1 00:00:01,439 --> 00:00:04,649 It's time once again for the weekly Adventures of crackpot 2 00:00:04,649 --> 00:00:08,609 and buzz kill live from Gitmo nation, west and southwest. 3 00:00:08,639 --> 00:00:12,719 Wait, I'm in East from southwest London. Adam curry. 4 00:00:13,980 --> 00:00:19,560 And I'm John C. Dvorak here in Silicon Valley north. So John C 5 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:20,460 Dvorak. Yes. So 6 00:00:20,490 --> 00:00:23,850 yes you did. And that is Gitmo nation West. I'm in Gitmo nation 7 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:26,820 East fresh back and Gitmo nation east where things are falling 8 00:00:26,820 --> 00:00:30,060 apart. And the Brits have finally started to grab for the 9 00:00:30,060 --> 00:00:31,950 pitchforks and torches. 10 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:38,520 There were riots in in Geneva yesterday you missed him you but 11 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:39,540 you're in a planning Miss 12 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:46,140 Geneva but yesterday the British also not riots but the they're 13 00:00:46,140 --> 00:00:50,400 calling Gordon Brown on his bullshit the workers at what is 14 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:55,920 it? Total, and a few other outfits and we had a wild 15 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:57,090 wildcat strike. 16 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:01,320 Total is the gas station. It will Yeah, the oil 17 00:01:02,190 --> 00:01:06,600 firm. Gordon Brown apparently well not apparently I saw it 18 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:11,010 myself in 2006 and 2007. He kept talking about hey, British jobs 19 00:01:11,010 --> 00:01:16,800 for British people. And so now there's there's a contract that 20 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:21,630 was awarded to a an Italian firm. And they just float these 21 00:01:21,630 --> 00:01:25,170 barges, which are like floating hotels, and they bring in a 22 00:01:25,170 --> 00:01:27,090 whole bunch of Italian guys to do the work. 23 00:01:27,870 --> 00:01:30,960 And the Italian guys must be working cheaper. That's my 24 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:31,350 guess. Let 25 00:01:31,350 --> 00:01:35,310 me guess. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, that no reason 26 00:01:35,310 --> 00:01:37,500 why they're making minimum wage. 27 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:42,060 Well, that's cheap. Nice work for minimum wage in the same 28 00:01:42,060 --> 00:01:43,260 job, but they do it. 29 00:01:44,190 --> 00:01:47,790 Yeah, I think that would I think a lot of Brits are ready to work 30 00:01:47,790 --> 00:01:48,360 right now. 31 00:01:48,899 --> 00:01:52,409 Well, maybe so they maybe maybe Gordon Brown's thinking that 32 00:01:52,409 --> 00:01:55,379 well for us all these foreign labourers. They won't give us 33 00:01:55,379 --> 00:01:58,049 any tax money and then they'll that'll help bankrupt the 34 00:01:58,049 --> 00:01:59,309 company or the country. 35 00:01:59,339 --> 00:02:02,339 Well, yeah, that's probably probably something that 36 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:13,410 maybe he's a communist. You think so I was watching the last 37 00:02:13,410 --> 00:02:18,630 night as you were travelling on the big giant Silverbird. And I 38 00:02:18,630 --> 00:02:21,180 made a copy of this for you, by the way, because it turned out 39 00:02:21,180 --> 00:02:26,220 to be quite interesting. Jack Welch, who is he's 40 00:02:26,219 --> 00:02:30,779 everywhere. By the way, he's on every single talk show. He's on 41 00:02:30,779 --> 00:02:34,199 CNBC. He's on Fox. He's doing the rounds. What are the ways 42 00:02:34,259 --> 00:02:37,199 but he's not doesn't seem to be selling anything? Yeah, I 43 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:40,800 find that peculiar. He's not selling anything, maybe selling 44 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,040 himself, you know, but whatever the case was, he did a whole 45 00:02:44,070 --> 00:02:48,150 hour with Donna Shalala, who's turns out to be the president of 46 00:02:48,150 --> 00:02:54,540 the University of Miami where he went to school, I guess. And I 47 00:02:54,540 --> 00:02:56,790 guess that he's teaching He's been teaching for the last four 48 00:02:56,790 --> 00:03:01,350 years at MIT some business course. And he kind of called 49 00:03:01,350 --> 00:03:05,670 out all the other business professors as Boneheads. So 50 00:03:05,730 --> 00:03:08,790 which is kind of interesting in itself. But he made this 51 00:03:08,790 --> 00:03:11,880 interesting point, which is, which I've heard made over and 52 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:14,430 over again, by people in business. Andrew Horowitz made 53 00:03:14,430 --> 00:03:17,280 it the last time we did our little podcast, and then that 54 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:22,770 earlier this morning, CNBC was doing a world roundup of opinion 55 00:03:22,770 --> 00:03:28,830 of business leaders, which is about how Obama is screwing up 56 00:03:29,820 --> 00:03:35,010 by saying it's gonna get worse before it gets better. Which is 57 00:03:35,010 --> 00:03:41,010 a thing you don't do ever. And well says that Roosevelt never 58 00:03:41,010 --> 00:03:44,130 did it and I'm sorry, you know, I don't remember wasn't leaving 59 00:03:44,130 --> 00:03:47,040 alive during Roosevelt's Europe Ira heard all those early 60 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:49,500 speeches and his because they kept him around for a long time. 61 00:03:49,890 --> 00:03:52,260 And he never did that. He was He said, The only thing to fear is 62 00:03:52,260 --> 00:03:53,790 fear itself Obama's you know, 63 00:03:54,330 --> 00:04:01,890 saying fear ped for the hills. Well, well, so, on that side, 64 00:04:01,890 --> 00:04:03,840 um, there's, there's a lot we can talk about, because of 65 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:06,120 course, you know, I've been watching all my little C span 66 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:09,360 stuff and paying close attention. But what really what 67 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,900 really got me is we just went through this whole song and 68 00:04:12,900 --> 00:04:16,920 dance about transparency. And there's an executive actually, 69 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,670 it's not an executive order. It's a memorandum regarding 70 00:04:20,700 --> 00:04:24,540 lobbyists and you can't be a lobbyist two years after you 71 00:04:24,540 --> 00:04:26,580 leave the administration or you can't be the in the 72 00:04:26,580 --> 00:04:30,810 administration. So Timothy Geithner is approved or what do 73 00:04:30,810 --> 00:04:34,500 you what do we call that? Confirmed confirmed? Thank you 74 00:04:34,650 --> 00:04:37,170 confirmed as the Treasury Secretary, the first thing he 75 00:04:37,170 --> 00:04:41,850 does is he announces his assistant, who was a lobbyist 76 00:04:41,850 --> 00:04:44,520 two months ago and he says, Well, that's okay, because he'll 77 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:47,370 recuse himself when appropriate. I 78 00:04:47,999 --> 00:04:50,549 shouldn't be all the time. Well, of course. 79 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:53,910 You know, it was a different field. It wasn't finance. Of 80 00:04:53,910 --> 00:04:56,580 course, the guy did work at Goldman Sachs, you know before 81 00:04:56,580 --> 00:05:01,020 then, but that's just blows me away. go through this whole 82 00:05:01,020 --> 00:05:05,160 thing, big song and dance and the first guy that Geitner 83 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:05,610 brings it 84 00:05:05,940 --> 00:05:09,450 up, but you think they could have put this off? If a few. You 85 00:05:09,450 --> 00:05:11,940 know, why do they have to do it right away, just violate your 86 00:05:11,940 --> 00:05:13,560 own and we're gonna do this, we're gonna do that. And then 87 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:17,970 right away, you just, you know, I think Obama should have called 88 00:05:17,970 --> 00:05:20,370 him on and said, Look, you get these rules. I mean, can you 89 00:05:20,370 --> 00:05:22,230 find anybody else's the only guy in the world? 90 00:05:22,260 --> 00:05:24,840 Yeah, really? There are some other employees at Goldman 91 00:05:24,840 --> 00:05:28,410 Sachs. I'm sure he could pick another one. Because that's all 92 00:05:28,410 --> 00:05:29,250 that it's about. 93 00:05:30,450 --> 00:05:32,640 Well, I'm not seeing any change. Here's what I 94 00:05:32,700 --> 00:05:35,250 know. Well, I'm getting the hate, though. That is starting 95 00:05:35,250 --> 00:05:38,880 to happen. Oh, well, tell us about it. Now. Just on Twitter, 96 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:43,980 even. By the way, it would be cool if you followed me, Adam 97 00:05:43,980 --> 00:05:46,860 curry all written together on Twitter. 98 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:49,650 Following You're kidding, yeah. 99 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:51,300 I don't have that many followers. 100 00:05:51,690 --> 00:05:54,330 Oh, let me go follow you. Okay, let's do that soon as the show's 101 00:05:54,330 --> 00:05:57,750 over. I do it now, but it'll screw up the stream. 102 00:05:58,350 --> 00:06:04,200 It's like, Adam, don't you have any thinking to be positive? You 103 00:06:04,230 --> 00:06:07,290 rarely maybe never have said anything positive about Obama. 104 00:06:07,290 --> 00:06:09,960 No one is 100%. Wrong, which is? 105 00:06:10,350 --> 00:06:12,240 You said lots of good things about Obama. 106 00:06:12,690 --> 00:06:15,930 I certainly have I said he's very cute. And you're a good 107 00:06:15,930 --> 00:06:21,660 looking man. And and he here. This is good. I love listening 108 00:06:21,660 --> 00:06:25,590 to you on John Cena. No agenda, but we'll tune you out. If you 109 00:06:25,590 --> 00:06:32,460 don't lighten up bashing my president. My president. The 110 00:06:32,460 --> 00:06:34,260 hell is that? He's my president to 111 00:06:35,550 --> 00:06:40,560 get a fair president. You Yeah. What's up, Brian? I'm much more 112 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:43,800 positive about Obama than you are. I mean, I have to admit to 113 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:44,160 that. 114 00:06:45,150 --> 00:06:49,170 Really? And what are you positive? We actually you did 115 00:06:49,170 --> 00:06:52,440 mention something in one of our many dinners, and we should talk 116 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:56,520 about a few of them, if not all briefly, you did say something 117 00:06:56,700 --> 00:06:59,850 which kind of which stuck in the back of my head. 118 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:04,470 I'll tell you what it is. I was gonna deny it but I won't. My 119 00:07:04,470 --> 00:07:08,580 wife thought the idea of hiring guy. Geitner was a good one 120 00:07:08,580 --> 00:07:11,160 because he had had his run ins with the IRS and we need some 121 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:13,830 guy who's had a bad experience or two but you countered with he 122 00:07:13,830 --> 00:07:16,230 wasn't that bad of an experience. He wasn't even find 123 00:07:16,230 --> 00:07:19,290 any penalties like everybody the rest Exactly. 124 00:07:19,290 --> 00:07:21,630 Like they came into the office with their hands on their 125 00:07:21,630 --> 00:07:24,450 weapons when they came looking for me. And now that now we have 126 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:29,310 Tom Dashiell, who also had a hadn't paid his his income tax 127 00:07:29,310 --> 00:07:31,800 until of course, you know, he goes through confirmation 128 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,410 hearings. Oh, yeah, no, I just took care of that last week, 129 00:07:34,530 --> 00:07:40,290 like 100 grand $150,000 with no penalties. Now, he did say that 130 00:07:40,290 --> 00:07:42,780 he paid $15,000 in penalties. 131 00:07:43,110 --> 00:07:45,810 That doesn't sound right. Sounds low. Sounds like I was gonna say 132 00:07:45,810 --> 00:07:48,870 it sounds very low to me. And I wonder if he then also got all 133 00:07:48,870 --> 00:07:54,270 that frickin mail. So so. So there was, you know, they 134 00:07:54,270 --> 00:07:57,600 couldn't find forms from something for me from 2001 135 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:01,350 through 2005, whatever. And so that triggered a whole bunch of 136 00:08:01,350 --> 00:08:04,320 stuff. But what that also triggers is your mailbox gets 137 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:10,620 completely stuffed with lawyers. Hey, you know, don't don't let 138 00:08:10,620 --> 00:08:13,200 the you know, we can help you with the IRS. And it's 139 00:08:13,230 --> 00:08:15,630 unbelievable how that works. I guess you got this on public 140 00:08:15,630 --> 00:08:19,920 record or something that must pop up that and here's something 141 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:23,970 else I discovered if if you'll indulge me for a moment, that I 142 00:08:23,970 --> 00:08:28,740 have not had a lot of experience with creditors, just because I 143 00:08:28,740 --> 00:08:32,070 pay my bills, and I usually pay them on time. You know, I wait 144 00:08:32,100 --> 00:08:34,050 that sometimes, depending on what it is, I'll wait for that 145 00:08:34,050 --> 00:08:36,450 warning. No, just because it gives me satisfaction of pain 146 00:08:36,450 --> 00:08:40,620 later. But I've never really had a creditor situation now 147 00:08:40,620 --> 00:08:44,850 Christina, signed up for a gym membership. And of course, you 148 00:08:44,850 --> 00:08:49,830 know, typical lazy teenager didn't really comprehend what 149 00:08:49,830 --> 00:08:52,020 she was doing. And yet she couldn't have as many gym 150 00:08:52,020 --> 00:08:55,890 memberships as he wants, but she put it on her debit card with a 151 00:08:55,890 --> 00:08:59,940 standing order to basically you sign stuff. And so you know, and 152 00:09:00,270 --> 00:09:03,030 she gets an allowance from me. But again, it's not enough to 153 00:09:03,030 --> 00:09:06,270 cut in but you know, we pay we would support her we pay for the 154 00:09:07,140 --> 00:09:09,780 for the gym membership. So of course, she ran to trouble 155 00:09:09,780 --> 00:09:11,880 somewhere got ahead of her, you know, she wasn't paying 156 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:16,980 attention, forgot to ask me. And so then there's like a 349 pound 157 00:09:17,550 --> 00:09:20,580 bill that's outstanding. And this was for in Guilford. So we 158 00:09:20,580 --> 00:09:22,950 left and she went to cancel and they said hey, man, you owe us 159 00:09:22,950 --> 00:09:27,660 money. So I you know, in the move that had laid around for 160 00:09:27,660 --> 00:09:33,210 another four weeks or whatever, and and then I got a letter from 161 00:09:33,210 --> 00:09:36,030 an attorney. And it's one of these typical collection 162 00:09:36,030 --> 00:09:39,480 letters. It's had been yelled this. I should actually read it 163 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:43,260 verbatim, but this has been handed over to us and whatever. 164 00:09:43,410 --> 00:09:47,310 And so I figured I'll do that when I get back. And then 165 00:09:47,310 --> 00:09:49,800 Christina sent me because they really started harassing her. 166 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:53,520 She sent me a text while I was in San Francisco. And so I 167 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:58,890 called the company up the the gym company. And they said 349 168 00:09:58,890 --> 00:10:01,500 pounds and so I gave my debit Card Number one was paid for. 169 00:10:01,890 --> 00:10:06,540 But the lawyer letter which came in two weeks earlier, what I 170 00:10:06,540 --> 00:10:10,890 thought was a lawyer letter as as if the account had been 171 00:10:10,890 --> 00:10:14,370 handed over to a lawyer, it seems like they were asking for 172 00:10:14,370 --> 00:10:20,040 500 pounds. So I think what's happening here is a lot of these 173 00:10:20,610 --> 00:10:25,200 companies turn over their debts to a collection agency, but the 174 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:29,220 collection agency acts like their lawyer, and they're, you 175 00:10:29,220 --> 00:10:32,190 know, and the lawsuit is ready, and they're gonna, you know, 176 00:10:32,220 --> 00:10:35,670 bring it before court, et cetera, et cetera. And it really 177 00:10:35,670 --> 00:10:38,460 seems like a tremendous scam because the difference is, you 178 00:10:38,460 --> 00:10:40,200 know, 150 pounds 179 00:10:40,620 --> 00:10:43,140 is that's there? Well, actually, it's even better than that. 180 00:10:43,140 --> 00:10:46,920 Because they when you turn over to your debt to the collection 181 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:50,550 agency, they get that depends on the deal. But generally 182 00:10:50,550 --> 00:10:53,610 speaking, they get like half of that, and then whatever else 183 00:10:53,610 --> 00:10:57,570 they can tack on, so they're like making money. Yeah, well, 184 00:10:57,570 --> 00:11:00,120 they this is a crooked business. And the fact of the matter is 185 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:03,060 this rampid in this country, I didn't even know it was over 186 00:11:03,059 --> 00:11:05,579 there. Well, so this is my point is I didn't know about this just 187 00:11:05,579 --> 00:11:08,069 because I've never been in that in that situation. And let that 188 00:11:08,069 --> 00:11:11,519 be a warning that you know, it's really easy to fall for this and 189 00:11:11,519 --> 00:11:13,859 it can cost you hundreds more than necessary. 190 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:18,420 We have a bunch of consumer protection laws in this country 191 00:11:18,420 --> 00:11:21,270 that are not enforced that prevent all kinds of bad 192 00:11:21,270 --> 00:11:25,110 practices that these guys execute constantly. And you have 193 00:11:25,110 --> 00:11:28,860 to almost how and the attorney general or the Consumer 194 00:11:29,010 --> 00:11:30,930 Protection Department or the state government or whatever, 195 00:11:30,930 --> 00:11:34,590 whoever it is to get action because these guys will call you 196 00:11:34,590 --> 00:11:37,350 in midnight there's just a million little tricks that they 197 00:11:37,350 --> 00:11:41,430 pull and most of which are illegal and then again not 198 00:11:41,430 --> 00:11:44,340 enforced. I mean that seems as though in the United States ever 199 00:11:44,340 --> 00:11:48,570 since the I guess it began with the first Bush administration 200 00:11:48,570 --> 00:11:51,210 just maybe even the Reagan or maybe even the Carter I don't 201 00:11:51,210 --> 00:11:54,960 know it just keeps going further back but it's just the consumer 202 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:58,470 protection laws have been weakened lot of have been taken 203 00:11:58,470 --> 00:12:01,290 off the books they've been you know usually through some sort 204 00:12:01,290 --> 00:12:04,860 of writer on some other bill you know that Save the Children 205 00:12:04,890 --> 00:12:08,370 Yeah. Let's stick some stuff in there. 206 00:12:09,179 --> 00:12:10,979 Stick some stuff in here. What are you gonna do about it? 207 00:12:11,130 --> 00:12:14,640 But it's a credit to predatory children it's a predatory 208 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,280 practice though this is this is really very 209 00:12:17,399 --> 00:12:20,699 very it's a total predatory practice and nobody does 210 00:12:20,699 --> 00:12:26,309 anything about it there's no agency that cares Obama I doubt 211 00:12:26,309 --> 00:12:29,459 he's gonna do crap you know talking about indict when I see 212 00:12:29,459 --> 00:12:33,719 some consumer protection action from him then I'll I'm totally 213 00:12:33,719 --> 00:12:36,089 on board but I'm not seeing a you know, I never even heard 214 00:12:36,119 --> 00:12:40,409 that during all his campaigning. You know these like these payday 215 00:12:40,409 --> 00:12:43,619 loans well well there's a whole bunch of stuff on 60 minutes 216 00:12:43,619 --> 00:12:47,219 with the guy goes in some poor guy was a who's a veteran fact 217 00:12:47,219 --> 00:12:51,629 of the Army's very concerned about this you know, the guys 218 00:12:51,629 --> 00:12:54,419 will go in and they'll take take one of these payday loans out 219 00:12:54,419 --> 00:12:57,839 where you you give them your you get a loan for what your next 220 00:12:57,839 --> 00:13:00,449 checks gonna be and had to pay him some ridiculous amount of 221 00:13:00,509 --> 00:13:03,119 fee and if you don't pay it, all of a sudden you owe like 222 00:13:03,119 --> 00:13:11,129 1000s $1,000 Excuse me, there's loan shark legal loan sharking. 223 00:13:11,220 --> 00:13:14,640 There's a couple of things about the administration which kind of 224 00:13:14,820 --> 00:13:17,700 runs along these lines because it comes down to legalese you 225 00:13:17,700 --> 00:13:22,410 know, and, and the the small disclaimers, etc. And really the 226 00:13:22,410 --> 00:13:25,140 fine print and so there's two things. I'm going to turn off 227 00:13:25,140 --> 00:13:29,910 the Skype chat if you guys tried to call me I'll be idiots. hate 228 00:13:29,910 --> 00:13:33,390 that. Idiots. Can't you hear? Oh, that's fun. He goes Bloop, 229 00:13:33,390 --> 00:13:38,460 bloop. I'm like turning off all the sounds here. Idiots. Yeah, 230 00:13:38,460 --> 00:13:40,890 figured I'd give him a toss him a bone. Give him a Skype chat. 231 00:13:40,890 --> 00:13:43,740 What do they do? So the first thing that's really starting to 232 00:13:43,770 --> 00:13:49,830 irk me, is the stimulus package. According to John, your 233 00:13:49,830 --> 00:13:54,060 president and my president will and here's the quote everyone 234 00:13:54,060 --> 00:14:01,500 says exactly the same create or save 3 million jobs. Now, that's 235 00:14:01,500 --> 00:14:06,690 it there's a big difference between saving and creating. I 236 00:14:06,690 --> 00:14:09,330 mean, there's like there's like a 6 million job difference 237 00:14:09,330 --> 00:14:10,290 between the two. 238 00:14:11,250 --> 00:14:14,160 That's funny Hey, um, you say we have what we say 3 million jobs 239 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:15,750 How do you know you didn't Yeah, 240 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:18,870 I mean, it's so that's that's literally 241 00:14:18,899 --> 00:14:21,899 back and say, whatever the employment said, We got 40 242 00:14:21,899 --> 00:14:25,589 million people working in Kobe. Say we save more than three. Oh, 243 00:14:25,589 --> 00:14:29,339 yeah. Oh, well, 8 million jobs. Every person working today we 244 00:14:29,339 --> 00:14:30,749 saved there. That is 245 00:14:30,779 --> 00:14:34,709 exactly what's going on. There was there's a C span clip which 246 00:14:34,739 --> 00:14:40,319 I'll send you the link of I think he's representative I 247 00:14:40,319 --> 00:14:44,669 think he's uh, I don't know if he's a senator or if he's in the 248 00:14:44,669 --> 00:14:48,299 House of Representatives, either way, and He literally says, you 249 00:14:48,299 --> 00:14:50,789 know, Hank Paulson must have been the Senate. Hank, Hank 250 00:14:50,789 --> 00:14:55,259 Paulson note came to the house and said, you know, this was the 251 00:14:55,259 --> 00:14:59,969 one day where over half a trillion dollars in money market 252 00:14:59,999 --> 00:15:03,209 start to flow away, and we need this money within six hours. 253 00:15:03,209 --> 00:15:06,329 And, you know, people will be dying on the streets and he goes 254 00:15:06,329 --> 00:15:08,939 through this whole rap man. It's just like, Oh, I 255 00:15:08,940 --> 00:15:10,950 saw this. I think we blogged it. So 256 00:15:10,950 --> 00:15:13,710 you might have Yeah, it's been it's been circling around. And 257 00:15:13,710 --> 00:15:16,410 it's just like, wow, you know, and he's literally saying we 258 00:15:16,410 --> 00:15:19,320 don't know well, and which, of course is true. You know that 259 00:15:19,350 --> 00:15:22,050 you've been honest there. We don't know how this works. But 260 00:15:22,230 --> 00:15:27,660 then you just hand the keys over to that bulb? Fuck. Ah, 261 00:15:27,750 --> 00:15:30,480 no. What did you get away with what you can get away with? 262 00:15:30,510 --> 00:15:34,080 So the so here's, here's the big news, though, in my mind, which 263 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:38,790 is kind of being glossed over is Joe Biden is so he's he's got 264 00:15:38,790 --> 00:15:42,960 his marching orders. He's, he's off. He's out. He's, he's on the 265 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:46,140 road. They've successfully gotten him out on doing 266 00:15:46,140 --> 00:15:51,630 something incredibly useless. What? Which is? Well, of course, 267 00:15:52,020 --> 00:15:56,610 because who was promised? Yeah, who was promised the most we got 268 00:15:56,610 --> 00:16:00,720 the poor people in the middle class. Right? So middle class, 269 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:04,140 of course, we're waiting for mortgages to be paid and health 270 00:16:04,140 --> 00:16:08,370 care to be fixed and everything. No, no, we now have an executive 271 00:16:08,370 --> 00:16:13,290 by executive order. Joe Biden will be leading the Middle Class 272 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:20,310 Task Force. And he's going out on a listening tour. Joe Biden 273 00:16:20,310 --> 00:16:24,240 coming to a town near you soon to listen. Listen, what the hell 274 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:26,340 are they doing on the campaign trail? Is that what they always 275 00:16:26,340 --> 00:16:29,850 say? Well, we heard you we listened to everything you had 276 00:16:29,850 --> 00:16:30,540 to say. 277 00:16:31,049 --> 00:16:32,609 I guess they didn't listen very well. 278 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:38,250 Ah. So yeah, so I guess he's just out. That's it. 279 00:16:39,269 --> 00:16:41,549 Yeah, he'll be out on the road who better said life or Riley 280 00:16:41,549 --> 00:16:44,429 for him now, you know, travelling around with a family 281 00:16:44,429 --> 00:16:45,389 seeing America. 282 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:53,970 See, America. I love these. This whole past week, President Obama 283 00:16:53,970 --> 00:16:57,810 was doing a show every morning around somewhere between 10 and 284 00:16:57,810 --> 00:17:01,530 1030. The first one was the signing the lead better bill, 285 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:06,090 and you know, all these all these different appearances. But 286 00:17:06,120 --> 00:17:09,870 but when you watch C span, you get the complete, unedited 287 00:17:11,940 --> 00:17:17,640 experience, and they turn it on with room noise before, you 288 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:20,820 know, like, sometimes 15 minutes before the President arrives. 289 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,420 And it's just like a show. It's they've got the little Muzak 290 00:17:24,420 --> 00:17:28,860 going to like do Lulu and him. And then, ladies and gentlemen, 291 00:17:28,860 --> 00:17:32,310 please take your seats. We will be starting in five minutes, 292 00:17:32,340 --> 00:17:38,130 five more minutes. And it's it's uncanny. It's just it's really, 293 00:17:38,130 --> 00:17:39,690 really spooky. 294 00:17:40,830 --> 00:17:41,880 It's a show. It's 295 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:46,920 a complete show. This is the biggest reality show ever. And 296 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:50,340 it's unfolding before our very eyes. fascinating to watch. 297 00:17:51,150 --> 00:17:55,080 Absolutely fascinating. Fascinating. I can just see the 298 00:17:55,260 --> 00:18:00,270 west wing in the morning. Mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy west wing in 299 00:18:00,270 --> 00:18:03,690 the morning. Mommy, mommy, what's matter. Malia Where's 300 00:18:03,690 --> 00:18:06,420 daddy scripts? He need his scripts for today. 301 00:18:10,589 --> 00:18:13,199 So we went out to a couple of restaurants you should tell you 302 00:18:13,199 --> 00:18:14,909 know, anyone coming to San Francisco about? 303 00:18:15,839 --> 00:18:19,739 Yeah, I have to say I had a great week. I don't there was 304 00:18:19,799 --> 00:18:22,949 only the first night that I have room service. And every or every 305 00:18:22,949 --> 00:18:29,369 other evening. I had a good meal. And maybe what the first 306 00:18:29,369 --> 00:18:31,589 thing we should say is if you're looking for oysters in San 307 00:18:31,589 --> 00:18:33,449 Francisco, be prepared to pay. 308 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:38,520 Yeah, the oysters, the West Coast have skyrocketed in price 309 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:41,580 because of some shortage or god knows what. But you know, the 310 00:18:41,580 --> 00:18:44,190 thing is, you know, we went to this cocoa 500 or whatever it 311 00:18:44,190 --> 00:18:46,380 was at the last day and they had oysters on there. I don't know 312 00:18:46,380 --> 00:18:50,340 if you noticed, but they were the same price $2.50 for an 313 00:18:50,370 --> 00:18:51,210 oyster, 314 00:18:51,660 --> 00:18:55,950 per oyster. So the first dinner we had with Zuni 315 00:18:56,700 --> 00:19:01,440 they had the Zuni Cafe very famous, old restaurant that's 316 00:19:01,530 --> 00:19:05,040 part of the foodie revolution. I don't know what that means place 317 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:09,030 is kind of on par with shape and East acepted. You know, I don't 318 00:19:09,030 --> 00:19:14,280 think it was a leader by any means in terms of new cuisine, 319 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:18,720 but they always have known for having a good oyster selection. 320 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:19,440 And we had 321 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:25,170 boy, did we have a selection or what? We had $90 worth of 322 00:19:25,170 --> 00:19:28,950 oysters. Yeah, I was already outlandish. 323 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:33,210 But they were good. And January's. According to the 324 00:19:33,210 --> 00:19:36,540 French, January is the month you want to eat oysters, at least in 325 00:19:36,540 --> 00:19:39,690 the northern northern hemisphere, of course. And you 326 00:19:39,690 --> 00:19:43,380 have never had oysters down in South America. That'd be kind of 327 00:19:43,380 --> 00:19:43,980 interesting. 328 00:19:45,030 --> 00:19:50,070 So we what we did specifically for the show, is we tried a 329 00:19:50,070 --> 00:19:54,150 seven different varieties. A couple of them were not 330 00:19:54,150 --> 00:19:56,550 available. The one from Rhode Island was not available, which 331 00:19:56,550 --> 00:20:02,070 I really wanted to try. And we had So we started off with a 332 00:20:02,070 --> 00:20:05,280 dozen then we had another dozen and then we narrowed it down to 333 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:08,820 the final three of which we had three each. 334 00:20:09,390 --> 00:20:12,480 No. Yeah, actually we started with we. 335 00:20:12,869 --> 00:20:15,419 Here's how sad it is. We lost count. 336 00:20:15,989 --> 00:20:20,489 It started off with a dozen, two dozen right off the bat. And 337 00:20:20,489 --> 00:20:23,729 then we had another dozen then we had the final nine. 338 00:20:25,380 --> 00:20:29,880 And I'm like, Yeah, okay, I remember the names. Yeah, you 339 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:33,810 do. I don't remember. So my favourite was the Pickering. And 340 00:20:33,810 --> 00:20:37,350 yours was the pearl point. Yeah, 341 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:42,720 right. Right. They were both good. I think the pro point was 342 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:45,330 better. And then the other one that was a runner up was the 343 00:20:45,330 --> 00:20:45,990 Nika 344 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:51,090 Chen ever heard of that was like more like Nuka was a new craft. 345 00:20:51,180 --> 00:20:51,780 That was net 346 00:20:51,780 --> 00:20:56,160 guy, n e, t, k, something like that. She's like, you know, 347 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:58,710 these oysters are just a bit of voice or someplace and they give 348 00:20:58,710 --> 00:20:59,460 them a name. 349 00:21:00,179 --> 00:21:03,479 And so for those of you wondering, it's very possible to 350 00:21:03,479 --> 00:21:07,739 eat all that all those oysters. You don't feel sick. It's you 351 00:21:07,739 --> 00:21:09,179 can you can just keep eating 352 00:21:10,410 --> 00:21:13,680 it just basically, like 99% water. 353 00:21:13,710 --> 00:21:16,530 I whitewashed the ceiling in the hotel room boy. 354 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:25,710 So anyway, yeah, that was good. But, you know, I've been eating 355 00:21:25,710 --> 00:21:29,370 some oysters now and again this season, but I was very 356 00:21:29,370 --> 00:21:32,370 disappointed in the prices that goes OSHA is typically, you 357 00:21:32,370 --> 00:21:37,350 know, in a place like that usually run a buck 25 to a buck 358 00:21:37,350 --> 00:21:41,340 50. And then in a really expensive restaurant. They run 359 00:21:41,340 --> 00:21:44,520 to two but 250 and then couple those ones from the East Coast, 360 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:50,610 which I went to 75 was 275. I saw a 350 was one that was 350. 361 00:21:50,610 --> 00:21:50,880 Yeah. 362 00:21:50,940 --> 00:21:55,650 Outrageous, as pointed out to you. And then we had grouper. 363 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:02,940 Right, we split the group or group or? Yes, okay. Yeah, it 364 00:22:02,940 --> 00:22:07,920 was all right. And, oh, that was an of course, John's doing his 365 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:14,010 whole wine list thing. And he looks at our server. And he 366 00:22:14,010 --> 00:22:16,680 says, Hey, is the wine guy here? 367 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:20,550 I warned you I was gonna do that. 368 00:22:22,410 --> 00:22:24,240 She didn't know a lot about the wine. Did she? 369 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,060 She didn't know anything, though. As he was looking for 370 00:22:27,060 --> 00:22:31,530 the screw top. Well, whatever. But that was kind of good. 371 00:22:31,530 --> 00:22:34,950 Because we had a was that a champagne? We started off with 372 00:22:35,190 --> 00:22:39,990 no. Fan. But yeah, then we had a chateau nifty pop. Yes. That you 373 00:22:39,990 --> 00:22:47,610 liked a lot. I did like it. You're right. Okay, then. So 374 00:22:47,610 --> 00:22:50,460 what do we rate that places at a place we would recommend? 375 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:56,430 Yes, I wouldn't. Well, the price the total bill, you know, for 376 00:22:56,460 --> 00:23:00,330 now. Yeah, we had a lot of oysters, but it's not cheap. I 377 00:23:00,330 --> 00:23:02,610 thought it was an expensive place, which of course included 378 00:23:02,610 --> 00:23:11,280 the 4% health tax, which is now included on every bill was 379 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,140 expensive. It was expensive. 380 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,580 It was expensive considering it's kind of like a it's a funky 381 00:23:17,580 --> 00:23:20,940 place. To me. It's not like a romantic great restaurant that 382 00:23:20,940 --> 00:23:25,800 you'd take somebody you know, to propose to them. But at those 383 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:27,720 prices, you think it would be 384 00:23:27,810 --> 00:23:29,850 you better get laid? If you're taking someone out for that 385 00:23:29,850 --> 00:23:30,900 money, that's for sure. 386 00:23:31,290 --> 00:23:35,640 So, but you know that we did have, you know, champagne and 387 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:36,870 the red wine and 388 00:23:36,900 --> 00:23:39,600 we've never really done a rating system. But I'd go there again, 389 00:23:39,630 --> 00:23:41,670 if you said, Hey, you want to go to that place with the oysters? 390 00:23:41,670 --> 00:23:42,690 I'd definitely go again. 391 00:23:43,230 --> 00:23:45,750 Yeah, well, I've been there before I go there. I just don't 392 00:23:45,780 --> 00:23:48,510 I'm really disappointed in the prices of those oysters. It's 393 00:23:49,140 --> 00:23:51,900 well just keeps you from having oysters. I mean, you normally go 394 00:23:51,900 --> 00:23:56,040 in there in January. And the whole bar is that they have a 395 00:23:56,040 --> 00:24:00,510 big copper bar. It's beautiful. And they used to be people at 396 00:24:00,510 --> 00:24:04,290 the bar with which about half of them would have that oyster 397 00:24:04,290 --> 00:24:08,190 thing up in the air. You know, that levitated oyster plate 398 00:24:08,190 --> 00:24:10,890 holder? And they all beat noises. I mean, you just go in 399 00:24:10,890 --> 00:24:14,580 there and just sit down at the bar and have lunch oysters. 400 00:24:14,580 --> 00:24:17,070 Yeah, I didn't see anybody eating oysters? Well, no, 401 00:24:17,070 --> 00:24:17,700 because it's 402 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:22,410 pretty expensive finger food. So people on the chat are asking 403 00:24:22,410 --> 00:24:25,530 about this health tax turned speaker down just a bit, John. 404 00:24:26,340 --> 00:24:31,230 Sure. And I think we talked about this actually, we argued 405 00:24:31,230 --> 00:24:34,920 that we talked about this on an earlier no agenda. This is 406 00:24:35,670 --> 00:24:38,640 in Kansas proving proving I was right. We never talked about it. 407 00:24:38,670 --> 00:24:39,360 Yeah. Okay. 408 00:24:39,750 --> 00:24:43,740 So in California now, I believe there's a certain amount of 409 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:49,230 health care tax that employers are obliged to pay and whatever 410 00:24:49,230 --> 00:24:52,320 it is, it's like they're getting screwed. They can afford it and 411 00:24:52,350 --> 00:24:55,110 their solution was to pass it on directly to their customers and 412 00:24:55,110 --> 00:24:59,670 so they actually put a line item 4% health tax and sometimes even 413 00:24:59,670 --> 00:25:02,670 safe Sorry or thank the governor or something like that over 414 00:25:02,670 --> 00:25:05,430 little cute cute message. Yes, someone's posted a link now in 415 00:25:05,430 --> 00:25:06,450 the chat. So there you go. 416 00:25:08,820 --> 00:25:14,100 The the the that wasn't only on that it wasn't on the other 417 00:25:14,100 --> 00:25:16,620 bills. Well, 418 00:25:16,679 --> 00:25:20,819 you never saw the other bills. I saw one that was on all 500 419 00:25:20,849 --> 00:25:25,079 there was it was it wasn't it? I think it was. But yeah, 420 00:25:25,110 --> 00:25:27,450 the copies in your wallet. You should check out I throw those 421 00:25:27,450 --> 00:25:27,810 out. 422 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:32,790 I destroy the evidence. I'm so used to it's I've never had 423 00:25:32,790 --> 00:25:35,610 never take anything from a hotel or restaurant back man. You 424 00:25:35,610 --> 00:25:43,860 might have to explain yourself later. To who? Who cares I 425 00:25:43,860 --> 00:25:44,100 didn't. 426 00:25:44,460 --> 00:25:45,450 I didn't ever yell at him. 427 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,690 I didn't I didn't fill out my 105 by the way. I just couldn't 428 00:25:48,690 --> 00:25:52,410 I couldn't bring myself to do it. So you just walked through? 429 00:25:52,500 --> 00:25:59,640 Yep. Of course. Go look that one go Google that 1105 430 00:26:02,070 --> 00:26:04,380 Yeah, you know what? I figured you were gonna do that knew when 431 00:26:04,380 --> 00:26:06,660 I figured this scenario if anybody said anything was Oh 432 00:26:06,660 --> 00:26:08,430 shit, you know I got the 105 right 433 00:26:08,430 --> 00:26:14,130 is exactly right. And I hadn't filled out to like this. Oh, oh, 434 00:26:14,130 --> 00:26:16,230 crap, man. I can't believe I forgot to do that. 435 00:26:17,070 --> 00:26:22,110 So hectic. Yeah, I figured this was that would be your skiing. 436 00:26:23,099 --> 00:26:24,689 Yeah, sure, Buzzkill. 437 00:26:26,580 --> 00:26:29,580 So if somebody was some or one of our listeners by way came up 438 00:26:29,580 --> 00:26:32,250 with a We should retitle ourselves crackpot and buzzkill 439 00:26:32,250 --> 00:26:33,870 and we thought it was very amusing, 440 00:26:34,530 --> 00:26:36,720 then we're keeping that in there. Well, we should actually 441 00:26:37,140 --> 00:26:40,590 give our second our second piece of news because you know, we can 442 00:26:40,590 --> 00:26:46,380 do restaurant reviews all day. But we've decided that for a 443 00:26:46,380 --> 00:26:51,450 number of reasons we need to do an additional show in the week. 444 00:26:53,310 --> 00:26:56,130 So we're not quite sure how that's gonna play out yet but 445 00:26:57,810 --> 00:27:03,660 might be Tuesday might be Thursday. And that's pretty damn 446 00:27:03,660 --> 00:27:04,560 good news, isn't it? 447 00:27:06,060 --> 00:27:08,430 You need to apply sound effect right 448 00:27:14,220 --> 00:27:21,180 that's right, not once but now it's twice a week that's right. 449 00:27:21,780 --> 00:27:32,100 crackpot and buzz kill well, so Okay, so that was the Zuni Cafe. 450 00:27:32,100 --> 00:27:34,560 We I give it a B, do you want to go to the second review? You 451 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:36,660 want to do it somewhere midstream so we don't kill 452 00:27:36,660 --> 00:27:37,530 people with food. 453 00:27:38,340 --> 00:27:41,850 Yeah, we'll just put it off later. That'll make me more 454 00:27:41,850 --> 00:27:42,480 agonising. 455 00:27:42,510 --> 00:27:47,340 All right, we got to come back to it though. I got stuff on the 456 00:27:47,340 --> 00:27:48,630 list. How about you 457 00:27:48,630 --> 00:27:51,810 okay go I'm where I'm where I'm ready to rock I gave you my 458 00:27:51,810 --> 00:27:53,190 stuff was Jack Welch. 459 00:27:53,609 --> 00:27:57,569 Yeah. Well Jack Jack Welch. It is interesting though that I've 460 00:27:57,569 --> 00:28:01,319 seen him on every he knows he's he's co hosting CNBC in the 461 00:28:01,319 --> 00:28:04,589 morning. It must be like a you write it must be about Jack 462 00:28:04,589 --> 00:28:07,859 Welch and not about anything else. Or maybe she I don't know 463 00:28:07,859 --> 00:28:09,959 what it is. Hey, Ben. 464 00:28:09,990 --> 00:28:12,330 Well, even with this thing at the University of Miami, the 465 00:28:12,330 --> 00:28:14,460 problem with Welch I don't know how old he is. We could probably 466 00:28:14,460 --> 00:28:17,280 somebody could record literate to us. But 467 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,690 Jack Welch, he's, he's got to be 7070 Sure, but 468 00:28:21,690 --> 00:28:24,390 he obviously you know, he's still irked about the fact that 469 00:28:24,390 --> 00:28:26,910 they took his jet away. I mean, I think they screwed him at 470 00:28:26,910 --> 00:28:29,820 General Electric. Because he made a deal with him. 471 00:28:29,939 --> 00:28:31,979 Yeah, and then they took it away. Wasn't that under similar 472 00:28:31,979 --> 00:28:36,989 circumstances to like corporate greed or something? And yeah, it 473 00:28:36,989 --> 00:28:37,079 was 474 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,810 something like that. Somebody Yes. You only wanted to use a 475 00:28:39,810 --> 00:28:44,970 damn jet so anyway, so they retires and they screw him of 476 00:28:44,970 --> 00:28:48,450 course, which I'm sure it's gotta be something he discusses 477 00:28:48,450 --> 00:28:51,510 once whoever the promise he he sounds like he's drunk 478 00:28:53,700 --> 00:28:57,030 a little bit kind of crazy. 479 00:28:58,380 --> 00:29:01,320 He starts talking about stuff and he just you get you got when 480 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,210 you see this thing you see what I'm talking about goes up and 481 00:29:03,210 --> 00:29:11,100 then there's guys that are like what he just said Kelly at KK 482 00:29:11,460 --> 00:29:16,890 names Kelly's at federal aid. And a way anyway, it just 483 00:29:16,890 --> 00:29:17,670 there's just like this. 484 00:29:18,030 --> 00:29:21,360 Jack, this is a complete a sentence really already. He 485 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:21,750 can't 486 00:29:21,749 --> 00:29:25,109 complete his sentence. And he's Nick can't remember anybody's 487 00:29:25,109 --> 00:29:25,589 name. But you 488 00:29:25,590 --> 00:29:28,590 know what it is, is all these guys who are like my age and 489 00:29:28,590 --> 00:29:31,110 your age, they're all falling over themselves. Because you 490 00:29:31,110 --> 00:29:34,200 know, Jack Welch was legendary as a business leader. You know, 491 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,230 he was like the kind of guy that you wanted to have as president. 492 00:29:37,590 --> 00:29:41,070 And yeah, and there's just such a fawning over him that they're 493 00:29:41,070 --> 00:29:43,650 they're overlooking the obvious, which is, yeah, the guy's no 494 00:29:43,650 --> 00:29:46,260 longer TV appropriate. You know, it's just, 495 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:52,500 it's just a mess. Isn't a mess, but the funny thing and he's any 496 00:29:52,500 --> 00:29:55,800 slurs and he's gay and he's got a mush mouth. He's doesn't 497 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:59,610 enunciate. But he I've always thought he was overrated. 498 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,640 Because I mean, it was a pig and it was a pig in a hurricane. You 499 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,430 know, when General Electric's money went way up the I mean, 500 00:30:05,430 --> 00:30:07,770 that was during an era where everybody was just growing like 501 00:30:07,770 --> 00:30:11,250 crazy, no matter how incompetent you were, that said, when you 502 00:30:11,250 --> 00:30:15,870 listen to him give his basics on this and that is great. I mean, 503 00:30:15,870 --> 00:30:17,970 me probably maybe I'm wrong and that he, you know, because I 504 00:30:17,970 --> 00:30:20,430 always had this, you know, he spent most of his time writing 505 00:30:20,430 --> 00:30:23,430 books about himself, instead of actually managing anything, 506 00:30:23,430 --> 00:30:27,840 which may have been a good thing. Him and his wife. He's 507 00:30:27,870 --> 00:30:29,910 not alone. Let's put it that way. 508 00:30:32,220 --> 00:30:34,560 But that is, but you're right. That is that is rather 509 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:35,160 interesting. 510 00:30:35,849 --> 00:30:41,999 Right? And his wife does all his writing. Well, why she bylined 511 00:30:41,999 --> 00:30:43,709 with him on the call that they do, 512 00:30:43,830 --> 00:30:47,460 because she's instrumental, She is the woman behind his success. 513 00:30:48,780 --> 00:30:52,500 I don't think that's the reason. Jack, if you're gonna make me do 514 00:30:52,500 --> 00:30:53,370 all this work, I 515 00:30:53,370 --> 00:30:59,520 want I want credit, I want my credit, debit. At a certain 516 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:03,030 point, you know, you get you get these women, and I think she's, 517 00:31:03,510 --> 00:31:09,690 I believe she is somewhat younger than he is. I would 518 00:31:09,690 --> 00:31:13,020 hope. Yeah. But you get to you get to a point where, you know, 519 00:31:13,020 --> 00:31:17,430 if the guy is just kind of out of a job, you know, wealth has 520 00:31:17,430 --> 00:31:21,240 money, but you know, he doesn't have a jet. You know, women care 521 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:24,600 more about jets than than money. You know, and then she's she's 522 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,720 kind of still young, and she's still kind of MILFy looking. 523 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,180 It's gotta be hard, man, when you make that bed, and you gotta 524 00:31:30,180 --> 00:31:31,710 lie in until the guy kicks it. 525 00:31:32,970 --> 00:31:35,790 Right? You never know this guy could go for another 20 G's. 526 00:31:36,300 --> 00:31:37,830 She's like, Hey, get up earlier. 527 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:46,320 Wake up. Jack. Jack Jack. Is that 528 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:55,890 for CNBC? HR 645. This is House Resolution bill proposed for the 529 00:31:55,890 --> 00:31:58,740 introduction of FEMA camps in the United States. 530 00:32:00,270 --> 00:32:02,520 Yeah, well, just in case there's a natural disaster, you need to 531 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:03,960 put some people someplace. 532 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:07,470 Yeah, but the the reason why this is so big in the circles 533 00:32:07,470 --> 00:32:11,460 that I travelled in John, is that the so called FEMA camps 534 00:32:11,460 --> 00:32:16,500 and the stacks of plastic coffins. And the barbed wire, 535 00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:20,940 and so many different videos are on YouTube of these FEMA camps, 536 00:32:20,940 --> 00:32:25,950 FEMA camps, FEMA camps. And now here it is legitimatize nation 537 00:32:25,980 --> 00:32:30,240 legitimization of FEMA camps. So basically, the legal ease to 538 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:34,860 support these camps that have already been built. And yeah, 539 00:32:34,890 --> 00:32:38,880 sure it's foreign. In fact, it's to provide temporary housing, 540 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,760 medical humanitarian assistance to individuals and families 541 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,970 dislocated due to an emergency or major disaster. 542 00:32:45,630 --> 00:32:48,360 Well, what would they do? Are they showing that there's barbed 543 00:32:48,390 --> 00:32:49,710 wire around these things? 544 00:32:49,710 --> 00:32:51,930 Yeah, with the barbs pointing inwards. 545 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:53,520 Why would they do that 546 00:32:53,550 --> 00:32:54,720 to keep people in? 547 00:32:55,260 --> 00:32:57,660 But why? I mean, what would they want to keep them in there for 548 00:32:57,780 --> 00:33:00,060 if they're if they're from some natural disaster doesn't make 549 00:33:00,060 --> 00:33:02,310 any sense? Well, Bill, 550 00:33:03,450 --> 00:33:08,520 let me tell you, Mr. Hastings of Florida. 551 00:33:09,510 --> 00:33:11,610 Okay, that's a good excuse that Katrina, 552 00:33:12,270 --> 00:33:14,820 yet which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 553 00:33:14,820 --> 00:33:18,660 Infrastructure, in addition to the committee on armed services, 554 00:33:18,660 --> 00:33:26,340 because of course, there'll be run by the military. Okay. And 555 00:33:27,270 --> 00:33:31,140 we want the other three uses to provide centralised locations 556 00:33:31,140 --> 00:33:34,050 for the purposes of training and ensuring the coordination of 557 00:33:34,050 --> 00:33:38,670 federal state and local first responders. So they're gonna be 558 00:33:38,670 --> 00:33:42,420 training camps, and to provide centralised locations to improve 559 00:33:42,420 --> 00:33:46,260 the coordination of preparedness response and recovery efforts of 560 00:33:46,260 --> 00:33:49,680 government private and not for profit entities and faith based 561 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:54,060 organisations and to meet other appropriate needs as determined 562 00:33:54,060 --> 00:33:58,170 by the Secretary of Homeland Security. Well, that's the only 563 00:33:58,170 --> 00:34:04,890 one that counts. Yeah, no less than six FEMA camps to be built. 564 00:34:06,060 --> 00:34:08,190 And what they'll do, John is they'll take the feeble and the 565 00:34:08,190 --> 00:34:11,910 weak first the elderly, and like, Hey, come here. We'll take 566 00:34:11,910 --> 00:34:13,470 care of you come on into the camp. 567 00:34:15,359 --> 00:34:17,819 To take a shower. You laugh 568 00:34:17,820 --> 00:34:22,050 but I hope it I hope it never comes true, man. But this is to 569 00:34:22,050 --> 00:34:23,520 me, this is frightening shit. 570 00:34:24,510 --> 00:34:27,240 Sounds like Nazi Germany. Yes. Correct. 571 00:34:28,379 --> 00:34:30,659 But when you look at the train, so when you look at it, when you 572 00:34:30,659 --> 00:34:34,469 look at the you know, seeing the headlines in the UK, upon return 573 00:34:34,469 --> 00:34:38,219 was just amazing. Governments around the world shaking in 574 00:34:38,219 --> 00:34:42,989 their boots about uprising, you know, because now it's, it's, 575 00:34:43,019 --> 00:34:48,269 you know, there's rioting and violent protesting going 576 00:34:48,270 --> 00:34:51,870 on everywhere. Yeah, well, even in Geneva of all places. Tell 577 00:34:51,870 --> 00:34:53,430 me about this. Because you mentioned that, 578 00:34:53,669 --> 00:34:56,729 oh, it's because there's a whole bunch of people round somehow 579 00:34:56,759 --> 00:35:00,209 managed to go into Switzerland and then their engineer Give it 580 00:35:00,209 --> 00:35:04,679 a protest that Davos thing which has become laughable, you know, 581 00:35:04,679 --> 00:35:06,929 the economic world economics summit 582 00:35:07,980 --> 00:35:12,000 forum or whatever they call it. Yeah, the World Economic Forum, 583 00:35:12,180 --> 00:35:13,590 you know, you know, I'm okay. I'm 584 00:35:13,590 --> 00:35:14,550 hurt by Scoble. 585 00:35:15,690 --> 00:35:19,650 Exactly. Because I mean, I'm okay with the what if you say, 586 00:35:19,650 --> 00:35:23,100 Hey, we're gonna go have a party and score some hookers and slip 587 00:35:23,100 --> 00:35:25,800 some oysters in Switzerland? That's okay. But don't don't 588 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,140 pretend like this is where you're gonna go fix the world. 589 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:34,290 There's they're celebrating. Gordon Brown was onstage giving 590 00:35:34,290 --> 00:35:37,890 a speech in the morning saying you know globalism is good. 591 00:35:38,249 --> 00:35:40,139 Gordon Brown in the morning Gordon 592 00:35:40,140 --> 00:35:48,780 Brown in the morning globalism is good FM. And and so while 593 00:35:48,780 --> 00:35:53,250 he's saying that he's got 1000s of people on a wild wildcat 594 00:35:53,250 --> 00:36:02,100 strike in the UK, again, the very thing man Oh, man, 595 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,440 well Oh, eat while you were over here. There are rioting in 596 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,870 France. And there were striking all over the place. Yeah. 597 00:36:06,900 --> 00:36:09,930 Which, which is not abnormal for France. But it is the first time 598 00:36:09,930 --> 00:36:16,260 that first time it's happening. Under Sarkozy's watch. Yeah, so 599 00:36:16,290 --> 00:36:18,930 so that does say something there. But people are getting 600 00:36:18,930 --> 00:36:19,920 pissed off. 601 00:36:21,240 --> 00:36:23,310 You got a bunch of do nothing. Governments. 602 00:36:24,090 --> 00:36:26,730 Well, no, they're doing something. They're stealing it. 603 00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,070 They're stealing. They're stealing us blind. And we're 604 00:36:29,070 --> 00:36:32,730 just sitting there laughing watching Celebrity Big Brother. 605 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,500 Now they just didn't put enough reality TV shows on to keep the 606 00:36:37,500 --> 00:36:38,340 public happy. 607 00:36:41,370 --> 00:36:45,720 It's fascinating to watch. That's for sure. 608 00:36:46,500 --> 00:36:49,920 When as you're back over there, you can catch us up again with 609 00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,680 what's going on in the off the continent because you kind of 610 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:56,340 worry while you're over here. You're just stuck with you 611 00:36:56,340 --> 00:36:57,450 because we don't get any of that. And 612 00:36:58,590 --> 00:37:01,290 it's all about the Super Bowl, which of course is is taking 613 00:37:01,290 --> 00:37:05,400 place later today. Right. And you know, you mentioned Well, 614 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:08,100 you told me and I think he's mentioned on twit that you are 615 00:37:08,100 --> 00:37:10,770 going to DVR the game and you're going to just say watch it 616 00:37:10,770 --> 00:37:14,490 speed. Watch it. Yeah, but I was reading something that actually 617 00:37:14,490 --> 00:37:17,430 I think you should watch the commercials, John, because from 618 00:37:17,430 --> 00:37:17,580 what I 619 00:37:17,580 --> 00:37:19,950 read here, I don't want to watch that one minute come over that 620 00:37:20,130 --> 00:37:22,470 five second commercials that they had dreamed up, which 621 00:37:22,499 --> 00:37:28,049 that's not Would you let me finish? You may and then you can 622 00:37:28,049 --> 00:37:33,929 go on the rant. Now see, what they discuss on twit is not 623 00:37:33,929 --> 00:37:39,299 necessarily what's true. It's not really what's happening in 624 00:37:39,299 --> 00:37:43,079 advertising. Now what I what I thought would be nice for you to 625 00:37:43,079 --> 00:37:48,569 watch is that all of the big brands are all going to be trot 626 00:37:48,599 --> 00:37:54,059 attempting to bring a positive and subdued tone. And I think 627 00:37:54,059 --> 00:38:00,209 that makes it extremely interesting to watch. To the end 628 00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:05,129 and hope. Okay, and choice lunge and these types of things. 629 00:38:05,370 --> 00:38:07,890 Yeah, okay, I'll watch a couple. Here's what to do. When you 630 00:38:07,890 --> 00:38:13,560 speed watch on the width, I'm using the Dish Network DVR, 631 00:38:13,860 --> 00:38:17,940 which has a 32nd button on ice. Yeah, which TiVo doesn't have to 632 00:38:17,940 --> 00:38:20,430 TiVo, you can programme it to have it. But you know, you have 633 00:38:20,430 --> 00:38:23,190 to know what you're doing. So you pop pop and pop, you're 634 00:38:23,190 --> 00:38:25,920 always off about two or three seconds one way or the other. 635 00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:29,580 Because you you know, you have to see if you're back to scratch 636 00:38:29,580 --> 00:38:33,480 because they the amount of time was during the advertisement 637 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:38,760 section is very sometimes they'll have a two minute break, 638 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:40,830 sometimes have a three minute break. Sometimes we'll have a 639 00:38:40,830 --> 00:38:43,440 four minute break. I mean, you never know. So you're popping 640 00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:46,020 through, there is a there's a clock somewhere but you don't 641 00:38:46,020 --> 00:38:49,500 have it. You have to be cool. Actually, that would be people 642 00:38:49,500 --> 00:38:51,660 out there should do this. You know there's a there in 643 00:38:51,660 --> 00:38:54,270 broadcasting, there's a thing called a clock. When the clock 644 00:38:54,270 --> 00:38:59,010 is a sheet of paper that is used heavily in radio, especially 645 00:38:59,010 --> 00:39:02,070 with syndicated shows, it's a short pay format clock, it's a 646 00:39:02,070 --> 00:39:04,230 format clock showing you how much time they're going to be 647 00:39:04,230 --> 00:39:06,960 talking and where a commercial break takes place and who owns 648 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:10,320 the commercial. And then the next commercial break, and it 649 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,620 shows you exactly when these breaks come and go. And what 650 00:39:13,620 --> 00:39:16,590 they do, even though they never usually hit him on the money 651 00:39:16,590 --> 00:39:20,070 except at the top of the hour. They do tell you how many 652 00:39:20,130 --> 00:39:23,400 commercials or how long the breaks gonna be. So they'll tell 653 00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,770 you if it's going to be two minutes of commercials or 30 654 00:39:25,770 --> 00:39:29,160 seconds of commercials or whatever. So it'd be cool for 655 00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:34,170 somebody to start a website with a clock showing that and right 656 00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:37,980 when you're doing CSI does a break here and a break here and 657 00:39:37,980 --> 00:39:41,010 a break here and how long the break is. So people like myself 658 00:39:41,010 --> 00:39:44,640 and half the public I believe that have these guns, you know 659 00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:48,300 these old remote controls. You go oh the camera this is the 660 00:39:48,300 --> 00:39:50,880 four minute one this is a big one at the bottom of the half of 661 00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:52,950 the hour and you go bang bang bang bang bang bang bang you 662 00:39:52,950 --> 00:39:55,680 just hit the button eight times and you're boom you're four 663 00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:59,220 minutes back past so you don't have to go to the you had the 664 00:39:59,220 --> 00:40:03,270 because you get kind of pensive. EOSC check it again. That's 665 00:40:03,270 --> 00:40:06,330 okay, hit again. Anyway, that's just a thought 666 00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:10,050 every so every time I'm back in the States after some period of 667 00:40:10,050 --> 00:40:14,670 time, I'm always amazed at the amount of signal to noise ratio 668 00:40:14,730 --> 00:40:19,500 on broadcast network television. The amount of commercials it is. 669 00:40:20,190 --> 00:40:21,810 It's, yeah, go ahead. 670 00:40:22,020 --> 00:40:24,870 It's one minute for every two minutes of programming, ah, 671 00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:28,860 just want to shoot yourself. And then and I, and then I really 672 00:40:28,860 --> 00:40:31,560 tried to extract myself, it's okay, I'm really gonna pay 673 00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:35,010 attention to the messaging that I normally just tune out. But of 674 00:40:35,010 --> 00:40:36,870 course, you're not really tuning it out, because that's how it 675 00:40:36,870 --> 00:40:41,040 works. So first, there was a Cialis commercial. You know, the 676 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:44,730 one that ended Alice Cialis. Yeah, that ends with if you 677 00:40:44,730 --> 00:40:47,130 experienced an erection for more than four hours, please consult 678 00:40:47,130 --> 00:40:48,300 your physician immediately. 679 00:40:48,780 --> 00:40:51,960 It actually there's a there's a comedian has this gag, he says, 680 00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,540 Yeah. And it says, if you have an erection lasted for more than 681 00:40:54,540 --> 00:40:57,360 four hours, call your physician. I said, call my physician. I'm 682 00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:58,680 calling everyone I know. 683 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,170 I've heard a differently. I've heard that's not a medical 684 00:41:01,170 --> 00:41:06,060 problem. That's a scheduling problem. And then, but that was 685 00:41:06,060 --> 00:41:10,620 followed by and if you've seen this, the Durex finger vibrator, 686 00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,700 I have not seen that you have got this and this was on network 687 00:41:14,700 --> 00:41:17,970 television. It's a scandal. It's a scandal. It's not It's 688 00:41:17,970 --> 00:41:21,510 fantastic. Because in you see these women, and they're and 689 00:41:21,510 --> 00:41:24,030 they're talking about it, but without saying what it is, and 690 00:41:24,030 --> 00:41:26,580 then she's like, oh, you know, you you can even and then she 691 00:41:26,580 --> 00:41:30,960 whispers to? Like, you know, gosh, and you're now my mind is 692 00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:34,080 racing. What can you even do with this wonderful finger 693 00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:38,130 vibrator? I can't wait. You can't hold this for me. I need 694 00:41:38,130 --> 00:41:42,570 to go to durex.com to the website immediately. I wonder if 695 00:41:42,570 --> 00:41:43,500 that's on YouTube. 696 00:41:44,850 --> 00:41:46,590 I'm sure it is. Everything's on YouTube. 697 00:41:46,650 --> 00:41:49,110 Durex vibrator? 698 00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,490 Well, anyway, so there's one minute of commercials for every 699 00:41:53,490 --> 00:41:56,790 two minutes of programming. So you know, I think that by law, 700 00:41:56,790 --> 00:42:00,030 someone should pass a law. So you cannot have more than one 701 00:42:00,030 --> 00:42:02,940 minute of commercial interruption at a time. 702 00:42:04,230 --> 00:42:08,400 But that should be a law. No, it shouldn't be a law. Let those 703 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:08,760 guys 704 00:42:09,659 --> 00:42:12,959 show it'd be like two minutes, one minute, two minutes. So you 705 00:42:12,959 --> 00:42:16,469 only see two minutes of the show. And then a minute a 706 00:42:16,469 --> 00:42:18,899 commercial then two minutes of this show than a minute of the 707 00:42:18,899 --> 00:42:20,159 commercial that mainstream 708 00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:24,990 shit is so over. I mean, they've really fucked it up. Here we go. 709 00:42:25,050 --> 00:42:27,750 This is it. Let me just see if this works. They totally screwed 710 00:42:27,750 --> 00:42:27,840 it 711 00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:28,740 up because of this. This 712 00:42:32,370 --> 00:42:36,780 is a different one. Visitors. This is British as a British 713 00:42:36,780 --> 00:42:48,720 one. Yes. Play it. Okay. That okay, I made sandwiches at 714 00:42:48,720 --> 00:42:52,410 effing school really? Well. No, that's, that's not for the 715 00:42:52,410 --> 00:42:58,830 finger vibrator. That's for some of the that's this. The machi 716 00:42:58,830 --> 00:43:01,680 had such a cute voice. Yeah, but it was kind of weird. 717 00:43:02,220 --> 00:43:03,570 Okay, well, well, but 718 00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:08,400 if anyone hasn't on the chat, send that to me. Because when 719 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,070 you when you see this ad, John, it's just like, ah. 720 00:43:13,590 --> 00:43:16,020 How did they get that went through. And meanwhile, they're 721 00:43:16,020 --> 00:43:18,840 bouncing ads left and right. Oh, yeah, that's gonna be in the 722 00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:19,620 Super Bowl. 723 00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:25,710 Well, again, it's all going to be you know, spiritual and 724 00:43:25,710 --> 00:43:28,440 hopeful and, and subdued. 725 00:43:29,340 --> 00:43:32,340 Let me get back to my point. And not you brought me back to that. 726 00:43:32,370 --> 00:43:35,190 Yeah, I'm gonna speed watch the game. But when the commercials 727 00:43:35,190 --> 00:43:37,530 come on, I can stop and watch a few of them. What I'll do is 728 00:43:37,530 --> 00:43:40,950 I'll pop out what I'll do it selectively. I'll start with 729 00:43:40,950 --> 00:43:42,990 speed watch the game bank, main main main bank. Because you 730 00:43:42,990 --> 00:43:46,590 know, it turns out that when the soon as the player hits the 731 00:43:46,590 --> 00:43:50,370 dirt, and you hit the button, they're hiking the ball again, 732 00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,040 that's just happens to take about 30 seconds for them to get 733 00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:56,520 up, go into the huddle, set and then hike the ball. It's about 734 00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:00,540 30 seconds, every play. Unless you're doing no huddle or so 735 00:44:00,540 --> 00:44:02,760 that was a penalty, then you get all screwed up. But you get it 736 00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:05,670 back on track eventually. So when I go to the commercials, 737 00:44:05,670 --> 00:44:08,580 I'll just hit him and him. Just take a look. See if there's 738 00:44:08,580 --> 00:44:12,030 anything. Second, it looks like a big, you know, high production 739 00:44:12,030 --> 00:44:13,260 value because a lot of these are 740 00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:16,500 all you have to do. John, John, all you have to do is watch the 741 00:44:16,500 --> 00:44:19,650 first and the second commercial pods after that. It doesn't 742 00:44:19,650 --> 00:44:20,130 matter. 743 00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:24,090 Yeah, you're right. I watched the first couple of First up, we 744 00:44:24,090 --> 00:44:27,930 was in the first step already. Exactly. Now. Thank you. The 745 00:44:27,930 --> 00:44:31,800 thing is that I've noticed is that years back in the late 90s, 746 00:44:32,190 --> 00:44:35,730 the the Superbowl commercial were a big deal. And all began 747 00:44:35,730 --> 00:44:40,710 actually with the 1984 commercial 1984 for Apple. And 748 00:44:40,710 --> 00:44:46,740 so the Superbowl ads from 1984 to about 1999 Were building 749 00:44:46,740 --> 00:44:49,350 momentum and every year you'd watch the game and you'd watch 750 00:44:49,350 --> 00:44:52,200 there'd be some really cool commercials. And they were and 751 00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:55,710 then by the end of the 90s or What during the.com Boom. 752 00:44:56,280 --> 00:45:00,270 Everybody went ballistic with crazy commercials. You When you 753 00:45:00,270 --> 00:45:03,000 had your cat herding commercial need all these weird and wild 754 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:06,570 commercials, and then it started to go downhill after the 755 00:45:06,570 --> 00:45:08,250 collapse of the.com. So the 756 00:45:08,850 --> 00:45:13,380 way you missed the obvious we had the was up. Well, that too, 757 00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:17,100 which by the way, didn't sell any which didn't sell any beers 758 00:45:17,100 --> 00:45:21,210 a famous example of a good No, no, it did not work for 759 00:45:21,210 --> 00:45:23,730 them. I'm talking about the talking frogs. I like that 760 00:45:23,730 --> 00:45:27,270 better. Oh, yeah. Fry frogs always right. Sure. Okay. Yeah. 761 00:45:27,450 --> 00:45:30,780 Anyway, yeah, the What's up thing was ridiculous. But 762 00:45:30,780 --> 00:45:33,630 anyway, this is the era it started to deteriorate. And over 763 00:45:33,630 --> 00:45:36,390 the last, I'd say the last three or four years, these ads are 764 00:45:36,390 --> 00:45:40,500 nothing special, there's maybe be one ad throughout the whole 765 00:45:40,500 --> 00:45:45,690 game that is worth watching, you know, if you want to be loaded, 766 00:45:45,750 --> 00:45:48,570 it's played out, it's done. The whole Superbowl ad thing is 767 00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:49,230 over. 768 00:45:49,470 --> 00:45:52,890 You know, we, when we had our previous companies that when it 769 00:45:52,890 --> 00:45:56,790 was thinking new ideas, we had an Oracle as a client, and we 770 00:45:56,790 --> 00:46:00,120 did their Superbowl ads. So we did the ad. And there was an 771 00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:03,360 online component at the time it was for was that crazy thing 772 00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:09,300 Ellison had? Maybe network computers, I can't remember. But 773 00:46:09,300 --> 00:46:11,790 here's what happened. So but we were one of the first companies 774 00:46:11,790 --> 00:46:17,130 to have a URL in an ad on the Superbowl. And so we expected a 775 00:46:17,130 --> 00:46:23,070 lot of people to show up and hit our servers when that ad hit. So 776 00:46:23,310 --> 00:46:27,930 the ad rolls, you know, real dramatic. We are the world type 777 00:46:27,930 --> 00:46:32,280 piece. It wasn't funny, but it was it was you know, beautifully 778 00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:38,730 made. And so people start hammering the website. And you 779 00:46:38,730 --> 00:46:42,300 know, so as was kind of expected we couldn't handle the traffic. 780 00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:46,170 That wasn't so bad. Where it not that the error message that 781 00:46:46,170 --> 00:46:50,820 showed up showed about a broken ODBC connection to Microsoft SQL 782 00:46:50,820 --> 00:46:51,390 Server. 783 00:46:51,749 --> 00:46:56,399 No that's a good one that 784 00:46:56,400 --> 00:47:01,260 was that was not so good. That was like the I mean, you know 785 00:47:01,260 --> 00:47:04,020 that you know, that one line that you get are like three 786 00:47:04,020 --> 00:47:08,430 lines on a blank page, you know, Microsoft SQL Server whereas 787 00:47:08,430 --> 00:47:11,640 Oracle the the company that's supposed to be able to handle 788 00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:14,100 everything who by the way, you know, they were restarting their 789 00:47:14,100 --> 00:47:17,790 own server every five minutes because of a memory leak in 790 00:47:17,790 --> 00:47:21,990 their in their in their own web server. Those are the crazy days 791 00:47:21,990 --> 00:47:22,980 man nothing worked 792 00:47:24,900 --> 00:47:28,410 so anyway, the so I can't get behind that this game is not 793 00:47:28,410 --> 00:47:31,410 that interesting. I mean, it's it's going to be a good may be 794 00:47:31,410 --> 00:47:35,400 an interesting defensive game with the Pittsburgh team plays 795 00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:40,890 like they've been playing. And you know, and you get to the 796 00:47:42,060 --> 00:47:45,000 Kurt Warner who's I think one of the finest quarterbacks ever to 797 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:48,870 play ever I mean, he who's has ups and down career because he 798 00:47:48,870 --> 00:47:55,020 has a slight injuries terrible. And but but he's just fun to 799 00:47:55,020 --> 00:47:59,010 watch. When he's playing well, and you know, he's over the 800 00:47:59,010 --> 00:48:01,500 hill, you know, shouldn't be playing anymore should have been 801 00:48:01,500 --> 00:48:04,320 retired, but this, whether he wins or loses this game, and 802 00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:06,600 he's got the Hall of Fame in front of him now, there's no 803 00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,420 question about it. So that's kind of interesting, but that's 804 00:48:09,420 --> 00:48:15,270 it. Yeah, I think it's Werner is also a Jesus freak. Like to an 805 00:48:15,270 --> 00:48:15,930 extreme. 806 00:48:16,950 --> 00:48:18,360 Jesus freak. 807 00:48:18,870 --> 00:48:22,620 He's the Jesus. Yeah, he's, I mean, it's ridiculous. I mean, I 808 00:48:22,620 --> 00:48:25,890 don't mind people being pious or having religious beliefs. And I 809 00:48:25,890 --> 00:48:30,000 this bothers me, but it's one of these constantly harps on it to 810 00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,550 an extreme, I think there's actually some, and I always 811 00:48:32,550 --> 00:48:34,470 forget what the what those passages are, but there's some 812 00:48:34,470 --> 00:48:38,910 biblical passages that kind of forbids this. And I don't care 813 00:48:38,940 --> 00:48:40,050 gotta show it off. 814 00:48:40,710 --> 00:48:46,380 So just want to go back to Davao, Davos. I sent you a 815 00:48:46,380 --> 00:48:48,510 YouTube video to take a look at just because I thought it was 816 00:48:48,510 --> 00:48:52,530 such an outstanding performance as it comes to watch next on the 817 00:48:52,530 --> 00:48:55,590 world stage. This was a you have to understand that the World 818 00:48:55,590 --> 00:49:01,530 Economic Forum in Davos, Davos, Davos, that it is just like, you 819 00:49:01,530 --> 00:49:04,920 know, Macworld or CES. It's a trade show, and it's run by this 820 00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:09,720 guy, you know, pompous ass guy. And I know all this because Ray 821 00:49:09,720 --> 00:49:12,930 Lane one of our investors, you know, told me, basically how it 822 00:49:12,930 --> 00:49:16,680 all works. And it's a trade show scam, you know, you pay $50,000 823 00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:21,030 a night for a suite. So you can entertain it's just it's a it's 824 00:49:21,030 --> 00:49:25,380 a big trade show schmooze fest run by this one guy. And it's, 825 00:49:25,380 --> 00:49:28,890 it's well done. It's well done. Yeah, but it's not this is not 826 00:49:28,890 --> 00:49:35,400 like some government. You know, world leader, we saw CES and 827 00:49:35,430 --> 00:49:43,440 Robert Scoble covers it. I mean, it enough said. And so they have 828 00:49:43,470 --> 00:49:49,680 a panel. Do you are you I'm Robert Scoble. Are you? You're 829 00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:52,290 talking you're referring to the puppets. 830 00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:53,640 Yeah. Anyway, that's 831 00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:54,240 good shit. 832 00:49:54,300 --> 00:49:55,110 We love Robert. 833 00:49:55,350 --> 00:49:58,410 Yeah, no, I love him. 834 00:49:59,220 --> 00:50:00,690 I do I think He's a great guy. I 835 00:50:00,780 --> 00:50:03,930 only met him once. He's in house. He's a very nice guy. I 836 00:50:03,930 --> 00:50:08,130 love you. I love John. You know, I don't dish out the love that 837 00:50:08,130 --> 00:50:08,610 easily. 838 00:50:08,940 --> 00:50:11,580 Yeah, let's go on. 839 00:50:12,690 --> 00:50:18,360 So there's a panel with bunkie moon. That's he just put MC in 840 00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:24,690 front of that name. You'll MC Ban Ki Moon baby on the cheap 841 00:50:24,690 --> 00:50:29,580 tip. Who, of course is the Secretary General of the UN? 842 00:50:30,030 --> 00:50:35,880 Then there was the Turkish Prime Minister whose name I cannot 843 00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:39,300 remember. And then there was some other dude who didn't 844 00:50:39,300 --> 00:50:43,890 matter. And then there was Shimon Perez, who was is he now 845 00:50:43,890 --> 00:50:46,620 the president of Israel. He's the president now, right? 846 00:50:46,770 --> 00:50:48,960 I don't know what he's doing the guys in and out. He's in and 847 00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:51,660 out. Every time I see him. I see. Andy Grove, he looks 848 00:50:52,140 --> 00:50:55,290 like Andy Grove. He has got a little Warren Buffett and him to 849 00:50:55,290 --> 00:50:59,640 the little bit was gateway, but Andy Grove. Yeah, absolutely. 850 00:51:00,150 --> 00:51:07,950 And Shimon Peres just goes off for like, 25 minutes. And, you 851 00:51:07,950 --> 00:51:10,950 know, from an Israeli standpoint, I mean, he just laid 852 00:51:10,950 --> 00:51:15,960 it down so beautifully about this whole conflict in Gaza, and 853 00:51:16,170 --> 00:51:22,170 how good Israel is and how incredibly peaceful they are. 854 00:51:22,350 --> 00:51:28,140 And just I mean, it was a I was stunned. But then what happened 855 00:51:28,140 --> 00:51:31,410 right after that is the Turkish Prime Minister wants to rebut 856 00:51:31,410 --> 00:51:34,950 him, and the moderator says, Well, no, no, we really, we 857 00:51:34,950 --> 00:51:37,290 really can't No, no, one minute, you're gonna have one 858 00:51:37,290 --> 00:51:40,470 a minute, a writer was an idiot and the Washington Post, 859 00:51:40,499 --> 00:51:44,189 oh, my God. And then this guy's like, Are you kidding me? And he 860 00:51:44,189 --> 00:51:46,649 just starts talking and the moderator starts cutting him off 861 00:51:46,649 --> 00:51:49,169 cutting him off and like, he's pushing his hand and pushing 862 00:51:49,169 --> 00:51:53,309 shoulders. And it's, ah, and then of course, it won't if you 863 00:51:53,309 --> 00:51:53,729 haven't read it. 864 00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:58,140 This is a bad moderator. I mean, if you have if you're running a 865 00:51:58,140 --> 00:52:01,530 panel, I've done these obviously, you're running a 866 00:52:01,530 --> 00:52:04,800 panel and you since all of a sudden two guys get into it. 867 00:52:05,220 --> 00:52:09,090 That's whatever. Yeah, hell you're going over so I'm sorry 868 00:52:09,090 --> 00:52:11,490 ladies and gentlemen. We're gonna have lunch right now but 869 00:52:11,490 --> 00:52:14,520 since but we'll let him speak because you know, fireworks are 870 00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:18,090 gonna just everyone's on a great panel that wise, but this idiot 871 00:52:18,210 --> 00:52:20,910 decides no, no, I think we should stop here when this 872 00:52:20,910 --> 00:52:23,610 thing's gonna get heated up. I was which was 873 00:52:24,690 --> 00:52:28,530 exactly what we wanted. Like, let the lead fireworks commands 874 00:52:28,530 --> 00:52:30,120 come on rocket. 875 00:52:31,020 --> 00:52:34,260 But you know, yeah, I was stunned by that. That decision 876 00:52:34,260 --> 00:52:38,790 to kill the panel. It was unbelievable. What what is he 877 00:52:38,790 --> 00:52:42,750 thinking? Oh, no, I'm actually I'm gonna I know what it was. As 878 00:52:42,750 --> 00:52:45,210 you go to do these things and events like this, and they get 879 00:52:45,210 --> 00:52:48,150 come up to you beforehand. These usually some woman, you know, 880 00:52:48,150 --> 00:52:49,800 Lindsay Nagel Tyson's. 881 00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:52,890 Hi, I'm moderating the panel. 882 00:52:53,220 --> 00:52:55,590 So now you're going to be moderating the panel. Here's the 883 00:52:55,590 --> 00:52:58,950 rules. You don't have to have a hard stop at the half hour 884 00:52:58,950 --> 00:52:59,430 parts. 885 00:53:00,300 --> 00:53:04,320 Can we just put hard stop amongst the certainly Silicon 886 00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:08,700 Valley speak that we hate? Can we just that's right up there 887 00:53:08,700 --> 00:53:14,310 with Look, look, look, by the way, man. Listen to how many 888 00:53:14,310 --> 00:53:17,400 politicians are using this and what a trick it is. Because it 889 00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:21,870 does what jar you look. I mean, look, I mean, look. So there's 890 00:53:21,870 --> 00:53:26,190 look, and then I'm sorry, I've got a hard stop at 130. I've got 891 00:53:26,190 --> 00:53:32,580 a hard cock right here, baby. I dislike that. 892 00:53:32,610 --> 00:53:35,160 So okay, so hard. So they come up to you with this with these 893 00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:38,700 rules, we have a hard stop. And you have to stop because we got 894 00:53:38,700 --> 00:53:40,620 to go into this. And we don't have time to run anything over. 895 00:53:41,220 --> 00:53:43,890 The thing, the way it would work. If you're a reasonably 896 00:53:43,890 --> 00:53:48,030 good moderator, you would say you always say to yourself, 897 00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:51,300 they're probably not going to invite me back anyway, if this 898 00:53:51,300 --> 00:53:54,270 thing is any good. Right? You know, in other words, it gets 899 00:53:54,270 --> 00:53:56,700 out of control and fists start flying, you're not getting 900 00:53:56,700 --> 00:54:00,030 invited back. But you don't expect to ever get invited back 901 00:54:00,030 --> 00:54:03,990 anyway. So you just go for it. So you screw the rules. And you 902 00:54:03,990 --> 00:54:06,720 say you guys go you know, and you let them talk and then you 903 00:54:06,720 --> 00:54:09,630 don't worry about getting chewed out afterwards. You let that go 904 00:54:09,630 --> 00:54:14,310 past a hard stop and come back anymore. I don't want to go back 905 00:54:14,310 --> 00:54:17,280 anymore. Anyway. Absolutely. Never a situation like that. Why 906 00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:21,990 would you want to it's stupid. So they get invited back to a 907 00:54:21,990 --> 00:54:22,440 lot of things. 908 00:54:22,860 --> 00:54:24,390 No, no kidding. But 909 00:54:24,390 --> 00:54:27,030 you know, there's so many things to do. Who cares? There's plenty 910 00:54:27,030 --> 00:54:27,990 of things to go to. 911 00:54:28,890 --> 00:54:31,980 So what gets so to make it even worse, by the way, the Turkish 912 00:54:31,980 --> 00:54:37,170 Prime Minister name, his name is Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan. 913 00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:43,530 guy needs a makeover to emcee Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It doesn't 914 00:54:43,530 --> 00:54:47,610 quite work. So he just keeps going on and on. And the 915 00:54:47,610 --> 00:54:50,700 moderator absolutely just kills the session while the guy is 916 00:54:50,700 --> 00:54:53,370 still going. He's furious. He's like, I'm never coming back to 917 00:54:53,370 --> 00:54:54,780 the stinking rat hole, right? Yeah. 918 00:54:55,350 --> 00:54:57,840 He gets up and walks out. He says I never coming back to 919 00:54:57,840 --> 00:54:58,770 Davos again, 920 00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:04,860 right. And then In the conference organiser, the CES 921 00:55:05,130 --> 00:55:09,270 head guy he gets on the podium was like, Well, you know, we're 922 00:55:09,270 --> 00:55:13,350 working towards solving world peace and love above me. My 923 00:55:13,350 --> 00:55:16,230 everyone's like, can you believe this shit? What's going on? No 924 00:55:16,230 --> 00:55:19,140 one's listening to him. And then on stage, I don't know if this 925 00:55:19,140 --> 00:55:23,280 was on the YouTube clip, cuz I saw it either live or at least, 926 00:55:23,310 --> 00:55:26,640 you know, unedited, then, you know, Perez is walking around 927 00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:29,160 and you know, shaking everyone's hand and you can, you can almost 928 00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:33,000 hear them saying, Wow, that guy was a tool. You know, that's 929 00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:36,000 like going up to him. It was just an incredible performance, 930 00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:40,350 you owe it to your general development, to see this and to 931 00:55:40,350 --> 00:55:46,050 listen to how eloquently this man told his story. True or not, 932 00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:47,160 doesn't matter if it's 933 00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:49,020 true or not, doesn't matter. But he's, you know, you have to 934 00:55:49,020 --> 00:55:52,020 realise that the Turks have been under a lot of I mean, they're 935 00:55:52,050 --> 00:55:56,070 essentially being run by by Europe, right, by the European 936 00:55:56,070 --> 00:55:58,560 Union now know that you got to Well, yeah, there's that 937 00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:01,050 element. But yeah, the thing is this radical Muslims that have 938 00:56:01,050 --> 00:56:03,210 basically taken over, they're gonna really make that country 939 00:56:03,210 --> 00:56:09,030 ruin it. Well, this was a reason for the Turks to be given care 940 00:56:09,210 --> 00:56:12,990 about Israel, or the Gaza or anything else. So what is the 941 00:56:12,990 --> 00:56:13,650 point of that? 942 00:56:13,979 --> 00:56:17,699 Your analysis is spot on with, with what I'm reading, that this 943 00:56:17,699 --> 00:56:21,029 really makes a whole bunch of shit happen in Turkey that just 944 00:56:21,029 --> 00:56:25,019 isn't necessary. And if you see it, every single paper he was, 945 00:56:25,049 --> 00:56:29,159 you know, he was heralded a hero's welcome upon his return 946 00:56:29,159 --> 00:56:34,199 to Turkey. Yeah. And people are laying flowers outside his house 947 00:56:34,199 --> 00:56:37,649 and outside the Prime Minister's residence, whatever it is, you 948 00:56:37,649 --> 00:56:41,219 know, this is scary 949 00:56:41,220 --> 00:56:45,480 shit. It will, you know, these these radical groups, they sneak 950 00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:48,720 in all kinds of different ways. I mean, that's what's going to 951 00:56:48,720 --> 00:56:50,580 happen in Iraq, eventually, they're going to just vote 952 00:56:50,580 --> 00:56:53,160 themselves in and then vote out everybody else. And that'll be 953 00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:56,310 the end and the close it down. I mean, that's the flaw of 954 00:56:56,310 --> 00:56:59,550 democracy. And that's what happened in he was in Algeria 955 00:56:59,550 --> 00:57:04,260 and you know, where you get your vote in in extremists because 956 00:57:04,260 --> 00:57:07,020 you know, they do they sell good populist message. And then once 957 00:57:07,020 --> 00:57:08,640 they get in, they get the majority, they say, Okay, we're 958 00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:11,670 shutting down democracy by popular vote, and we're become a 959 00:57:12,240 --> 00:57:15,390 Shariah government, you know, and then so they said, Well, 960 00:57:15,390 --> 00:57:17,790 wait a minute, you know, you can't do that. No, we can. We 961 00:57:17,790 --> 00:57:21,570 did. Yeah. Well, that could happen. Almost, according to all 962 00:57:21,570 --> 00:57:24,630 the reports I've read Kuwait is like about two votes away from 963 00:57:24,630 --> 00:57:30,060 pulling that stung any minute. Really? Yeah, nobody knows quite 964 00:57:30,060 --> 00:57:30,960 what to do about it. 965 00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:35,070 Well, do we need to do anything about it at all? 966 00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:39,150 Well, I mean, if you have a democracy that can vote itself, 967 00:57:39,180 --> 00:57:41,340 you know, it's like, imagine that you all of a sudden, you, 968 00:57:41,340 --> 00:57:44,250 you, you it is, especially in parts of Europe, where you have 969 00:57:44,250 --> 00:57:47,730 this huge Muslim population that will eventually just vote party 970 00:57:47,730 --> 00:57:52,320 line, you know, like, you see here, you know, with the 971 00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:56,640 Blackfoot, for example. They vote party line. I mean, it 972 00:57:56,640 --> 00:58:00,480 just, there's no, I mean, just five black Republicans, even 973 00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:02,760 though it was the Republicans who freed the slaves, nobody 974 00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:07,170 wants to pay much attention to that. And then they use vote 975 00:58:07,170 --> 00:58:09,060 party line. And then once you get everybody, once you get a 976 00:58:09,060 --> 00:58:11,490 majority say, Well, okay, let's just change everything. That's 977 00:58:11,550 --> 00:58:15,450 why this democracy thing is stupid. And it was because look 978 00:58:15,450 --> 00:58:18,270 how easy it was for us to take it over. And let's just vote it 979 00:58:18,270 --> 00:58:24,420 out. And vote in a, you know, a cleric run, you know, theocracy, 980 00:58:24,420 --> 00:58:29,190 and boom, we're done. We got it made. Now. It's kind of doable. 981 00:58:29,670 --> 00:58:32,070 I mean, every time they try to make an effort to do it, just 982 00:58:32,070 --> 00:58:35,850 the opposite direction. In Iran, for example, they do have 983 00:58:35,850 --> 00:58:39,510 elections, vote some guy in, you know, who's kind of a Democrat. 984 00:58:39,510 --> 00:58:43,500 And they he's, you know, they just either throw him in jail or 985 00:58:43,500 --> 00:58:45,360 whatever. I mean, it's just horrible. Well, this is 986 00:58:45,390 --> 00:58:48,720 kind of what's taking place in the Netherlands with feared 987 00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:53,400 builders, Member of Parliament who created that movie fitna. Do 988 00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:56,880 you remember there was kind of a mini uproar about that? No, it 989 00:58:56,880 --> 00:59:02,070 was about it. If you Google Fit in other movies, you'll probably 990 00:59:02,070 --> 00:59:05,430 get bored by it, because it's just like a bad YouTube video 991 00:59:05,460 --> 00:59:09,240 wasn't really spectacularly well produced. And essentially, what 992 00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:12,960 it does is it takes quotes from the Koran, and then shows you 993 00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:16,620 newspaper clippings that would relate to that quote, you know, 994 00:59:16,650 --> 00:59:19,350 and of course, all the newspaper clippings are terrorism, death, 995 00:59:19,350 --> 00:59:22,890 destruction, and it's all the Muslims fault. That's kind of 996 00:59:22,890 --> 00:59:26,160 what it is. Well, not even that it's more like, here's what's 997 00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:29,850 happening to our society to the Dutch society. And people 998 00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:32,730 complain about this all the time. So it's an this is no 999 00:59:32,730 --> 00:59:35,640 secret, although it's rarely ever properly written about an 1000 00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:42,360 aggregate. So he created this movie, and now he is the head 1001 00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:46,890 the I think the the High Court, I believe, has approved that he 1002 00:59:46,890 --> 00:59:53,850 can be prosecuted for insulting Islam. And so he's going to 1003 00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:57,030 they're going to take him to court for insulting Islam. 1004 00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:00,630 And, you know, and is a good trick 1005 01:00:01,740 --> 01:00:04,890 to the beginning of the end. Yes, it is. It is. And it has 1006 01:00:04,890 --> 01:00:09,000 nothing to do with Islam any group that can do that. can sue 1007 01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:14,460 someone for insulting them give man give me a break it Michael 1008 01:00:14,460 --> 01:00:20,850 Arrington would be rich. The spitting thing by the way that 1009 01:00:20,850 --> 01:00:24,750 he gets in the face a bit. Was that a Davos? Oh, 1010 01:00:24,750 --> 01:00:28,230 no, no, he was in Munich, us in Germany someplace just because 1011 01:00:28,230 --> 01:00:30,060 he's always at something. I mean, I'm just surprised he 1012 01:00:30,060 --> 01:00:31,950 hasn't gotten spit on before. Yeah. 1013 01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:36,870 I read. I read somewhere that in Davos, spitting was the big 1014 01:00:36,870 --> 01:00:38,970 thing. A lot of people were spitting at people who were 1015 01:00:38,970 --> 01:00:39,690 showing up. 1016 01:00:40,980 --> 01:00:44,790 Oh, really? Yeah. A spitting must be becoming the great 1017 01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:49,350 equaliser in Europe. I guess they feel so helpless. Yes, they 1018 01:00:49,350 --> 01:00:52,260 are in the United States. We'd be shooting at him. Come on. 1019 01:00:53,700 --> 01:00:56,790 That's it. That's it. I believe it's a final desperate act, you 1020 01:00:56,790 --> 01:00:59,850 know, whereas maybe in some cultures throwing a shoe. 1021 01:01:00,270 --> 01:01:05,100 Spitting is very, it's a very violent act. If you actually 1022 01:01:05,100 --> 01:01:09,720 spit on someone, that's that's a, does that constitute his 1023 01:01:09,720 --> 01:01:10,350 battery? 1024 01:01:11,490 --> 01:01:14,280 I don't know. Yeah. Did you probably local laws. I don't 1025 01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:15,570 think it would around here. 1026 01:01:17,850 --> 01:01:22,440 Yeah, but you guys aren't getting your tax refund checks 1027 01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:25,260 either. So you don't count anymore. California. 1028 01:01:29,220 --> 01:01:34,860 You know, spitting is against the law in South Africa. And 1029 01:01:34,860 --> 01:01:36,540 there's a lot of countries where it's against the law, because 1030 01:01:36,540 --> 01:01:38,700 there's one way that tuberculosis is spread. 1031 01:01:39,750 --> 01:01:41,040 It's also just nasty. 1032 01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:43,890 Yeah, well, especially when people are spitting all the 1033 01:01:43,890 --> 01:01:48,690 time. You know, when you go to Taiwan. Or at least you're not 1034 01:01:48,690 --> 01:01:53,520 so much anymore. But I back in the early 90s or the late 80s or 1035 01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:58,770 whenever before, before the Taiwan Island was populated by 1036 01:01:58,770 --> 01:02:02,370 millions of Mercedes Benz cars and stuff in the freeways are 1037 01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:07,080 now jammed with traffic. They used to be very few cars because 1038 01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:09,660 there was a very high tax on automobiles. So everybody drove 1039 01:02:09,660 --> 01:02:13,710 around a motor scooter. And so there was 1000s of these I mean, 1040 01:02:13,710 --> 01:02:16,410 there was 10s of 1000s of motor scooters everywhere you went and 1041 01:02:16,410 --> 01:02:18,390 there would be like people talking about the record for how 1042 01:02:18,390 --> 01:02:21,240 many people could be on a motor scooter and somebody Oh, yeah, I 1043 01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:25,590 remember these days Sure. told me about seven you know, and he 1044 01:02:25,590 --> 01:02:28,560 described it there was a to two little kids on the handlebars a 1045 01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:36,270 kid in front of the driver that's 1234 somebody behind him 1046 01:02:36,270 --> 01:02:39,450 that's five and then it was and always was the mom behind him 1047 01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:44,220 five and she was holding two babies. And that was the seventh 1048 01:02:44,250 --> 01:02:46,200 and he says he claims to have seen as a bit of a nice 1049 01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:48,540 photograph. But anyway, so one of the things that you'd run 1050 01:02:48,540 --> 01:02:51,180 into because it was so hectic you watch these motor scooters 1051 01:02:51,180 --> 01:02:57,120 in the main squares of Taipei for example. It was just it 1052 01:02:57,120 --> 01:02:59,970 would look he was frightened you just to watch it because of the 1053 01:02:59,970 --> 01:03:04,140 fact that it wasn't blood on the streets. But there never was one 1054 01:03:04,140 --> 01:03:06,750 of the things that the reason for this was because everybody 1055 01:03:06,750 --> 01:03:09,840 was wired on beetle nut juice. 1056 01:03:10,229 --> 01:03:13,859 Yeah, I know I know the effects of it I don't 1057 01:03:13,890 --> 01:03:16,710 but anyway but one of the things you'd see a rounded read these 1058 01:03:16,710 --> 01:03:19,140 miles of scooters parked everywhere because it's what 1059 01:03:19,170 --> 01:03:22,260 people drove around in a park them something and round the 1060 01:03:22,260 --> 01:03:27,030 scooters it'd be this guy this just pools of spit read spit 1061 01:03:27,060 --> 01:03:30,480 read read sit read bloody looking spin I said what is this 1062 01:03:30,510 --> 01:03:33,060 people like bleeding from the mouth and somebody said no 1063 01:03:33,060 --> 01:03:37,230 they've said beetle nut he says they have to do to survive on 1064 01:03:37,230 --> 01:03:40,170 these roads with all these scooters doing a full speed you 1065 01:03:40,170 --> 01:03:41,490 have to be juiced 1066 01:03:41,999 --> 01:03:46,709 up hammer well the beetle nut stuff which I tried was offered 1067 01:03:46,709 --> 01:03:49,379 to me and I accepted at a hill tribe where I stay overnight 1068 01:03:49,379 --> 01:03:54,869 during one of my many travels my documentaries it's like an 1069 01:03:54,869 --> 01:04:00,059 elevator high like you so they they wrap it in a cocoa leaf and 1070 01:04:00,059 --> 01:04:02,279 there's some I think there's some tobacco leaf in there and 1071 01:04:02,279 --> 01:04:05,699 then some white paste God knows what that is. And then the 1072 01:04:05,699 --> 01:04:08,339 beetle not and then you're supposed to kind of like chew it 1073 01:04:08,339 --> 01:04:13,979 like a cut and have that in the in the in your cheek there. And 1074 01:04:13,979 --> 01:04:21,419 within like 25 seconds is like oh my god, I'm fine. And it 1075 01:04:21,419 --> 01:04:26,129 lasts about 20 minutes and then it's gone. And then your then 1076 01:04:26,129 --> 01:04:29,129 your whole mouth is just Yeah, it's like numberless plaque 1077 01:04:29,219 --> 01:04:32,309 tablets used to get at the dentist. Right? It 1078 01:04:32,310 --> 01:04:34,110 turns your teeth red. Yeah, everywhere. There's 1079 01:04:34,110 --> 01:04:37,530 plaque, which I'm convinced was just it didn't actually detect 1080 01:04:37,530 --> 01:04:39,180 plaque. It just just made 1081 01:04:39,810 --> 01:04:46,320 everything red. Yeah. So does it heighten your awareness? I mean, 1082 01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:48,690 would you think you could write a motor scooter better? 1083 01:04:50,520 --> 01:04:54,030 That's a very interesting question. It was not a not like 1084 01:04:54,030 --> 01:04:59,970 marijuana where you were, you're actually the opposite of Hi. Um 1085 01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:03,600 And it might it might have I mean, I've never done Coke or 1086 01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:06,420 anything like that. So I can't compare it to that. So maybe the 1087 01:05:06,420 --> 01:05:09,060 coca leaf had something to do with those guys. They're 1088 01:05:09,060 --> 01:05:12,180 basically make an opium so maybe that paste was opium God knows, 1089 01:05:12,180 --> 01:05:16,560 right? Yeah, could be anything. But so the women chew it all day 1090 01:05:16,560 --> 01:05:19,830 long. So I guess they're using it as an opera to keep them 1091 01:05:19,830 --> 01:05:21,540 going. Well, there's 1092 01:05:21,540 --> 01:05:25,470 a lot of obscure uppers out there, like cat is one of what's 1093 01:05:25,470 --> 01:05:32,130 at cat quirks, k h, a T, one of the two and his cage he got cat 1094 01:05:32,130 --> 01:05:36,120 is a it's just some weed that grows in North in some parts of 1095 01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:40,020 Africa, I guess. And it's used by Africans to, you know, stay 1096 01:05:40,020 --> 01:05:44,460 up, stay awake all day. And I'm always surprised some and 1097 01:05:44,460 --> 01:05:46,950 there's all of these, you know, like, Badal. Net and cat. And 1098 01:05:46,950 --> 01:05:49,050 there's, you know, there's a laundry list of these things 1099 01:05:49,050 --> 01:05:51,630 that are used here and there. And they've never, you know, 1100 01:05:51,630 --> 01:05:53,610 they never, you know, they've never brought over here to 1101 01:05:53,610 --> 01:05:57,510 become popular. I'm always wondering what the mechanism is 1102 01:05:57,510 --> 01:06:00,660 for something to arrive. And the next thing you know, everybody's 1103 01:06:00,660 --> 01:06:02,790 all using it. I think 1104 01:06:02,820 --> 01:06:08,700 probably supply and demand. You know, that's how crystal meth 1105 01:06:08,730 --> 01:06:13,170 became popular. You know, it's there wasn't enough or whatever 1106 01:06:13,170 --> 01:06:17,700 people wanted to smoke or take and the cheap alternative was 1107 01:06:17,700 --> 01:06:21,720 buying NyQuil and creating crystal meth out of it. 1108 01:06:22,170 --> 01:06:24,900 Yeah, that stuff in the world, which crystal 1109 01:06:25,590 --> 01:06:28,530 is bad. I mean, you have no idea how many people are hooked on 1110 01:06:28,530 --> 01:06:29,100 this shit. 1111 01:06:29,880 --> 01:06:33,660 And you can usually tell by looking at him to think about, I 1112 01:06:33,660 --> 01:06:35,940 knew actually, when I first went to University of California when 1113 01:06:35,970 --> 01:06:40,530 people were like, hooked on. Students were hooked on various 1114 01:06:40,530 --> 01:06:44,610 forms of method Drean or dexedrine or Benzedrine. Or one 1115 01:06:44,610 --> 01:06:47,790 thing or another. They always had and I've talked about this 1116 01:06:47,790 --> 01:06:54,270 with anybody. They had no buts. selection, you know if you want 1117 01:06:54,270 --> 01:06:57,900 to have zero, I mean, no, but I mean, there was nothing they had 1118 01:06:57,900 --> 01:07:01,740 no, but it was just like, regular pants and it'd be no but 1119 01:07:01,740 --> 01:07:05,220 there. And Crystal Meth is you can spot these people a mile 1120 01:07:05,220 --> 01:07:08,190 away. They got absolutely no but there's no button exists. 1121 01:07:10,920 --> 01:07:14,850 You heard it here first. Around, okay, you're really highly 1122 01:07:14,850 --> 01:07:18,660 qualified for this job. But I'm sorry. You got no but so you 1123 01:07:18,660 --> 01:07:22,470 must be on crystal meth. I can't hire you. Here's a question for 1124 01:07:22,470 --> 01:07:28,590 you, John. Who controls or would you say is in charge of the sea? 1125 01:07:29,640 --> 01:07:32,250 The sea? Yes. Any United 1126 01:07:32,250 --> 01:07:34,740 Nations will say we'll say the United Nations just a guess. I 1127 01:07:34,740 --> 01:07:37,200 don't know. Yeah. Good guess. Oh, wait, wait, wait. I know who 1128 01:07:37,200 --> 01:07:38,760 it is. Neptune. 1129 01:07:39,960 --> 01:07:46,710 Yes. Now you're talking. Now there's this United Nations 1130 01:07:46,710 --> 01:07:51,210 Convention of the Law of the Sea, which is now being driven 1131 01:07:51,210 --> 01:07:54,870 very hard in by one person in particular, Hillary Clinton. 1132 01:07:55,230 --> 01:07:59,010 It's called the Law of the Sea Treaty, which I love because the 1133 01:07:59,010 --> 01:08:06,390 acronym is lost. And it covers all ocean space all its uses, 1134 01:08:06,390 --> 01:08:10,380 including navigation and overflight overflight, all its 1135 01:08:10,380 --> 01:08:13,500 uses of all its resources, living and nonliving on the high 1136 01:08:13,500 --> 01:08:16,740 seas on the ocean floor and beneath the continental shelf 1137 01:08:16,740 --> 01:08:22,530 and in the territorial seas. Including the overflight and 1138 01:08:22,530 --> 01:08:27,090 space and that isn't it that now belongs to the United Nations 1139 01:08:27,090 --> 01:08:31,860 does not just belong to no one. So they're in total control of 1140 01:08:31,860 --> 01:08:35,670 it or they will be when this when this is ratified. 1141 01:08:37,109 --> 01:08:40,379 Hmm, I wonder what the purpose of of doing that is, is to 1142 01:08:40,409 --> 01:08:43,739 collect commissions on people who mined for magnesium in the 1143 01:08:43,739 --> 01:08:47,039 middle of nowhere or are they charged a nickel on each piece 1144 01:08:47,039 --> 01:08:49,409 of tuna that's caught 12 miles offshore 1145 01:08:49,439 --> 01:08:52,829 or anything? How about how about ambling or gay Han gambling 1146 01:08:52,859 --> 01:09:01,019 ocean? Under under oceanic cables, piracy, but even 1147 01:09:01,019 --> 01:09:05,339 transatlantic flight? They own it space. How about space? 1148 01:09:05,369 --> 01:09:06,449 That's pretty vast. 1149 01:09:06,659 --> 01:09:08,819 Every time a satellite goes over yeomen? Yep. 1150 01:09:10,289 --> 01:09:15,089 I don't know if it's going to be four. If it's going to be that 1151 01:09:15,089 --> 01:09:17,789 blatant, but I just found that very interesting and that 1152 01:09:17,789 --> 01:09:20,819 Hillary Clinton is, is really making a big push for this thing 1153 01:09:20,819 --> 01:09:21,749 to get ratified. 1154 01:09:22,859 --> 01:09:26,579 Well, did she ever this is you can you find a rationale? Not 1155 01:09:26,579 --> 01:09:26,759 yet. 1156 01:09:26,789 --> 01:09:31,019 Why not yet. That's why I'm just bringing it up. I don't know 1157 01:09:31,019 --> 01:09:35,609 why. But I can understand the power of being the boss of of 1158 01:09:35,819 --> 01:09:38,339 seven tenths of the globe, I can see there might be some 1159 01:09:38,339 --> 01:09:39,179 rationale. 1160 01:09:41,819 --> 01:09:43,289 I'm the boss of the fish, 1161 01:09:43,680 --> 01:09:47,700 advisor of everything, everything, but she's 1162 01:09:47,699 --> 01:09:50,609 wanted to be the boss for a while so maybe she gets a job 1163 01:09:50,609 --> 01:09:54,329 here. She'll quit her State Department job and become head 1164 01:09:54,329 --> 01:09:54,959 of the ocean. 1165 01:09:54,960 --> 01:09:57,930 So I have testimony from her on this. Hold on. 1166 01:09:59,340 --> 01:10:09,900 See if there's one works Senator Murkowski. Thank you, Mr. 1167 01:10:09,900 --> 01:10:14,010 Chairman, and welcome to you Senator Clinton, thank you for 1168 01:10:14,010 --> 01:10:17,160 your leadership for your willingness to step forward and 1169 01:10:17,160 --> 01:10:23,310 assume this very, very important for the nation I truly 1170 01:10:23,310 --> 01:10:29,100 appreciate you are doing what you have done in the past. We 1171 01:10:29,100 --> 01:10:32,550 had in my office last week to discuss 1172 01:10:33,479 --> 01:10:35,819 there's so much pontificating going on in our government 1173 01:10:35,819 --> 01:10:36,209 sounds like 1174 01:10:36,209 --> 01:10:37,139 Lindsay Nagel. 1175 01:10:37,319 --> 01:10:42,689 She's not she's Ms. Country. I mean, she's got MS as Murawski. 1176 01:10:43,410 --> 01:10:45,060 And I know oftentimes she's got 1177 01:10:45,630 --> 01:10:48,630 bad times, often oftentimes 1178 01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:53,520 of Alaska. And she's from Alaska tuna tease. 1179 01:10:53,550 --> 01:10:55,320 Come on, get to Clinton to 1180 01:10:56,010 --> 01:11:00,420 ah, yeah, so I'm watching this thing with Jack Welch. I don't 1181 01:11:00,420 --> 01:11:02,640 know what Jack was. What was the thing I was watching? It was? 1182 01:11:03,540 --> 01:11:07,470 Oh, yeah, the Larry McMurtry is or, you know, the novelist to 1183 01:11:07,500 --> 01:11:13,110 get the speech at Rice? I didn't record this war maybe? No, I 1184 01:11:13,110 --> 01:11:15,210 don't think so. Anyway, it's actually interested about the 1185 01:11:15,210 --> 01:11:18,180 depth of reading and the fact that he owns a bookstore 350,000 1186 01:11:18,180 --> 01:11:22,710 Rare Books in it, which I think is but this guy, they the 1187 01:11:22,710 --> 01:11:26,820 president of the University of rice in Texas, he gave an 1188 01:11:26,820 --> 01:11:29,490 introduction that was a good 20 minutes long because he liked to 1189 01:11:29,490 --> 01:11:33,420 hear himself talking sounded talk like this. And then she 1190 01:11:33,420 --> 01:11:36,810 make AmeriTrade gaping eyes on that. And this is one of those 1191 01:11:36,810 --> 01:11:40,980 seaspan things by the way. And I just found it annoying. Why 1192 01:11:40,980 --> 01:11:43,710 can't people just get we know who Hillary Clinton is we know 1193 01:11:43,710 --> 01:11:46,230 who McMurtry is. Why don't you just get that we want to hear 1194 01:11:46,230 --> 01:11:52,950 them, not you. Yeah, but this is who wants to hear this bonehead. 1195 01:11:52,980 --> 01:11:56,070 If they wanted to hear McMurtry that's their moment to shine 1196 01:11:56,670 --> 01:12:01,020 their moment to make themselves look like idiots. Anyway, back 1197 01:12:01,020 --> 01:12:02,100 to you. Right. 1198 01:12:02,220 --> 01:12:06,150 So on the rare book front you sent me a YouTube video to watch 1199 01:12:06,150 --> 01:12:08,850 about a book that is apparently being sent around the world. 1200 01:12:09,750 --> 01:12:13,590 Yeah, yeah. What's the name of it? Was it say the ages 1201 01:12:13,590 --> 01:12:15,600 something about? It's the title, 1202 01:12:15,660 --> 01:12:18,000 not the I've opened up the YouTube video. It wasn't the 1203 01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:21,270 Almanack it was kind of like a 1204 01:12:22,920 --> 01:12:26,040 big thick book about to creationism but from the Muslim 1205 01:12:26,040 --> 01:12:30,120 perspective. It's just this guy who happens to be another Turk 1206 01:12:30,120 --> 01:12:31,200 by the way. Yeah, here 1207 01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:32,070 we go Holland. 1208 01:12:35,970 --> 01:12:38,970 He go to the parent.org/minister of 1209 01:12:38,970 --> 01:12:42,240 education does not believe in evolution in the Netherlands. It 1210 01:12:42,240 --> 01:12:46,320 says here, copies of the Atlas Atlas of creation out to a 1211 01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:49,680 number of schools and universities, Atlas of creation, 1212 01:12:50,550 --> 01:12:54,720 which apparently is a beautiful book that is being sent to being 1213 01:12:54,720 --> 01:12:57,960 sent anonymously. John was being sent from some 1214 01:12:58,830 --> 01:13:00,870 I don't know who's sending it. I mean, it's obviously the 1215 01:13:00,900 --> 01:13:03,090 somebody's behind all the money because this thing's not a cheap 1216 01:13:03,090 --> 01:13:03,600 book. 1217 01:13:03,630 --> 01:13:06,750 No, it's with beautiful pictures. Anyway, it's a it's a 1218 01:13:06,750 --> 01:13:11,250 book that debunks evolution. Yeah, supposedly, and does it 1219 01:13:11,250 --> 01:13:14,550 through fantastic beautiful imagery and holograms and 1220 01:13:14,550 --> 01:13:19,800 beautiful pictures that explain that the world was created. 1221 01:13:22,890 --> 01:13:27,750 So yeah, we have to get copies of it. Sounds like 1222 01:13:27,899 --> 01:13:31,679 the paddlers Atlas of creation. Hell, yeah. Someone's probably 1223 01:13:31,679 --> 01:13:32,939 running across it somewhere. 1224 01:13:33,390 --> 01:13:36,000 So you get this link, which I have on the blog now, which is 1225 01:13:36,000 --> 01:13:39,090 the tour, the tornado steam train to carry first passengers 1226 01:13:39,090 --> 01:13:42,690 from New York. In New Castle and maiden voyage, they built a 1227 01:13:42,690 --> 01:13:47,730 steam locomotive in England. Brand new to 10 they're going to 1228 01:13:47,730 --> 01:13:48,840 put in service. 1229 01:13:50,970 --> 01:13:55,320 Yep. And you sent me a note and said, Let's go on and just run. 1230 01:13:55,740 --> 01:13:57,780 And I'm like, Do you know where to draw? Do you even know where 1231 01:13:57,780 --> 01:13:59,130 Newcastle is 1232 01:13:59,790 --> 01:14:02,130 in the middle of nowhere because it's such a small you know, 1233 01:14:02,160 --> 01:14:05,190 England is smaller than California. So it's never that 1234 01:14:05,190 --> 01:14:05,940 far away. 1235 01:14:06,450 --> 01:14:09,090 Dr. Lee, but if you if you had to drive up as a pretty long 1236 01:14:09,090 --> 01:14:09,840 drive, man, 1237 01:14:10,560 --> 01:14:14,250 take a train up and then get on this train. And you know, chug, 1238 01:14:14,250 --> 01:14:17,940 chug, chug, and then come back. I think this is historic. We're 1239 01:14:17,940 --> 01:14:20,700 all going back in time steam engines. 1240 01:14:20,880 --> 01:14:23,580 Let me just see where's it actually running from? 1241 01:14:26,520 --> 01:14:29,280 From York In New Castle to where? 1242 01:14:30,449 --> 01:14:33,239 What isn't what is York in Newcastle means I don't 1243 01:14:33,239 --> 01:14:37,109 know is what it says. From New York to Newcastle. 1244 01:14:37,139 --> 01:14:40,859 Thank you. So your headline is you can't even copy properly. 1245 01:14:41,220 --> 01:14:43,080 I know that was done automatically. I don't know how 1246 01:14:43,080 --> 01:14:44,400 to wow, it got messed up. 1247 01:14:45,389 --> 01:14:53,759 York to Newcastle. Cool. I'll buy you a ticket and a Slurpee. 1248 01:14:55,739 --> 01:14:58,619 So how far is York to New Castle out? Is that a long way? 1249 01:14:58,980 --> 01:15:01,380 I don't know. I could look it up. But I can't be bothered. 1250 01:15:02,249 --> 01:15:07,589 You should you should know you live there. I know that that is. 1251 01:15:07,739 --> 01:15:11,099 I know it's 400 miles to Los Angeles. I know it's like 90 1252 01:15:11,099 --> 01:15:13,259 miles of Sacramento. I know all these decisions, 1253 01:15:13,740 --> 01:15:17,580 because you've actually been there. I've been told quite 1254 01:15:17,580 --> 01:15:24,810 specifically never to go that far north I'm reliably informed. 1255 01:15:24,810 --> 01:15:27,360 It's not a good idea. What did someone say to me? A flight 1256 01:15:27,360 --> 01:15:31,380 instructor Captain Dan said to me one time he said, even even 1257 01:15:31,380 --> 01:15:35,100 if you're even if your aircraft is on fire, and flames are 1258 01:15:35,100 --> 01:15:37,890 coming through this through the through the through the cockpit, 1259 01:15:38,040 --> 01:15:48,900 you never ever want to land in Wales. I like okay. I'll take 1260 01:15:48,900 --> 01:15:57,720 your word for it, dude. Ah, okay. Oh, so our second meal. 1261 01:15:59,400 --> 01:16:03,060 Right that we had was the winner by far and that we can just do a 1262 01:16:03,060 --> 01:16:09,120 quick wrap up of Coco. Cuz that that was a real dog. We went to 1263 01:16:09,540 --> 01:16:12,630 Limon that name of the restaurant. Yeah. Li Mo N Yeah, 1264 01:16:12,630 --> 01:16:15,120 Limon, which is a Peruvian restaurant. 1265 01:16:15,810 --> 01:16:17,760 Right. So yeah, this is the second time I've been to 1266 01:16:17,760 --> 01:16:20,940 Peruvian restaurant I took Kelly Lewis to the other one that's in 1267 01:16:20,940 --> 01:16:23,580 San Francisco. There's actually three or four. But anyway, this 1268 01:16:23,580 --> 01:16:26,580 place was astonishing because of the fact that we got out so 1269 01:16:26,580 --> 01:16:30,120 cheap. It's on Jimmy was almost I mean, we just had a lot of 1270 01:16:30,120 --> 01:16:33,390 wine. We had, you know, desserts, and there's always 1271 01:16:33,420 --> 01:16:38,340 lots of food. And it was delicious. And she was under 100 1272 01:16:38,340 --> 01:16:39,960 bucks when was said and done is amazing. 1273 01:16:41,310 --> 01:16:43,110 And we had the hooch wine, 1274 01:16:44,340 --> 01:16:50,670 we had some venio ver de which is a cheap white Portuguese wine 1275 01:16:50,670 --> 01:16:55,050 that when I was writing, right, we had that when I was in Lisbon 1276 01:16:55,050 --> 01:16:59,850 recently, I went to a little hole in the wall bar for some 1277 01:16:59,850 --> 01:17:02,130 something that you with these guys I was taking pictures with. 1278 01:17:02,520 --> 01:17:06,810 And they had the classic venio very day, which is it's you 1279 01:17:06,810 --> 01:17:11,040 know, like, you know, it's like a Coca Cola spigot. And it goes 1280 01:17:11,040 --> 01:17:13,800 into your glass, and it's all foamy, it's like really 1281 01:17:13,800 --> 01:17:16,740 carbonated. And it's got very little alcohol, it's probably 1282 01:17:16,740 --> 01:17:21,540 around 7%, maybe typically, maybe less. And it's absolutely 1283 01:17:21,540 --> 01:17:24,210 delicious, especially on a hot day, you know, because just a 1284 01:17:24,210 --> 01:17:27,750 very refreshing wine. And it was, 1285 01:17:28,140 --> 01:17:32,640 it was very refreshing. It was really, I mean, it went on Well, 1286 01:17:32,640 --> 01:17:34,770 cold ice cold. That was really nice. 1287 01:17:35,100 --> 01:17:38,670 Yeah. And so that, but you don't see that, you know, you don't 1288 01:17:38,670 --> 01:17:40,620 see it much in this country, because it's just, you know, 1289 01:17:40,620 --> 01:17:45,630 not, I mean, we could California wine. Wineries couldn't make 1290 01:17:45,630 --> 01:17:50,790 this wine by the tonne, especially in the Central 1291 01:17:50,790 --> 01:17:55,140 Valley, where you get a huge, you know, a huge production. And 1292 01:17:55,140 --> 01:17:58,440 if it ever caught on, it would be very popular. I think it's. 1293 01:18:00,060 --> 01:18:04,140 So the problem is it's like, you know, usually make one false 1294 01:18:04,140 --> 01:18:07,950 move and become becomes Boone's Farm. You know, it's like, you 1295 01:18:07,950 --> 01:18:10,950 have to be careful. And I think there were spritzy wines that 1296 01:18:10,950 --> 01:18:15,000 have been brought into the market now and again, ripple and 1297 01:18:15,030 --> 01:18:17,430 some things like that, which unfortunately ruin the market 1298 01:18:17,430 --> 01:18:23,130 for some that that would be more healthy. So So we had that and 1299 01:18:23,130 --> 01:18:26,580 then we also had some red wine and then it was just, it was 1300 01:18:26,580 --> 01:18:30,480 very, very good. Two things of note the corn with enormous 1301 01:18:30,480 --> 01:18:34,050 kernels, which Yeah, they're huge. Yep, Peruvian corn. 1302 01:18:34,590 --> 01:18:36,660 Apparently, you know, this guy was thinking about that corn 1303 01:18:36,660 --> 01:18:39,330 because you were wondering work. What about but this has got to 1304 01:18:39,330 --> 01:18:45,390 be the same kind of corn that's used to make corn nuts, which is 1305 01:18:45,390 --> 01:18:49,290 a bar snack and snack food, which has got huge 1306 01:18:50,010 --> 01:18:56,490 currency. Yeah, very tasty. And if you do eat at Lehman, Lehman 1307 01:18:56,550 --> 01:19:00,630 or any other Peruvian restaurant have the tuka tuka as an 1308 01:19:00,630 --> 01:19:06,060 appetiser. Now the way that wasn't like saying is to go to 1309 01:19:06,060 --> 01:19:10,320 Korea, which was kind of a rice ball with some peas and stuff in 1310 01:19:10,320 --> 01:19:16,560 there with a with a crust. Kind of like a dirty cricket ball. 1311 01:19:18,660 --> 01:19:20,280 Yeah, it was good. That was very definitely 1312 01:19:20,280 --> 01:19:22,560 good. But everything there was good. I was very impressed. The 1313 01:19:22,560 --> 01:19:25,590 place was packed. The reviews that I saw on yelps it called it 1314 01:19:25,590 --> 01:19:27,570 near the people that didn't like it too much. They thought it was 1315 01:19:27,570 --> 01:19:30,540 a yuppie place. I didn't notice any yuppies and oh, there's a 1316 01:19:30,540 --> 01:19:32,190 lot of family a lot of kids 1317 01:19:32,219 --> 01:19:35,099 blooms. What blooms been there? 1318 01:19:36,090 --> 01:19:38,880 Bloom has been there Yeah, he told me Well there's definitely 1319 01:19:38,880 --> 01:19:41,280 not a yuppie place you go. And 1320 01:19:42,420 --> 01:19:46,470 it was just it was good. It was you know, it was loud but not 1321 01:19:46,500 --> 01:19:48,660 not so you couldn't have a conversation. acoustics are 1322 01:19:48,660 --> 01:19:52,590 pretty good. Even though we had a two person table kind of in 1323 01:19:52,590 --> 01:19:55,980 the middle of everything. It just yeah, it felt so good. Oh, 1324 01:19:55,980 --> 01:19:59,700 and love the waiter who kept saying Right away, sir. Right 1325 01:19:59,700 --> 01:19:59,970 away. 1326 01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:03,690 Yeah, he's very funny. He asked him for some Can we get some 1327 01:20:03,690 --> 01:20:05,670 water right away? Right away right away? 1328 01:20:06,360 --> 01:20:10,110 And he would bring it right away. Yeah. And it was like that 1329 01:20:10,140 --> 01:20:15,060 right away thing. Yeah. I did have dinner with Ron. On 1330 01:20:15,090 --> 01:20:18,690 Thursday. Yeah for a board meeting at flytrap you ever been 1331 01:20:18,690 --> 01:20:19,860 there? It's right near the hotel. 1332 01:20:20,609 --> 01:20:26,939 I've been casted I've never eaten there. No. Don't well with 1333 01:20:26,939 --> 01:20:29,249 a name like fly trap. Why would you? 1334 01:20:30,120 --> 01:20:33,510 It is a yucky place that but it is a place if you want to take a 1335 01:20:33,510 --> 01:20:36,780 date to just talk intimately. It's a good place for it. Kind 1336 01:20:36,780 --> 01:20:41,100 of off to the side. But the food isn't anything spectacular. And 1337 01:20:41,100 --> 01:20:42,420 then we had 1338 01:20:42,870 --> 01:20:45,450 so anyway limo we were given a to that 1339 01:20:45,479 --> 01:20:47,969 the Oh yeah. Oh, fantastic. And 1340 01:20:49,109 --> 01:20:51,779 but again, not another romance. Not romantic there either. So 1341 01:20:51,809 --> 01:20:53,729 take some ask him Don't marry you 1342 01:20:53,730 --> 01:20:56,640 not no. Not romantic. Well, you can always put the ring in the 1343 01:20:56,640 --> 01:20:57,330 tuka tuka 1344 01:20:59,310 --> 01:21:03,960 you swallow it. It was so good. I didn't feel like chewing. 1345 01:21:05,160 --> 01:21:12,750 And then we had dinner last night at Coco. And I did want to 1346 01:21:12,750 --> 01:21:15,630 mention that you booked that through open table they filed 1347 01:21:15,630 --> 01:21:21,210 for an IPO OpenTable did yeah. How about them apples? Yeah, 1348 01:21:21,210 --> 01:21:24,510 they filed for an IPO and they get apparently think that they 1349 01:21:24,510 --> 01:21:29,280 get $1 per diner? Who books through their system? 1350 01:21:30,630 --> 01:21:32,400 $1 per diner. Yeah. So 1351 01:21:32,430 --> 01:21:37,440 they got they got two bucks off of us. From the restaurant, the 1352 01:21:37,440 --> 01:21:38,670 restaurant pays that fee. 1353 01:21:39,720 --> 01:21:42,360 Well, you know, you get a little rebate from OpenTable after you 1354 01:21:42,360 --> 01:21:42,660 book 1355 01:21:43,200 --> 01:21:46,380 you get points. Yeah, we know all about the points. Points. 1356 01:21:46,440 --> 01:21:49,950 Maybe we'll get some stock with the points. That'd be a thought. 1357 01:21:50,370 --> 01:21:55,140 So we walk into cocoa, which I don't know. I don't think I've 1358 01:21:55,140 --> 01:21:56,100 eaten there before. 1359 01:21:56,160 --> 01:21:59,850 It used to be called beef zoo and it was much more of a French 1360 01:22:00,210 --> 01:22:05,550 bistro style. Now it's kind of New York bistro style but it 1361 01:22:05,550 --> 01:22:06,810 doesn't work no 1362 01:22:06,810 --> 01:22:10,650 and we walked in and it's stank. Yeah, exactly. It was like 1363 01:22:10,650 --> 01:22:11,520 cheese 1364 01:22:12,180 --> 01:22:16,710 some sort of bad smelling cheese was a you identified I just 1365 01:22:16,710 --> 01:22:19,620 thought it was as horrible aroma of some sort. 1366 01:22:19,950 --> 01:22:22,110 That's why you handed me a tic tac now I get it 1367 01:22:26,069 --> 01:22:29,879 so but anyway so it stunk and then the floor was loose and we 1368 01:22:30,059 --> 01:22:32,159 had to change tables cuz every time someone walked by be 1369 01:22:32,519 --> 01:22:35,819 bounced out of my chair. It felt like I was on a cheap aeroplane 1370 01:22:35,849 --> 01:22:35,999 you 1371 01:22:36,000 --> 01:22:38,610 even said like come on. Let's go to Frank guy let's go to Frank 1372 01:22:38,610 --> 01:22:41,220 House and no man Come on. We're committed. We're here. We're 1373 01:22:41,220 --> 01:22:42,960 eating here. We're staying here. 1374 01:22:43,290 --> 01:22:45,990 We should have downs going over to Florida Lee and just at the 1375 01:22:45,990 --> 01:22:46,440 bar 1376 01:22:46,470 --> 01:22:51,570 now that's true. But anyway what did we have the salads were 1377 01:22:51,570 --> 01:22:51,990 good. 1378 01:22:52,170 --> 01:22:54,750 I remember that actually. All the food was fine. I don't think 1379 01:22:54,750 --> 01:22:58,140 there was dinky thing was not not so nice. And also that will 1380 01:22:58,140 --> 01:23:00,780 you know you fell in love with the maitre d and she gave you 1381 01:23:00,780 --> 01:23:01,770 the finger and 1382 01:23:01,830 --> 01:23:04,440 no she did not know she did not give me this thing. 1383 01:23:05,550 --> 01:23:06,720 And it's standard. 1384 01:23:09,779 --> 01:23:15,539 I love the maitre d she was so beautiful. Maria Maria until I 1385 01:23:15,539 --> 01:23:19,739 saw her feet was all over it was 1386 01:23:19,770 --> 01:23:22,710 down she's wearing she's walking around barefoot or something but 1387 01:23:22,710 --> 01:23:22,830 when 1388 01:23:22,950 --> 01:23:25,920 she had sandal things on it's just there's just didn't have 1389 01:23:25,920 --> 01:23:30,270 very attractive feet. And that combined with that cheese smell 1390 01:23:30,300 --> 01:23:34,410 it just I don't know. Work. It was not working. 1391 01:23:34,769 --> 01:23:36,749 But we did have the one good bottle of wine. 1392 01:23:36,779 --> 01:23:40,469 Whoa. Oh, man. That was That was spectacular one what was that? 1393 01:23:40,950 --> 01:23:44,340 It was pavilion Rouge new Chateau Margaux. 2003. 1394 01:23:44,610 --> 01:23:45,540 Man, it was good. 1395 01:23:47,609 --> 01:23:51,089 And your line was really funny. This wine tastes like one of 1396 01:23:51,089 --> 01:23:55,169 those expensive wines. We usually have. usually have. You 1397 01:23:55,169 --> 01:23:58,169 know, and I realise Yeah, you know, expensive wine generally 1398 01:23:58,169 --> 01:24:06,749 tastes like expensive wine. It does. Taste This is expensive. 1399 01:24:07,470 --> 01:24:12,810 Speaking of which, I got a bottle of that. golden star tea. 1400 01:24:14,399 --> 01:24:16,919 Oh, yeah, you know, don't you mentioned that forgot mainstone 1401 01:24:16,919 --> 01:24:17,849 The trial you 1402 01:24:17,850 --> 01:24:21,390 did? I asked you to try it. I want you to I wanted to compare 1403 01:24:21,390 --> 01:24:21,780 explorer. I 1404 01:24:21,780 --> 01:24:26,580 have tried it. I had it with the Food Fair. They had it there. I 1405 01:24:26,580 --> 01:24:28,920 had a bunch of it. Because the guy said, Wow, this is great. 1406 01:24:28,920 --> 01:24:31,320 You know, and it gave me so we'll have some more. So I had a 1407 01:24:31,320 --> 01:24:35,640 lot of it. And, you know, my objection to those stuff from 1408 01:24:35,640 --> 01:24:37,860 the beginning was it was expensive and it's kind of 1409 01:24:37,860 --> 01:24:39,480 pricey, but it is delicious. 1410 01:24:39,989 --> 01:24:43,319 So it's actually you know, I know a little bit more about the 1411 01:24:43,319 --> 01:24:48,089 process, naturally fermented so it's a sparkling tea, and I 1412 01:24:48,119 --> 01:24:53,429 believe I had the Jasmine. Yeah, naturally fermented small batch 1413 01:24:53,459 --> 01:24:59,669 craft brewed. takes about six weeks. From water filter to 1414 01:24:59,669 --> 01:25:00,719 Whatsapp. FOB 1415 01:25:01,979 --> 01:25:05,189 free onboard how to no FOB. 1416 01:25:06,359 --> 01:25:10,049 The brewing happens in the Bay Area in Belmont. And they've 1417 01:25:10,049 --> 01:25:13,349 only had one run so far. And I gotta tell you that I shared it 1418 01:25:13,349 --> 01:25:21,719 with Andrew Gromit. And is it curry? Who sits behind you? Like 1419 01:25:21,719 --> 01:25:23,549 Capurro the tall girl 1420 01:25:24,750 --> 01:25:26,190 yeah Regina Regina Regina. 1421 01:25:26,219 --> 01:25:29,219 I'm sorry I got carried in Regina car is on the other side 1422 01:25:29,219 --> 01:25:33,089 behind Andrew got it. Right. And so Regina was there as it moved. 1423 01:25:33,089 --> 01:25:35,459 Would you mind trying this and tell me what you think? And we 1424 01:25:35,489 --> 01:25:40,439 all agreed that it was an as an alternative to drinking wine. It 1425 01:25:40,439 --> 01:25:44,519 would be fantastic. If you really were not into wine and 1426 01:25:44,519 --> 01:25:47,099 you just wanted something has, you know that feels a little 1427 01:25:47,099 --> 01:25:51,539 special has a little special taste to it. And then Regina 1428 01:25:51,539 --> 01:25:58,889 comes out and says yeah, picnic. Like, okay, Regina. When I come 1429 01:25:58,889 --> 01:26:01,859 back, baby, we're going on a picnic. I'm taking my golden 1430 01:26:01,859 --> 01:26:07,199 star with me. A picnic picnic. Hey, you should try it, man. 1431 01:26:08,339 --> 01:26:09,449 They want to sponsor the show. I'll 1432 01:26:09,450 --> 01:26:12,000 try it I'll put it in the refrigerator. I'll drink it up 1433 01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:12,120 but 1434 01:26:12,120 --> 01:26:15,000 talking about sponsoring the show, but you and I have kind of 1435 01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:16,200 gotten over that I think 1436 01:26:17,340 --> 01:26:19,950 well, you know they could sponsor something. I mean, it's 1437 01:26:19,950 --> 01:26:21,750 obviously we liked the product. 1438 01:26:22,859 --> 01:26:25,919 Well, I liked the product. You can't really remember. 1439 01:26:26,520 --> 01:26:29,340 I do remember it has I remember one distinct thing it had a 1440 01:26:29,340 --> 01:26:35,370 really delicious aftertaste that was very memorable. It probably 1441 01:26:35,370 --> 01:26:39,900 would have been as just as good as the venio bear day that we 1442 01:26:39,900 --> 01:26:41,760 had at the Limone 1443 01:26:44,160 --> 01:26:47,790 Jeffrey says, Adam, you're most welcome. DeVore AK was such a 1444 01:26:47,790 --> 01:26:50,760 buzzkill. I offered to give him some and he declined 1445 01:26:52,140 --> 01:26:53,040 ever did 1446 01:26:56,250 --> 01:27:02,910 for AG is such a buzzkill. Way to go on the sponsorship work 1447 01:27:02,910 --> 01:27:09,840 there, John. Good one. Good one. Dude. Crazy 1448 01:27:11,819 --> 01:27:13,589 is that the guy from white star? 1449 01:27:14,069 --> 01:27:18,809 golden star? Not White Star. Star was white star. It's golden 1450 01:27:18,809 --> 01:27:25,409 star. Which sounds more like an adult film label to me. Now one 1451 01:27:25,499 --> 01:27:26,879 golden star. 1452 01:27:27,870 --> 01:27:33,270 It's funny, you should say that. Oh, yeah, I have some toes. 1453 01:27:33,300 --> 01:27:37,320 Oh, John. Here's and now here it comes. Folks. You thought when 1454 01:27:37,320 --> 01:27:39,390 is the show gonna end? This is it. 1455 01:27:39,960 --> 01:27:43,620 So I had some some years and years and years ago, I found in 1456 01:27:43,620 --> 01:27:46,350 my portfolio. I think somebody bought it for me or whatever. 1457 01:27:46,650 --> 01:27:51,000 Some stock and I think the name is golden star or Gold Star 1458 01:27:51,030 --> 01:27:56,970 Entertainment. That's what I'm talking about. golden star and 1459 01:27:58,200 --> 01:28:02,340 golden stars. Really your own shares in it? Oh, that's great. 1460 01:28:02,910 --> 01:28:06,810 That's chairs in it. So I don't know, I figure with some I don't 1461 01:28:06,810 --> 01:28:08,580 know what it is, but have the stock 1462 01:28:08,640 --> 01:28:11,340 if you ever and this is for the audience out there because it 1463 01:28:11,340 --> 01:28:15,570 was available in the United States. I have a copy on VHS. 1464 01:28:16,230 --> 01:28:24,360 It's called Hot Pursuit. And it is a it's a porn movie. X rated 1465 01:28:24,390 --> 01:28:31,110 at least. And the voice of the lead guy character who's a 1466 01:28:31,110 --> 01:28:36,840 detective is me. And it received the fully erect penis award from 1467 01:28:36,840 --> 01:28:37,740 Hustler magazine. 1468 01:28:40,470 --> 01:28:42,720 Was it a dubbed thing you were doing? Yep. 1469 01:28:43,830 --> 01:28:48,480 They had hired this guy. This. I was like I was 17 at the time. 1470 01:28:48,840 --> 01:28:49,320 So you 1471 01:28:49,319 --> 01:28:52,979 were dubbing porn when you were 17 It's actually how I met. It's 1472 01:28:52,979 --> 01:28:55,319 how I met my wife qualify as kiddie porn. 1473 01:28:55,920 --> 01:29:01,980 In England it does. That's how I met 1474 01:29:01,979 --> 01:29:05,639 Patricia. You are a kiddie porn star before you get your Hey, 1475 01:29:05,820 --> 01:29:10,590 John. Let's not say that. Okay. It's like not a very good idea. 1476 01:29:11,609 --> 01:29:13,379 All right, I won't say it. But 1477 01:29:13,439 --> 01:29:22,829 get your hands on that. Bada Boom. All right. So when do you 1478 01:29:22,829 --> 01:29:23,669 want to do the show? 1479 01:29:24,660 --> 01:29:27,450 Well, I don't know. We can do a Tuesday. We can do it Thursday. 1480 01:29:27,479 --> 01:29:29,279 Well, let's just see what happens what's going on and 1481 01:29:29,279 --> 01:29:31,769 we'll we'll check in with each other. Wednesday is not good for 1482 01:29:31,769 --> 01:29:33,689 you though. Right? Wednesday is definitely not going to be the 1483 01:29:33,689 --> 01:29:35,609 day because you got cranky. You got 1484 01:29:35,639 --> 01:29:38,189 all the way out to go to the city and they have the you know, 1485 01:29:38,219 --> 01:29:39,839 all hands on deck. 1486 01:29:40,139 --> 01:29:45,299 I think that's changing. I think I think we've I think that we've 1487 01:29:45,299 --> 01:29:47,939 probably pissed on that enough that it's no longer gonna be 1488 01:29:47,939 --> 01:29:50,879 called all hands. They'll go back to foo bar or blue bar. 1489 01:29:51,210 --> 01:29:53,640 Well, I don't care what it's called. It's going to be on 1490 01:29:53,640 --> 01:29:57,780 Wednesday morning. And so that ruins the chances of doing this 1491 01:29:57,780 --> 01:29:59,430 show unless you know I just bag 1492 01:29:59,430 --> 01:30:00,990 down I can't bag it. I 1493 01:30:00,990 --> 01:30:03,840 gotta I gotta be a party you have to be on the conference 1494 01:30:03,840 --> 01:30:06,450 call, so that's not gonna work. Right? Well, we could just do 1495 01:30:06,450 --> 01:30:09,570 this show. And meeting. Yeah. 1496 01:30:09,960 --> 01:30:12,180 Here's the meeting. Okay, now we've always really wanted to 1497 01:30:12,180 --> 01:30:17,130 talk openly and honestly with y'all. Here we go. First of all, 1498 01:30:17,130 --> 01:30:20,400 at least three of you in this office are smoking meth. We know 1499 01:30:20,400 --> 01:30:22,140 it and it's a fact that I have 1500 01:30:22,140 --> 01:30:30,720 no buts like as you have no but alright. Alright, so I guess 1501 01:30:30,720 --> 01:30:34,230 that's that yeah, I'm gonna go get geared up for the Superbowl 1502 01:30:34,230 --> 01:30:36,000 and those fantastic ads. 1503 01:30:37,170 --> 01:30:39,780 Are you doing twit? Is it twit scheduled before the 1504 01:30:39,930 --> 01:30:42,060 now he's doing it right during the game? He doesn't like 1505 01:30:42,060 --> 01:30:47,340 football during the game. Pretty much yes. So regular time 1506 01:30:47,340 --> 01:30:50,340 then. Yeah. That's pregame 1507 01:30:51,510 --> 01:30:53,850 well, they actually they're gonna start batting a one 1508 01:30:54,149 --> 01:30:56,489 o'clock they started doing but doesn't tweet start around 1509 01:30:56,489 --> 01:30:58,589 three. I like listen, I love listening to that thing and 1510 01:30:58,589 --> 01:31:00,179 watching the chat. It's so funny. 1511 01:31:00,750 --> 01:31:03,570 Yeah, it is funny. The chats the chat people on that are 1512 01:31:03,570 --> 01:31:07,110 hilarious. They're just kibitzers pay until 1513 01:31:07,110 --> 01:31:09,360 Leo it wouldn't kill him to give our show a plug. I'm going to 1514 01:31:09,360 --> 01:31:10,890 talk about twit all the time. 1515 01:31:12,660 --> 01:31:15,450 He actually plugged you last time. Oh really didn't mention. 1516 01:31:15,480 --> 01:31:16,140 Yeah, he did. 1517 01:31:16,589 --> 01:31:19,019 I couldn't listen all the way to the end last time was too late. 1518 01:31:19,349 --> 01:31:20,819 He does it at the end. Okay. 1519 01:31:21,840 --> 01:31:31,320 I did. Yeah, until Tuesday or Thursday, coming to you from the 1520 01:31:31,320 --> 01:31:34,440 curry terrace and Gitmo nation east. I'm Adam curry. 1521 01:31:35,040 --> 01:31:38,820 And from Gitmo nation West actually northern Silicon Valley 1522 01:31:38,820 --> 01:31:44,280 and perhaps even the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, and 1523 01:31:44,280 --> 01:31:48,240 somewhere in the Berkeley region. I'm John C. Dvorak. 1524 01:31:48,420 --> 01:31:51,240 We'll talk to you again next week in our roles as crackpot 1525 01:31:51,240 --> 01:31:53,070 and buzzkill on no agenda.