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Writing the wake of the new why
Mar Republic still free and at

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large it's time once again for
no agenda emanating from both

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coasts of Gitmo nation from the
United Kingdom. I'm Adam curry.

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And I'm in northern Silicon
Valley, San Francisco Bay Area.

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I'm John C. Dvorak.

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And, John, how you doing on this
Sunday?

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Not that well, because my local
football team, coached by a guy

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who's obviously you can do the
job anymore lost. So sorry to

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hear that. Come about the
University of California bears.

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I'm a little bit out of whack.
Just timezone wise. I was in

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Amsterdam yesterday with with
the girls, we had a surprise

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party for Bob. Who's my stepdad.
And so, you know, between the

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San Francisco time difference,
and then that one hour between

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London and the mate or between
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that really throws me off whack.
And of course, it's just Sunday

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in general. And I'm coming back
tomorrow.

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So you say?

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Yes. So unfortunately, the plan
that we had initially was for

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you to send me a DVD of the CNN,
side by side with the of the

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debate along with the audience
data from Ohio or whatever. And

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that first is going to be sent
on DVD within was all kinds of

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unbelievable. You can't get a
DVD overnight to Europe anymore.

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That seems to be impossible.

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Well, there's something to do
with at least would we could

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figure out it had something to
do with you couldn't do it

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because there's some
restriction. You know, I don't

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know, we couldn't do it. We
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was the point.

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You're kidding me.

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So, if you send it on Thursday,
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until Monday.

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That's what seems to be the
case. You have a DHL, FedEx and

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UPS,

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but you have no idea what the
limitation was. It was something

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to do with 911 There was some
No, you're kidding me? No,

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that's what Maggie said. I don't
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people.

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It had to do with 911 and that
you couldn't send me a disk.

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That's just telling you. That's
the report I got.

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So then, of course, you had
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it you had them upload 4.4 gigs
on some fucking server. And then

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you actually believe or somewhat
someone there thought that I was

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going to download that. I mean,
we can barely keep a Skype

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connection going on. On the
bandwidth. I got like, you seem

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unreasonable. I got like one
megabit down. Do you want to do

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the calculation? It took him
like one hour to upload it?

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Yeah, he's got more bandwidth
uploading that I have to four

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gigs. That's an amazing amount
of data. I

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thought you'd have the somebody
at the office do it. It doesn't

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get better.

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It it doesn't matter because he
uploaded it to us server. And we

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don't have a dedicated backhaul.
You know, you're not getting

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like, you know, true download
data rates across across the

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ocean and it just doesn't happen
that way. Particularly, you

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know, the server that he
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so he never got to disk. I
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the 36 hours but anyway, so I
thought we could play a little

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bit differently. Because amazing
thing happened on my way back

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from from the United States to
Europe. I stopped caring about

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the presidential debate. It's
really It's pretty funny that

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way,

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you know well that's funny you
say that because I have my notes

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instead of being on a big giant
box Yeah, just on the back of an

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envelope and it's only like
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and so I arrived Thursday
morning so they were still you

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know, the debate was still kind
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in the middle of the night UK
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summary which was literally on
the BBC I kid you not John. You

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see them sit down at the table.
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voiceover and then they went
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Plumber Joe the Plumber Joe the
Plumber Joe the Plumber, the

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plumber Joe the Plumber, Joe the
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their entire report.

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Yeah, they think that the Jon
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It was unbelievable. And that
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him if you want to do something
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you just do a montage of of
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look look let me tell you Look,
my friends. Look, Joe the

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Plumber look.

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I would love to hear your
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know I heard Excuse me. I heard
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Seeing a few quotes, you can't
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there's no way you can be in
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some pieces of it. I would
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Well get a couple of things. For
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way through the debate, Obama
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heck with this format, I'm
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Oh, and he went, he went to his
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He listed what actually when he
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usually left off. Yeah. They
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the camera. Or maybe they
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he just looked into the camera
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people look, you know, we gotta
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started talking to the audience,
right. There was a couple of

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interesting facts that came out
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figured this out, which is kind
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because Obama's so international
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south of the border. Hmm. And
have you ever had that? How

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did that come out? He just said,
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Well, McCain just said it. He
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never been south of the border.
You've never been to Mexico or

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South America. And you're and
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this treaty with with I think it
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or something that he's against.
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talking about. And I thought
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there's the guy supposed to be
so well travelled. Right? I

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mean, if the course the thing is
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is that George Bush, before he
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out of the country at all.

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Didn't even have a passport.
Right? Like, like most

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That's 3% 25% came up again.

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Oh, no. Did Did did McCain say
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oh, about that new one. Just
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that is an earlier and I don't
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listening has we have the

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resources and the world's oil
reserves, yet, we use 25% of the

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oil, Daniel oil production. Now,
it's a it's a complete specious

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thing to say it's got nothing to
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do with the other. If we if we
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that last us? It would probably
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decades. Because that 3% is a
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is, of course, you want to talk
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to mention that we have 350
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available to us within our own

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borders. Okay. McCain wants
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She doesn't want Yeah,
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interested, which is weird,
because one of the biggest

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providers of of nukes is General
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don't want McCain.

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But at the end of the day,
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they're backing Come on.

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Come on, they got MSNBC, it just
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of course, but they've got
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what they've kind of hedged.
They've got a hedge, no doubt

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about it. I saw just as an
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name? Lynn forester. de
Rothschild was on Fox News the

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other day and, and she's now
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supporting Obama, and now she's
saying I'm switching I'm

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supporting McCain. Because yeah,
just speaking of big money, he

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was good.

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Yeah, no, I don't remember ever
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things. There's not that many.
Obama did say the N OB. I'm

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sorry. Obama said look at we're
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offshore in terms of drilling.
And McCain got busted him for

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saying we're going to look at it
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was cute. Obama said his faux pa
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said and this is a direct quote.
We're going to enforce unfair

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trade agreements.

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Anyone? Did anyone catch it? No,
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course not. Nobody catches
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fair, I will enforce.

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Here's a couple more gaffes.
Here's a McCain gaff, but it

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wasn't a gaffe. It was just
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Hoover, this is like a cookie
what you'd call a callback for

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people over 70. Okay. But
anyway, so he says Hoover, he

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admitted implying that Obama was
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which by the way, would be the
case based on my cycles. Anyway,

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he says we went from a deep
recession. Because of Hoover. We

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went from a deep recession to a
depression. That's bull. It's

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just Hoover Hoover, when he was
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that was not there was not a
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least by any standards I've ever
researched and Anyway, there was

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a crash during his thing and it
just drove into a deep recession

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and right into a depression
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I'm a little bit younger. The
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Hoover is the theme tune to all
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So right Yeah, it's funny.

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So why would Archie Bunker like
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it would do was just mock the
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Herbert Hoover. Anyway. McCain
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where he didn't call a hint. You
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guess became a you know, these
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about this, you know, Joe the
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to be named back in the feudal
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Carpenter, you were the
carpenter. Yeah. Or, you know,

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Adam broadcast should be your
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executive

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when Napoleon conquered Europe,
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lot of this. Everyone had to
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because, you know, typical Dutch
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some was like, you know, I'm
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timber mom, or I'd be the baker
and you still have lots of these

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very simple names, but there are
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later, you know, centuries later
change their name, because it

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was like some really rank shit.
I'm Peter the whore, you know,

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stuff like that.

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Yeah, there's all kinds of funny
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Well, you know, those guys, they
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there. Yeah, no shit. So, so
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Obama, Senator government.

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That's Senator government.
That's pretty yeah. He

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said, Senator government, I
Obama. Senator government,

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again, you know, nobody's you
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this written about, it's just
like, nobody does a very good

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job of any of this. Meanwhile,
they will do one thing that I

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thought was interesting that
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McCain had a shot at this. Obama
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you can find it in a transcript
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plan for an individual in this
country anyone is $12,000 a

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year. But that's what he said,
that means everyone's paying

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$12,000 dollars a month health
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that can't be true. It's not
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That's the point. McCain has a
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which is closer to the reality
for some people, which is $5,800

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a month. And he said that a
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average number either. No, I

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think it's lower. I think it's
lower than that.

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Well, what is the what what is
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employee? At a company? Yeah.

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And obviously, we our benefits,
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have we paid I think half dental
even which I which I guess is

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good. Either. And yeah, I think
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A year? Yeah. Yeah. I don't
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12,000 coming from maybe man's
world. And nobody calls him on

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it in the media. Nobody called.
I mean, this is, but throw out

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some outrageous number like
that, you know, I've had to pay

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for my own personal health care,
or every so often. And I know

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what the figure is, it's not
cheap, but it's not $12,000. For

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God's sake. Well, I'll

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tell you, we have private
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afraid to switch honestly.
Because, you know, then Patricia

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would have a pre existing
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we've been on this medical
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we're paying about 4500 year
it's a European 4500 euros a

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year and she has you know, has
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done. And so I still don't
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from that just makes no sense
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comes out of is it comes out of
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And I'm actually shocked that
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nobody says anything. I'm not
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this is like, Boston Legal. You
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crane. And you know, and for
surely and, you know, when they

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get into the real courtroom
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just gloss over it, who gives a
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the show here.

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Okay, so So here's the latest.
So the news this morning, of

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Colin Powells. Colin Powell
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Barack Obama and everybody runs
this as a straight story. The

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funny the The interesting thing
about that story to me is nobody

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makes the following connection.

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Except you my friend,

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Colin Powell. Where is he
getting most of his money

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nowadays? You know, he's a
consultant. Yeah, he's Kleiner

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Perkins. Who is right it was
which was largely run by John

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Doar who was a major Democrat
funder who also hired Al Gore so

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they could do their green stuff.
And so you have this little

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cabal out here on the West Coast
consisting of door gore and

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Powell and Obama and everyone's
shocked,

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you know, Schwarzenegger is in
that group too, as his Bano.

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Yep, I know, but they're not on
the Kleiner Perkins masthead.

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Colin, Colin Powell is on the
Kleiner Perkins masthead and so

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as Gore Kleiner perkins.com or
KKKP BC B. Kleiner Perkins

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Caufield and byers.com and look
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their names and may

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I just say to state the obvious
look at who they invest in, and

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they're one of our investors in
the in the Financial Times the

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weekend edition. Colin Powell
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maybe Thursday, and he has a
picture of him onstage with his

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new tune Colin Powell dances
with Nigerian hip hop group at

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London festival this week is the
end You know, he's got he's got

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like his, his fingers sticking
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yeah. And he's got a sunglasses
on. I gotta send you the

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picture. He looks like such.
Like, it looks like Kanye West

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is next him that doesn't look
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it's Kanye West. I'm sure maybe
it's online, but you got to look

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at it. Because it's like, yeah,
that that's the guy that

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endorses Obama.

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So anyway, so that was fixed
that was rigged. And, you know,

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getting them to just imagine
that John Doerr was strong

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arming him,

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you know, but they were already
ramping that up. And then you

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were reading the possibility of
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36 hours.

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Well, they that was that type of
ramp up the way they were doing?

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It was obviously to see what
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Exactly, exactly. And they got
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Well, what do you expect? And so
they're probably just gonna

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blame it on the fact that well,
you know, Powell is black and

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you know, they're all black. So
you're gonna push for Obama and

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that's that, but that's not the
reason is because of this green

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stuff.

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So I think I Are you done?
Because I want to continue on

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Obama if you're done with the
debate. Yeah. I think now it's

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time to talk about Project Oscar
Mike. November Delta.

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Okay, here we go.

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You don't know Oscar, Mike.
November Delta?

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Oscar Mike. November de om en de

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Yes. That would be the Obama
milk next door. Oh, God,

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do you really want to talk about
that now?

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What do you want to talk about
later?

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We'll keep that a surprise for
later. Yes. That's probably a

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good idea.

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I think you should We should
finish the project before we

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actually reveal the details.
Well, there's been a new twist

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to the to the to the project.
Since you touch since you sent

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me the email. Yeah,

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there's been a couple more
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Okay, well, I think we should we
should use that as a teaser. You

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should document this as you you
know, take a few notes. You

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don't have to like get carried

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I believe me. I'm taking notes.
I even have my my daughter in on

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on this. She's helping me out.
Up to this isn't like a family

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project now. All right, well,
maybe next week, next week will

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be more appropriate because then
it actually might even come to

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closure.

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As it were okay. So let's we're
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hanging even though you know
that, you know, although that

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is,

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but they must they must hate us
for that.

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I don't you know what, I don't
think so. I mean, the fact is,

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let's let me just explain to the
eyes. Adam has this kind of a

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amusing project that
unfortunately, tell talking

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about it could ruin the outcome
and we don't want to ruin the

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outcome? I don't think so. I
have too many I know you say

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that. But I'm not I don't take
any chances on this kind of a

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situation.

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All right, because it is a good
Well, anyway, let me just say

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that part of the project is to
understand more about the

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operations of the Obama
campaign. Is that fair to say?

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Yes, you can say that. Okay. And
one of the things that has

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already come out of this project
is that the Obama camp is

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extremely not just worried but
convinced that if he wins, it'll

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be an automatic recount. And
it's funny because this comes on

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the heels of this oh, you know,
the acorn Ohio voter

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registration fraud and you know,
all this kind of noise is

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starting to crop up and I think
they might have a good point.

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Well, that's why the other thing
that people should know about is

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the 50 state strategy. And you
find that when you if you if I

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go to Berkeley now i to shop at
one of the you know, better

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vegetable stands upscale
vegetable stands and what's not

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really upscale but it's got
definitely you know, when you

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can buy 10 to 20 Different kinds
of mushrooms including Shan

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trolls for nine bucks a pound
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you know you're in Berkeley

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well, anyway they places
crawling with people signing you

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know anyone up they can feed to
get their money, they're still

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collecting money like they're
like they're going out of style,

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but they have this thing called
a 50 state strategy which is

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they're going to push the get
their numbers they want to get

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so many so much in the way of
total how has

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to be a landslide because they
do it because they're afraid of

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the of the recount.

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Right. And there's also a big
push to get people to to

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absentee ballot as much as they
can to try and get them into pre

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vote. They want everyone to vote
if you You can vote now vote,

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they will because they don't.
They're worried that people can

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change their mind at the last
minute because it does happen in

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these elections.

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I'm a little confused about how
this pre voting works. Because,

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you know, I already found out
that that was one of you know,

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that you know, what's called a
50 state strategy, but I know

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that they were working on on a
lot of early votes. How can how

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can it be that we have people
who are able to vote? Is that

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only by absentee ballot, that
you can vote early? Or how does

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that work?

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Well, as far as I went in
California, I think the only way

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you can vote early is with an
absentee ballot. And the other

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states, they may have some other
process where you can actually

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go in and vote in advance. I
don't know maybe somebody out

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there knows. Some Obama
supporter who can tell. Yeah.

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All right. So anyway, yeah,
we'll talk about No, because one

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of the reasons I want to put off
the deeper discussion about the

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Oscar Meyer, North Dakota is the
October 14 fiasco.

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Ah, yes. About the the alien
ship that was supposed to

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surface somewhere near a place
or thing called Alabama It was

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to be there for three days,
three days? Yeah. Well,

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obviously, I'm a gullible
bonehead. I might, I might as

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well put that upfront right
there. I will say that. Totally.

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I'm a gullible bonehead, no
doubt about it. I will say that

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there are no there. There's a
couple of like three or four

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pretty good video videos of UFOs
and lightships taken around the

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globe on the 14th, which is
actually probably low for a

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typical day. And I still believe
that we're not alone in the

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universe. But yeah, I'm pretty
much done with the with the

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channelling business. That that
didn't work too well for me.

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No, I'm Jen, you got a bunch of
flack, too. But well, that was

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fun while it lasted. Well, you
were lightly glib just before

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the day with, you know, with the
possibility, perhaps I mean, I

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find it hard to believe but with
the possibility actually ringing

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in your head that this could
happen.

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Well, yeah. I'm young and
hopeful.

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hopeful. I'm hopeful we get
invaded from Mars and all. I was

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hopeful for an invasion. I

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don't know. Now, now that I know
that they're not coming. Or at

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least the messages that have
them coming have were bogus. Now

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I'm worried about us getting
eaten alive here on Earth by the

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reptiles that run the frickin
place. So now I can focus my

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energy entirely on the world
around us and the true reality.

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Because that that's getting bad.

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So talking about eating we so we
had a dinner. Yes. By the way,

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I'm reminded of a show I tried
to do these more often the

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segways there's a show on this
hour has 22 minutes, one of

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their little sub shows is called
awkward segways. And it's just

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the funniest thing you've ever
seen. It's very difficult to

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write. But anyways, in terms of
awkward segues, we went to a

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restaurant called Eisah. Yes,
I've just decided that we're

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going to go do we're gonna have
to drop our target to some

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restaurants that are a little

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more certainly affordable, maybe
less formal, less sticky, but

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actually, these are the real
gems is what we're looking for

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now is great food at a
reasonable price. A nice

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atmosphere and not, you know,
the the Ritz Carlton instead. I

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mean, what basically John, the
expensive stuff has been pretty

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shitty. Recently.

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We were disappointed. Yeah. So I
thought maybe going to the

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second tier, which are places
that are considered kind of

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gourmet ish. But you know,
wouldn't be getting a Michelin

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star anytime soon.

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Not with the rope light around
the railing now? I don't think

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so.

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So we go to this place Eisah
which kind of kind of a nice

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front, a nice front of the house
or the bars were in San

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Francisco just so people know.
It's in San Francisco and it's a

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little bit

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off the beaten track kind of

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new actually, that's maybe one
of the better parts of town.

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It's a town part of town where
the where there's a lot of

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restaurants Steiner, and
Lombard, and I thought the place

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was the front of the house. I
thought it looked like it looked

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like it could have been in front
of a disco is too many.

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It's dark, and it had rope
lights all over the place. It

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was

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funny. Yeah, it was like it was
It wasn't you know, I didn't

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think it was a very good taste
and the front of house also

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didn't that was kind of
odiferous. It did the smells

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from the kitchen which was an
open kitchen by the way and very

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Are you look very clean and look
pretty nice. But it was there

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was no ventilation in the front
of the place near the street.

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But in the back they had where
most of the people were kind of

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covered garden. Right. It was a
covered patio. And it was big.

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But it was like being in
somebody's backyard. You know,

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there was wood, like a little
porch. And it was strange. It

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was unusual. That said, I think
overall the food was worth, you

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know, worth it. It was nice. And
it was very inexpensive. Yeah,

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the service was the service was
great,

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was good. And, you know, it was
it was it was almost kind of

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like a family atmosphere that in
fact, there was no like some

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kind of family reunion with
three or four tables shoved

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together, right behind us. But
yeah, it was good. And I was

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actually quite hammered. We had
whatever we we had, like a

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couple glasses of wine.

446
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,230
I don't know what happened to
you. But you're actually what we

447
00:25:55,230 --> 00:25:57,660
did. We had a glass of
Chardonnay, because we're gonna

448
00:25:57,660 --> 00:26:02,160
have oysters. They had some
very, we got a couple dozen

449
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:07,020
oysters. And you were actually I
noticed this, by the way, you

450
00:26:07,020 --> 00:26:10,410
were actually hammered on the
one glass of white wine. Yeah.

451
00:26:11,430 --> 00:26:14,640
How do you know I'm hammered,
John, what's the giveaway?

452
00:26:15,090 --> 00:26:17,280
I'm not going to tell you now. I
don't want to tell your tell.

453
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:19,350
But I said Sam, I'm thinking
what the hell this guy gave a

454
00:26:19,350 --> 00:26:24,480
completely empty stomach. And
which I had to assume. And

455
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,600
because the oysters obviously
will not do anything to him. You

456
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:31,860
know, the, you know, that's not
going to help and, and then we

457
00:26:31,860 --> 00:26:37,770
had a really nice bottle of 2004
Heights Cabernet, which was you

458
00:26:37,770 --> 00:26:41,010
liked and it was good. And the
thing is, is that was compared

459
00:26:41,010 --> 00:26:43,110
to these other places we were at
where we would have paid

460
00:26:43,110 --> 00:26:47,820
probably 8090 bucks for a
bottle. This was 55 which was a

461
00:26:47,820 --> 00:26:51,690
cheap, relatively even though
the wind you can buy I think at

462
00:26:51,690 --> 00:26:55,470
the store for 30. Straight you
know, I think all the prices are

463
00:26:55,470 --> 00:26:57,600
the ways to be honest about
because I was looking at him was

464
00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,940
less than a double, you know,
most of these places double the

465
00:26:59,970 --> 00:27:03,720
retail market. I think these
guys may have been doubling the

466
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,320
wholesale price, which is really
the old old school way of doing

467
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:11,700
things right. You double the
wholesale price and or what

468
00:27:11,700 --> 00:27:14,970
actually don't double what you
it's more it comes out to be

469
00:27:15,030 --> 00:27:18,750
less than double the retail
price. If you know that the one

470
00:27:18,750 --> 00:27:22,620
is 30 bucks, and they're selling
it for 55. And all the other

471
00:27:22,620 --> 00:27:25,500
ones are matching, they're less
than doubled, as opposed to the

472
00:27:25,500 --> 00:27:28,320
Ritz Carlton, where they were
the prices of the wine were

473
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,530
triple. Yeah, the retail price
and you find that in most of the

474
00:27:31,530 --> 00:27:34,080
expensive restaurants. tripling
the retail price, it was

475
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:35,670
recoilless and it was cork.

476
00:27:37,980 --> 00:27:39,360
Now the wine had the Ritz
Carlton.

477
00:27:39,870 --> 00:27:43,440
Yeah. So anyway, I would say
this is a great restaurant to go

478
00:27:43,590 --> 00:27:48,360
with an acquaintance or friend,
possibly even family if it's

479
00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:51,570
like four, and the kids aren't
too young, because otherwise

480
00:27:51,570 --> 00:27:54,990
it'd be bored. Not a place to
take a date. Really?

481
00:27:55,320 --> 00:28:00,960
No, no, definitely not. It's too
funky look like it? I don't know

482
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,480
what it would be. It just
doesn't feel like a date place.

483
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,840
No, I'm not going to include it
in Project Oscar Mike November

484
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:12,240
Delta. Good. So my sister loves
the foods talk. By the way. I

485
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,390
saw her last night she was in
she lives in Italy. And she was

486
00:28:15,390 --> 00:28:17,730
they were their kids. And she
said, Oh man, when you guys talk

487
00:28:17,730 --> 00:28:21,600
about food, particularly. It
lays it in the wine. I love

488
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:23,580
hearing about the wine, as he
was actually kind of really

489
00:28:23,580 --> 00:28:27,270
complimentary about you, which
was unfortunate. You want to

490
00:28:27,270 --> 00:28:27,570
hear from

491
00:28:27,990 --> 00:28:30,570
you. Except for you. The family
seems to be pretty bright

492
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:35,430
speaking Speaking of family and
food. I have extremely good news

493
00:28:35,430 --> 00:28:38,430
for you. I'm so glad I came
back. You know, I had time on

494
00:28:38,430 --> 00:28:42,690
Friday to go into into the city
with Patricia to look at the

495
00:28:42,690 --> 00:28:46,920
house. And oh yeah. And so you
know, we haven't, we haven't

496
00:28:47,190 --> 00:28:50,010
really you know, I've explained
it here until you've signed in

497
00:28:50,010 --> 00:28:52,770
blood on the dotted line.
There's no deal with the in the

498
00:28:52,770 --> 00:28:56,190
UK market, which is good. And of
course the market is tanking.

499
00:28:56,190 --> 00:29:00,660
And it's everyone's in terror.
But I knew I knew that there

500
00:29:00,660 --> 00:29:03,030
were a couple of things that
both Patricia and Christina had

501
00:29:03,030 --> 00:29:05,340
overlooked when because I know
what they were falling in love

502
00:29:05,340 --> 00:29:09,210
with. And it wasn't the right
things. And there was a

503
00:29:09,210 --> 00:29:12,810
secondary place like a backup
that that I knew we had to see

504
00:29:12,810 --> 00:29:16,650
which none of us had seen. And
so there were a number of signs.

505
00:29:16,950 --> 00:29:21,840
You know, we're when we're
buying houses, boy, we really

506
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:25,320
care about the actual numbers
not you know, we're basically

507
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,720
like how do you feel? Do you
want to live here etc.

508
00:29:28,140 --> 00:29:30,510
Well, you know, that's that's a
reasonable thing. You do have to

509
00:29:30,510 --> 00:29:33,750
live in the place and if you if
the if you're uncomfortable, or

510
00:29:33,750 --> 00:29:36,120
if that place has a bat and I
hate that and I am not the

511
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:40,290
cornball type, but I believe
there's a vibe that you go to

512
00:29:40,290 --> 00:29:41,550
this place is nice. Yeah.

513
00:29:41,580 --> 00:29:44,610
Do you have good vibes or bad
vibes? So there were a number of

514
00:29:44,610 --> 00:29:48,840
things, which I don't have to
explain. And then so we went to

515
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:52,290
look at the other place. And so
you know, it's the minute

516
00:29:52,290 --> 00:29:54,930
Patricia walked in, she's like,
Oh, and it's night and day

517
00:29:54,930 --> 00:29:58,290
difference in in a number of
aspects. But she was like, Oh,

518
00:29:58,290 --> 00:30:00,450
wow, this feels really good.
Until you know, there's A whole

519
00:30:00,450 --> 00:30:03,300
bunch of things just Tick tick
tick and then right there in the

520
00:30:03,300 --> 00:30:04,110
kitchen John.

521
00:30:04,140 --> 00:30:05,430
Oh, you're kidding me. No, I'm

522
00:30:05,430 --> 00:30:10,110
not there is a off white cream
coloured Agha, sitting right

523
00:30:10,110 --> 00:30:13,710
there like this is the sign for
this is the hand of God has

524
00:30:13,710 --> 00:30:17,580
touched my shoulder and said,
this is the this is the one. So

525
00:30:17,610 --> 00:30:20,010
we've put in an offer and then
hopefully we'll be able to get

526
00:30:20,010 --> 00:30:20,580
this place.

527
00:30:21,990 --> 00:30:25,050
That's too much. Yeah, because I
know how much anybody who

528
00:30:25,050 --> 00:30:27,000
doesn't listen to the show all
the time. And by the way, if you

529
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:28,980
do listen to the show, please
tell a friend we'd like to get

530
00:30:28,980 --> 00:30:33,600
our numbers up to a point we can
actually make money. But Adam

531
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:37,710
has a there's a crackpot stove
that I looked at years ago when

532
00:30:37,710 --> 00:30:44,160
I was getting upgrading my
stoves and called an AGA that is

533
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,370
always fascinated me and Adams
the only person I know that

534
00:30:47,370 --> 00:30:51,960
actually has one. And now
apparently there's a I guess

535
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:56,730
there's more than one in the
city. And yeah, you you that

536
00:30:56,730 --> 00:30:59,760
would be the sign. Yeah, that
would be the big you know, yeah.

537
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,420
Right. Just like that joke where
the guy's on top of the roof and

538
00:31:03,420 --> 00:31:06,120
a flood you know, he's in you
know, you can make this Katrina

539
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:10,260
flooding and he says, you know,
a guy comes by in a boat, and he

540
00:31:10,260 --> 00:31:12,660
says, hey, you need some helping
get in the boat. When get out.

541
00:31:12,660 --> 00:31:15,000
You said, Oh, no, no, God's
gonna save me. I don't worry

542
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,970
about it. Okay, and a helicopter
comes by says no, no, no, don't

543
00:31:17,970 --> 00:31:20,790
worry about it. God's gonna save
me. And then you know, then

544
00:31:20,790 --> 00:31:22,770
something else and something
else. And then the next thing

545
00:31:22,770 --> 00:31:26,070
you know, he drowns and goes to
heaven. And he says, Well, I

546
00:31:26,070 --> 00:31:29,880
think you're gonna save me, too.
And God says I should I sent a

547
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:30,750
helicopter.

548
00:31:33,030 --> 00:31:36,600
Exactly. Well, the oghuz aren't
very typical in the city as far

549
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:40,140
as I know, it's much more of a
country home type thing. And

550
00:31:40,170 --> 00:31:43,620
what's nice about the AGA is it
actually it becomes the centre

551
00:31:43,620 --> 00:31:48,030
Hirth of not just the room but
in many in many cases the actual

552
00:31:48,030 --> 00:31:51,600
house because it's on all the
time imagine a huge cast iron

553
00:31:51,630 --> 00:31:56,670
oven and actually has four ovens
and two hot plates on top. And

554
00:31:56,670 --> 00:32:00,060
you know, the pets lie in front
of it you you you can put your

555
00:32:00,060 --> 00:32:03,210
fresh laundry on top of it to
keep it warm before you've put

556
00:32:03,210 --> 00:32:06,990
it in the in before you put it
away. You lean against it in the

557
00:32:06,990 --> 00:32:09,270
morning with your cup of tea. I
know it sounds a little dorky

558
00:32:09,270 --> 00:32:13,710
but it's really a lot more than
than just a cooking device but

559
00:32:14,430 --> 00:32:17,640
Patricia is actually making
chicken right now in the AGA

560
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:22,530
here and it tastes better. I
mean, I know my wife's cooking

561
00:32:22,530 --> 00:32:25,800
for almost a quarter of a
century and it's better when

562
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:26,730
it's done in the AGA

563
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,970
Yeah, I think it was has
something to do with the way it

564
00:32:33,810 --> 00:32:37,320
did the way the heat is or the
way the infrared rays are

565
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:39,750
bouncing around. I don't know
it's not just I think it's

566
00:32:39,750 --> 00:32:46,140
almost as though you're cooking
in a in a cast iron. It's just a

567
00:32:46,470 --> 00:32:49,230
surrounds wood. This I don't
know how it works. Never mind.

568
00:32:49,500 --> 00:32:52,470
But it surrounds the product
with heat in such a way that it

569
00:32:52,470 --> 00:32:55,800
makes it guided I know. It's
like a slow cooking device.

570
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,400
Hey, this sounds like you're
stumped John. I don't know.

571
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,490
I've never cooked on one of my
very you may have only even seen

572
00:33:02,490 --> 00:33:05,190
just seen him and it's it's
always fascinated me because I

573
00:33:05,190 --> 00:33:08,970
know that people will have these
devices rave about the product

574
00:33:08,970 --> 00:33:10,800
that comes out of them. Yeah,
absolutely.

575
00:33:11,010 --> 00:33:15,300
Okay, awkward segue back to the
front page of the Financial

576
00:33:15,300 --> 00:33:17,430
Times. I know you don't
subscribe yet, so I might I mean

577
00:33:17,430 --> 00:33:21,780
it's once again just chock full
of nuggets. And this one you're

578
00:33:21,780 --> 00:33:28,620
gonna want to blog this Andrew
LOD LH D hedge fund manager who

579
00:33:28,620 --> 00:33:34,710
quit after posting an 870% gain
last year, he quit. And he sent

580
00:33:34,710 --> 00:33:38,790
him a two page letter to all his
already blogged out he did it to

581
00:33:38,790 --> 00:33:42,840
all of his clients, thanking
stupid traders for making them

582
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:47,880
rich. And hideous. Yeah. And
actually, what do you say?

583
00:33:50,310 --> 00:33:53,070
Idiots whose parents paid for
the prep school Yale and then

584
00:33:53,070 --> 00:33:57,600
the Harvard MBA? They were there
for the taking. He said he loved

585
00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,940
making those idiots his
counterparty but of course the

586
00:33:59,970 --> 00:34:03,180
the part that I liked is that he
then goes on to endorse

587
00:34:03,180 --> 00:34:04,830
marijuana or hemp actually.

588
00:34:05,310 --> 00:34:11,340
Exactly. I have the headline.
Crack pot I call him a crackpot.

589
00:34:11,340 --> 00:34:11,430
Of

590
00:34:11,430 --> 00:34:14,280
course, of course, we're all
cracking. This is clearly a

591
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,400
brilliant guy. No doubt about
it. He knows what he's talking

592
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:18,960
about the innocuous plant.

593
00:34:20,820 --> 00:34:22,290
Here's here's the headlines you

594
00:34:23,940 --> 00:34:26,850
get the headline and this is it.
This is my this was a quote I

595
00:34:26,850 --> 00:34:31,170
like the evil female plant
marijuana. It gets you high. It

596
00:34:31,170 --> 00:34:33,960
makes you laugh. It does not
produce a hangover. Unlike

597
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:37,440
alcohol. It does not result in
bar fights or wife beating so

598
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,920
why is this innocuous plant
illegal? Is it a gateway drug?

599
00:34:40,950 --> 00:34:44,130
No. That would be alcohol which
is so heavily advertised in this

600
00:34:44,130 --> 00:34:47,220
country? Yeah, good on you man.

601
00:34:48,930 --> 00:34:52,830
crackpot millionaire weed loving
money manager calls it quits and

602
00:34:52,830 --> 00:34:54,390
thanks idiots out there.

603
00:34:54,779 --> 00:34:56,489
We've loving money manager

604
00:34:58,770 --> 00:35:01,680
I love writing the headline I
mean, yeah,

605
00:35:01,770 --> 00:35:02,730
that's excellent.

606
00:35:04,049 --> 00:35:07,079
Very, we'd love in money
manager,

607
00:35:07,140 --> 00:35:11,100
oh, I want to say, I want to say
something about Obama, because

608
00:35:11,190 --> 00:35:13,530
because we're not going to come
back to him. I'm sure. There's

609
00:35:13,530 --> 00:35:16,410
this PDF file floating out there
that if you don't have it yet,

610
00:35:16,410 --> 00:35:21,240
I'll send it to you. And it's
empirical proof, of course, of

611
00:35:21,240 --> 00:35:25,590
Obama using neuro linguistic
programming and other hidden

612
00:35:25,590 --> 00:35:31,020
hypnosis techniques in in all of
his speeches and his television

613
00:35:31,020 --> 00:35:32,910
appearances, and I think there's
something to that.

614
00:35:35,130 --> 00:35:37,020
That's funny. Yeah. Like to read
that.

615
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:41,280
Yeah. It's, like 60 pages, you
know, when you when you read it,

616
00:35:41,310 --> 00:35:44,280
and and, you know, I'm sure
you've read up on NLP. I mean,

617
00:35:44,310 --> 00:35:49,260
who hasn't? Yeah, he's, he's
doing a lot of stuff. That is,

618
00:35:50,100 --> 00:35:55,500
you know, maybe it's just some
kind of training or, but it's

619
00:35:55,500 --> 00:35:56,640
working, that's for sure.

620
00:35:56,700 --> 00:35:58,290
Yeah. He's got the bots working
for him.

621
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,270
The Obama bots. And

622
00:36:05,340 --> 00:36:08,670
something we didn't talk about
last week, which I'm kind of

623
00:36:08,670 --> 00:36:13,830
bummed about. Your hider? I'm
sure you blocked this. No,

624
00:36:14,220 --> 00:36:15,930
I don't know. Doesn't ring a
bell.

625
00:36:15,959 --> 00:36:19,319
Do you remember who your hider
was? No, it doesn't ring a bell.

626
00:36:19,349 --> 00:36:24,209
He was the extreme right wing
Austrian politician that people

627
00:36:24,209 --> 00:36:27,959
equated with the Hitler. Yeah,
yeah, I do remember that. Right.

628
00:36:27,959 --> 00:36:31,079
So I never really looked into
and of course, this was several

629
00:36:31,079 --> 00:36:34,289
years ago. And like, what I'm
sure he is, you know, someone

630
00:36:34,289 --> 00:36:38,459
coming from Austria. That sounds
like Hitler, the possible. So

631
00:36:38,519 --> 00:36:42,089
here's the series of events. He
was on television in a

632
00:36:42,119 --> 00:36:45,299
roundtable debate. And he said,
you know, we have to put an

633
00:36:45,299 --> 00:36:48,089
immediate end to this banking
mafia, you know, and he was

634
00:36:48,089 --> 00:36:51,149
really going off on a rant but
really calling in the mob and

635
00:36:51,149 --> 00:36:59,099
organised crime. 36 hours later,
he's dead. A high speed car

636
00:36:59,099 --> 00:37:04,649
crash by himself. Right. And
when you see the picture of the

637
00:37:04,649 --> 00:37:08,609
car, this is like this perfectly
round puncture right in the roof

638
00:37:08,609 --> 00:37:15,869
above the driver's side, almost
like an RPG hit it. But pretty

639
00:37:15,869 --> 00:37:16,499
amazing.

640
00:37:17,580 --> 00:37:18,870
taken out by a drone.

641
00:37:20,340 --> 00:37:21,060
You know, I?

642
00:37:22,590 --> 00:37:25,500
I wouldn't even laugh about
that. Honestly.

643
00:37:27,570 --> 00:37:33,060
It's possible. But you know, I
don't think the better No. So

644
00:37:33,540 --> 00:37:36,120
you're a hater. I should look
into that. See what the deal is?

645
00:37:36,540 --> 00:37:39,600
Yeah. I'll send you a link. I
gotta send you a lot of links.

646
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:40,950
There's, there's so much stuff.

647
00:37:43,260 --> 00:37:45,300
So Bill Maher,

648
00:37:45,300 --> 00:37:47,490
you're a fan of that of his
show. I know you watch that,

649
00:37:47,490 --> 00:37:47,910
don't you?

650
00:37:48,029 --> 00:37:51,089
I watch it. I can I can barely
get through it because Maher is

651
00:37:51,089 --> 00:37:52,619
so creepy.

652
00:37:52,890 --> 00:37:56,880
Well, he Yeah, he is he had
this. This guy on the former

653
00:37:56,910 --> 00:38:04,020
Comptroller General. And the
Comptroller General, is part of

654
00:38:04,020 --> 00:38:07,110
the I guess it's the
congressional oversight bureau.

655
00:38:07,260 --> 00:38:09,930
Does that sound right? They're
independent. Never heard of any

656
00:38:09,930 --> 00:38:12,810
of this stuff? I think they're
independent from from

657
00:38:12,810 --> 00:38:16,170
government. But they have some
kind of oversight. God knows.

658
00:38:16,830 --> 00:38:21,300
But this guy was on and I saw a
YouTube clip. And he lays into

659
00:38:21,300 --> 00:38:26,610
the whole bailout. He's like,
Dude, this is not, you know, 850

660
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:31,740
billion. This is a $56 trillion
deficit that we now have added

661
00:38:31,740 --> 00:38:34,650
to, he was saying that the
actual deficit if you take all

662
00:38:34,650 --> 00:38:43,170
the off book transactions is $56
trillion, not 10. And I was, I

663
00:38:43,170 --> 00:38:45,660
was kind of shaken by that.
Like,

664
00:38:45,720 --> 00:38:50,610
oh, well, there's, there's a
number that the CIA Factbook has

665
00:38:50,610 --> 00:38:53,610
on one of its pages, showing all
the debts of all the nations

666
00:38:53,610 --> 00:38:57,960
around the world and we're it's
like we're at some number where

667
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:01,530
the next country of we're dead
we're dead last word, the worst

668
00:39:01,530 --> 00:39:04,380
in the whole world, right. And
the country that's up next is I

669
00:39:04,380 --> 00:39:09,420
gotta get this page. Zimbabwe
obviously. No, no, they're not

670
00:39:09,420 --> 00:39:12,420
even know it's somebody else.
They don't they get Zimbabwe can

671
00:39:12,420 --> 00:39:16,170
have enough debt to even get on
the list. Right?

672
00:39:16,620 --> 00:39:18,360
For his poor, right, I'm sorry.

673
00:39:19,350 --> 00:39:22,770
And by the way, I do want to
thank Stroh, who was sent me a

674
00:39:22,770 --> 00:39:27,000
$10 million Zimbabwe note I'm
gonna have to post it I hope to

675
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:27,780
post it today.

676
00:39:27,810 --> 00:39:30,570
And you promised that last week
yeah,

677
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:35,640
I know. I just said you know, I
just can't get enough. Done I

678
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:41,520
can't get enough done it's
ridiculous. But anyway, so yeah,

679
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:44,520
the debts pretty bad. But there
was a guy that wrote again, in

680
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:48,120
the Financial Times there was a
really good article was by a

681
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:54,540
professor that broke down the,
the bailout and extremely

682
00:39:54,540 --> 00:39:59,580
interesting ways. And it was an
argument that is, in fact, it is

683
00:39:59,580 --> 00:40:03,660
a good idea. DNA was well
structured. So, you know,

684
00:40:03,660 --> 00:40:07,650
there's two sides all these
arguments. Now what I wanted

685
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:12,030
wanted to talk about today since
we're talking about greenbacks

686
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:18,240
is the green channel. And
working on the segments. We have

687
00:40:18,240 --> 00:40:21,600
on the Dish Network now a new
channel that showed up out of

688
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:26,790
the blue called green. And it
has some of the most dreadful

689
00:40:26,790 --> 00:40:30,870
programming. And we've talked
about this over a year, the meat

690
00:40:30,870 --> 00:40:35,460
you had me do about is desert.
Is there any real market for you

691
00:40:35,460 --> 00:40:38,280
know, this guy, everyone wants
to do this green programming?

692
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:43,470
And is there anybody willing to
sponsor it? And it's

693
00:40:43,470 --> 00:40:46,650
questionable, but this green
channel is a proof of the

694
00:40:46,650 --> 00:40:51,600
pudding. But you can see that
the programming is so dreadful.

695
00:40:52,890 --> 00:40:56,010
It's if anyone has the Dish
Network you should check this

696
00:40:56,010 --> 00:40:58,650
out. And You especially want to
take a look at this dinner with

697
00:40:58,650 --> 00:41:01,230
Tom Tom fares you're on the guy
who does?

698
00:41:01,379 --> 00:41:06,539
Oh, no, that's, uh, he's like
some dorky videos guy. Oh,

699
00:41:06,539 --> 00:41:08,909
that's it, right? Yeah,
America's Funniest Home Videos.

700
00:41:08,909 --> 00:41:09,209
Yeah.

701
00:41:09,270 --> 00:41:12,960
So he brings out in this when I
watch it, in fact, I'm making a

702
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:18,570
copy for you. Because you have
to watch it because it's a jaw

703
00:41:18,570 --> 00:41:22,320
dropper. It's like a bunch of
cliches. You know, these people

704
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,840
sit around, there's a whole
group mole Hollywood types. And

705
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:27,720
they're all sitting around a
dinner table eating this green,

706
00:41:27,720 --> 00:41:31,290
you know, very everything is,
you know, local and to all this

707
00:41:31,290 --> 00:41:36,360
other crap, that's all trendy
right now. And it's to listen to

708
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:40,110
these guys spew these cliches
about one thing or another. And

709
00:41:40,110 --> 00:41:43,950
this is one I think, where I
heard the, the one that just

710
00:41:44,070 --> 00:41:48,120
floored me, which is that he
will do more good for the Earth.

711
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:52,050
By the way, the whole thing this
whole thing is all about just

712
00:41:52,230 --> 00:41:54,600
that more. I just watched his
green stuff, the more I'm

713
00:41:54,600 --> 00:42:00,030
thinking it's you know,
political, veganism, Bull.

714
00:42:03,240 --> 00:42:07,680
I'm with you, man. But you know
what it's, it's, it's NLP. It's

715
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:09,780
total programming. It's saying

716
00:42:09,780 --> 00:42:14,520
here's the way they will let me
give you the meme. You do more

717
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:19,410
good, more green comes up for
you, you'll produce more green,

718
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,350
whatever it balanced, you know,
or your carbon footprint.

719
00:42:22,350 --> 00:42:26,490
Everything's improved. Much
more. So if you if you if you

720
00:42:26,490 --> 00:42:29,670
become a vegetarian, you make a
decision to stop eating meat and

721
00:42:29,670 --> 00:42:33,810
eating and become a vegetarian.
Then if you sold your SUV and

722
00:42:33,810 --> 00:42:36,720
never drove again, or if you
sold your SUV,

723
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:38,940
and I know bought a hybrid. I
know

724
00:42:39,990 --> 00:42:41,310
the logic of this.

725
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:45,840
Look, we've been programmed
through people

726
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:46,890
hate cows.

727
00:42:47,790 --> 00:42:51,990
Oh, it's all it all boils down
to the horrific images of Al

728
00:42:51,990 --> 00:42:56,850
Green's bow green. That'd be
funny. Al Gore's Al Gore's movie

729
00:42:56,850 --> 00:43:02,190
read like an Al Green dude.
That's an insult to the Reverend

730
00:43:02,190 --> 00:43:09,270
okay. No, Al Gore he had a great
movie it freaked everybody out.

731
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:12,690
And it's it's been embedded you
know, in fact, I was thinking

732
00:43:12,690 --> 00:43:16,380
about this it particularly in
light of this green shit and and

733
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,500
and you know, and the carbon
credits and all this crap that

734
00:43:19,500 --> 00:43:22,380
we're going to be getting ramped
up our ass pretty soon. And I'm

735
00:43:22,380 --> 00:43:26,460
currently tax cut well carbon
credits that go into that comes

736
00:43:26,460 --> 00:43:30,060
along with carbon tax. I'm
beginning to think that maybe

737
00:43:30,060 --> 00:43:34,050
the the bush Gore election,
maybe the whole point was to

738
00:43:34,050 --> 00:43:37,680
have it be a close call Alibaba
gracefully and then come back as

739
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,620
a hero to save the world. I'm
almost thinking it was planned.

740
00:43:40,890 --> 00:43:45,690
Mean and look at how fast all of
these taxes and all this crap

741
00:43:45,690 --> 00:43:50,850
came about. Meanwhile, the oil
is down to 7070 bucks a barrel

742
00:43:51,030 --> 00:43:54,480
and flying is still outrageously
expensive mainly because of all

743
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:57,990
these idiotic taxes which get
keep getting put on on top of

744
00:43:57,990 --> 00:44:00,750
the regular fare. It's crazy.

745
00:44:01,950 --> 00:44:04,650
When it's not so the fear the
plane doesn't take off and land

746
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:06,210
with or without the tax.

747
00:44:06,930 --> 00:44:10,410
Okay, it's called Planet green.
It's because it says channel

748
00:44:10,410 --> 00:44:13,410
name green, but the network is
planet green. Is that possible?

749
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:16,920
Is it a green.is that their
fucking logo? Yeah. Okay, let me

750
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:19,800
just read this description.
Planet green is Discovery

751
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:23,970
Communications global cross
company initiative, with a

752
00:44:23,970 --> 00:44:27,540
commitment to document preserve
and celebrate the planet,

753
00:44:28,020 --> 00:44:31,980
including the first ever 24 hour
eco lifestyle television network

754
00:44:31,980 --> 00:44:35,730
coming to homes on June 4 2008.
Planet green is the multi

755
00:44:35,730 --> 00:44:39,420
platform media destination with
a mission. It's the Centre for

756
00:44:39,420 --> 00:44:42,660
the new green conversation,
speaking to people who want to

757
00:44:42,660 --> 00:44:45,660
understand green living and to
those who truly want to make a

758
00:44:45,660 --> 00:44:48,030
difference in meeting the
critical challenge of protecting

759
00:44:48,030 --> 00:44:51,150
our environment. Planet greens
unique content, tools and

760
00:44:51,150 --> 00:44:54,630
information will enlighten in
power and most importantly,

761
00:44:54,930 --> 00:44:55,770
entertain

762
00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:01,110
Christ and know how much
entertainments involved karaoke,

763
00:45:01,950 --> 00:45:05,280
oh, it it's like, you know, a
jaw dropper. And it's all you

764
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:07,470
know, mostly it's just a bunch
of people sitting around and

765
00:45:07,470 --> 00:45:12,150
different shows. If they're not
like, you know, yodelling hippie

766
00:45:12,150 --> 00:45:20,220
singing songs, you know, with a
guitar. My lord, or your are a

767
00:45:20,220 --> 00:45:24,780
bunch of pretentious, you know,
kind of rich grew up from

768
00:45:24,780 --> 00:45:29,910
Hollywood, you know, that are
just seemingly to go along with

769
00:45:29,910 --> 00:45:32,910
anything that comes their way.
It just you really have to

770
00:45:32,910 --> 00:45:35,700
people should just watch it and
see how much of it you can take

771
00:45:35,700 --> 00:45:38,520
maybe like it better than I
thought it was absolutely

772
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:39,000
horrible.

773
00:45:39,030 --> 00:45:41,190
That's another thing I really
hate about this presidential

774
00:45:41,190 --> 00:45:47,070
race. You know, the the question
that Sarah Palin never answers,

775
00:45:47,070 --> 00:45:50,130
you know, is and of course, it's
now been whittled down to our

776
00:45:50,130 --> 00:45:53,280
greenhouse gases manmade or not,
which, of course, is not even a

777
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:58,710
fair question. It's annoying.
It's really, really annoying

778
00:45:58,710 --> 00:46:01,590
that people have just taken all
of this for for granted, you

779
00:46:01,590 --> 00:46:05,310
know, and they keep throwing the
IPCC report back in your face.

780
00:46:05,310 --> 00:46:08,640
And we'll look at all these
researchers and your thing is a

781
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:13,410
total Sham. And there's been
tonnes of reports for

782
00:46:13,410 --> 00:46:16,020
researchers that have debunked
at all not to say that we're not

783
00:46:16,020 --> 00:46:19,500
that we're not fucking up our
Earth, obviously. But you know,

784
00:46:19,500 --> 00:46:23,970
the idea of, you know, taxing or
buying credits, so I can still

785
00:46:23,970 --> 00:46:27,510
pollute, it's ridiculous so that
someone else will have to

786
00:46:27,510 --> 00:46:30,750
pollute less in the future is
bullshit. It's almost like your

787
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:33,480
like your pension, like your
Social Security. I'm never gonna

788
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:36,750
see if I get a dime of that.
John, you might not even see it,

789
00:46:36,780 --> 00:46:42,120
and you're getting in there. See
it? But you know, and I'll see

790
00:46:43,710 --> 00:46:48,360
that, listen, the New York
comptroller is now taking $110

791
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:53,430
billion of pension money to save
New York from the crisis then,

792
00:46:53,430 --> 00:46:55,740
and he said, Well, no worries,
because of course, all invested

793
00:46:55,740 --> 00:46:57,750
wisely. Bullshit. It's gone.
Well,

794
00:46:57,750 --> 00:47:01,560
yet, it is gone. In fact, Andrew
Horowitz on one of our

795
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:04,530
conversations that you people
should listen to, if you're

796
00:47:04,530 --> 00:47:08,370
interested in the stock market,
that's mentioned mentions that

797
00:47:08,370 --> 00:47:11,490
he, as far as he can tell, in
New York is broke the way it was

798
00:47:11,490 --> 00:47:15,090
back in the Ed Koch days, and
nobody wants to talk about it.

799
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:19,890
This is what I'm saying, man.
No, right now we're in. Look,

800
00:47:19,890 --> 00:47:22,680
we've talked about how this has
become the nanny pussy, not the

801
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:25,560
state, but the world. And
there's no losers, everybody's a

802
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:30,270
winner. And what no one wants is
to accept that we are about to

803
00:47:30,270 --> 00:47:34,860
get our asses kicked in real
time, big time, by what has

804
00:47:34,860 --> 00:47:37,590
happened to the financial
structure of the world. And

805
00:47:37,590 --> 00:47:39,990
particularly in the United
States, we all lived above our

806
00:47:39,990 --> 00:47:45,000
means, you know, 125 to maybe
300%. Paid in the credit cards

807
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:47,670
are all filled up. It's over.
It's done with but no one

808
00:47:47,670 --> 00:47:51,300
actually wants to go through any
pain. And so you're not even

809
00:47:51,300 --> 00:47:55,080
seeing it on television, people
getting kidnapped. The guy in

810
00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:58,680
London, the real estate agent,
just this week, he said to

811
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:01,800
people who couldn't sell their
home, were trying to rent it

812
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:06,480
out. He went to go get the keys
to show a prospective tenant.

813
00:48:06,810 --> 00:48:12,900
And the bank had foreclosed on
both of them any any had another

814
00:48:12,900 --> 00:48:16,110
client who was renting and he
had to find him another place

815
00:48:16,230 --> 00:48:20,760
because the bank had the ad
repossessed the apartment or

816
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:23,490
whatever it was, and the guy was
kicking the guy out, he paid his

817
00:48:23,490 --> 00:48:28,170
rent. This is real real pain
that's happening. No one's

818
00:48:28,170 --> 00:48:31,800
taught this not on mainstream
television is being held back

819
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:32,580
purposely.

820
00:48:32,730 --> 00:48:35,490
Now they're too interested in
carbon credits and you know,

821
00:48:35,490 --> 00:48:37,140
green and climate change.

822
00:48:37,140 --> 00:48:39,810
While Iceland you'll love this.
And this is something I was

823
00:48:39,810 --> 00:48:43,410
pointed out to me in a Dutch
food retailing website, like an

824
00:48:43,410 --> 00:48:47,490
industry type website. That in
Iceland, where of course the

825
00:48:47,490 --> 00:48:50,130
whole country has collapsed,
there has been a run on the

826
00:48:50,130 --> 00:48:55,710
supermarkets, and that gets they
have only a couple is only

827
00:48:55,710 --> 00:48:58,620
300,000 people that live there.
So they have a chain of the

828
00:48:58,620 --> 00:49:02,100
bonus supermarkets is what
they're called total run, taking

829
00:49:02,100 --> 00:49:05,910
everything off the shelf. And
they produce nothing. They have

830
00:49:05,910 --> 00:49:06,720
no food Hey, you

831
00:49:06,720 --> 00:49:12,120
know I've been in that
supermarket in Reykjavik. It's

832
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:14,880
like what did they take off the
shelves always seems to me that

833
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:18,180
the main thing they sell in
Iceland is a grocery store is

834
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:23,760
the most amazing variety of cod
liver oil. I swear to God, it's

835
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,880
like the most it's the bigger
than any dairy section you've

836
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:31,230
ever seen in it's all fish oil,
different brands and what do

837
00:49:31,230 --> 00:49:34,830
they do they drink it? Yeah,
turns out and for people who

838
00:49:34,830 --> 00:49:37,590
live in northern Arizona, you
should even consider it. Okay.

839
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:41,490
It turns out that cod liver oil
in particular, but most of these

840
00:49:41,490 --> 00:49:44,400
Fishel mixtures which are being
promoted a little bit by health

841
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:47,460
food nuts nowadays here in the
United States, is one of the

842
00:49:47,460 --> 00:49:51,900
absolute best things you could
take for depression in areas

843
00:49:51,900 --> 00:49:53,910
where you have a shortened
daylight

844
00:49:55,020 --> 00:49:57,330
which is right. For us. Yeah.

845
00:49:57,360 --> 00:50:02,760
So, so you find that and so
Sweden In Finland and Norway,

846
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:06,600
Iceland in the UK should to
Scotland for sure. The people

847
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:10,770
who take lots of cod liver oil,
just as a daily diet dietary

848
00:50:10,770 --> 00:50:14,610
supplement, not only don't have
much as much depression, because

849
00:50:14,610 --> 00:50:17,340
you get depressed in these
areas, because of the lack of

850
00:50:17,340 --> 00:50:21,240
sunlight. They don't have much
depression. And they also have,

851
00:50:21,330 --> 00:50:25,440
it apparently is good for it
lessens arthritis, and it's good

852
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:28,770
for the bones and it has a
vitamin D component that's

853
00:50:28,770 --> 00:50:35,100
important. It's a fan fact I use
it in the wintertime here. And

854
00:50:35,100 --> 00:50:38,040
they sign by the way is the one
who got turned us on to this.

855
00:50:38,670 --> 00:50:41,640
He's like a kind of he takes all
this weird stuff up and he gets

856
00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:44,610
it needs to get to the
definitive point of it. And then

857
00:50:44,610 --> 00:50:50,400
he reports back to the family
with his, with his with his

858
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:53,670
survey. And it turns out that
the documentation for this is

859
00:50:53,670 --> 00:50:55,800
really elaborate. And this is
the kind of stuff that when

860
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:58,620
you're what is one of the C's
what your mom told you to do in

861
00:50:58,620 --> 00:51:03,120
the 1930s you know, take your
cod liver oil, and it's been

862
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:05,910
lost, we know it because who
needs it, we take a vitamin

863
00:51:05,910 --> 00:51:08,910
supplement because the big the
big vitamin companies don't you

864
00:51:08,910 --> 00:51:11,340
know, the big drug companies
make these vitamins. They don't

865
00:51:11,370 --> 00:51:14,610
they, they, they you know,
they've nobody pushes these old

866
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:15,600
remedies anymore. But

867
00:51:16,410 --> 00:51:19,050
I was just gonna say, If what
you say is true, and I'm looking

868
00:51:19,050 --> 00:51:21,600
into right now, and of course, I
have no reason to doubt it. If

869
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:24,480
cod liver oil truly is such a
wonder, you know, a wonder

870
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:28,170
miracle substance particularly
against depression. You can bet

871
00:51:28,170 --> 00:51:30,480
your acid is going to be
outlawed by the Codex

872
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:33,300
Alimentarius sooner or later
because they of course, they

873
00:51:33,300 --> 00:51:37,650
want to push the you know their
drugs onto you to you know,

874
00:51:37,650 --> 00:51:41,400
which is like sodium chloride
and shit like that. That's

875
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:44,580
what's in its salt. Now, you
know what I mean?

876
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:45,510
Yeah.

877
00:51:48,210 --> 00:51:52,470
Maybe I don't know drugs. I can
camera, drugs and camera Paxil.

878
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:55,710
Yeah, that was all been a while
you have anything good.

879
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:59,430
So anyway, but the Icelanders, I
mean, this is what it was soon

880
00:51:59,430 --> 00:52:02,130
as I heard about this from you
know, the report about why this

881
00:52:02,130 --> 00:52:05,400
is good for you in the winter.
And I use it in the winter. It's

882
00:52:05,580 --> 00:52:09,000
not a cheap product, by the way.
But oh, by the way, there's one

883
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:13,260
brand called Carl's Borg or
Carlsberg. That's a beer, isn't

884
00:52:13,260 --> 00:52:16,590
it? Called? Yeah, it is called
Borg. Is that beer? Maybe it's

885
00:52:16,590 --> 00:52:20,430
Carlsberg game is Carl's Borg.
Borg gotta know. Carl's Borg is

886
00:52:20,430 --> 00:52:24,270
also a little town up in
Washington, but it's Carl's Borg

887
00:52:24,270 --> 00:52:26,880
or Carlsberg or somebody that's
a blue label and it's got it

888
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:31,920
says lemon flavoured this stuff
by the way that brand is the one

889
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:35,760
to get it is absolutely
delicious. A you can take it

890
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:40,530
without gagging. It's really
amazingly good. And you don't

891
00:52:40,530 --> 00:52:43,230
get this you know, you don't
taste it. extra cords which was

892
00:52:43,230 --> 00:52:45,900
used always a problem with the
cub Libris, the best brand new

893
00:52:45,900 --> 00:52:51,090
combined Carlsberg. They should
be sponsoring the show. Alright,

894
00:52:51,150 --> 00:52:53,700
so people out there who have
these you know, and I'd save you

895
00:52:53,700 --> 00:52:56,370
if you live in North Dakota,
Washington State, you know,

896
00:52:56,760 --> 00:53:02,340
Wisconsin, those places is where
you want to use it. Meanwhile,

897
00:53:02,910 --> 00:53:08,550
while we're on the subject of
weird stuff, I made the error.

898
00:53:08,850 --> 00:53:11,340
And we're talking about
vegetarianism. I made the

899
00:53:11,370 --> 00:53:15,240
bonehead error of not looking at
the package of some onsale

900
00:53:15,240 --> 00:53:20,460
yoghurt where they actually
we're selling soy, Gert.

901
00:53:20,970 --> 00:53:23,220
Oh no. Did your brain shrink?

902
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:27,150
I'm telling I couldn't swallow
it. You know,

903
00:53:27,390 --> 00:53:30,240
we stopped. We stopped drinking
soy milk here.

904
00:53:30,990 --> 00:53:35,730
Oh, good. Good. Now, this stuff
tastes like puke.

905
00:53:38,910 --> 00:53:42,690
I'm using that on the daily
source code. That's a great drop

906
00:53:42,690 --> 00:53:43,230
right there.

907
00:53:43,890 --> 00:53:49,590
And it's got a chalky texture
its own you can't swallow it. As

908
00:53:49,590 --> 00:53:52,170
you go. Oh my god. What is this
garbage? Is

909
00:53:52,170 --> 00:53:54,360
you one of those? Spit it out.

910
00:53:54,900 --> 00:53:58,680
I did spit it out. And I dumped
it out and I was disgusted. It

911
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:02,490
was so horrible that people stop
that they think it's good.

912
00:54:06,150 --> 00:54:11,010
Excuse me. Oh, that's funny. Oh,
that's nasty.

913
00:54:11,790 --> 00:54:15,900
dassies the word. Don't even I
mean, people want to check it

914
00:54:15,900 --> 00:54:19,800
out for themselves. But holy. I
was just stunned at how bad it

915
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:22,950
was. I talked I mentioned this
to my wife and she laughs She

916
00:54:22,950 --> 00:54:25,440
said, she says she's mentioned
this to these various

917
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:28,170
vegetarians. And they always say
Oh, you must have gotten a bad

918
00:54:28,170 --> 00:54:31,020
one. Everything bad

919
00:54:31,020 --> 00:54:34,320
108 happens from time to time
you get a bad one.

920
00:54:35,310 --> 00:54:39,240
Man. Anyway, so that was my
report.

921
00:54:41,010 --> 00:54:44,640
Alaskan glaciers for the growing
for the first time. And 240

922
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:45,150
years.

923
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:49,350
Yes, what they say? Yeah, that's
your that's your global warming,

924
00:54:49,350 --> 00:54:54,330
I guess. Well, supposedly that's
balanced by the lowering of the

925
00:54:54,330 --> 00:54:59,010
average temperature at the North
Pole. Yada yada yada. And these

926
00:54:59,010 --> 00:55:01,410
things move around. So you know,
then you're also losing our

927
00:55:01,410 --> 00:55:03,300
magnet magnetic gun under.

928
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:05,820
I went. I went to the North Pole
once. Have you ever been to the

929
00:55:05,820 --> 00:55:06,420
North Pole?

930
00:55:06,810 --> 00:55:09,870
You're kidding me. You went to
the North Pole. Yes. Would you

931
00:55:09,870 --> 00:55:13,560
like to hear the story? Wow.
Yeah, that's impressive. There's

932
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:15,090
no I have not been to the North
Pole.

933
00:55:15,150 --> 00:55:19,950
Oh, this was with onramp before
we before we took it public and

934
00:55:19,950 --> 00:55:22,020
change the name to think new
ideas. Ron and I were running

935
00:55:22,020 --> 00:55:25,890
the company and we had a client
Molson ice. And when and there

936
00:55:25,890 --> 00:55:30,720
was a promotion that we that we
were we did it with the agent

937
00:55:30,720 --> 00:55:34,140
with another agency we came up
with called the Molson ice polar

938
00:55:34,140 --> 00:55:38,700
beach party. And it was a
contest and it was 100 winners.

939
00:55:38,970 --> 00:55:41,700
And it would be it was a cool as
a cool MTB like contest,

940
00:55:41,700 --> 00:55:44,970
actually, 100 winners would go
to the North Pole for concert

941
00:55:44,970 --> 00:55:51,990
with Metallica. Actually, it was
Metallica hole. So Courtney Love

942
00:55:52,380 --> 00:55:57,150
and one other band I can't
remember. And we and we did a

943
00:55:57,150 --> 00:55:59,400
cyber cast from the North Pole,
it was pretty interesting

944
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:03,360
because we the only way to do it
is we took a multiplexer. So we

945
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:06,720
could take 24 phone lines, and
basically convert that into like

946
00:56:07,380 --> 00:56:11,610
150 kilobits per second or
whatever. And we had that linked

947
00:56:11,610 --> 00:56:16,440
all the way down from talk to
yuck talk, which is Northwestern

948
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:20,340
territory. So and you know,
literally, like, you know, a

949
00:56:20,340 --> 00:56:22,770
couple miles inside the Arctic
circle there.

950
00:56:24,300 --> 00:56:27,030
Well, let's get back to the How
did you get to the North Pole?

951
00:56:27,210 --> 00:56:27,600
Ah,

952
00:56:28,500 --> 00:56:31,740
well, it's a combination of
many, many flights. And the last

953
00:56:31,740 --> 00:56:36,180
one is basically an otter. So an
otter is one of those aeroplanes

954
00:56:36,180 --> 00:56:39,960
with the huge the huge inflated
tires. And it's a it's a real

955
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:43,020
workhorse and it just, you know,
you can sit in it and kind of

956
00:56:43,020 --> 00:56:47,790
like jump seats, but it's really
meant for taking cargo. And,

957
00:56:47,940 --> 00:56:50,220
yeah, so you basically land up
on the ice near drilling

958
00:56:50,220 --> 00:56:54,660
platform up there. And, and so
it not being the dark period, it

959
00:56:54,660 --> 00:56:58,170
was light for 24 hours straight,
which was really, really weird.

960
00:57:00,330 --> 00:57:03,270
And of course, you're up there,
you know, we had our crew and

961
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:07,830
tour and we're sleeping in the
oil barracks, if you will. And

962
00:57:07,830 --> 00:57:12,030
you as as metallic as is
everybody and and so we're

963
00:57:12,030 --> 00:57:15,540
looking at there's nothing to do
obviously. And so we'd like and

964
00:57:15,540 --> 00:57:18,390
it's a dry right there's no
alcohol is forbidden, but we

965
00:57:18,390 --> 00:57:21,480
figure we can probably figure
something out so we go outside

966
00:57:21,510 --> 00:57:24,000
and it's midnight, but you know
kids are riding around on their

967
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:28,110
bikes and it's as if it were mid
day. And some of the kids come

968
00:57:28,110 --> 00:57:29,940
over and we're you know, say
hey,

969
00:57:31,380 --> 00:57:34,560
there's a let's back up a
minute. There's a bunch of

970
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:36,090
people at the North Pole.

971
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:39,750
Well it's not exactly on the
North Pole North Pole but but

972
00:57:39,750 --> 00:57:45,060
you know, within I don't know
what is it? 50 Miles 75 Miles?

973
00:57:45,090 --> 00:57:47,280
Yeah, there's all kinds of
villages

974
00:57:51,810 --> 00:57:53,190
I thought it was pretty barren
up there.

975
00:57:53,820 --> 00:57:55,260
It was pretty barren up there.

976
00:57:56,430 --> 00:57:57,210
Oh, okay.

977
00:57:58,140 --> 00:58:01,530
No kidding. You know, the next
town was several 100 miles and

978
00:58:01,530 --> 00:58:11,100
that was Inuvik, I think is what
it was called. Anyway it was

979
00:58:11,100 --> 00:58:13,890
September actually, I remember
because it was my birthday I put

980
00:58:13,890 --> 00:58:19,500
my toe into the Arctic waters of
the pole. I dip my toe and it's

981
00:58:19,500 --> 00:58:22,350
a tradition I think is what it
was that we say to these kids

982
00:58:22,350 --> 00:58:25,470
that hey, man, you know we can
tradition and when we can get

983
00:58:25,470 --> 00:58:29,130
something so you you want the
drug dealer? Yeah, he lives in

984
00:58:29,130 --> 00:58:30,180
that house right over there.

985
00:58:31,380 --> 00:58:32,220
Trying to

986
00:58:33,780 --> 00:58:36,900
his kids riding around on their
bikes. It was a it was a

987
00:58:36,900 --> 00:58:39,060
fantastic experience

988
00:58:41,580 --> 00:58:46,530
well, you got me on now one I
know another guy who like a year

989
00:58:46,530 --> 00:58:49,620
or so ago went and went to
Antarctica and some there's a

990
00:58:49,620 --> 00:58:52,980
cruise I guess you can take an
icebreaker

991
00:58:52,980 --> 00:58:53,640
cruise. Yeah,

992
00:58:53,670 --> 00:58:55,710
I think I've heard about that.
Yeah, yeah, you

993
00:58:55,710 --> 00:58:58,560
leave from somewhere in South
America I guess down into tip

994
00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:04,110
down as Southern Argentina I
suppose. And boat over there and

995
00:59:04,110 --> 00:59:06,540
crack your way into that. And
you know, that's supposed to be

996
00:59:06,540 --> 00:59:10,650
even worse than the Arctic.
Yeah, because it's windy. Or I

997
00:59:10,650 --> 00:59:11,520
guess alarms. Yep.

998
00:59:11,580 --> 00:59:12,000
Yeah.

999
00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:15,720
I don't know what I don't know.
It doesn't really, you know,

1000
00:59:15,720 --> 00:59:18,000
there's a bunch of things I want
to do. I still have my checklist

1001
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:21,450
of places to see and go to I
mean, I have an A B and a C

1002
00:59:21,450 --> 00:59:26,430
list. And I got most most of the
a list done. And I thought of

1003
00:59:26,430 --> 00:59:29,790
the bees just fall you know, to
happen to happen. But I never

1004
00:59:29,790 --> 00:59:33,660
have had either the North Pole
or the South Pole on the lists

1005
00:59:33,690 --> 00:59:35,010
any of them. I've also

1006
00:59:35,040 --> 00:59:39,780
stood on the equator. Well, I've
I've probably done that. The

1007
00:59:39,780 --> 00:59:41,790
other picture. I have
photographic evidence.

1008
00:59:42,479 --> 00:59:46,169
Wow, it's a little more shade in
Brazil. You know, there's it's

1009
00:59:46,169 --> 00:59:47,009
not a big deal.

1010
00:59:47,100 --> 00:59:50,970
Oh, yeah. No in was it maybe it
must have been Africa.

1011
00:59:53,790 --> 00:59:57,360
Yeah, I've worked what country
does the equator run through in

1012
00:59:57,360 --> 01:00:03,360
Africa? It's up pretty high,
isn't it? I don't know.

1013
01:00:04,859 --> 01:00:07,319
I'm thinking has got to be
somewhere near Uganda because

1014
01:00:07,319 --> 01:00:09,689
while we were there, well, maybe
man, maybe not.

1015
01:00:11,340 --> 01:00:13,620
Okay, quatre map here we go.

1016
01:00:13,650 --> 01:00:18,480
I'm afraid to pop open Google
Earth because it'll crunch the

1017
01:00:18,480 --> 01:00:19,110
bandwidth.

1018
01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:21,570
We have probably crush it meet
you. Let me just take a look at

1019
01:00:21,570 --> 01:00:27,480
this. Okay, here's the here's a
map with the equator. It's now

1020
01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:27,900
it's

1021
01:00:28,350 --> 01:00:30,390
higher. It must be higher than
Uganda.

1022
01:00:31,770 --> 01:00:36,360
No, it's actually looks like it
might be lower. Oh, it runs

1023
01:00:36,360 --> 01:00:41,010
through tells you what the hell
I know. It runs through the very

1024
01:00:41,070 --> 01:00:43,290
northern part. Let me take a
look. Where's some better

1025
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:45,600
country? They don't outline the
countries well enough. Here's

1026
01:00:45,600 --> 01:00:54,660
one not found. And I have one
that's got the country showing

1027
01:00:55,860 --> 01:01:00,960
once more second. He had some
but it's not well, not quite

1028
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:11,790
what I thought DDT found that
you know phrase knocking

1029
01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:14,280
websites, you know, the problem
with you know, the problem that

1030
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:16,830
we've had on the internet
recently is that there's too

1031
01:01:16,830 --> 01:01:17,820
many things.

1032
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:20,730
And you can't get to the good
one. Because all the all the

1033
01:01:20,730 --> 01:01:23,550
crap is pushed to the top,
artificially.

1034
01:01:24,060 --> 01:01:26,910
Yeah, this is the one thing I
complain about when I say yeah,

1035
01:01:26,910 --> 01:01:31,260
go try to find and this is the
challenge. Who has the absolute

1036
01:01:31,260 --> 01:01:37,650
best cell phone service package
in the United States? Yeah, you

1037
01:01:37,650 --> 01:01:37,920
can't

1038
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:41,970
get through all the ads, and all
that stuff. Now. It's possible.

1039
01:01:41,970 --> 01:01:45,870
It's horrible. Probably where
people like, you know, the

1040
01:01:45,870 --> 01:01:49,230
mahalo project is the right
idea. But I don't think it can

1041
01:01:49,230 --> 01:01:55,920
scale. And even that, it's all
susceptible to, you know, deals

1042
01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:58,890
and stuff like that. It's
impossible. I guess.

1043
01:01:58,919 --> 01:02:02,999
It looks like you got our end
goal is right and good ploughs

1044
01:02:02,999 --> 01:02:05,969
right through and goal in those
countries along. They're just

1045
01:02:05,999 --> 01:02:14,219
top maybe the top of Mozambique.
It's northern Brazil. And yeah,

1046
01:02:14,279 --> 01:02:14,729
anyway,

1047
01:02:14,790 --> 01:02:19,260
meanwhile in Indonesia to get mo
nation East.

1048
01:02:20,100 --> 01:02:23,040
We gotta get her get mo nation T
shirts out to the public. I

1049
01:02:23,040 --> 01:02:25,410
haven't even seen a design yet.
You keep threatening. I have a

1050
01:02:25,410 --> 01:02:26,610
design for you tonight.

1051
01:02:26,640 --> 01:02:29,640
Okay, cool. You're gonna make
one up yourself with Photoshop

1052
01:02:29,640 --> 01:02:31,200
or paint Microsoft Paint.

1053
01:02:32,490 --> 01:02:35,880
I was gonna just use good ASCII
text. I can see

1054
01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:39,120
you using paint. I really can't
tell me you use it. Don't you

1055
01:02:39,870 --> 01:02:43,020
know, I haven't even seen that
thing boot for like 15 years.

1056
01:02:44,730 --> 01:02:48,090
In Gitmo nation East in the
United Kingdom, where it's

1057
01:02:48,090 --> 01:02:50,970
really, we're falling fast, and
we're falling really, really

1058
01:02:50,970 --> 01:02:56,160
hard. The Times has a report
you'd hate this. Looks like

1059
01:02:56,160 --> 01:02:59,100
they're gonna put into law a
requirement that you show a

1060
01:02:59,100 --> 01:03:02,790
passport as identification. When
you were buying a mobile

1061
01:03:02,790 --> 01:03:06,630
telephone, even if it's a burner
with a pan go card.

1062
01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:10,350
Wow, yeah, that's a big deal.

1063
01:03:12,720 --> 01:03:16,890
We'll hear you. Yeah, you still
go to Target and just buy one,

1064
01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:19,170
you just pick one up, of course.
But here you're gonna have to,

1065
01:03:19,260 --> 01:03:21,960
they're gonna take down your
name, while the other hand that

1066
01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:24,600
you've heard about the big
database project, right? Where

1067
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:29,580
every single email, text and
phone call everything made, will

1068
01:03:29,580 --> 01:03:33,150
be stored in a in a big
government database. It won't be

1069
01:03:33,150 --> 01:03:36,870
the content of the email, they
say, it won't be the content of

1070
01:03:36,870 --> 01:03:40,200
the SMS text message, but who
you called, and when you call

1071
01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:42,720
them or who you text. And when
you text them. They're going to

1072
01:03:42,720 --> 01:03:46,380
store in this huge database,
which of course is for national

1073
01:03:46,380 --> 01:03:47,640
security purposes.

1074
01:03:48,330 --> 01:03:53,220
Yeah, of course. Yeah. Well, you
know, I saw a presentation

1075
01:03:53,220 --> 01:04:02,760
probably in around 1996. Not
sure. From Interpol. They had

1076
01:04:02,790 --> 01:04:05,520
been working on the software for
a long time. And I think a lot

1077
01:04:05,520 --> 01:04:09,270
of governments use it, whatever
it is, but it's a it's a, it's a

1078
01:04:09,270 --> 01:04:12,990
very interesting piece of code
that allows you to plug in

1079
01:04:13,560 --> 01:04:16,830
connections between people that
lead in other words, if I, if

1080
01:04:16,830 --> 01:04:19,290
I'm calling your number a lot,
and then you're calling somebody

1081
01:04:19,290 --> 01:04:22,500
else's number, then I call
somebody in the list. They can

1082
01:04:22,500 --> 01:04:25,950
put if you get enough data in
the key to success here is a

1083
01:04:25,950 --> 01:04:29,730
really load up but I think there
may be a tipping point where you

1084
01:04:29,730 --> 01:04:34,290
get too much data. But I'm not
sure. But this this Interpol

1085
01:04:34,290 --> 01:04:37,530
software, would Allah and the
guy broke it down. And he showed

1086
01:04:37,530 --> 01:04:41,820
it here's a bunch of gangsters
and their friends and associates

1087
01:04:41,820 --> 01:04:45,390
and family and everybody else.
It was for a mob related

1088
01:04:45,900 --> 01:04:49,260
tracking. And then they ran the
software and all the calls that

1089
01:04:49,260 --> 01:04:51,930
were made to each other in there
and how long the calls took

1090
01:04:51,930 --> 01:04:54,840
place for how long and then they
could they could literally

1091
01:04:54,870 --> 01:04:55,980
create a

1092
01:04:56,100 --> 01:04:59,340
org chart or chart Yeah, I'm
sure that exists.

1093
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:03,810
One does exist. I've seen it.
Yeah. But you know, I think you

1094
01:05:03,810 --> 01:05:06,030
can take it to the next level.
And you can pretty much you

1095
01:05:06,030 --> 01:05:08,790
know, if you wanted to. And and
the key, the long term thing, of

1096
01:05:08,790 --> 01:05:12,600
course, is that, which is what
people should be why they should

1097
01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:15,660
be complaining is that you know
that at some point, you can say,

1098
01:05:15,660 --> 01:05:18,780
hey, you know, we can figure out
the entire political structure

1099
01:05:18,780 --> 01:05:21,480
of the Republican Party. Why
don't we just start

1100
01:05:21,480 --> 01:05:24,780
assassinating these people here?
Would that show up in this list?

1101
01:05:25,050 --> 01:05:28,320
It actually sounds a lot like,
like the software that OpenTable

1102
01:05:28,320 --> 01:05:28,890
uses.

1103
01:05:33,300 --> 01:05:36,390
is rife, yes. funny idea that
it's possible.

1104
01:05:36,450 --> 01:05:38,670
Well, you've told me that
specifically that there's

1105
01:05:38,670 --> 01:05:41,040
rumours that there's something
going on with their system where

1106
01:05:41,040 --> 01:05:43,710
they track Silicon Valley
executives?

1107
01:05:43,890 --> 01:05:46,470
Well, actually, that's, here's
the rumour, and it's not it

1108
01:05:46,470 --> 01:05:49,500
doesn't have anything to do with
Open Table, it has to do with

1109
01:05:49,500 --> 01:05:53,490
the back door, that seems to be
an open table that people have

1110
01:05:53,490 --> 01:05:57,060
exploited. And here's the whole
story for people want to hear

1111
01:05:57,060 --> 01:05:59,490
this. And, you know, doesn't
mean you shouldn't be using Open

1112
01:05:59,490 --> 01:06:01,860
Table, because you get all these
bonus points,

1113
01:06:03,030 --> 01:06:05,520
which which do expire, so use
them quick.

1114
01:06:06,540 --> 01:06:10,800
Even though they don't do
anything. So. So there was a

1115
01:06:10,830 --> 01:06:14,340
there was an I was sceptical, as
usual about when I heard the

1116
01:06:14,340 --> 01:06:16,410
story. But here's the deal.
There's, there's a consulting

1117
01:06:16,410 --> 01:06:21,480
group that does stock market
consulting, to try to

1118
01:06:21,660 --> 01:06:24,870
predetermine mergers and
acquisitions. And they do it by

1119
01:06:24,870 --> 01:06:29,010
taking all the public records of
private aircraft arrivals and

1120
01:06:29,010 --> 01:06:31,800
departures, who they're
associated with, which

1121
01:06:31,800 --> 01:06:34,830
apparently is a database that
you can get a hold of, or you

1122
01:06:34,860 --> 01:06:38,220
made as a backdoor that too. And
then they use the Open Table

1123
01:06:38,220 --> 01:06:43,410
backdoor, and they can they can
see fine meetings. And in other

1124
01:06:43,410 --> 01:06:46,590
words, if you flew in, you know,
you're a General Electric CEO,

1125
01:06:46,590 --> 01:06:48,600
and you just flew in for some
unknown reason to meet with a

1126
01:06:48,990 --> 01:06:52,770
CEO of a small company is
possible that it's the if your

1127
01:06:52,770 --> 01:06:56,130
secretary which is very common
secretaries use OpenTable all

1128
01:06:56,130 --> 01:07:00,240
the time to figure out that, oh,
he flew into here, and then

1129
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:04,830
they're having a dinner at this
restaurant, on this night,

1130
01:07:05,160 --> 01:07:09,990
something's up. And that's the
you know, you know, unless you

1131
01:07:09,990 --> 01:07:11,940
can prove that they're all pals
or something, and they're

1132
01:07:11,940 --> 01:07:16,590
meeting for some other reason.
And so you can then surmise that

1133
01:07:16,590 --> 01:07:18,900
maybe we have a merger
acquisition candidate here, and

1134
01:07:18,900 --> 01:07:21,090
maybe we should invest in this
company or that company. And you

1135
01:07:21,090 --> 01:07:25,200
know, it's it's basically spook,
kind of work with the stock

1136
01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:29,250
market. So I'm saying is this
bull? And he said, and again,

1137
01:07:29,250 --> 01:07:32,040
the friend of mine who's telling
me he said, Well, who do you

1138
01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:34,200
want to, you know, who do you
want to see? We went to where,

1139
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:37,200
what dinner and I said, just
give me we'll Hirst's itinerary.

1140
01:07:39,570 --> 01:07:40,140
The next day,

1141
01:07:40,140 --> 01:07:42,480
I got I gotta go, that's great.

1142
01:07:42,780 --> 01:07:46,140
I got a list of the restaurants
you went to over the past three

1143
01:07:46,140 --> 01:07:50,340
or four months. Oh my god. It
was like he went to Chef Paul

1144
01:07:50,340 --> 01:07:53,520
and he went, you know, and he's
and I recognise I know will very

1145
01:07:53,520 --> 01:07:56,010
well and he and I know what kind
of places he likes to eat at.

1146
01:07:56,310 --> 01:07:59,100
And it was just right you know,
made nothing but since looking

1147
01:07:59,100 --> 01:08:03,870
at this list, and I immediately
call the Secretary and told her

1148
01:08:03,870 --> 01:08:09,570
to stop booking US Open Table
unless you want you know it to

1149
01:08:09,570 --> 01:08:12,570
be known. I mean, you could
probably do just a reverse scam

1150
01:08:12,570 --> 01:08:16,230
on that, you know, set up phoney
baloney meetings and but yeah,

1151
01:08:16,230 --> 01:08:21,300
hype hype the stock you bet.
Yeah. So but that's just a story

1152
01:08:21,420 --> 01:08:25,140
that I've met you know, I have
never proven proof of that now.

1153
01:08:25,710 --> 01:08:28,920
I hope that I could be trying to
trick me but I'm just mentioning

1154
01:08:28,920 --> 01:08:30,750
it to anyone out there who needs
to know

1155
01:08:30,779 --> 01:08:34,829
for years that there's been talk
of a backdoor into I think it's

1156
01:08:34,829 --> 01:08:40,889
an Israeli made wasn't bad was a
banking software or trading

1157
01:08:40,889 --> 01:08:45,929
software. I got to look that up.
It even has a name like fast or

1158
01:08:45,930 --> 01:08:49,710
something like that. Will fast
as a search engine from Norway.

1159
01:08:49,919 --> 01:08:52,919
No, that's, that's not it, it's
something else. I can remember

1160
01:08:52,979 --> 01:08:55,859
that as I'm sure there's, it's
Look, they're all in it.

1161
01:08:56,640 --> 01:09:01,140
Well, your backdoors you pull
your backdoors are needed. If

1162
01:09:01,140 --> 01:09:03,810
you are a consultant in a you
know, and you need to get into a

1163
01:09:03,810 --> 01:09:07,650
programme because something bad
happened to it, you sometimes

1164
01:09:07,650 --> 01:09:11,580
have to remotely access the
thing. And for because you may

1165
01:09:11,580 --> 01:09:14,040
be in a remote you know, you may
not be there I mean most

1166
01:09:14,040 --> 01:09:17,400
software as a backdoor for no
other reason. So you can get you

1167
01:09:17,400 --> 01:09:19,920
know, because a lot of coders
nowadays don't work and you

1168
01:09:19,920 --> 01:09:23,580
know, on the computer that's
running the code, they have to

1169
01:09:23,580 --> 01:09:27,450
get into it. And so you know, if
it fails that somebody else know

1170
01:09:27,450 --> 01:09:29,730
about it, the next thing you
know, it's out in the wild and

1171
01:09:29,760 --> 01:09:33,840
you know, some sneak is out
there looking at database, you

1172
01:09:33,840 --> 01:09:37,140
know, just casually in the if
you do it if you don't abuse it.

1173
01:09:39,150 --> 01:09:42,360
In other words, no one's seeing
it constantly pounding the

1174
01:09:42,930 --> 01:09:47,460
database to see who's booked
where you can get away with it.

1175
01:09:47,489 --> 01:09:50,489
By the way, I'd say that now is
a really good time to be in the

1176
01:09:50,489 --> 01:09:56,849
IT consulting business. If you
can do SQL Server and Oracle and

1177
01:09:56,849 --> 01:10:01,379
dotnet and Microsoft stuff and
some Heavy Lifting maybe some as

1178
01:10:01,379 --> 01:10:06,209
400 skills or whatever, because
basically, all the banks in the

1179
01:10:06,209 --> 01:10:09,329
world are being rolled up into
one. And that's a big ask

1180
01:10:09,329 --> 01:10:11,249
computer project. But

1181
01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:15,180
I think somebody's going to take
take, I mean, you can just see

1182
01:10:15,180 --> 01:10:16,380
that money being stolen.

1183
01:10:16,409 --> 01:10:20,039
Oh, absolutely. And you know,
now that the American government

1184
01:10:20,069 --> 01:10:24,269
owns a piece of every single
major bank that was signed over

1185
01:10:24,269 --> 01:10:26,339
the weekend, I'm sure you heard
about that, right?

1186
01:10:26,579 --> 01:10:28,949
Oh, yeah, no doubt. But
everybody was complaining about

1187
01:10:28,949 --> 01:10:32,159
in the Wells Fargo guys didn't
want to do the deal. They were

1188
01:10:33,059 --> 01:10:35,609
they were forced to put a gun to
their head. Yeah, it was take

1189
01:10:35,609 --> 01:10:38,939
this deal or take this deal. And
you know, what the I heard the

1190
01:10:38,939 --> 01:10:41,729
interesting rationale about
that, on one of these talk shows

1191
01:10:41,729 --> 01:10:45,449
was that following well, they
had to be that aggressive with

1192
01:10:45,449 --> 01:10:47,939
making every one of the banks do
the deal, because they didn't

1193
01:10:47,939 --> 01:10:51,449
want the public to know which
banks were the bad ones.

1194
01:10:51,779 --> 01:10:55,679
So this is, you know, and this
is, according to the I think the

1195
01:10:55,709 --> 01:10:59,309
German started this first now
they've written almost a

1196
01:10:59,309 --> 01:11:03,569
trillion dollars now in their
bailout package, which, of

1197
01:11:03,569 --> 01:11:06,479
course, will rise significantly,
but every single bank in the

1198
01:11:06,479 --> 01:11:09,389
world now that is a non Doc Talk
about talking about smaller

1199
01:11:09,389 --> 01:11:14,849
local, retail banking the way we
haven't in the states yet, but

1200
01:11:14,849 --> 01:11:17,429
they're now all partially owned
by the government. And this is

1201
01:11:17,459 --> 01:11:21,329
trillions of dollars, not not
the original amount, and this is

1202
01:11:21,329 --> 01:11:25,019
what they weren't going to do.
They said, We're not going to do

1203
01:11:25,019 --> 01:11:27,539
that. And then, you know, a week
later, they're doing exactly

1204
01:11:27,539 --> 01:11:31,139
that. And everyone's blaming
each other. But in the meantime,

1205
01:11:31,169 --> 01:11:35,099
it's one financial system. It's
all being rolled into one little

1206
01:11:35,099 --> 01:11:40,049
ball. And you can bet we're
getting screwed for it. This is

1207
01:11:40,079 --> 01:11:44,639
here you go, John historian.
Okay. So there's a lot of talk,

1208
01:11:44,669 --> 01:11:47,129
even in the intro, I couldn't
resist talking about the Weimer

1209
01:11:47,129 --> 01:11:52,439
Republic. And since since you
like your $10 billion bill

1210
01:11:52,439 --> 01:11:57,569
notes. Dr. Ron Paul is actually
getting a lot of airtime. And

1211
01:11:57,569 --> 01:11:59,579
I'm loving it, because of
course, you know, he's he's a

1212
01:11:59,579 --> 01:12:03,119
kook, right, John. And he is a
kook, he is a cook, right total

1213
01:12:03,119 --> 01:12:06,449
cook. He's been saying this
since 1983, that I've seen on

1214
01:12:06,449 --> 01:12:08,999
record, you keep it you know,
you keep saying something for 20

1215
01:12:08,999 --> 01:12:10,709
years, it's gonna happen
eventually.

1216
01:12:10,860 --> 01:12:13,620
Right? So okay, so we stuck in
there he hung, it doesn't matter

1217
01:12:13,620 --> 01:12:17,220
how you get to the finish line.
But now he's, you know, he's on,

1218
01:12:17,310 --> 01:12:22,710
you know, on CNN all the time in
Fox News brings him on. He's on

1219
01:12:22,710 --> 01:12:27,270
Bloomberg. He's even in some of
the more mainstream shows. And

1220
01:12:27,300 --> 01:12:31,740
he's saying, Look, inflation,
you can't write trillions of

1221
01:12:31,740 --> 01:12:34,620
dollars. In fact, he's, it was
really funny, he made me think

1222
01:12:34,620 --> 01:12:37,470
of you, he said, Why should we
work in America, let's just

1223
01:12:37,470 --> 01:12:41,700
print money and give everybody
give everybody money. And

1224
01:12:42,150 --> 01:12:44,940
excellent line, but I don't
think anyone actually gets it.

1225
01:12:45,300 --> 01:12:49,650
But we have to be destined for,
you know, 20%, inflation, you

1226
01:12:49,650 --> 01:12:53,430
know, compounded over, you know,
the next few months even I mean,

1227
01:12:53,460 --> 01:12:53,670
it's

1228
01:12:54,750 --> 01:12:56,850
no, there, that's not going to
happen for a while it when it

1229
01:12:56,850 --> 01:13:00,420
happens, it'll be it'll, it'll
ramp very slowly. And it's going

1230
01:13:00,420 --> 01:13:03,420
to be and I think the only way
we can get out of this hole is

1231
01:13:03,420 --> 01:13:06,150
through hyperinflation, that
that fixes the problem, but that

1232
01:13:06,150 --> 01:13:10,110
is in ruins. It ruins
everything. But it fixes the

1233
01:13:10,110 --> 01:13:13,080
problem and the problem and the
banks have got the problem. And

1234
01:13:13,080 --> 01:13:15,570
they needed fixing the screw the
public, you know, we just go

1235
01:13:15,570 --> 01:13:19,200
crazy. We've never experienced
that. In United States. We've

1236
01:13:19,200 --> 01:13:21,720
never had anything close. We've
had like bad, you know, the bad

1237
01:13:21,720 --> 01:13:25,410
inflationary period during the
stagflation era of the 1970s,

1238
01:13:25,410 --> 01:13:29,100
which was one of those economic
downturns. We had the situation

1239
01:13:29,100 --> 01:13:29,670
where the answers,

1240
01:13:30,359 --> 01:13:33,959
I got to interrogate you here
now. Okay. 1970s bad thing

1241
01:13:33,959 --> 01:13:37,889
stagflation. You, I believe
you're out of work for a while.

1242
01:13:37,889 --> 01:13:41,189
But how was it really in
America? At the end? Maybe you

1243
01:13:41,189 --> 01:13:43,499
travelled? I don't know, how was
it in the world at that time?

1244
01:13:43,529 --> 01:13:44,489
Well, what actually, what

1245
01:13:44,490 --> 01:13:47,730
is the weirdest thing the bottom
of one of these cycles, which

1246
01:13:47,730 --> 01:13:51,480
would have been 1973? Because,
you know, that's where things

1247
01:13:51,480 --> 01:13:54,660
kind of bottomed out. Actually,
in the case of the Great

1248
01:13:54,660 --> 01:13:58,710
Depression, Buffett had it? He
says that the Dow hit the bottom

1249
01:13:58,710 --> 01:14:02,640
in July of 32. But I think there
was I think I'm not absolutely

1250
01:14:02,640 --> 01:14:06,900
sure that's true. But anyway, in
1973, to be typically a bottom

1251
01:14:06,900 --> 01:14:09,690
of a downturn, I actually went
to France for

1252
01:14:09,899 --> 01:14:13,739
first. Okay, so, remember, I
remember

1253
01:14:13,740 --> 01:14:16,680
floating around France, in
France in the 70s. During this

1254
01:14:16,680 --> 01:14:19,800
era, you would be in the French
countryside and things were so

1255
01:14:19,800 --> 01:14:24,570
grim. Although you really it was
an enjoyable trip, to say the

1256
01:14:24,570 --> 01:14:28,590
least. But think things were so
grim that I clearly remember and

1257
01:14:28,590 --> 01:14:32,850
I've never seen this sense.
You'd be driving along in a car.

1258
01:14:33,840 --> 01:14:37,500
And there would be most of the
people were travelling on

1259
01:14:37,500 --> 01:14:41,460
mopeds, a lot of girls and guys,
guys and girls, whatever they'd

1260
01:14:41,460 --> 01:14:44,100
be in a moped, it'd be these
little moped bicycles, or these

1261
01:14:44,100 --> 01:14:46,650
bicycles that have a little gas
motor on the back that's

1262
01:14:46,949 --> 01:14:51,179
on the front, actually. And it's
called a little crappy. It's

1263
01:14:51,179 --> 01:14:52,349
called a solix.

1264
01:14:53,040 --> 01:14:56,100
Solax right. There was so Alexes
everywhere and let me

1265
01:14:56,670 --> 01:14:59,730
let me explain solix John, hold
on one second. This is a good

1266
01:14:59,730 --> 01:15:03,780
story. worry, the sole X is
essentially a bicycle. It has a,

1267
01:15:04,350 --> 01:15:08,820
I believe it might even be a 50
cc engine. So you basically have

1268
01:15:08,820 --> 01:15:13,440
a cylinder head where your where
your front light would be. And

1269
01:15:13,440 --> 01:15:16,710
when you get up to speed, you
then push the engine forward

1270
01:15:16,710 --> 01:15:20,760
with a lever onto the tire, it
has a rotating wheel, and then

1271
01:15:20,760 --> 01:15:25,800
it fires up. And in many cases,
you didn't even have a throttle,

1272
01:15:25,800 --> 01:15:28,380
it just has a set throttle
because it only will do so much

1273
01:15:28,380 --> 01:15:32,370
for you. I will have you know,
just as a side note that I

1274
01:15:32,370 --> 01:15:36,270
participated in the 24 hour
solix race into crackle in the

1275
01:15:36,270 --> 01:15:41,280
Netherlands did not win, but I
did finish and and I'd be happy

1276
01:15:41,280 --> 01:15:43,830
to tell you how we souped up
that engine a different day. But

1277
01:15:43,830 --> 01:15:48,000
anyway, total beautiful French
invention, the solix.

1278
01:15:48,329 --> 01:15:51,359
And okay, so the kicker though
to the story is you you see

1279
01:15:51,359 --> 01:15:54,179
these people floating around and
these little bicycles but they'd

1280
01:15:54,179 --> 01:15:58,259
be pulling each other. So one
person would have her Solax

1281
01:15:58,259 --> 01:16:03,089
engaged, holding the hand of
another bicyclist and pulling

1282
01:16:03,089 --> 01:16:03,779
them along.

1283
01:16:04,710 --> 01:16:08,280
Yeah, I you know, when I had my
moped in the Netherlands, that

1284
01:16:08,280 --> 01:16:11,460
was actually quite common, you'd
see a buddy, a buddy who was

1285
01:16:11,670 --> 01:16:14,700
biking along the road and you
say, Hey, hold on a second, you

1286
01:16:14,700 --> 01:16:17,730
let them hold on to you, and
then you drag them along.

1287
01:16:18,359 --> 01:16:21,719
Talk about stretching your
dollar. It's also

1288
01:16:21,719 --> 01:16:23,459
quite a dangerous exercise.

1289
01:16:23,789 --> 01:16:27,359
I could think it's naturally but
this was common. So and

1290
01:16:27,899 --> 01:16:30,329
So you think that was really
that that was the epitome of

1291
01:16:30,329 --> 01:16:30,899
grim.

1292
01:16:33,180 --> 01:16:36,210
Grim? No, actually, it looked
pretty joyous. I mean, these

1293
01:16:36,210 --> 01:16:38,490
people were having fun. They
were fooling each other around.

1294
01:16:38,490 --> 01:16:41,430
But no, it just seemed odd
looking back on it, the grill.

1295
01:16:41,550 --> 01:16:44,070
Actually, the grim is part of
it, she never really improved

1296
01:16:44,070 --> 01:16:46,860
much. And it never does in a
true down cycle. It just kind of

1297
01:16:47,160 --> 01:16:50,070
lingers bouncing around the
bottom for a really long time,

1298
01:16:50,250 --> 01:16:55,260
as opposed to the short time I'm
hoping for now. And so by the

1299
01:16:55,260 --> 01:16:57,600
time Jimmy Carter got in office,
because they had to get rid of

1300
01:16:57,600 --> 01:16:59,370
the Republicans because they
weren't getting anything

1301
01:16:59,370 --> 01:17:01,740
accomplished. So they figured
they're gonna bring in it, you

1302
01:17:01,740 --> 01:17:04,170
know, Liberal Democrat is going
to fix things and things just

1303
01:17:04,170 --> 01:17:07,710
got worse with him. And then
inflation took over and we ended

1304
01:17:07,710 --> 01:17:10,320
up with like, interest rates. If
you wanted to buy a house, you

1305
01:17:10,320 --> 01:17:15,570
had to pay 20 plus points, or
percentage, the interest rates

1306
01:17:15,570 --> 01:17:21,060
were 2021 2223 24% interest, you
know, to get a mortgage. It was

1307
01:17:21,060 --> 01:17:23,940
unbelievable. And that guy was
out in four years.

1308
01:17:25,170 --> 01:17:30,300
So I'm so Okay, so the life was
very expensive. There was I

1309
01:17:30,300 --> 01:17:33,420
mean, were there things that you
didn't have that you go without

1310
01:17:33,420 --> 01:17:34,380
anything?

1311
01:17:34,740 --> 01:17:37,710
Well, here's the kicker for me.
I was working for the

1312
01:17:37,710 --> 01:17:38,280
government.

1313
01:17:39,989 --> 01:17:44,639
Of course. Anyway, I want to
hear my father in law talk about

1314
01:17:44,639 --> 01:17:48,659
after the Second World War in
Rotterdam that he would bicycle

1315
01:17:48,659 --> 01:17:54,269
on wooden tires. And knock you
live on wooden tires for you

1316
01:17:54,269 --> 01:17:58,229
know, 50 miles to get a sugar
beet eat.

1317
01:17:59,699 --> 01:18:00,599
That's grim.

1318
01:18:00,720 --> 01:18:03,360
That's what I know. That's
getting up there in the grim

1319
01:18:03,360 --> 01:18:07,620
category. Yeah, I will. I will
say I'm, I'm totally looking

1320
01:18:07,620 --> 01:18:11,700
forward to what we're about to
go through. In fact, oh three,

1321
01:18:11,700 --> 01:18:14,130
and I listen to me. In fact, the
Financial Times that brought

1322
01:18:14,130 --> 01:18:18,330
this up and I liked this peep to
hear people are responding to

1323
01:18:18,330 --> 01:18:22,170
the credit crunch by relearning
the self reliance of the post

1324
01:18:22,170 --> 01:18:27,000
war austerity years. Knitting is
having a renaissance gardeners

1325
01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:29,970
are planting carrots were once
they grew chrysanthemums, and

1326
01:18:29,970 --> 01:18:33,270
home cooking is making a
comeback. I like that.

1327
01:18:35,460 --> 01:18:43,440
This is all right, this is a
moment of pure decadence, the

1328
01:18:43,440 --> 01:18:50,160
way that's described why? Um,
cooking is not making much of a

1329
01:18:50,160 --> 01:18:52,260
comeback. It's you know, it's
like, oh, I think we can cook at

1330
01:18:52,260 --> 01:18:55,200
home. And this is all like, you
know, a bunch of people that

1331
01:18:55,290 --> 01:18:58,140
don't have to cook at home. This
is not because they have to cook

1332
01:18:58,140 --> 01:19:01,230
at home. This is not because
they have to knit to because

1333
01:19:01,230 --> 01:19:04,230
they can't afford a sweater.
This is people that are many of

1334
01:19:04,230 --> 01:19:06,840
these people. For example,
there's a Google group, a little

1335
01:19:06,840 --> 01:19:10,620
club, and I won't mention the
names, but there are a bunch of

1336
01:19:10,620 --> 01:19:13,740
people you know who they are.
And they're the wives of a bunch

1337
01:19:13,740 --> 01:19:17,190
of Silicon Valley. Guys who are
billionaires,

1338
01:19:17,189 --> 01:19:20,189
oh, man, this is in Britain.
This is this is in the Financial

1339
01:19:20,189 --> 01:19:22,859
Times in Britain do this has
nothing to do with Silicon

1340
01:19:22,859 --> 01:19:28,679
Valley. Please. I don't buy that
for a second. And besides, it

1341
01:19:28,679 --> 01:19:30,719
doesn't matter if the
trendsetters are doing it.

1342
01:19:30,719 --> 01:19:33,449
That's good. In fact, Patricia
came back she says the official

1343
01:19:33,449 --> 01:19:37,889
Patricia curry, high street
index, because she knows exactly

1344
01:19:37,889 --> 01:19:41,279
what the high street shopping is
like she says, lots less people.

1345
01:19:41,459 --> 01:19:44,639
She said very uncharacteristic,
something's going on. People are

1346
01:19:44,639 --> 01:19:48,359
buying less for sure. And okay,

1347
01:19:48,360 --> 01:19:50,670
and that's pretty that's a good
index. That's probably as valid

1348
01:19:50,670 --> 01:19:51,270
as anything

1349
01:19:51,300 --> 01:19:55,200
but that's part of an economic
downturn as people automatically

1350
01:19:55,200 --> 01:19:58,050
take to these things, whether
they have to or not, because

1351
01:19:58,050 --> 01:20:00,450
they're preparing themselves or
whatever, but At the end of the

1352
01:20:00,450 --> 01:20:03,510
day, I think it's good. You
know, if we actually cook some

1353
01:20:03,510 --> 01:20:07,110
meals at home, maybe we won't
kill ourselves by eating crap.

1354
01:20:07,649 --> 01:20:10,169
Well, no, I'm not gardening. I
mean, but I'm a big advocate of

1355
01:20:10,169 --> 01:20:10,949
this, but it's but

1356
01:20:12,149 --> 01:20:15,539
I'm very good at knitting. John,
you should see me go. You can

1357
01:20:15,539 --> 01:20:18,959
knit Yes. My mom taught me that
I've always been able to knit.

1358
01:20:20,489 --> 01:20:26,219
Let's finally be my Mimi's first
husband was a big knitter. And

1359
01:20:26,219 --> 01:20:28,859
she has to although she does she
has only knit in a straight

1360
01:20:28,859 --> 01:20:31,589
line. She's done some she's
tried to do other things. But

1361
01:20:32,189 --> 01:20:34,439
there are some women that can
knit you know, just sit there

1362
01:20:34,439 --> 01:20:36,689
and within a few hours have a
beautiful sweater.

1363
01:20:36,719 --> 01:20:40,049
So did she does she divorced
him? Or did he die in a fiery

1364
01:20:40,049 --> 01:20:41,399
crash? No, they

1365
01:20:41,399 --> 01:20:43,349
got divorced a long time ago
because of the knitting or

1366
01:20:43,349 --> 01:20:46,229
something else? No, I'm just
mentioning that he's a guy who

1367
01:20:46,229 --> 01:20:48,779
knits and there's a lot of guys
who knit and

1368
01:20:49,289 --> 01:20:52,559
my mom always used to say
football players knit. Well,

1369
01:20:52,559 --> 01:20:53,219
it's something to do

1370
01:20:53,220 --> 01:20:55,380
if you're sitting waiting. I
mean, if you're gonna get in a

1371
01:20:55,380 --> 01:20:57,360
depression, where you're going
to be sitting and standing in

1372
01:20:57,360 --> 01:20:59,610
line a lot or waiting and
waiting and waiting for the

1373
01:20:59,610 --> 01:21:05,190
government to sign doster for
soup. For soup. You can knit

1374
01:21:05,430 --> 01:21:10,080
muzzle knit while you're at it.
When you're if you're up in the

1375
01:21:10,080 --> 01:21:13,200
Andes and one of the little
villages in Peru, for example.

1376
01:21:13,620 --> 01:21:17,010
All the women there because the
place is crawling with like,

1377
01:21:17,220 --> 01:21:20,790
alpacas and vite Gunas and all
these great animals and

1378
01:21:22,649 --> 01:21:24,389
sorry, Kuma Matata has

1379
01:21:25,079 --> 01:21:28,079
no no like vite Guna. That's all
right.

1380
01:21:28,079 --> 01:21:31,529
So yes, you know, you don't
watch Disney movies. Apparently

1381
01:21:31,529 --> 01:21:35,009
I don't I don't get the joke.
Anyway, they anyway do what they

1382
01:21:35,009 --> 01:21:37,769
do, though. These were these
Peruvian women who all look

1383
01:21:37,769 --> 01:21:42,299
exactly like you know, Incas
then colourfully dressed they

1384
01:21:42,329 --> 01:21:46,349
usually have a chute wherever
they are these women they are

1385
01:21:46,349 --> 01:21:51,389
equipped with a big pile of, of
wool that's wrapped around their

1386
01:21:51,389 --> 01:21:54,809
arm. And you know, on the left
arm and on the other end, they

1387
01:21:54,809 --> 01:21:59,009
say sit at the benches in the in
the plazas chatting with each

1388
01:21:59,009 --> 01:22:01,979
other the two women will be
there talking and talking

1389
01:22:01,979 --> 01:22:04,589
yakking like two women would do
sitting next to each other in a

1390
01:22:04,589 --> 01:22:08,099
park bench. But they're knitting
together constantly, and that

1391
01:22:08,129 --> 01:22:11,009
they should just seem to be
knitting 24/7 It's just a

1392
01:22:11,009 --> 01:22:13,529
cultural thing. And it's
actually, you know, then you can

1393
01:22:13,529 --> 01:22:17,369
buy these sweaters for like five
bucks. And a pretty nice sweater

1394
01:22:17,369 --> 01:22:18,029
is amazing.

1395
01:22:18,479 --> 01:22:20,789
Well, I'm happy all that's
coming back. And it will,

1396
01:22:20,879 --> 01:22:25,019
because we're gonna have to
change. I've just given up, you

1397
01:22:25,019 --> 01:22:28,139
know, I can see what's
happening. It's clear. It's so

1398
01:22:28,139 --> 01:22:30,869
clear. Yeah, I'm just preparing
for it.

1399
01:22:31,800 --> 01:22:34,230
You might be preparing yourself
psychologically,

1400
01:22:34,770 --> 01:22:38,430
you're going to tell me it's not
true. That something has to

1401
01:22:38,430 --> 01:22:41,880
happen. I mean, this coffee.
Here's another one. Remember, I

1402
01:22:41,880 --> 01:22:45,210
was telling about the letters of
credit that that's becoming a

1403
01:22:45,210 --> 01:22:45,720
problem?

1404
01:22:46,319 --> 01:22:49,259
Yeah, this idea? Yeah. Why don't
you explain to people that dirty

1405
01:22:49,259 --> 01:22:51,089
eavesdropping, what you're
talking about,

1406
01:22:51,120 --> 01:22:57,840
okay. So if you if you import a
product that you sell in your

1407
01:22:57,840 --> 01:23:01,140
home country, so it could be,
you know, certain types of

1408
01:23:01,140 --> 01:23:04,950
groceries, actually, oil
probably works the same way. But

1409
01:23:04,980 --> 01:23:08,100
you know, any, anything that
you're importing, usually, of

1410
01:23:08,100 --> 01:23:12,030
course, from China, you know,
it's not like you, you fly to

1411
01:23:12,030 --> 01:23:16,140
China and sign a check, right?
That's to be a little more

1412
01:23:16,140 --> 01:23:20,190
efficient way of doing it, and
the banks will assign a letter

1413
01:23:20,190 --> 01:23:24,210
of credit. So they act as an
intermediary. And once the bank

1414
01:23:24,210 --> 01:23:28,680
says, Okay, this money is good.
It's, it's, it's here kind of an

1415
01:23:28,680 --> 01:23:32,490
escrow, you can start sending
the goods, that once the goods

1416
01:23:32,490 --> 01:23:34,830
arrived, and the letter of
credit is executed, everyone

1417
01:23:34,830 --> 01:23:38,130
gets paid. It's you know, it's
kind of like a super PayPal. And

1418
01:23:38,130 --> 01:23:40,920
there's, you know, and if
there's, I guess, if there's

1419
01:23:40,920 --> 01:23:43,350
some kind of argument, and the
bank is involved as well, I

1420
01:23:43,350 --> 01:23:46,080
mean, I've never dealt with it,
but they're, they're the

1421
01:23:46,080 --> 01:23:49,020
middleman. So the letter of
credit is exactly what it says

1422
01:23:49,050 --> 01:23:52,380
it's a letter of credit. And
that credit is also often, you

1423
01:23:52,380 --> 01:23:55,410
know, taken to credit, because
that's the way a lot of

1424
01:23:55,410 --> 01:23:58,170
businesses or finance as the way
a lot of states and

1425
01:23:58,170 --> 01:24:02,340
municipalities or finance. But
you know, hey, I need the, you

1426
01:24:02,340 --> 01:24:05,430
know, a couple million credit
here to do this stuff. And

1427
01:24:05,430 --> 01:24:08,640
you'll get it from me when taxes
come in, whatever. So banks are

1428
01:24:08,640 --> 01:24:12,630
now cutting back drastically on
the amount of credit they're

1429
01:24:12,630 --> 01:24:16,860
giving to companies. So that
means companies can import less,

1430
01:24:17,760 --> 01:24:25,800
and coffee. I was just reading
because the, there's problems

1431
01:24:25,800 --> 01:24:28,890
with with these letter letters
of credit. They can't, they've

1432
01:24:28,890 --> 01:24:31,710
got an oversupply of coffee,
they can't ship it out of the

1433
01:24:31,710 --> 01:24:35,730
country fast enough. So they're
actually talking about stopping

1434
01:24:35,730 --> 01:24:39,630
production, to get to Tim O'Neil
to inflate the price. Because,

1435
01:24:39,690 --> 01:24:41,700
you know, if the prices are too
low, they're going out of

1436
01:24:41,700 --> 01:24:45,300
business. These guys can't go
coffee. So this is just the

1437
01:24:45,300 --> 01:24:48,720
start, I think of many problems
that will actually affect us.

1438
01:24:48,960 --> 01:24:51,630
And that's probably and in fact,
I think it is exactly what

1439
01:24:51,630 --> 01:24:54,090
happened with that Icelandic
supermarket. The bonus

1440
01:24:54,090 --> 01:24:57,360
supermarket chain is you know,
they just can't get letters of

1441
01:24:57,360 --> 01:25:00,240
credit and more people are
worried about that. And then Why

1442
01:25:00,240 --> 01:25:04,230
there's a run on food. Besides
there being a general food

1443
01:25:04,230 --> 01:25:08,460
crisis in the world already, you
look I miss it because I think

1444
01:25:08,460 --> 01:25:11,220
this is going to be a big
equaliser. It'll be good for

1445
01:25:11,220 --> 01:25:15,480
people go hungry for a couple of
weeks. It'll change your

1446
01:25:15,480 --> 01:25:17,730
attitude. Now change your
outlook on life.

1447
01:25:18,779 --> 01:25:20,159
Again, I have a big freezer.

1448
01:25:21,239 --> 01:25:24,509
Yeah, but a lot of people are
gonna get caught without big

1449
01:25:24,509 --> 01:25:25,259
freezers.

1450
01:25:26,489 --> 01:25:28,739
I think most people are gonna
get caught without big freezers.

1451
01:25:28,739 --> 01:25:30,959
Most people don't have more than
a week supply of food.

1452
01:25:31,170 --> 01:25:33,510
So I want your opinion on that.
Because you never have an

1453
01:25:33,510 --> 01:25:36,930
opinion on these types of
things. You do, but you never

1454
01:25:36,930 --> 01:25:38,280
express it. Let me put it that
way.

1455
01:25:39,149 --> 01:25:45,779
That's not true. Well, I have
I'm still pondering it. Okay,

1456
01:25:46,139 --> 01:25:49,559
because I don't have the I mean,
I'm not taking, you know, the

1457
01:25:49,589 --> 01:25:55,319
grim Mr. possible scenarios that
you imagine which you come up

1458
01:25:55,319 --> 01:25:56,309
with some Whoppers.

1459
01:25:57,750 --> 01:26:01,890
But this is not just plausible.
It's happening. These letters of

1460
01:26:01,890 --> 01:26:05,220
credit are becoming a problem. I
have a firsthand

1461
01:26:05,789 --> 01:26:09,059
proof. Yeah, okay, fine. But I'm
just saying I don't think it's,

1462
01:26:09,119 --> 01:26:13,259
you know, it won't be a long
term problem. It'll be something

1463
01:26:13,259 --> 01:26:16,559
that'll be resolved, and
everything will be better and

1464
01:26:16,559 --> 01:26:24,149
rosier once Obama's elected.
Okay, yeah, you're right. Man. I

1465
01:26:24,149 --> 01:26:28,319
don't know, once he's in the
market is going to skyrocket?

1466
01:26:28,500 --> 01:26:31,020
Yeah, I know. But I don't give a
shit about that. I care about

1467
01:26:31,020 --> 01:26:35,040
human beings. I know. I know,
you care about it. It just, it's

1468
01:26:35,040 --> 01:26:38,730
all wrong. I mean, it's we've
we're basically now what the

1469
01:26:38,730 --> 01:26:42,720
world is now one big socialist
banking system. And then we're

1470
01:26:42,720 --> 01:26:45,090
going to introduce welfare into
the United States. I mean,

1471
01:26:45,090 --> 01:26:49,200
really introduce it, calling it
calling it a refundable tax

1472
01:26:49,200 --> 01:26:52,080
credit. That's messed up.

1473
01:26:52,469 --> 01:26:55,559
Here's the average. Yeah, it's
true that you'd want to make 45%

1474
01:26:55,559 --> 01:27:00,029
of the public and on welfare. So
So here's the kicker, the whole

1475
01:27:00,059 --> 01:27:05,519
economic financial crisis
situation is that apparently, I

1476
01:27:05,519 --> 01:27:09,719
guess, UBS or at least I'll
share the Swiss bank. How does

1477
01:27:09,719 --> 01:27:12,419
it any Swiss bank get caught up
in this fiasco?

1478
01:27:12,779 --> 01:27:15,599
You're seriously asking me that.
Dude.

1479
01:27:16,020 --> 01:27:18,600
I thought these guys had
something on the ball.

1480
01:27:18,930 --> 01:27:22,170
Now they're all They're all it's
all in the same game. It's all

1481
01:27:22,170 --> 01:27:25,290
the same. It's all the same
people run it. This is all

1482
01:27:25,290 --> 01:27:29,100
intended to be this way please.
Please,

1483
01:27:29,460 --> 01:27:31,530
actually there was a good
article in the Financial Times I

1484
01:27:31,530 --> 01:27:35,070
think that explains it better
which is discusses the it really

1485
01:27:35,070 --> 01:27:40,350
boils down to the CIO read The
Financial Times. It boils down

1486
01:27:40,350 --> 01:27:43,200
to the rating agencies Yeah,
that

1487
01:27:43,200 --> 01:27:46,350
was that wasn't good point they
made the Brits are hilarious

1488
01:27:46,350 --> 01:27:49,200
they're furious about the
ratings agencies calling all

1489
01:27:49,200 --> 01:27:52,980
these securities triple A when
they were really just crap now.

1490
01:27:53,100 --> 01:27:56,250
And that's a good point. But
that's what I mean. It's all

1491
01:27:56,250 --> 01:27:59,130
it's all part of the scam. In
fact, I believe in your book,

1492
01:27:59,310 --> 01:28:01,260
which you know, whenever you're
ready to show me a draft, you

1493
01:28:01,260 --> 01:28:05,400
know, I actually love you enough
and I will read it. I think you

1494
01:28:05,400 --> 01:28:09,060
should you should at least
consider including a side note

1495
01:28:09,060 --> 01:28:14,130
or thread or something about the
concept of the Illuminati

1496
01:28:15,210 --> 01:28:21,450
controlling the cyclical
motions. Are you checking if

1497
01:28:21,450 --> 01:28:22,200
it's on again?

1498
01:28:22,560 --> 01:28:23,640
Unbelievable.

1499
01:28:23,880 --> 01:28:25,740
I think you should at least
consider

1500
01:28:25,919 --> 01:28:29,069
unbelievable. We got a you know,
I was wondering how long it

1501
01:28:29,069 --> 01:28:31,499
takes for us to go off the
track. No,

1502
01:28:31,500 --> 01:28:34,920
we're not off the track. We're
not off the track. Let me come

1503
01:28:34,920 --> 01:28:40,260
on John, then you cannot deny
that the Goldman Sachs X CEO and

1504
01:28:40,260 --> 01:28:44,130
he's got his cash and carry
he'll dude in there. Also from

1505
01:28:44,130 --> 01:28:47,100
Goldman Sachs, you know, they
they hoodwinked everyone they

1506
01:28:47,100 --> 01:28:51,840
took the under the auspices of
only 700 billion which included

1507
01:28:51,840 --> 01:28:56,130
another 100 and 50 billion of
bullshit just to ram it through

1508
01:28:56,130 --> 01:29:00,030
under basically threat of idiots
who sit in Congress who we elect

1509
01:29:00,330 --> 01:29:02,970
and they're working and the
basically then they they've been

1510
01:29:02,970 --> 01:29:05,430
bringing the banks they put a
gun to their head. I mean, come

1511
01:29:05,430 --> 01:29:08,610
on, man. This is this is not
America. This is the fucking

1512
01:29:08,610 --> 01:29:11,970
mob. This is I shouldn't say
that because I'm going to crash

1513
01:29:11,970 --> 01:29:16,410
my car. But this is this is not
right. You know, we I just can't

1514
01:29:16,410 --> 01:29:18,780
be cavalier about it you know,
and that's what everyone is

1515
01:29:18,780 --> 01:29:21,120
being it's fucking outrage

1516
01:29:25,319 --> 01:29:29,819
your your cursing quotient has
arisen for some reason. So we

1517
01:29:29,819 --> 01:29:31,169
will bring up this topic.

1518
01:29:31,200 --> 01:29:36,420
Well, because the the apathy
just slays me, John.

1519
01:29:36,960 --> 01:29:39,780
Well, the apathy you know, I
blame the educational system.

1520
01:29:41,430 --> 01:29:44,250
Segue and who controls the
educational system?

1521
01:29:44,460 --> 01:29:46,440
Well, you might have something
there because there was a

1522
01:29:46,440 --> 01:29:49,680
there's a funny post that I put
up on the blog. dvorak.org/blog

1523
01:29:49,680 --> 01:29:54,900
Have a drink. Where this guy
goes to this college, and

1524
01:29:54,900 --> 01:29:57,300
somebody pointed this has been
around I haven't I've never seen

1525
01:29:57,300 --> 01:30:00,600
this before, but a kid did it
and you can do this anywhere,

1526
01:30:01,440 --> 01:30:04,590
kid goes around some boy at
college that's supposed to be so

1527
01:30:04,590 --> 01:30:07,290
good. And he goes all the women
and gets them to sign a petition

1528
01:30:07,290 --> 01:30:11,940
to end women's suffrage. And,
you know, all these girls sign

1529
01:30:11,940 --> 01:30:13,890
it happily, you know, because
they don't even know what the

1530
01:30:13,890 --> 01:30:14,220
hell the

1531
01:30:15,389 --> 01:30:17,519
vaccination. Hey,

1532
01:30:18,090 --> 01:30:22,020
so, my you know, does it you
know, this is? I don't know what

1533
01:30:22,020 --> 01:30:25,320
it is why, why the? I don't
remember when I was a kid,

1534
01:30:25,379 --> 01:30:28,919
what's the point where now
you're getting off track? What

1535
01:30:28,919 --> 01:30:31,889
is the point of end the
suffrage? Where are you going?

1536
01:30:32,489 --> 01:30:35,159
Well, they would say is, you
know, women's suffrage refers to

1537
01:30:35,159 --> 01:30:40,469
the right to vote. And you go to
some dummy some girl who's in

1538
01:30:40,469 --> 01:30:43,469
college and you say would you
like to we got to stop women's

1539
01:30:43,469 --> 01:30:47,519
suffrage. And that would mean
technically that they want to

1540
01:30:47,549 --> 01:30:50,759
read in the women's right to
vote.

1541
01:30:50,819 --> 01:30:53,579
Oh, and women just signed it.
What Oh, sufferings? That sounds

1542
01:30:53,579 --> 01:30:54,989
like suffering and they signed
it.

1543
01:30:55,439 --> 01:30:58,889
Yeah, left and right. Except one
girl who wouldn't do it because

1544
01:30:58,889 --> 01:31:02,549
she knew what it meant. And out
of the whole group up there just

1545
01:31:02,549 --> 01:31:05,369
sign left right and now when I
see these you know the Obama

1546
01:31:05,369 --> 01:31:10,829
bots around the Andronikos hole
ORS are storing people you got

1547
01:31:10,829 --> 01:31:13,349
to sign this you know, people
just sign in anything. These

1548
01:31:13,349 --> 01:31:17,459
petitions that are floating
around are just they don't mean

1549
01:31:17,459 --> 01:31:20,309
anything. I mean, people just
get just to get rid of the

1550
01:31:20,309 --> 01:31:22,529
person you'll sign anything.
People will sign these things

1551
01:31:22,529 --> 01:31:25,169
left and right. I'm I have these
people coming to my door once in

1552
01:31:25,169 --> 01:31:27,689
a while. And they're always
stunned by the fact that I

1553
01:31:27,689 --> 01:31:29,549
refuse to sign any petition.

1554
01:31:29,580 --> 01:31:31,980
Look, I'm taking it one step
further with you, John, I am

1555
01:31:31,980 --> 01:31:35,760
telling you that people are
hypnotised and programmed mainly

1556
01:31:35,760 --> 01:31:39,960
by television, and they're not
watching CNN and CNBC or

1557
01:31:39,960 --> 01:31:42,630
whatever. They're watching
mainstream television and

1558
01:31:42,630 --> 01:31:44,520
they're hypnotised and
programme, they're walking

1559
01:31:44,520 --> 01:31:48,300
zombies. And they're just, we're
blithering idiots, and indeed,

1560
01:31:48,300 --> 01:31:50,760
the Department of Education
determines the syllabus, they

1561
01:31:50,760 --> 01:31:55,650
determine the education and it's
lame. It's lame ass. You know,

1562
01:31:55,650 --> 01:31:58,890
they're making us a dumb Fox.
Sorry, having

1563
01:31:59,100 --> 01:32:03,060
meanwhile, by the way, then when
you do homeschooling, it's

1564
01:32:03,060 --> 01:32:06,660
frowned upon by the state. And
in California, as a matter of

1565
01:32:06,660 --> 01:32:09,990
fact, it's almost impossible to
homeschooling. We homeschool our

1566
01:32:09,990 --> 01:32:12,600
daughter, or we did she went
she's going to high school now.

1567
01:32:13,590 --> 01:32:16,650
We aren't doing very well and
liking it, which is unusual.

1568
01:32:17,850 --> 01:32:19,800
Because, you know, kids, if they
go through the public school

1569
01:32:19,800 --> 01:32:23,820
system, at some point, they hate
school. And but you know, the

1570
01:32:23,820 --> 01:32:26,220
homeschool is always when they
will, you know, the various

1571
01:32:26,430 --> 01:32:28,710
spelling bees and they do the
same because you can you don't

1572
01:32:28,710 --> 01:32:31,980
have they're not under control
of some state syllabus, right?

1573
01:32:31,980 --> 01:32:34,260
That is just a bunch of
propaganda. I remember one of my

1574
01:32:34,260 --> 01:32:39,630
kids coming home years and years
ago is saying, oh, you know, why

1575
01:32:39,630 --> 01:32:42,030
are we take you know, as
indigenous peoples that Columbus

1576
01:32:42,030 --> 01:32:46,020
Day was indigenous peoples day.
And scan. Columbus was a

1577
01:32:46,020 --> 01:32:49,830
horrible slave owner, who's you
know, you know, went on and on

1578
01:32:49,830 --> 01:32:52,590
with all this stuff and go, What
are you talking about? Another

1579
01:32:52,590 --> 01:32:55,980
one of my kids sometime even
further back it, you know, just

1580
01:32:55,980 --> 01:32:58,920
out of the blue, I said, Well,
you know, who freed the slaves,

1581
01:32:58,920 --> 01:33:01,770
you know, he was old enough to
know, and he said Martin Luther

1582
01:33:01,770 --> 01:33:02,040
King.

1583
01:33:02,189 --> 01:33:06,719
Oh, shit, I got one for you. In
1975. I entered the Dutch

1584
01:33:06,719 --> 01:33:11,549
schooling system in fifth grade,
and very government controlled

1585
01:33:11,549 --> 01:33:15,929
over there, but just for idiotic
stuff. And and I barely spoke

1586
01:33:16,529 --> 01:33:19,919
Dutch. And they were it was in
the teacher one point was

1587
01:33:19,919 --> 01:33:24,329
talking about, you know, the how
many, how many states America

1588
01:33:24,329 --> 01:33:28,439
has? And you know, then they
added as Alaska and Hawaii and

1589
01:33:28,439 --> 01:33:31,829
now they have 52 states. And I
think that's probably when when

1590
01:33:31,829 --> 01:33:35,189
my questioning of authority came
from. So I rose my hand I'm

1591
01:33:35,189 --> 01:33:39,989
like, Dude, I'm like an idiot
over here. The guy with a with a

1592
01:33:40,049 --> 01:33:43,619
with the wrong clothes and the
mild Tourette's who doesn't

1593
01:33:43,619 --> 01:33:47,339
speak the language. There's only
50 states and the teacher got in

1594
01:33:47,339 --> 01:33:52,079
my face. I don't see that. And
then so then, so what I did is I

1595
01:33:52,079 --> 01:33:56,699
went home and I called the the
embassy, and I taped it on a

1596
01:33:56,699 --> 01:33:59,489
cassette. And I brought it in
with the Encyclopaedia

1597
01:33:59,489 --> 01:34:02,969
Britannica the next day. And I
said, Well, here's all my

1598
01:34:02,969 --> 01:34:05,429
evidence. And he's like, Well,
that the the insight that

1599
01:34:05,429 --> 01:34:09,329
Encyclopaedia Britannica is from
1970. So that doesn't count.

1600
01:34:10,229 --> 01:34:11,309
They wouldn't buy it.

1601
01:34:11,340 --> 01:34:14,820
No, no, he's gonna say well, why
don't you count the stars?

1602
01:34:14,820 --> 01:34:16,350
There's only 50 stars.

1603
01:34:17,670 --> 01:34:21,690
It remains a anyway so the
educational system, but

1604
01:34:21,690 --> 01:34:24,570
certainly in the United States,
it's it's it's it's meant to

1605
01:34:24,570 --> 01:34:27,060
dumb our children not to make
them smart. Interesting. You

1606
01:34:27,060 --> 01:34:30,480
homeschooled your daughter?
What? From what age? To what age

1607
01:34:30,480 --> 01:34:33,150
and what was the syllabus? How
did you do that?

1608
01:34:33,929 --> 01:34:36,809
There's a lot of support. By the
way for homeschooling in the

1609
01:34:36,809 --> 01:34:40,859
United States. It's extreme. I
mean, there's whole stores

1610
01:34:40,889 --> 01:34:41,489
dedicated

1611
01:34:41,729 --> 01:34:45,359
to soldiers. John was a huge
decision was it we didn't like

1612
01:34:45,359 --> 01:34:45,719
the

1613
01:34:45,750 --> 01:34:48,990
there was actually there was
some mild bullying going on at

1614
01:34:48,990 --> 01:34:51,240
one of the schools and you know,
and she didn't like and she

1615
01:34:51,240 --> 01:34:53,700
wasn't going to do well there.
We could see that a mile away.

1616
01:34:53,700 --> 01:34:56,340
We offered her the opportunity.
It was the kids have to

1617
01:34:56,340 --> 01:35:01,110
subscribe to it. And so she said
sure I can do that. And So, we

1618
01:35:01,110 --> 01:35:04,290
went since we have residents in
Washington and we're, you know,

1619
01:35:04,290 --> 01:35:07,980
my wife is technically a
Washington state, not a

1620
01:35:07,980 --> 01:35:12,300
Californian. We registered her
as a homeschool in Washington

1621
01:35:12,300 --> 01:35:13,980
state, they encourage
homeschooling and you can

1622
01:35:13,980 --> 01:35:17,730
register your child as a
homeschooled person and they met

1623
01:35:17,730 --> 01:35:20,610
and they make them and they give
them tests. And they you know,

1624
01:35:20,610 --> 01:35:23,910
that's all you know, they make
you take a test of the show, if

1625
01:35:23,910 --> 01:35:26,370
you're not keeping up you know,
that you have to, you know, make

1626
01:35:26,370 --> 01:35:29,790
the kid work harder you have to
put them in a school. And so the

1627
01:35:29,790 --> 01:35:32,400
whole thing is structured in
California to have none of that

1628
01:35:32,400 --> 01:35:35,460
and if you're homeschooling you
know, they try to bust John

1629
01:35:35,460 --> 01:35:37,830
truancy because they're not
getting their you know, their

1630
01:35:37,830 --> 01:35:41,670
pound of flesh or whatever you
get from the to get 800 bucks a

1631
01:35:41,670 --> 01:35:45,990
day or per month or whatever per
student and they don't like

1632
01:35:45,990 --> 01:35:49,110
losing income and so they make a
big deal out of it. So you know,

1633
01:35:49,110 --> 01:35:52,470
we do it in Washington state is
legal, and she liked it. And at

1634
01:35:52,470 --> 01:35:54,930
one point, she got funny, I
guess she got fed up with it and

1635
01:35:55,590 --> 01:35:59,490
she wanted to socialise more and
learn less. And so she's not

1636
01:35:59,490 --> 01:36:02,190
going to small school in Port
Townsend and at

1637
01:36:02,190 --> 01:36:07,050
your at your home school. Did
you have mandatory vaccinations?

1638
01:36:09,270 --> 01:36:13,260
Did you hear about New Jersey?
Did you hear about mandatory flu

1639
01:36:13,260 --> 01:36:16,050
shots for kindergarten otherwise
you can't attend school?

1640
01:36:16,590 --> 01:36:18,600
Yeah, what a crock. That's,

1641
01:36:18,869 --> 01:36:22,799
that's an outrage. Yeah, it is
an outrage Gitmo nation, my

1642
01:36:22,799 --> 01:36:26,099
friends get mono nation being
killed, but talking about people

1643
01:36:26,099 --> 01:36:26,399
getting

1644
01:36:26,400 --> 01:36:28,740
in your face. I remember one
time I still remember this. It

1645
01:36:28,770 --> 01:36:33,030
always baffles me that people
are so pigheaded about stuff. I

1646
01:36:33,030 --> 01:36:35,580
was given a speech and some
there was some forum or

1647
01:36:35,580 --> 01:36:38,340
something. And I was asked to
give a keynote later in the

1648
01:36:38,340 --> 01:36:40,140
night and there was been me
while I listen to all these

1649
01:36:40,140 --> 01:36:42,750
little sessions. You know,
there's all these guys given

1650
01:36:42,750 --> 01:36:46,350
sessions a typical conference,
right? And some guy was thought

1651
01:36:46,350 --> 01:36:48,990
of himself as some sort of a
hotshot was talking about, you

1652
01:36:48,990 --> 01:36:51,210
know, new technologies and
something like that. And he

1653
01:36:51,210 --> 01:36:55,410
said, he says the the LED and he
was talking about the LED and

1654
01:36:55,410 --> 01:37:00,120
says in the LED, which is a
liquid crystal display. LED

1655
01:37:00,120 --> 01:37:02,760
which is a liquid crystal
display, blah, blah, blah. So

1656
01:37:02,760 --> 01:37:06,720
after the thing was over, I went
up to him and I said, you know,

1657
01:37:06,750 --> 01:37:10,020
le t stands for light emitting
diode, liquid crystal displays,

1658
01:37:10,020 --> 01:37:14,280
LCD, and the guys looks at me
says, Hey, I know what I'm

1659
01:37:14,280 --> 01:37:15,180
talking about.

1660
01:37:17,520 --> 01:37:20,100
And then what you've beaten to a
pulp.

1661
01:37:20,640 --> 01:37:24,180
No, I stopped. I was just like
rolling my eyes seeing what an

1662
01:37:24,180 --> 01:37:26,550
idiot and people are listening
to this guy's an expert.

1663
01:37:26,580 --> 01:37:28,800
You did the Vulcan thing where
you grabbed the shoulder and he

1664
01:37:28,800 --> 01:37:30,000
just melted to the ground.

1665
01:37:30,449 --> 01:37:31,949
That would have been the wish.

1666
01:37:35,039 --> 01:37:39,239
Are you doing twit today? Yeah,
I have no idea. You heard about

1667
01:37:39,239 --> 01:37:42,779
Washington DC moving to the
cloud. I figured I'd give you

1668
01:37:42,779 --> 01:37:48,719
that for the Twitch show. Why?
Both? Maybe you guys will

1669
01:37:48,719 --> 01:37:50,549
actually talk about some tech
news. That's why.

1670
01:37:52,140 --> 01:37:54,300
Well, they move to the cloud.
They're just moving you

1671
01:37:54,330 --> 01:37:57,450
obviously they just want to be
the NSA needs to listen, and I

1672
01:37:57,450 --> 01:37:58,650
guess I didn't want to do that.

1673
01:37:58,649 --> 01:38:02,429
So this is why it's interesting.
The District of Columbia of

1674
01:38:02,429 --> 01:38:10,499
Columbia is migrating its 38,000
employees to Google Apps. Uh

1675
01:38:10,499 --> 01:38:14,879
huh. That's interesting. Say no
more, huh? I told you. I got the

1676
01:38:14,879 --> 01:38:18,269
goods for you. Dude. If it
wasn't so late, I'd be on on

1677
01:38:18,269 --> 01:38:23,639
Skype with you during the whole
show. Typing evil messages.

1678
01:38:25,529 --> 01:38:29,759
Yeah. Yeah. That's always good
for a laugh. So Okay. Well, I

1679
01:38:29,759 --> 01:38:32,309
think we're done. Yeah, we've
talked too long. We could go on

1680
01:38:32,309 --> 01:38:32,609
people

1681
01:38:32,609 --> 01:38:36,899
still go on forever, but maybe
not. So it's like we're hour and

1682
01:38:36,899 --> 01:38:41,189
a half. Yeah, we're done. So
next week, hopefully more

1683
01:38:41,189 --> 01:38:43,739
information on Project Oscar
Mike November Delta.

1684
01:38:44,399 --> 01:38:47,099
Well, yeah, that and by the way,
we didn't talk about Palin being

1685
01:38:47,099 --> 01:38:48,929
on the Saturday Night Live show,
would you think?

1686
01:38:51,180 --> 01:38:56,310
You know, what, not a moment,
made me laugh. And that was

1687
01:38:56,310 --> 01:38:59,040
partially because I'd already
read about what was going to be

1688
01:38:59,040 --> 01:39:01,770
on. I looked at it on Hulu
through our VPN, so I was able

1689
01:39:01,770 --> 01:39:04,530
to see it. But again, it was a
little stiff. I just lost

1690
01:39:04,530 --> 01:39:08,280
interest in the whole thing on
my way back as like, Who gives a

1691
01:39:08,280 --> 01:39:10,260
shit and I started looking at
the rest of the world, what's

1692
01:39:10,260 --> 01:39:14,490
going on in my own backyard
where I sometimes live? As like,

1693
01:39:14,820 --> 01:39:17,130
who cares? And you know what
people hear? They don't care

1694
01:39:17,130 --> 01:39:20,280
anymore. They all they all
assume Obama's gonna win, and

1695
01:39:20,280 --> 01:39:20,910
they're done with it.

1696
01:39:22,529 --> 01:39:25,499
And some Irish bookies actually
paid off all his bets.

1697
01:39:25,770 --> 01:39:29,520
I read that. Yeah, like, one to
1.5 or something, whatever it

1698
01:39:29,520 --> 01:39:38,550
was. But no, I'd, I'd say that
people completely think Obama

1699
01:39:38,550 --> 01:39:42,420
has it, and they don't care.
Right now. You know, the big

1700
01:39:42,420 --> 01:39:45,420
argument over here is about
Gordon Brown. That, you know,

1701
01:39:45,420 --> 01:39:48,990
he's cashing in on the financial
crisis by you know, saying he's

1702
01:39:48,990 --> 01:39:51,600
a hero, and he's saving the
country. And everyone,

1703
01:39:51,780 --> 01:39:53,280
everyone's up in arms about it.

1704
01:39:54,329 --> 01:39:56,669
As well, they should be the
wacky world.

1705
01:39:57,569 --> 01:40:00,479
All right, so take me to dinner.
This week.

1706
01:40:01,619 --> 01:40:03,809
Yeah, I got a couple places
lined up would be worth checking

1707
01:40:03,809 --> 01:40:04,559
out. Okay.

1708
01:40:05,010 --> 01:40:07,800
And if you're in the office
tomorrow, see because I'll come

1709
01:40:07,800 --> 01:40:10,920
right from the airport to the
office. All right. What time you

1710
01:40:10,920 --> 01:40:14,850
land? I don't know. 130 I think
so.

1711
01:40:15,329 --> 01:40:16,769
Right. We'll get there for

1712
01:40:18,720 --> 01:40:21,720
coming to you from Gitmo nation
east. My name is Adam curry.

1713
01:40:22,590 --> 01:40:26,040
And I'm John C. Dvorak in
northern Silicon Valley. The

1714
01:40:26,040 --> 01:40:28,950
place that doesn't exist, but we
think it does.

1715
01:40:29,159 --> 01:40:31,919
We'll talk to you again next
week right here on no agenda.