just back to, by the way, this
debate, they wanted to do another one on CNN. Oh no,
Harris won't do one on Fox, where they actually have
somebody that might be objective, like Brett bear. I
Adam Curry: want to go back to Eleanor Biden for a moment,
maybe she's the one that pulled the trigger on stealing the
Russians money. They finally did it on
Unknown: diplomatic visits, almost every detail sends some
kind of message, like the flowers given to Ursula von der
Leyen as she arrived in Kyiv, the President of the European
Commission visited a memorial for those killed in the war, and
inspected generators offered by Europe Ukraine's power grid is
at the heart of her visit. Europe has pledged a 35 billion
year old loan. One of its main goals is to repair Ukraine's
energy network. The
European Union is here to help you in this challenge, to keep
the lights on, to keep your people warm as winter is just
around the world, and to keep your economy going as you fight
for your survival,
roughly half of Ukraine's energy infrastructure has been
destroyed in the war. It's one of the key targets. President
Volodymyr Zelensky says the loan granted by the EU will also be
used for weapons, for the air defense and for shelters. The
loan is part of the $50 billion package from g7 countries.
Profits from Frozen Russian assets will be used as
collateral for Russia's government. This amounts to
stealing. It's
no exaggeration to say that these facts of large scale theft
of Russian assets will finally nullify the authority and trust
of the international community in the European Union. That's
right.
Adam Curry: Put your trust in our money networks. Don't worry
about it.
John C Dvorak: This idiotic is dumb. I'm gonna
Unknown: show my school by donating to no agenda. Imagine
all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be
fabulous.
Adam Curry: Morning. What is not dumb is what's coming up after
we're done today. We do have some more show for you, a live
Battle of the Bands. Value for value. Battle of the Bands. The
satellite skirmish is coming up, so you do not want to tune away
when that comes up right after we play our end of show mixes.
We also have some meetup reports. We have our Commodores.
We're welcoming on board, and we have some people to thank for
supporting us with some value for value.
Unknown: You know, we
John C Dvorak: do. We don't have that many. We have about 20.
Okay, well, thank you. Ryan perusi, or perusi, is the top of
the list. He's in San Diego. Hold on a second. My eyes itchy.
133, 33 and he says, I will read his notes. I've got that many
fellas, you guys have changed my life and my and many friends
changed my life and changed my friends.
Adam Curry: His friends have run away from him, probably,
John C Dvorak: yeah, okay, well, he's promoting the show which is
good. Ian field parts are known as $100 Henry Davis in St
Petersburg, Florida, another guy from St Petersburg, $100 he
needs a D douching.
Unknown: You've been deduced.
John C Dvorak: Brian Lillard in Prosper Texas, 8088, 88 they
were already to Kevin McLaughlin in Concord, North Carolina. He's
the Archduke Luna, lover of American boobs at 808, along
with Aaron Weisberg and weiberg. Weiberg in Roberts, Wisconsin,
808 and then we already jump way down from to Les Tarkowski in
Kingman, Arizona, 6006 first time that's ever happened. Wow.
We get from big boobs and small boobs. Boom, boom,
Adam Curry: boom, boom,
John C Dvorak: boom. Abraham in Arlington, Virginia, okay, uh,
60 uh. Matthew Martel in brumal, Pennsylvania, 5856 you gotta
read this one. Sorry, fellas, I can't afford your CPM. I can
only swing a CPT visit Martel hardware.com, use coupon code
blame PayPal for 10% off your order. Okay, let's push that up
to the $200 mark. Matthew, yeah, please. James, bro freight,
freighter ish Frederick in McFarland, Wisconsin, 5510 your
he I read his note, your show is neat Oh, neato. There's a term,
neato, baby. It's Neato. I would assume it's Japanese. By the
way, congratulations to Ono Sato for winning the sumo competition
the second time he's won the award in the last three years.
As a young guy, he'll be up to Ozeki within no time, he's going
to be Ozeki next year or next tournament. This guy is the next
Joe kazuna. Well, I will be saying it to the bank. I
Adam Curry: will be celebrating with Sir Mark and daymastered in
a week and a half. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: well, I'm sure they're aware of this. This is
on a one today, before the term is even over. He had too many
wins. Wow. Yeah, I'm sure you're thrilled. Dame Nancy in San
Bruno, California, 54 Mark Hardwick in Alito, Texas, 5333
Leslie Wilbur in Loxahatchee, Florida. 5272 Paul Hobbs and can
connugra is in cannura, Queensland, Australia. 5272
Adam Curry: conundra. I think it's conundrum.
John C Dvorak: Conundru, congra could be, think so. For Scott
Brinkley in North Carolina, 5272 these are all $50 donors.
Actually, Steven crummy and El Cajon, 5272 Forrest, Martin 505.
And now we got the $50 donors, and there's only 12345, of them.
It's that low. It's that bad. Uh, thank God for the
Commodores. Nicholas aruto which in Harpers Ferry, Wisconsin, uh,
West Virginia. Sorry. Michael sycora in New Richmond,
Wisconsin. Deborah Cornyn in pincher Creek, Alberta, Canada,
and she says she's in the Barbados Dame flying fish, as a
matter of fact, Jimmy Rowe in Warrington, Pennsylvania. And
last on our short list is Dan Wyrick in Corpus Christi, Texas,
and he has a call out. Hank is a douchebag. And that's our group
of well wish. Supporters and producers for show, 1697,
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Congratulations. Buzzkill Jr, as serpent in the troll room turns
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Congratulations, everybody here at the best podcast in the
universe. So I think we should do our Commodores first,
probably. Or should we do a night? Or first? I'll do the
Commodore. Okay, so this is all new, everybody. So the whole
idea is that we welcome our new Commodores. We need to get them
all positioned up here on the stage, because we're about to
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krimbe. Welcome to our new Commodores. What do you think?
John C Dvorak: It's good? It's good. Okay, have one other
element. I'm not sure what, okay, not complaining. Shall
Adam Curry: we have a meeting after the show?
John C Dvorak: God, no, let's do what you're doing. It's fine.
Adam Curry: Okay, give me a blade. We got one night to bring
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Everybody's getting excited for the meetup here in
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That'll be October 18 in Fredericksburg right now,
though, we have a meet up report from the September 19 Denver
Shindig. Hey,
Unknown: folks, Denver meet up. This
is cousin Vito. Let's see if Uncle Moshe wants to talk. Uncle
moishi, you want to say anything to everybody? Oi denvanita,
Uncle moishi,
there are Musa squirrel, I
know I can't do it. I'm sorry. Boys,
introduction to the Mormon. Sixes. Care Bear, the
not so secret lives of ex Mormon, ex wives Colorado. Care
Bear,
hey, this is Nate second meet up. Still not a spook. This
is Josh Sumption coming in from North Aurora north. Call Aurora
Colorado, and we are turning in all of our boons. We are going
to get them inspected for any explosives that may be inside
Adam Curry: it. Editing the comedy right in in San Diego.
Here's their meetup report. Hey,
Unknown: John and Adam. This is Sir Mike at the monthly meetup
here in Rancho Bernardo, San Diego. ITM let me pass this
around.
This is Sir Matthew Black Knight of the ice giants. Or you may
know me in the value versus Matt the tall I'll be performing in
the second satellite skirmish on Sunday, the 22nd coming up. So
if you want to come and spend some SATs, watch some cool
music,
check it out.
This is Sir Joffe. I still need to come up with a funny tagline.
I don't have one, but I did just have some delicious roast cat
and mutt.
Hello from Taylor and a future human resource on
the way in the morning,
Kelly, Dame of the crushed grapes in the morning. Just had
a little pizza with
some geese on it.
I see I'm John and Adam. This is Dame on love. You mean it Adam
and
John hit it's Victor on my way to be. In a third and bring back
the good new segment. And four more years is not enough.
All right. On three, ITM 123,
Adam Curry: in San Diego. Thank you for reporting in we have
meetups taking place today. One actually at margaritas. Keene,
that is in Keene, New Hampshire. It's a too many eggs.com. Meet
up number six on Thursday, our next show day to North Georgia,
monthly at six o'clock at Cherry Street. Brewing in Alpharetta,
Georgia. And on the way, in the next couple of months, we have
rich in Washington, Tilburg, the Netherlands, Tulsa, Oklahoma,
Pickton, Ontario, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, Indianapolis,
Indiana Bay City, Michigan. Keene, New Hampshire, again,
Fredericksburg, Texas, October 18. Be there. Curry the keeper
will be there. Bedford, Texas, ochi, Okeechobee, Florida,
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Many more meetups that you can find, no agenda, meetups.com.
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and start living today.
Unknown: Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights
and days where everybody
game. It's like a
Adam Curry: party. Oh, man, I'm glad you brought some ISOs,
because I have a very I only have one offering, and I don't
think it's any good. I don't think it's any good. I'll play
mine.
Unknown: Let's move on to marijuana. No
Adam Curry: See, I don't like it's no good. That's it. That's
all I got. I'm sorry I spent time on AI stuff.
John C Dvorak: I have three. I do have one that's a little long
and probably not usable, but it since I had to find this guy
rough head, a Navy guy, yeah. Now I have a woman whose name is
Hancock and sheep, and she says the following can't
Unknown: get it out fast enough because our hands are so busy in
that moment.
Adam Curry: Yeah, it's too long and too suggestive. It's
John C Dvorak: very suggestive, but I couldn't figure out what
she's talking about. Okay, let's go. It's welcome. You're
welcome.
Adam Curry: That's always a winner, always a winner, always
a winner.
John C Dvorak: And then no big deal. Yeah,
Unknown: well, it's
no big deal. Wow. I
Adam Curry: don't know if I like Well, you're welcome better, or
you're welcome. I think you're welcome is good. It's just
short, All right, everybody, it's time once again for that
favorite sake, with John's Tip of the day and
Unknown: sometimes.
Adam Curry: And before you start with your tip of the day, I did
want to mention that we now have a website Tip of the day.net
where all of John's tips of the day are located. Also no agenda.
Fun.com Let me just check, check if that is yes, no agenda.
Fun.com which has a lot of fun stuff about the show, is now
also including the tip of the day. So noadgendafund.com, and
Tip of the day.net John. Let's add another entry. Okay, so
John C Dvorak: we have people who use Twitter a lot every
once. Now it's becoming video centric, yeah, and so there is a
product, and it's, it's an online product called Twitter,
vid.com, and as I've looked at these different Twitter video
downloaders, this down. You put the URL of the of the of the
post that's got the video right into this thing. It downloads it
in high def. It usually gives you two or three options of how
you want to download. You download saves it as an mp three
that you can now post on LinkedIn, or you can send it as
email attachments. It's it's, I It's great for these videos that
you've watched. And you go, Oh, this isn't going to be up here
long. You download it using Twitter, vid.com
Adam Curry: uh, MP four, I presume not an mp three, I
John C Dvorak: am, sorry. MP four, exactly.
Adam Curry: You're right. So then what? What can you do with
that? You can then upload it to other places, yeah, you
John C Dvorak: can upload it to, I said, LinkedIn, or you could
use it in an email attachment. Yep, you can do all kinds of
stuff with this. Or you can repost it on Twitter as though
you discovered it,
Adam Curry: or create some entropy and upload it to
notebook. Lm, what
John C Dvorak: could possibly go wrong?
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Unknown: He seems to make a distinction between mail in
ballot and absentee ballot, but
there's no such distinction. They're the same thing.
Did the dead get balanced?
Take a look at 1000s of
pieces of mail that never made it to Portland, homes and
businesses. Police tell us a postal worker was the one
stealing that's
very frightening to think that I can't mail something here and
it's going to be okay.
Osborne blames it on his meth addiction, contributed to his
inability to deliver the mail. Put your mask on, line up and
vote like we always do, how
many postal workers are caught and what's being done to prevent
theft at your
post office?
So Jamie Lee Curtis believes that Donald Trump is attempting
to steal the election, and I assume the mail in ballots by
hiring tow truck drivers to haul away mailmans that she believes
are full of Democrat ballots tampering with the Postal
Service. He is, in effect, putting his knee on the neck of
American democracy, Donald
Trump is stealing the election,
but you may face
a felony charge if you attempt to vote twice, that is by mail
and also
in person. But they
raid the mailboxes. They can even print ballots. They get the
same paper, the same machine, nothing special. Amazon is going
to pay for the post office.
Delivery, deliveries, deliveries. Liberated.
I And Tim Ross are both gun owners. We
will not take anybody's guns away.
We also need to have reasonable gun safety laws.
I believe that we need an assault weapons ban.
Bag: We need universal background checks.
Unknown: We need red flag laws.
Outside the
house. We want to ban assault weapons, and they
want to ban Fox
events, and they want to ban books
extremists attack our
freedom to live safe from gun violence.
I want to emphasize, we are over two months, of course, since
Butler, do you know that the Secret Service still has not
given congressional investigators the documented
evidence we have been asking for for two months, two months since
Trump was shot in the face. Now he has been shot at her nearly
so again, and still, Secret Service is stonewalling right
down to this hour. I mean, what is going on here? They need to
level with us. Let's try this
one. Mike check.
Adam Curry: Mike check. Mike check, we have a saying in the
Netherlands. You accuse others that of what you are guilty of.
Unknown: Yeah. Mike check, but
Adam Curry: you said clean yourself. Would you go through
the health
Unknown: we have a saying in the Netherlands,
Adam Curry: or Mic check. Mic check,
Unknown: but you said, Ben yourself. You
Adam Curry: accuse others that you are guilty of. Boom. Yeah,
mike check. Mike check. Watches
Unknown: like you, mains, elf, magical,
John C Dvorak: legless grammar, nailed it.
Unknown: Dot org slash n A You're welcome. You.