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1640: Funny Farm

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John C Dvorak: It's a mask is wearing a mask. It's not Joe
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Adam curry Jhansi Dvorak,
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Adam Curry: Mark 720 24 This Year Award Winning Combination
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media assassination episode 16 party.
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Unknown: This is no agenda, defeating di
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Adam Curry: LLM, and broadcasting live from the heart
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of the country here in FEMA Region number six. In the
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morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry,
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John C Dvorak: and from Northern Silicon Valley where we're all
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awaiting the State of the Union. I'm John C. Dvorak
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Unknown: and Buzzkill.
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Adam Curry: The State of the Union. There's prop bets for the
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state of pads. Yes, hold on. I wrote them down. Hold on a
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second, they did a great the prop bets for the State of the
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Union. Okay. And so a prop bet is, as you've explained to me,
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basically opposition to promises you come you can bet on
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anything. So here are some of the prop bets of the length. The
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over under a 69.5 minutes.
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John C Dvorak: That's pretty long. I'm going under
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Adam Curry: I would go under on that. The number of non facts as
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per WaPo fact checker blog over under 11 and a half.
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John C Dvorak: This is this a dubious bet
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Adam Curry: I go under on that I go way under on that. But here's
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here's the interesting ones. For Biden, will any of these happen?
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direct mention of Trump odds are two to one to miss to miss name
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a foreign leader or country? The odds are three to one to say
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senile or dementia three to one. I don't believe that.
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John C Dvorak: No, no, I would bet Yes. But what do you say
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that?
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Adam Curry: Of course well, I'm just hey, I don't have a I'm not
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betting be I don't make them up to direct
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John C Dvorak: where you even make these beds. Oh,
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Adam Curry: I got the link. There's a real bet real bedding
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place? No,
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John C Dvorak: I'm sure they're real beds. I just don't know
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where you'd make them.
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Adam Curry: online. You can do them online. To directly mention
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Obama four to one to have a five second brain freeze five second
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brain freeze 10 to one odds to confuse Trump with Obama 14 to
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one and to confuse Nikki Haley with anyone 20 to one and then
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most mentions 10 to 13 odds on the border three to one on
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Ukraine. guns or gun 19 to four security six to one. Let me see
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Biden to refer to his own or Trump's age odds are four to one
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for yes and one to seven for no and then we also have prop bets
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on the State of the Union response which will be brought
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by Katie Britt and know exactly
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John C Dvorak: bet on that and no one will watch
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Adam Curry: one to one odds on cognitive one to one on radical
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Islam. six to five on Mexico says three to two on sleepy
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communists two to one odds senile nine to four dementia 11
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to four woke my woke mind virus nine to two odds and Antifa.
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Five to one odds. So there's money to be made. there's money
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to be made. Yeah, you'd
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John C Dvorak: have to have the you know, the problem with it is
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you if you had the speech in advance, you can make these
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bets. Oh, well, yeah. And I'm at a certain point, these bets are
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this kind of prop bets are no good because they're, you can
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easily it can be rigged. I mean, if I was somebody working with
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John Pierre Claude Van Damme and I was looking at I have the
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speech in front of me. I wouldn't be calling my bookie
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telling Biden make sure you don't blow this one up. So
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Adam Curry: just this morning, it's the most cringe thing I
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could have imagined our president did. He did a zoom
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call. It's on. It's on the X with former presidents in
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John C Dvorak: the movies. Oh, yeah. Yeah, this is
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unbelievable.
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Adam Curry: He had on Morgan Freeman. Tony Goldwyn, Gina
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Davis, who also played president in the movie, Michael Douglas
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and Bill Pullman. Who did. Independence. Do you want to
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hear some of that? I have. I haven't. Yeah, okay. Sure.
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Unknown: I never spoke to so many presidents all at one time.
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Some of you might know what a big speech I got to do is coming
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up State of the Union. advice you have for me, Mike Dillard,
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my speech. What
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else and my capacity as President, all I had to deal
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with was a media are. One of the things that I miss is
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Adam Curry: Morgan Freeman, for those who can't understand was
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that
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John C Dvorak: it's so recognizable,
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Unknown: opens the strongest posts we have and then we get to
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is the most useful and the most effective, and I advices
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Adam Curry: just keep that too long. Oregon tighten it up.
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Unknown: That's how you're working for us.
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Adam Curry: Stick to Dave no script, Mr. President.
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Unknown: Looking back on my own presidency. I
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Adam Curry: does anyone know Tony Goldwyn anymore? Do we even
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know? Do we even know what he looks like?
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John C Dvorak: It goes dead. I have no idea. I have to look at
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go look him up to see what he looks like even know who he is.
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We're
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Adam Curry: gonna find Gina day. Oh, and also, when I
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Unknown: do that with ice cream, I highly encourage it. I know
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for me, obviously,
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but a tough job it is. And, you know, when I was struggling a
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little bit like this president, it seemed like every week, there
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was some new crisis that I had to face and did
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a hell of a job.
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Adam Curry: It's so pathetic. Let's just skip to the end.
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Unknown: There's nothing that we can't do when we do it together.
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This is Pullman. Those are good ones. Best wishes to you, sir.
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There's nothing beyond our capacity. And I believe that.
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Hey, come see me. I'd love to meet you in person. Thank you
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very much. I never spoke to so many presidents all at one time.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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John C Dvorak: Thank you. Thank you.
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Adam Curry: Thank you. Thank you sad just sad. Sad. I mean, we
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used to be cool. America used to be cool. No longer this
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John C Dvorak: is sad. This is not good. Debt is totally
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pathetic. And the sad I'm sure that the left you know the Bill
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Maher's or the world are all thinking that's fabulous. Please
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go
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Adam Curry: see that. That was awesome. I have no no you don't
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he didn't actually say that. Did he build more? Awesome.
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John C Dvorak: No, no, I have the his complete screw up.
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Adam Curry: Oh, okay. All right. Let's do Bill Maher. What
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John C Dvorak: do you got? Well,
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Adam Curry: where is this from his show or from his podcast?
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Show him his show.
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John C Dvorak: It's from his show live and he actually set it
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up with the list set it up with Jack pro bro react. Is that
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whatever seebik Proceed. He's on he's at CPAC and he's just
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standing up there trying to be funny. And he says Does the C
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pay this clip C pack Jack Jack I got you.
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Unknown: Go Welcome. Welcome. I just wanted to say look, welcome
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to the end of democracy. We're here to overthrow completely we
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didn't get all the way there on January 6, but we will we will
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endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with with this right
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here who will replace it with this fire. Amen.
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Adam Curry: Yes, you know, Jack should not be doing this stick.
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Unknown: No. Well, he's
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John C Dvorak: not he's not a comic. No, but But what's
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interesting is they is Maher took it seriously to such an
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extreme that's a no Oh, no. believable. This is a
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professional comedian and listen to this Bill Maher on the end of
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democracy one CPAC
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Unknown: Do you know what that is? That is the conservative one
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is it
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unfortunate what is packed with the collapsing political action
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committee? Okay.
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It's their big convention every year. It's like, like
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corporations have a big convention. They have their big
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image. I made jokes about it every year. I can't remember the
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time we did that was way back. I remember once calling it the
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Woodstock for the mentally impaired
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in years past, it was like the most conservative commentators
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and senators and governors and okay this year there's a guy
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I've heard this name I don't know who he is Jack pro sobic is
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doing sort of like a roundtable discussion. You know, it's a
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convention they have these things. This is a quote Welcome
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to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it
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Adam Curry: out here so he didn't actually see it. His
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writers just wrote this for him and he's too lazy to actually
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look at the clip that I'm already feeling what's happening
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here completely.
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Unknown: We didn't get all the way there on January 6, but we
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will endeavor to get rid of it. Am I missing an irony here? Yes
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is missing a joke it seems now they are saying the out the
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quiet part out loud flub the thing or not this is stupid.
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This is their big this is Republican conservative their
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big convention and you have a guy like this in the crowd is
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loving it. Welcome to the end of democracy. We're here to
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overthrow it. January 6 was good. Now we're going to finish
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the job. False. It's scary.
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Adam Curry: Oh, clutching my pearls is scary, scary, scary.
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It's the biggest convention in the world. So they have
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John C Dvorak: so this woman So this is more pathetic, I think
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then than what you played. And by the way, it wasn't ironic it
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was sarcastic, but we can quibble about that later. So he
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has this woman on who's a lefty who ended up going on I have a
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clip of her later what's her name? It's her name is Bachi
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something so she's
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Adam Curry: isn't she from new she's the Newsweek opinion
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editor.
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John C Dvorak: Yeah, she's the Newsweek opinion. Woman. So
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she's on the show and she's dying knowing that this is
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nonsense. Well, the guy sitting next to her is going oh, it's so
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Adam Curry: scary. It's scary. Who was the guy sitting next to
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him?
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John C Dvorak: I don't know. I don't have his name but you can
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look him up but the budget is pretty good. I've
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Adam Curry: seen her before is very
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John C Dvorak: good. I have a clip after this clip. Okay, but
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let's say this is Bill Maher the end of democracy to try she
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tries to explain to him that it's a joke. Oh goodness. And
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Maher is like really like Well, I'm not sure thoughts
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Unknown: it's very bill that was a joke about Trump making a joke
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about being a dictator day one in office that is an ironic take
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on
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how the Liberals That was my question Am I missing the irony
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conservatives I
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think so. Yes. Joke really? Yeah. And I think more I mean
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more to you bail into a job Jack.
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Adam Curry: Okay, so he tries to save it with with this quip.
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quip this lousy is just poor showmanship and poor television
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midship and he should be ashamed of himself for just blatantly
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walking into the studio ready to go. What am I what am I jokes
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he's not he's he's phoning it in is what he's doing. Because
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John C Dvorak: it wasn't a panel probe or whatever his name is
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just standing there. You know, trying to kill time so had
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nothing to do with anything. Meanwhile, Maura Yeah, you're
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right. He phoned it in here's batty as she shows up on on
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bandit Banyan show. Oh, the War Room. Oh, to talk about this. A
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little bit.
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Adam Curry: Wait a minute. This. This is now a topic of
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discussion.
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John C Dvorak: Here. What goodness Maurice? Screw up the
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topic. Oh, wow. I'm
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Adam Curry: glad we have time on our hands. And we knew about
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being on there. Well,
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Unknown: I'm I'm very, very grateful to bill for having me
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because even though I am on the left, I can't get onto liberal
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shows. Because it's kind of like that scene in Monty Python where
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they're like, hey, we want to join you. And they were like,
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well, how much do you hate the Romans and he goes a lot. And
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they're like, right, you're in? It's the same thing with Trump.
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If you don't hate Trump, they will not let you on even if you
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want to tell them. Hey, here's how the Democrats could get the
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working class back. They don't want to hear it.
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John C Dvorak: So that was the point. Well, and that's good. I
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mean, she you have to be a hater. Yes, yes. To get into
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these gigs, and she's like irk because she doesn't get booked
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on anything. And she's very personable. She's quite funny.
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She goes on and on about a bunch of things. I could have played
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more clips of her. Yeah, because she's good. But she is worried
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about the Democrats being off to lunch. I had
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Adam Curry: a supercut somewhere I see on this this. Let me just
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see if it was I think it was super cut. Super cut super cut.
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I'll find it. But the hate is strong. It's real. It's really
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it's quite. It's quite insane. Um, I have a I have MSNBC from
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Super Tuesday, a couple of clips.
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John C Dvorak: If you want to laugh. Yeah, I was gonna get
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these. These are funny.
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Adam Curry: Here's Rachel Maddow.
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Unknown: Remarks I've just started for for President Donald
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Trump. Let's, let's
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let's listen in. Nobody thought a thing like this would be
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possible. We wouldn't have Russia attacking Ukraine, we
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wouldn't have Israel being attacked. Iran, as you know, was
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broke. When I was running things. They were broke. They
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didn't have money for Hamas. They didn't have money for
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Hezbollah. We had no inflation. Inflation is destroying the
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middle class. It's destroying everything inflation. If you
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look back over the history hundreds of years back it's
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called inflation. It's called a country buster. And that's what
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it's doing to our country. What's happened with inflation
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has been unbelievable. A lot of people say a lot of experts have
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said the stock market's The only thing that's doing well, and
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that's doing well because our poll numbers are so much higher
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than it should.
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Adam Curry: Okay, so I'll just do a couple of quick Trump clips
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and then we'll have Matt Oh, come back. And Chris Of course,
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yes to interrupt. Here he is on the border.
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Unknown: We had the safest border, the best numbers we've
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ever had. And now we have the worst numbers probably. Probably
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in the history of the world. It's sad To see what's happening
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to our cities, our cities are being overrun with migrant
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crime. And that's Biden migrant crime. But it's a new category
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of crime and it's violent.
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Adam Curry: It's a new category Biden migrant crime, where they
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stand in
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Unknown: the middle of the street and have fistfights with
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police officers. And if they did that in their countries from
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where they came, they'd be killed instantly, instantly
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promised they wouldn't do that. So the world is laughing at us,
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the world is taking advantage of us.
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Adam Curry: Well, no, the world is laughing. The world has the
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exact same problems. Here he is on our energy independence.
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Three
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Unknown: years ago, we were at a level we were an energy
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independent, we're going to be very shortly energy dominant.
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And today we're getting oil from Venezuela. Can you believe it?
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And we're doing numbers on that oil. You know, what we're doing?
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We're refining the oil. We have a refinery for that. Well, it's
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truly I call it tar. It's not oil is terrible. We have real
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stuff. Why
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Adam Curry: is he saying we're refining the Venezuelan oil,
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which is tar?
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John C Dvorak: That's what he said.
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Adam Curry: Is that true? I mean, you know a lot about this
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John C Dvorak: stuff. But the Venezuelan crude, I'm not sure
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really thick tar? It's well, it would it would be a heavy style,
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heavy crude as possible. I don't know. I'd have to look it up.
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Let's
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Adam Curry: now this is where this is where it just starts
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Eric Rachel, because now he's talking about a fair and free
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press,
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Unknown: we need a fair and free press. The press has not been
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fair, nor has it been free. But maybe someday they will be
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they're being beaten up pretty badly. People aren't trusting
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them. They're not believing them. And really, it's a very
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important factor. The Press used to be the policeman, it used to
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police our country. Now nobody has confidence in them. And we
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have to get that confidence back. It's so important for the
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success of our country. So
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important. Yes. All right. Here we go read an article
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yesterday where it said this is one of the finest run campaigns
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that anybody has ever seen. That's pretty good. Right? So
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get in there. Get
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November, you know, it's it's, it is. Okay. I will say that it
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is a decision that we revisit constantly in terms of the
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balance between allowing somebody to knowingly lie on
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your air about things they've lied about before, and you can
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predict they're going to lie about and so therefore it is.
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It's irresponsible to allow them to do that to responsibly
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balance between knowing that that's irresponsible to
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broadcast, and also knowing that as the de facto soon to be de
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facto nominee of the Republican Party. This is not only the man
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who is likely to be the Republican candidate for
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president, but this is the way he's running. So
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Adam Curry: then sitting on the panel, but wait,
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John C Dvorak: wait, yes. Did she say specifically what what
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was the lies? He's just generalized? Well,
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Adam Curry: because now we go over to the panelists next to
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her. The favorite of the trading floor boys over there at Goldman
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Sachs, Stephanie rule. She didn't go to J school. Ah, she
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was a trader. And then she rose through the ranks at Goldman,
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and show the show fact checking, here's
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Unknown: how to balance it. Why don't we fact check the hell out
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of him? Yes,
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we do that after the fact. And that is the best remedy that
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we've got. It does not fix the fact that we broadcast it,
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but that he's saying these things and people are hearing
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it. Let's just go through it. Right, the most devastating
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economy, are you kidding me? We had the best economic recovery
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of any country in the developed world. He's telling an audience
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right there, oh, my goodness, that the poultry oil production,
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we're producing more oil today than we ever have in the history
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of our country. Think about the American rescue plan, the
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infrastructure plan, we have created more jobs, three 3.2
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million more jobs than we had pre pandemic. The problem that
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we do have is inflation. And so what Donald Trump does is
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preying upon the fact that people don't necessarily feel
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good and life's expensive.
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Adam Curry: Oh, the horrors he plays on the fact that people
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don't feel good and life's expensive, but everything else
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is great. is great.
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John C Dvorak: What did he did he not set? Did he say that? We
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don't have high or production? I mean, what was the lies? But I
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mean, you're Ali said, Oh, the only positive the only factual
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thing that he referred to as the high inflation. Yeah. And people
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don't feel good about things. Yeah, I was aware of the fact
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check. You got to fact check him then. But that's
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Adam Curry: the whole problem. It's like it's he's saying
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things that are hitting home, turn him off. That's it. It's so
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odd that I think it's obvious to most people. Let's go back to
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the
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John C Dvorak: before we continue though, there's a
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couple other things along this this line I want to say at least
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discuss. So I got an article I sent it to you to put in the
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show notes is written by a writer in the UK called Andrew
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or Loski, who wrote for the spike he writes for The
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Telegraph. And he goes on about how the BBC and these people in
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in Europe, especially in England, are, are pre excusing
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Trump's victory. Yes, yes, exactly. Dan. So they're coming
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up with it's like pre crime. Yeah. And it's gonna be all
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about misinformation and disinformation. And they're
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gonna go on and on about it. And he cited an example which are
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these photos. I guess I have not seen him until I read his
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article. I have a club. Acts of Trump with black people that
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have been all part of AI pictures. Yes.
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Adam Curry: I have a clip here. How
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John C Dvorak: long have you seen these?
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Adam Curry: Yeah, yeah. Well, this is this is part of the I
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think it's part of the Swift up because they're also now saying
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that Russia, here let me get the article for you. Putin plans?
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Let me see what who wrote this New York Post. Okay. Putin plans
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to weaponize deep fake porn against Western democracies,
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female leaders. Ah, Swift
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John C Dvorak: slave stops we already brought in Swift and
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then you say female leader. So I'm I'm already chuckling Yeah.
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So
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Adam Curry: here's, here's the here's the girl from the Young
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Turks who is reading this banner and is reading this this. This
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BBC article, AI generated
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Unknown: images depicting Donald Trump with excited black
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supporters are spreading across the internet like wildfire.
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According to a BBC investigation now, since their AI images,
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obviously they're not real. They're not authentic. They're
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not depicting something that actually happened. And if you're
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tempted to believe that Russia or some other nefarious foreign
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actor is behind the misleading images, the BBC looked into that
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and found that American Trump supporters are actually the ones
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behind the, you know, dishonest AI images that are spreading.
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Adam Curry: Oh, that's your off message, girl. Putin.
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John C Dvorak: I know darts off in one direction. I know Hooton
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OTEN and then she drifts over to some I can't keep their focus
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now
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Adam Curry: ever since chunk just went complete nut job that
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this it's a rudderless ship over there. Now, of course we have we
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have more, we have more insane stuff such as the Supreme
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Court's decision. Unanimous it was not even a you it was not a
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unanimous it was the court decision. Our constitutional
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lawyer deconstructed it for us. So that's nine, nine to zero, no
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dissent that Colorado has or any state has has no right to take
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the president off of the ballot. They were very careful, by the
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way, in what they said. Because the Heritage's they did not
23:18
decide whether Trump of course actually engaged in
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insurrection. They took a quick little off ramp, a simple one,
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and they said hey, states lack the power to use Article Three
23:29
against federal officeholders. That's, that's really the whole
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thing. Yeah. And of course, it was hilarious to see that the
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document that was sent out I guess it was a Word document
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where they had track changes, and they forgot to remove those.
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So everyone had their panties in a bunch that had to been done on
23:51
purpose. Most definitely, because it was definitely not
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just so Exactly. So is what I would say. It was Sotomayor who
24:00
appeared to have written a dissenting opinion in the in the
24:05
document, but that was then that track changes. turned it into
24:10
what do you call it? Arc? Harare, I think is the term let
24:13
me say it's the court. Yes. procure pure curiam There you
24:21
go. Hey, I speak Latin. Per curiam, ie the whole court
24:27
decides and there was no dissent but I agree with you I think
24:30
that was left in there purposely you know, little virtue signal
24:34
by Sotomayor someone whoever whoever is doing that stuff, but
24:37
here's Joy read, always fun to listen to her opinion on stuff.
24:41
Unknown: I do have to go to you first, Melissa, because I'm
24:42
sorry, but I don't speak Supreme Court ease. But all I read was
24:47
shade, shade and more shade from your former boss, Justice
24:52
Sotomayor and her colleagues. They open in their what felt
24:57
like more of a dissent honestly than In a good Gertz in which
25:02
they said y'all did too much. You just had to say states can't
25:05
afford section three and leave it there. But you had to keep
25:07
going. You felt like you had to tell people how to enforce
25:10
section three you felt like you had to instruct Congress. Did
25:13
you read out as shade as I did?
25:15
I think it was shade all the way down joy. And more than that. I
25:19
think this was nominally a concurrence, but it had real big
25:22
D energy big dissent energy.
25:25
Adam Curry: Big D. Oh, my
25:26
Unknown: God.
25:30
John C Dvorak: All right, I'm giving you a clip of the day for
25:32
kitchen now home. Energy level. Wow, what an asshole. 26
25:40
Adam Curry: minutes into the show. We have clip of the day
25:43
ladies and gentlemen, does it get any crazier? I mean, I
25:46
didn't even clip mica this morning. Oh man, or Joe, who
25:51
says this is the most cogent Biden ever I mean, these people
25:55
are going nuts. Anyway,
25:57
John C Dvorak: I do have a three by three about this since you
25:59
brought it
26:02
Adam Curry: right into a baby experiment by JC D, a three by
26:06
three parents don't read from ABC
26:13
three by three. It's not just an experiment we actually delve in
26:16
JCD gets you clips and we check out the big news stories from
26:19
the three trustworthy news networks. Yeah, this
26:23
John C Dvorak: is much of the craziness that you just heard
26:25
that you got the Clip of the Day for so let's start with ABC
26:28
Unknown: tonight for the first time after months of missile
26:31
attacks on cargo ships. The Iranian backed Houthis have left
26:36
Adam Curry: I'm sorry. That's the wrong ABC clip. This is your
26:39
ABC clip for the Supreme
26:40
Unknown: Court a rare moment of unanimity. All nine justices so
26:44
often divided in major cases, declaring as one that individual
26:48
states cannot ban Donald Trump from the presidential ballot
26:52
under the insurrection clause of the Constitutions 14th
26:55
amendment. The court did not address the issue of whether
26:58
Trump actually engaged in insurrection, but declared that
27:01
the responsibility for enforcing that Section of the Constitution
27:05
rests with Congress and not the states. They
27:09
work long. They're worked hard, and frankly, they work very
27:12
quickly.
27:14
Adam Curry: That will work long, hard but quickly be
27:17
Unknown: spoken about 100 years from now and 200 years from now
27:20
extremely important best
27:22
courts in three states Colorado, Maine and Illinois have ruled
27:25
that Trump should be banned from the ballot because of his
27:28
actions on January 6 than in the weeks before, under the 14th
27:31
amendments command that no one who has taken an oath to support
27:35
the Constitution and then engaged in insurrection can hold
27:39
public office afterwards. during oral arguments last month,
27:43
liberals and conservatives on the court voiced sharp
27:45
skepticism and what Colorado did
27:48
Adam Curry: Whoa, whoa, what's going on over there at ABC Sure,
27:51
skepticism
27:52
Unknown: engaged in insurrection can hold public office
27:55
afterwards. during oral arguments last month, liberals
27:58
and conservatives on the court voiced sharp skepticism of what
28:01
Colorado did puke
28:03
I think that the question that you have to confront is why a
28:06
single state should decide who gets to be President of the
28:09
United States.
28:10
Today, the justices pointed to the potential disruption that
28:13
could happen if some states disqualified Trump and some did
28:16
not all using different standards and procedures to
28:19
disqualify insurrection as candidates the court ruled
28:22
Congress must first pass a law spelling out how justice Amy
28:27
Kony Barrett also wrote separately agreeing with the
28:29
liberals that the majority went too far but urging her
28:32
colleagues to turn the national temperature down, not up. Our
28:36
differences are far less important than our unanimity
28:39
Barrett wrote. All nine justices agree on the outcome of this
28:42
case. That is the message all Americans should take home.
28:46
Adam Curry: Wow, except for the puking that was reasonably on
28:51
point. Yeah, thanks. So
28:54
John C Dvorak: here's some of the some of the Dana Bash on
28:57
MSNBC where she goes on to be a sad day for America that they
29:01
did the right thing.
29:04
Adam Curry: What did you see? I mean, Keith Olbermann,
29:06
unfortunately, did right but he didn't have he didn't do any
29:09
video. So we
29:11
John C Dvorak: know he's, he's been he's gonna do a video
29:14
himself. He spits too much on them their screen they've the
29:17
lens. It's all speedy. So let's go to NBC
29:22
Unknown: tonight the US Supreme Court dealing a final blow to
29:25
states trying to ban former President Trump from the ballot.
29:29
In a unanimous decision. The justice is effectively leaving
29:32
it up to voters to decide if the former president returns no
29:36
White House, Mr. Trump preys on today's ruling
29:39
the voters can take the person out of the race very quickly.
29:43
But a court shouldn't be doing that. The
29:46
justice is rejecting a Colorado State Courts ruling Finding Mr.
29:50
Trump ineligible to be president under section three of the 14th
29:53
Amendment, a largely untested clause of the Constitution
29:57
passed after the Civil War, isn't it? completely
30:00
Adam Curry: untested Claus has ever been tested.
30:06
Unknown: I have no disqualifying those who engage in
30:09
insurrection, of course, the public office with Lincoln
30:12
elections official in Maine and a judge in Illinois later doing
30:15
the same, banning the Republican front runner from the ballot in
30:19
those states in light of his actions on January 6, today's
30:23
ruling from the high court now ending all similar efforts to
30:27
disqualify Mr. Trump from the ballot. Well,
30:29
most states were thrilled to have me. There were some that
30:35
didn't get and they didn't want that for political reasons. The
30:38
justices today saying that patchwork of different rulings
30:41
across the country cannot stand finding responsibility for
30:45
enforcing section three against federal office holders and
30:49
candidates rests with Congress and not the states. I've got to
30:53
say boring read. But at the same time, the three liberal justices
30:57
accusing their Conservative colleagues of going too far to
31:01
find ruling Congress must enact new legislation in order to ban
31:05
a presidential candidate.
31:06
Adam Curry: Why is that too far? I don't understand. I mean,
31:08
that's why is that too far? Why is it too far to have Congress?
31:13
Do that? I mean, isn't that exactly what the Supreme Court
31:16
said? Why is that going too far? I don't know. It's confusing
31:19
Unknown: the way she represented ating. This ruling will make it
31:21
harder to bar and oath breaking insurrectionists from becoming
31:25
president, you forgot rapists conservative justice Barrett
31:28
cautioning this Court should turn the national temperature
31:31
down. Not up. Thank
31:33
Adam Curry: you, Barrett. All right. Boring, boring. Read NBC
31:38
in trouble as far as I'm concerned. That's not me. She's
31:41
John C Dvorak: got Yeah, that's reporting that's factual and
31:44
it's boring. That was pretty bad. Yeah, that was a bad. A bad
31:47
report how
31:48
Adam Curry: to do now that the pixie girl you know, there
31:53
John C Dvorak: are no let's see. A
31:55
Unknown: crucial decision today with sweeping political
31:58
consequences sweep High Court ruling that former President
32:01
Donald Trump cannot be removed from Colorado's ballot due to
32:06
the state courts view that he stoped the January 6
32:09
insurrection. You
32:10
cannot take somebody out of a race. The voters can take the
32:14
person out of the race very quickly. But a court shouldn't
32:18
be doing that. With this
32:19
ruling. Two other states also had their efforts to remove the
32:23
former president stole three justices in a separate
32:27
concurring opinion set allowing the Colorado measure to go
32:31
forward. Would we agree create a chaotic state by state patchwork
32:36
amid a tense political landscape justice Amy Coney Barrett also
32:41
urged Americans to see unity from the unanimous decision sold
32:45
handwriting in this circumstance writings on the court should
32:48
turn the national temperature down. Not up. Colorado's
32:52
democratic Secretary of State offered sharp criticism of the
32:56
decision.
32:57
I do believe states should
32:59
Adam Curry: be able under our this woman did you see her eyes?
33:02
Oh, she's
33:03
John C Dvorak: a psycho vision.
33:04
Unknown: I do believe that states should be able under our
33:08
constitution to bar oath breaking insurrectionists the
33:11
ruling comes
33:12
Adam Curry: a day before this is now the mean oath breaking into
33:15
elections breaking oath breaking that she forgot rapist tuition
33:19
Unknown: to bar oath breaking insurrectionist
33:22
the ruling comes a day before Super Tuesday the biggest
33:25
primary election day of the season, when voters in 15 states
33:29
including Colorado head to the polls, and Trump's legal hurdles
33:34
continue to pile up as the Supreme Court weighs another
33:38
decision next month.
33:40
I hope that the justices because they'll be working on some other
33:44
cases, but one in particular, presidents have to be given
33:47
total immunity. They have to be allowed to do their job.
33:52
Later this month. Trump will also spend six weeks in court
33:56
where He is charged with falsifying business records
33:59
related to hush money payments to a porn star.
34:03
Adam Curry: God Okay. Since that was so boring, not your not your
34:10
fault. Yeah. Be
34:11
John C Dvorak: the little point in there that CBS says they tee
34:14
the ball up for the next round. Of course, the immunity case.
34:19
Network did not do and Dershowitz who comes on every
34:23
show he can get on and the right wing shows now almost
34:26
exclusively in fact, exclusively Yeah. As I said, I you know, he
34:30
comes on his spikes. I don't have these clips. He spikes the
34:33
ball said I predicted nine to nothing. I mean, he's he's
34:37
getting really with his new podcast. He's getting care. He's
34:40
getting the decoding of personality. Dersch test is the
34:44
Dersch leadership does show their hands so he spikes the
34:48
ball. And then he says and then I believe that it will be a 63
34:53
and the next one and which I think he's right, because
34:56
they're going to because these, these liberal judges have felt
35:00
You're getting flak when you do anything, you know, they don't
35:03
they get pushed around a lot and so they're gonna probably go
35:07
against immunity thing, which is again is
35:10
Adam Curry: stupid because immediately everyone goes to
35:12
jail. Everybody
35:14
John C Dvorak: goes to jail. Yeah, I would say if they're
35:17
they better start thinking about and somebody's gonna have to
35:19
start bringing this up besides me. Which Obama? Yeah, there we
35:23
go is the guy who's killed four Americans extra dude judicial
35:30
murder of four different Americans he would be he should
35:35
go to jail you should be definitely go to jail and
35:39
there's other examples that people use but no one wants to
35:41
bring up this Obama one
35:44
Adam Curry: down with that we got two words for Predator
35:48
drones I don't know where that came from okay. There was let's
35:57
just do some elections. I know you have a report. It was super
36:00
Tuesday in the United States where everybody goes and votes
36:04
for the local elections and, and some primary stuff. But we had
36:11
some fun. That was fun. Certainly in North Carolina, the
36:15
North
36:15
Unknown: Carolina race for the governor's mansion is going to
36:18
be among the most competitive. And now CNN is projecting that
36:21
the Republican candidate in that race is going to be lieutenant
36:24
governor, Mark Robinson,
36:26
a favorite among evangelicals becoming the first black
36:29
gubernatorial nominee in North Carolina.
36:32
Those who want to go into the mud, feel free. Where we're
36:35
going is we're going towards the substantive issues and all North
36:38
Carolinians face
36:40
Adam Curry: this guy. Did you see this guy? Oh, I've
36:43
John C Dvorak: been watching this guy for a month here I got
36:45
a super cut short he's got some great material.
36:48
Unknown: He does a but to gender saying that men and women
36:53
are mentally not women.
36:55
Oh to be led by men when it was time to face down the last sit,
37:02
David, not DeVito there's no reason anybody anywhere in
37:09
America should be telling about transgenderism homosexuality in
37:16
that field. And yes, I called it Phil we could pass it mill so
37:20
you can't have an abortion in North Carolina for any reason.
37:22
He says the civil rights movement in the 1960s was quote
37:25
crap, and that Martin Luther King was a communist Robinson
37:29
posted the movie Black Panther was quote created by an agnostic
37:33
Jew to pull the shackles out of your sports to pocket using the
37:37
in his words for money and black. He referred to the
37:40
victims of the Parkland School shooting as spoiled little
37:43
bastard. He says the moon landing in 1969 may have been
37:46
fake. He also says there is a secret Ruling Cabal that is part
37:51
reptile and
37:52
said that Beyonce is satanic.
37:55
mack daddy Yeah.
37:58
John C Dvorak: Well, they did. Cut they left out the funniest
38:01
bit he goes into a reparations. Oh, I don't have that one. Oh,
38:05
the reparations thing he says Black should be paying
38:08
reparations to white. And his rationale is, is really
38:14
interesting.
38:16
Adam Curry: Man. I'm doing a show with Moe next week. Maybe
38:19
we can get into it. I'd love to hear his take on that.
38:22
John C Dvorak: All right. Yeah, but you're gonna be a big fan of
38:25
that guy. Oh, this is fantastic. Of course because of the moon
38:28
landing just
38:29
Adam Curry: just for the moon landing alone. I came for the
38:32
moon landing and stayed for the two agendas event. And
38:36
meanwhile, Rolling Stone trying to amp it up a bit. to coin a
38:42
phrase headline exclusive due to Trump's White House was awash in
38:47
speed and Xanax. Under Trump, the White House medical unit was
38:52
like the Wild West and staffers had easy access to powerful
38:56
stimulants and sedatives. Sources tell Rollingstone you
39:00
know what, I think all of Washington DC has access to
39:04
powerful stimulants and and sedatives they're all on drugs.
39:11
Yeah, of course they are all of them all of them.
39:15
John C Dvorak: I don't get the point of this Rolling Stone
39:18
piece. Well are they trained did make it do lessen the blow about
39:23
Hunter No, no, no Joe gets yes shot up just before the
39:28
interesting today. Yeah, but
39:30
Adam Curry: you're saying being yourself. Exactly. Because you
39:33
know Joe's gonna get all jacked up tonight. Man Well, if it's if
39:42
it's the real Joe we don't even know we don't even know if the
39:45
real Joe the more politics here Big Mike says No way Jose
39:52
Unknown: former First Lady Michelle Obama once again
39:54
shutting down speculation about whether she would jump into the
39:56
race for president if needed. The former first lady making a
39:59
claim As she has before she supports President Biden and
40:02
vice president Harris and will not be running for president.
40:05
Her spokesperson says she's expected to act as a campaign
40:08
surrogate for President Biden and vice president Harris.
40:11
Adam Curry: Yeah. And I tried to register Big Mike
40:14
2020 eight.com. And that was already taken. So I feel gypped
40:19
I feel
40:19
John C Dvorak: sorry by one of our producers,
40:21
Adam Curry: no doubt. No doubt. So I'll tell you my experience
40:27
here.
40:29
John C Dvorak: What I'm voting because you do have a bit Nikki
40:32
Haley quitting clip, which is part of two Super Tuesday and I
40:35
still have my yes my that's why I'm discussion of the I voted on
40:40
a Dominion machine.
40:41
Adam Curry: Yeah, well, let's do your Nikki Haley quits poorly.
40:45
And then I have two quick Nikki Haley crowd responses as
40:48
Unknown: Nikki Haley drops out without endorsing former
40:51
President Trump. Both Trump and Biden are now courting Haley's
40:55
voters. Trump has also challenged Biden to a debate
40:59
anytime and anywhere. And today's White House
41:02
correspondent Iris Tao has more already. Both
41:06
Trump and Biden are now directly asking Nikki Haley supporters to
41:10
join their camps, though their messaging is quite different
41:13
from while saying that Biden is the enemy and that he's inviting
41:16
on Nikki Haley supporters to join the Maga movement also
41:20
criticized Nikki Haley saying she trounced on Super Tuesday
41:23
and then a lot of her supporters and donors were actually
41:26
Democrats. And President Biden, meanwhile, praised Nikki Haley
41:29
and Wednesday seem insane.
41:31
She was willing to speak their truth about Donald Trump,
41:34
adding that Nikki Haley supporters have a place in his
41:38
campaign. Meanwhile, both Trump and Biden's appeal came after
41:41
Nikki Haley on Wednesday morning, dropped out of the race
41:44
and congratulated Trump but stopped short of actually
41:47
endorsing him know what Nikki Haley was saying, watch.
41:51
I congratulate him. It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the
41:54
votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support
41:58
him. And I hope he does that. Yeah, of course,
42:03
Adam Curry: of course you only suspended her campaign. Now we
42:07
know what it really means. But just in case, just in case he
42:10
gets convicted, then she can pop back up. I have two crowd
42:15
responses, one from Fox and one from NBC. Here's Fox. NBC
42:20
Unknown: just reported that Michelle Obama has said she will
42:22
not run for president. Thank God. Yes. He said I would love
42:28
the reaction from from a woman in the crowd and
42:32
vote for a woman. And especially you know, Nikki Haley, I'm just
42:36
gonna say this. She's probably menopausal. We don't need that.
42:41
For people, regardless of their gender, just the right person
42:44
for the job for America. Hello.
42:47
Adam Curry: She's probably menopausal. We don't need that.
42:50
Okay. Here's NBC.
42:53
Unknown: Do you think Nikki Haley, did you ever consider
42:54
her?
42:58
So you don't really want to put it on? Let me hear it. Good
43:03
presidents. You have no balls to Scratch. Scratch your head all
43:06
woman's Good for him. My book is having babies and taking care of
43:10
the house. And that's that's the old thing. But you never even
43:16
considered her? No. Because mainly because she's a woman
43:20
because she's female. I mean, females don't get me wrong,
43:23
females know what they're doing. But they still gotta have a
43:25
little bit of guidance.
43:29
John C Dvorak: So this is the classic big networks. Let's find
43:33
a guy with a southern accent. Beautiful, and maybe even give
43:38
him a script to read as long as he talks like this and sounds
43:41
real stupid. He's good.
43:43
Adam Curry: He's good. He's good. Oh, do have did i Oh, I
43:46
have a mashup of a mashup of her dropping out of the race on the
43:49
ABC the view the
43:50
Unknown: time has now come to suspend my campaign. I said I
43:54
wanted Americans to have their voices heard. I have done that.
43:59
I have no regrets. In all likelihood Donald Trump will be
44:03
the Republican nominee when our party convention meets in July.
44:07
I congratulate him and wish him well. It is now up to Donald
44:12
Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who
44:15
did not support him. And I hope he does that. Sorry.
44:19
Adam Curry: Didn't mean to bum everybody up. Okay. All right.
44:23
So I'll tell you my experience. We didn't we Gillespie County is
44:27
a hand vote County. Yeah. And it was here right around the corner
44:33
from us at this little place called I think the Knitting
44:35
Factory where people buy yarn. And they had some classic cars
44:40
outside. And believe it or not, we also had a sheriff election
44:45
here and it's now turned into a runoff. And Chris Ayala is one
44:50
of the one of the candidates and Laura Logan's husband was in one
44:56
of those. Those like long tube costume You know, like the the
45:00
ones that the car dealers have that, you know, flop up and down
45:04
with the air and the big giant thing was you got the blower at
45:06
the bottom, and he was in it with his head popping out. For
45:13
crusade, Allah is a sheriff.
45:16
John C Dvorak: And it was at a lectionary was that anywhere
45:18
near the voting site? 100.
45:20
Adam Curry: It's 150 feet, I think, away from it. So he was
45:23
on the street. Yeah. Now there were people in lawn chairs. And
45:26
that's why the classic cars ones for this one for that. And it
45:30
was it was very, very low key. What was fascinating. Was there
45:36
were all these propositions, which are not proposition, you
45:39
know, it's just advice. It's not like you're actually voting on
45:43
something, but it was cool stuff like, Should Texas abolish all
45:47
real estate tax without increasing any other tax? Like,
45:50
Yep, yeah, I'll cross that box.
45:55
John C Dvorak: To get on the ballot, shall we? Should
45:57
Adam Curry: we arrest all illegal immigrants, I'll go
46:00
cross that one off. So it was pretty good. And it took until
46:05
Wednesday morning for for the votes to be counted in Gillespie
46:09
County, as it was, as it was hand count, but at least
46:13
everyone felt like their votes were counted. And so it was a it
46:16
was a nice, wholesome, old school voting experience. And
46:21
you in California, where was it being held? But it was at a
46:24
school and
46:26
John C Dvorak: some near the library? Okay. It was an off
46:29
there's a room off there was a community rec room or something.
46:34
And it was you know, you go there's nobody there. I mean,
46:36
there's maybe I mean, I went to in the afternoon, so it wasn't
46:40
gonna be a lot of people. And I was the guy there they go
46:42
through this process of this and that and they never asked for
46:45
voter ID. Did they ask for a voter ID there? Yeah,
46:49
Adam Curry: well, of course, we have to show our our driver's
46:52
license Absolutely.
46:53
John C Dvorak: No, no, here.
46:55
Unknown: 00.
46:58
John C Dvorak: What's your address? And here it is, is this
47:00
you? And they flip it over and they get this little computer
47:03
little lap? Like a tablet computer? They keep flipping it
47:07
over that he's right on something and he flips it over
47:10
and you can look at the screen flips over? And what was
47:15
Adam Curry: the screen? What was on the screen? It was like
47:17
John C Dvorak: Is this you and it had your name and address and
47:19
you had to check a box? Yes, this is me. And then you had to
47:21
sign it. But you signed it with a you know, like, I don't know
47:25
if people have noticed this. But at the grocery store nowadays,
47:29
they're always want you to sign on the little screen that was
47:32
Adam Curry: their little button to tip 20% or 25%. So the
47:37
John C Dvorak: you know, if you notice that if you go to the
47:39
grocery store, and you have this sign, you can put an X so you
47:43
can do a scribble. Yeah. And signature except that it always
47:48
says that what you do is same with this, because there was a
47:52
little section there and they give you a rubber pan. And you
47:55
tried signing my name and it was just a couple of Bob's there
47:59
Adam Curry: since we've been doing the show so long do you
48:00
remember we had the report that some guy got busted because he
48:04
was signing it by drawing penises?
48:08
John C Dvorak: I don't remember that. But okay. Like, that's
48:10
what I look and look like. So I signed and nothing was terrible
48:14
because I didn't put the right pressure on something the person
48:17
next to me that there's two of these. And she signed Anders is
48:20
the big flourishing signature over the screen. I didn't
48:23
realize it full screen was hot, but okay, so it didn't didn't
48:26
matter. And the guy says you want to go to the paper ballot
48:29
or do you want to go to the machine? He says the machine is
48:33
really cool.
48:34
Adam Curry: Oh, he Oh, he was prompting nudging you, nudging
48:37
you towards the machine?
48:39
John C Dvorak: Well, I was gonna go for the machine anyway. But
48:41
yes, he did kind of, but it was it was like, you know, it's
48:44
faster he mentioned. So I go to the machine and it's a machine.
48:49
It was a big screen is very nice. I have to say because
48:53
they've had admin screens in the past and know that it said the
48:56
bottom Dominion systems, I said, i Great i get to use, I get to
49:00
be at firsthand experience. So I go in and it's gorgeous screen,
49:07
very slick. And so you're supposed to vote in California.
49:11
There's you know, they they have state that US senator is going
49:15
to be Adam Schiff versus Steve Garvey versus Katey Porter, the
49:20
big three and then there's like 50 other people on the ballot.
49:24
So I'm looking I swear that I went through that whole screen
49:28
looking for Steve Garvey's name because I'm voting for him and
49:32
not voted for Adam Schiff and I when I went away free should
49:35
mention that when I go in, I'm an independent non affiliated so
49:38
I get to choice of three different ballots. I get to an
49:42
independent ballot, some other ballot peace and freedom or
49:45
something and Democrat, so I picked Democrat, the Republicans
49:49
do not allow this if you want to vote on the Republican primary,
49:52
you have to be registered. We'll
49:54
Adam Curry: just stop you for a second. So So we went and and
49:57
they said there's only one ballot said Do you mean? Well,
50:00
there's only this only Republican ballot. I said, but
50:03
Mr. Independent, no, there's only one ballot if you want to
50:05
vote Democrat. If you want to vote in the Democrat ballot, you
50:08
have to go to San Antonio. Watch. Yeah, this is weird. This
50:13
is weird. But
50:15
John C Dvorak: that's a bit much. Yeah.
50:16
Adam Curry: I thought I
50:18
John C Dvorak: gave me the register. They gave me the
50:19
choice. I did this. I've gone through this before. So I always
50:22
picked the Democrat ballot. I think it's funny. So I go in
50:26
there, I voted for Steve Garvey. But I'm telling you the first
50:29
time we went through the list, I could not find his name. I went
50:31
through the list the second time I could not find his name. The
50:34
third time I went through the list, you scroll up and down is
50:37
how big this list is. Oh, there he is not used. So I don't know
50:41
if he was even on it with a wheel
50:42
Adam Curry: or is it touchscreen or 100 Green touchscreen.
50:46
John C Dvorak: So you flip it up and down. And so I finally found
50:49
him and there he was I vote and then he had to vote twice for
50:52
Steve Garvey. Because there is a replacement Senator that's going
50:57
to be in for a couple of months, and there's the six year one. So
51:01
then the only and that's why I voted here and there and I voted
51:04
for Dean Phillips for presidents that have Biden, and whatever
51:08
that guy's name was Jean Phillips. Dean Phillips is Dean
51:12
Phillips, somebody can correct me if I'm wrong, but some Dean
51:15
somebody some congressman is running against Biden. So then
51:18
we went to the propositions of course, and I vote no on
51:21
everything that involves money except to prop one because prop
51:24
one is our was promoted by everybody starting with Newsom
51:30
it's racist. This is a Grich one I've already Yes. reestablishes
51:35
the mental health institutions in California. Yes, absolutely.
51:39
We're that we're on and at the table, you know, the dining room
51:43
table everyplace else it's like, and they promote this idea.
51:47
Ronald Reagan shut down the mental health facilities in
51:51
California when he was
51:52
Adam Curry: governor. I was a proposition at the time wasn't
51:55
it? wasn't an every No, Greg and just shut it down. shut
51:57
John C Dvorak: him down.
51:58
Adam Curry: Because everyone was bugging him about it. Yeah, the
52:01
Democrats. They wanted to shut down exactly the
52:04
John C Dvorak: Democrat was here the whole time. And I watched
52:07
the whole procedure and it was the new One Flew Over the
52:09
Cuckoo's Nest is out and everything in between juicy and
52:12
it was the Democrats talking about getting rid of the you
52:15
know, Reagan didn't care. Get rid of these these places
52:19
getting shut them all down. They're
52:20
Adam Curry: terrible beginning of the homeless problem in
52:23
America.
52:24
John C Dvorak: Exactly. Yeah, that's true. That's true. And so
52:29
So now they're blaming the whole thing on Reagan, and we have to
52:32
re establish it is just too funny. That's, that's anyway, so
52:37
then I so when you do the Dominion date, it's got a little
52:41
HP printer next to it. And after your votes are done, they go
52:44
through a lot of process, you got to confirm this and confirm
52:46
that and you got to look it over twice, and then you push a
52:49
button, and the printer eats it. The printer coughs out a print
52:55
out of your votes. And that's it with a barcode on it. And it
53:00
says who you voted for. It's got all the votes on there. And then
53:02
you take that and you shove it in it and yes, I
53:05
Adam Curry: liked and yeah, and then the Eagles and the sloth
53:08
slurps it up. Now
53:10
John C Dvorak: the slot is a slot of dishes the box oh,
53:12
there's nothing slurping it last time I went there was a slurp
53:16
device. Yeah, the slipper. Now this went into a just a box. And
53:20
then I guess they they pack them up and then slip into a device
53:24
that never reads the barcodes with the barcode supposedly has
53:27
all the data. Now I would like to have brought my camera I
53:30
didn't. I didn't see any reason why. You can't can't use your
53:34
camera in the polling. Who says oh, there's there's signs
53:37
everywhere. No phone, no signs that I saw. I was California. So
53:42
I could have just printed out that printout and taking a
53:45
picture of it. And taking a picture of my screen. I could
53:48
have done a lot of photos. Yeah, I didn't do that. But it's looks
53:53
pretty if it was if it's done fairly. It's a nice product. And
53:59
dominion. And what do you think? What
54:02
Unknown: are you? Well, I
54:02
John C Dvorak: don't know. I have no idea. I mean, California
54:04
is you know, most of the votes are now Malin, which is real
54:08
corruptible. Yeah. So I have no idea of how they're doing as you
54:12
get it.
54:13
Adam Curry: I Voted sticker
54:15
John C Dvorak: to I took two of them. And did you wear one? So I
54:17
put not put two of them as I say, and you certainly want to
54:20
ask this. I voted twice. So great gag. So I
54:23
Adam Curry: had my I Voted sticker and I had a chess game
54:26
at a Java ranch here in town. I played chess with this guy on
54:29
Tuesdays. And and so the young I'll just call them the young
54:34
kids behind the behind the bar the baristas like Hey, Adam, is
54:38
there an election today? I'm like, Are you kidding me? Yeah.
54:42
And then after that I was walking through HEB. And so a
54:46
guy starts was hey, is there voting today? Like yes, it's
54:50
super Tuesday. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. No, where can I vote? It's
54:55
amazing. Yeah, I mean, people are just they're completely
54:59
ablaze. Previous to what's going on. Yes, totally. It's, that was
55:04
somewhat disheartening, actually. Like, oh, man, this is
55:08
no good. Anyway, voting has occurred and Donald Trump will
55:15
be the it'll be Trump versus Biden is going to be beautiful.
55:21
It'll be somewhat tiring for the next nine months. But we'll
55:24
stick with it. We'll try to keep your amygdala as in check. We'll
55:27
try to make it entertaining. Yes, entertaining and speaking
55:31
of entertaining, news be spared the Wicked Witch lost his.
55:45
thing down the weekend, which is Toria Nuland retires, retires
55:53
very surprising. I know you have some clips, I started off with a
55:57
Redux clip. Going back to just February 1, just a month ago,
56:02
she was in key leave,
56:04
Unknown: I have to say that I leave tonight, more encouraged
56:10
about unity, and the results about 2024. And its absolute
56:18
strategic importance for Ukraine. I also leave more
56:23
confident that even as Ukraine strengthens its defenses. Mr.
56:32
Putin is going to get some nice surprises on the battlefield,
56:36
and that Ukraine will make some very strong success
56:40
Adam Curry: this year. So we should have already taken the
56:43
sound quality of her announcement as a clue that
56:47
something was not going the way she wanted it. This was not a
56:50
good appearance by Toria. And she she said Oh Mr. Putin is
56:55
going to get some surprises on the battlefield. I'm now
56:59
thinking that was meant to be those tourists missiles. Toria
57:03
didn't get the tourists. And and she resigned. And I have some
57:08
thoughts but we agreed we agreed that you would play a couple
57:11
clips about her first.
57:13
John C Dvorak: Yes, I want to play at one of her biggest fans.
57:18
Adam Curry: Gregory Rondo rough.
57:20
John C Dvorak: Glenn Greenwald as gave her a send off. I have
57:23
three clips. And he's loved he loves her. He loves disappointed
57:30
that poor old Tory, as they like to call her is on the way out.
57:36
You're going to analyze this but let's listen to Glenn. Here's
57:40
one one of the
57:41
Unknown: most bloodthirsty and psychotic warmongers. The Occupy
57:44
high office in Washington resigned today, evidently and
57:48
hopefully bringing a shameful end to her long and destructive
57:51
career in Washington. Victoria Nuland, who worked for every
57:55
American president from Bill Clinton to Joe Biden, with the
57:58
sole exception that she was out of power only during the Trump
58:01
presidency, announced today that she was resigning her position
58:05
as Acting Deputy Secretary of State, a position to which he
58:08
had just been promoted last July, when the prior Deputy
58:11
Secretary of State retired, there was much speculation about
58:15
why newlon may have resigned now perhaps it was due to her anger
58:19
that the Biden administration is not doing more to fuel the war
58:22
in Ukraine against Russia one of our pet projects for decades,
58:25
though the Biden administration is impeded only because Congress
58:28
under the house speaker Mike Johnson won't approve another
58:31
$60 billion from that war. Perhaps it is anger over the
58:34
fact that the Biden White House is now typically criticizing
58:39
Israel, a country to which she is more devoted than almost
58:42
anybody in Washington, or perhaps and most likely, it was
58:46
due to the fact that she was just passed over to permanently
58:49
become the Deputy Secretary of State the position second in
58:52
line to ascend her lifelong ambition of becoming Secretary
58:56
of State. Whatever the reasons, and despite the horror show that
59:00
has already replaced her someone who also worked for Dick Cheney,
59:03
and he's been around the State Department for decades, there's
59:05
still much to celebrate from this news of the end, at least
59:09
for now, Victoria Nuland his career in government, she
59:12
started this dip Cheney's top adviser for his disastrous
59:14
invasion and occupation of Iraq. She then served as US ambassador
59:18
to NATO when the Bush administration, led by
59:20
Condoleezza Rice and Victoria Nuland began attempts to expand
59:24
NATO right up to the Russian border, including Ukraine. And
59:28
one can draw a direct line between that expansionist
59:30
mentality in 2007 and eight kind of decade long war in Ukraine
59:34
now taking place. I
59:36
Adam Curry: don't know if he mentions it. But you and I were
59:39
even talking about this. I think just last week, about how cute
59:43
she was back in the day. It
59:45
John C Dvorak: doesn't. He does not shame her for turning into a
59:49
kind of a hole. Yeah, but we were horrible looking. When we
59:52
least
59:53
Adam Curry: well, we will and and not only that, but she had a
59:56
mannerism that had something very, very and interesting under
1:00:00
tone of vixen NESC type. Yeah mannerism when she was on things
1:00:06
a C span interview that's been going around big
1:00:09
John C Dvorak: nurse. I'm sorry it was the big nurse character
1:00:13
in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest nest.
1:00:16
Adam Curry: That's what she looks like now.
1:00:18
John C Dvorak: Well, she, she looks, she's always looked like
1:00:21
the woman who played that nurse, nurse cracked, yet cracked,
1:00:24
ratchet. Ratchet ratchet. But I mean, she had this funny way of
1:00:29
talking and it was she was always like, you know, like
1:00:31
you're talking to an insane person all the time. Well, and
1:00:35
she's she is creepy when she was thin and kind of pretty.
1:00:41
Physically pretty. But then when she started talking, she had
1:00:44
this nurse ratchet quality that was extremely uncomfortable to
1:00:51
watch. And she did he didn't play. He played that clip of her
1:00:54
on C span. But I don't have that I have here's part two of this
1:00:58
last obviously
1:00:59
Unknown: produced a comprehensive look at the rotted
1:01:01
life and bloodthirsty value system and warmongering
1:01:04
obsession that Victoria Nuland has pursued and implemented for
1:01:08
decades under the rule of both political parties. Given that we
1:01:11
have an audience composed of many people who are recent
1:01:13
arrivals in the last several months. And given that her
1:01:15
departure is really a momentous occasion to take a look at what
1:01:18
she did. We will show you that report we prepared last August
1:01:21
as it is more relevant now than ever Upon her departure. Elected
1:01:29
officials who wield a lot of power in Washington Jews
1:01:31
sometimes receive a fair amount of media attention. But
1:01:34
oftentimes the people who really wield power in Washington, the
1:01:37
ones who aren't accountable to the democratic process who stay
1:01:41
in power, regardless of which political party you vote for,
1:01:44
get far too little attention given how much influence they
1:01:47
wield. And that is definitely the case for Joe Biden's new
1:01:52
Deputy Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland, who has been
1:01:56
occupying crucial positions in the US government going all the
1:02:01
way back to the Clinton administration through the Bush
1:02:03
administration, through the Obama administration skipping
1:02:06
over Donald Trump, and now we'll do more power than ever,
1:02:10
especially over Ukraine in the war in Ukraine under Joe Biden.
1:02:13
She really deserves a lot more attention than she's received.
1:02:17
So let's look at first of all, at one of the one of my favorite
1:02:22
British reporting outlets, which is responsible statecraft. When
1:02:27
Victoria Nuland was appointed in July 20, July of 25, they said
1:02:31
the following quote, Uber Russia Hawk Victoria Nuland rises to
1:02:35
Acting Deputy Secretary of State she's done as much as anyone to
1:02:40
sour us Russia ties now she is one of Washington's top
1:02:43
diplomats. Quote in a little remark move the Biden
1:02:47
administration announced Monday that Victoria Nuland will take
1:02:50
over as the acting second in command is that the State
1:02:53
Department she replaces Wendy Sherman who plans to retire at
1:02:56
the end of this week. Newman's appointment will be a boon for
1:03:00
Russia hawks, who wants to turn up the heat on the Kremlin. But
1:03:04
for those who favor a negotiated end to the conflict in Ukraine,
1:03:07
a promotion for the notoriously quote undiplomatic diplomat will
1:03:11
be a bitter pill. Man,
1:03:13
Adam Curry: I even though it's always hard to listen to him,
1:03:17
it's better than reading his long pieces. Oh, it's much, much
1:03:22
better than reading that stuff. And well,
1:03:25
John C Dvorak: he was his long pieces are excellent. If he's
1:03:27
got an editor. Yeah, well, we know he doesn't he hasn't had
1:03:30
that for 10 years. No, nobody has editors anymore. You have to
1:03:33
do either do it yourself, or you have to have somebody to help
1:03:36
you or what when I write my pieces for substack, which I
1:03:39
need to do a couple more. I use one of our producers who's a
1:03:43
copy editor. And she does a great job.
1:03:45
Adam Curry: Yes. From the oasis from the waist anyway.
1:03:49
John C Dvorak: So here, he finishes it up. And they just
1:03:51
got to look got a nice little conclusion. At the end. Just
1:03:54
imagine
1:03:54
Unknown: you are the one of the leading advocates for the war in
1:03:59
Iraq, promising that there's all the success in the war in
1:04:02
Afghanistan, and then demanding NATO be expanded into Eastern
1:04:09
Europe up to the border, including Ukraine and be used as
1:04:13
a tool for regime change operations, including in Libya,
1:04:16
you have all these bloody, bloody disasters on your plate.
1:04:20
And American public opinion is against all of them, you would
1:04:23
think somebody's reputation and credibility in Washington would
1:04:27
be crippled as a result of advocating so many destructive
1:04:32
policies that resulted in the deaths of so many people
1:04:34
unnecessarily for reasons that completely backfired on American
1:04:39
foreign American interests as they were defined at the time.
1:04:42
But that's not how Washington works ever. Jeffrey Goldberg got
1:04:46
caught spreading crucial eyes, using the pages of the New
1:04:51
Yorker promoting the idea that Saddam Hussein was in alliance
1:04:54
with al Qaeda, which like 70% of Americans do conclude that
1:04:59
Saddam use Seen had participated in 911 attacks, which got them
1:05:02
to justify and support the invasion of Iraq. He got
1:05:07
journalism awards for spreading that lie on behalf of us
1:05:10
security state. And as we know, he now occupies the position of
1:05:13
editor in chief of the Atlantic. And he also just got promoted by
1:05:16
having a PBS show given to him. That has long been called
1:05:20
Washington weak. So he's advanced. The more he slide, the
1:05:23
more bloody were bloody wars Victoria Nuland is involving
1:05:29
herself in and advocating and curing and justifying, the more
1:05:33
she advances in bipartisan Washington doesn't matter. You
1:05:37
could have gone to the polls in 2008 and voted for John McCain.
1:05:40
You could have gone to the polls and voted for Barack Obama. And
1:05:43
Victoria Nuland would have ended up running things for the State
1:05:46
Department. Hmm.
1:05:49
Adam Curry: Well, I think there's a lot going on and
1:05:53
there's no coincidences in the kingdom. I would say that the so
1:05:58
called leaked call of the German loose VAFA top brass is not a
1:06:06
coincidence. Yeah, that this had to happen because we are now
1:06:11
shoving Ukraine on to Germany we've got McCrone out there
1:06:17
saying don't be cowards and and was was This is war. This is not
1:06:23
good. Whoa, what happened here? Oh, I haven't this is very weird
1:06:26
that has happened. There's that there is a lot of chatter. For
1:06:37
instance, chatter item number one, that there's some kind of
1:06:44
investigation going on about Ukraine. A financial
1:06:49
investigation of $120 billion spent on open items that were
1:06:55
unclear as to where that went. Now. I don't know that for sure.
1:07:02
Klitschko Klich her boy there glitch is openly criticizing the
1:07:07
Lensky. And if I'm what I'm hearing is everything is
1:07:12
collapsing. Looking around at some of these, I went all over
1:07:16
the cloud one on substack. I'm looking at blogs, this. Here's
1:07:20
what this is Puck. Puck writes a lot about stuff going on MDC bad
1:07:25
blood at states anger and resentment is exploding and
1:07:28
Foggy Bottom. After Kurt Campbell, a close friend of Tony
1:07:33
Blinken was nominated for Deputy Secretary of State over the
1:07:37
agency's more experienced acting number two. Victoria Nuland
1:07:41
Well, this is not entirely true. She is absolutely experienced in
1:07:48
all things Russia, I believe this represents a pivot to
1:07:52
China's bricks I would say more generally, but to China, and I
1:07:57
think we can back it up because we have seen Well, first of all,
1:08:01
the guy who's taking over from her is John Bass. John Bass was
1:08:07
ambassador to Afghanistan during the very successful of pullout
1:08:14
in 2021. So that tells me Hey, this guy knows how to do it. If
1:08:19
we got to pull out of the this Ukraine mess let him do it. He
1:08:22
knows how to screw things up just fine. The successor to
1:08:28
cookie cookie on the My Don Nuland is this guy, Kurt
1:08:33
Campbell, and I have and he made a big mistake of going on a
1:08:36
podcast a couple of months ago. So I have some clips from that
1:08:39
and to kind of get a little understanding of him. But let's
1:08:42
just put it all together. Why I think this is a pivot to the to
1:08:47
China to the bricks or as you'll hear later, the Indo Pacific.
1:08:51
It's all about the military industrial complex, they cannot
1:08:55
get this money. The money is just not happening. The Trump is
1:09:00
telling the Republicans not to do it. Now the Senate is all
1:09:03
gridlocked. And the Democrats are saying, well, it's the
1:09:06
Republicans fault. They didn't want to do the deal, who wanted
1:09:09
to do the deal. So the money is not happening in the military
1:09:12
industrial complex, our biggest expenditure, one of our biggest
1:09:16
expenditures, they want their money. And I think pivoting to
1:09:21
China is great for a whole bunch of reasons. Number one, you get
1:09:27
to build big ships, and subs. And we got a note from one of
1:09:32
our producers last week about the air bases in the in the Indo
1:09:41
Pacific. Here's the link that we were given game on with China us
1:09:45
to restore Tinian airfield once home to largest B 29 bomber
1:09:50
fleet during World War Two. And this note we got from one of our
1:09:56
producers, if you can recall was a screenshot of somebody in the
1:09:59
news Oh, and that screenshot literally said keep your eye on
1:10:03
the stocks. The contractors are coming out. You remember that
1:10:07
text?
1:10:09
John C Dvorak: Yes. And I specifically asked I think I
1:10:11
sent a note back what stocks do we tell you? I know. I know. Of
1:10:15
course he did it curious. So,
1:10:17
Adam Curry: another reason why I think we pivot is because Trump
1:10:21
has said he's going to end this war, but Trump hates China. And
1:10:25
Trump loves building huge ships, huge, huge ships. We got subs,
1:10:31
big, beautiful subs. You won't see them. They're under the
1:10:33
water. We've got fentanyl. We've been told that there's Chinese
1:10:39
coming across the border military aged men very, very
1:10:42
scary. Maybe we can stop this invasion of the military age,
1:10:46
man. Maybe we can get some troops in the Darien Gap or
1:10:49
Ecuador. But I'm seeing a lot of military spending in our future
1:10:54
and then right on cue. Tic tock is back.
1:11:01
Unknown: Fueled by viral videos tick tock offers a stage for
1:11:04
million. But soon the curtain could be coming down new
1:11:08
legislation set for review by a US House committee tomorrow
1:11:11
requires tick tock to separate itself or divest from its
1:11:15
Chinese based owner bytedance or risk of banned from app stores
1:11:20
in the US
1:11:21
we implore bite dance to sell tick tock so that its American
1:11:26
users can enjoy their dance videos, their bad lip sync
1:11:30
everything else that goes along with tick tock.
1:11:35
Amid growing fears, the personal information tick tock devours
1:11:39
from its users could fall into the hands of Chinese
1:11:42
adversaries, there may be millions of Tik Tok users who
1:11:44
say don't ban this. We love this.
1:11:47
Well, the choice is up to tick tock they have a choice to make
1:11:50
as to whether or not they want to remain with bytedance that we
1:11:53
know is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.
1:11:56
Tick tock blast this plan saying they already have firewalls in
1:11:59
place to protect user data and they say it would trample on the
1:12:03
First Amendment rights of 170 million Americans. So
1:12:07
Adam Curry: we have a nice overview of Americans you can
1:12:11
get ready to hate China because military age men this is when
1:12:14
Brett Weinstein is promoting this you got to pay attention.
1:12:18
John C Dvorak: Yes, I do have to do to tick tock clips about
1:12:21
this. Yes,
1:12:22
Adam Curry: I'd like to set you up I want to first say that this
1:12:25
bill was introduced by a Gallagher he's a Republican. His
1:12:29
one of his biggest donors is Google. And as part of the
1:12:32
legislation, bike dance slash tick tock we'll have five months
1:12:37
to make all data exportable so that people can export their
1:12:41
videos and put them on to YouTube. Coincidence? I think
1:12:47
not. Tick tock modulations
1:12:50
John C Dvorak: Yeah, they got the two parter this came from
1:12:53
NTD so it has the anti Chinese bent
1:12:56
Unknown: Chinese owned tick tock once again in the hot seat. This
1:12:59
comes as the White House has its backing a bipartisan bill aimed
1:13:02
at targeting tiktoks access to the US market entity Sam Wang
1:13:07
has details of the new legislation.
1:13:09
It's another round of action targeting tick tock and allowing
1:13:12
a CCP controlled entity like tick tock to become the dominant
1:13:16
media player in America would be like if in 1962 at the height
1:13:21
the height of the Cold War right before the Cuban Missile Crisis,
1:13:23
we'd allowed Pravda and the KGB to purchase the New York Times
1:13:26
The Washington Post ABC and NBC Capitol Hill Wednesday, a
1:13:30
bipartisan group of lawmakers and now this new legislation
1:13:33
title protecting Americans from foreign adversary control
1:13:36
application Act. The bill specifically describes tick tock
1:13:39
and is trying to own parent company bytedance as threats to
1:13:43
US national security. If the bill passes, tick tock will face
1:13:46
two options, either to divest from Biden's within about five
1:13:50
month or to face a total ban from all web hosting services in
1:13:53
the US. A Tiktok spokesperson responded to the legislation
1:13:57
saying it will trample on First Amendment rights of 170 million
1:14:01
Americans. The lawmaker said the bill isn't about going after the
1:14:05
app itself, but rather to address concerns surrounding its
1:14:08
ownership structure. Our goal is to decouple tick tock and other
1:14:13
platforms from the malign influence and control of the
1:14:17
Chinese Communist Party.
1:14:19
Americans data is always at risk, always at risk of seizure
1:14:23
by the CCP,
1:14:24
this is a CCP controlled company claiming to stand up for
1:14:27
Constitutional Rights while simultaneously engaging in
1:14:31
slavery and horrific human rights abuses.
1:14:34
Adam Curry: This is great before we go to your second clip, this
1:14:37
is also bullcrap, because the project Texas moved all that
1:14:42
data over to Oracle servers. I don't think it's all completed
1:14:46
yet. But you know, it's really specious to say that, you know,
1:14:51
oh, a CCP is controlling our data because if anyone's
1:14:55
controlling the minds of our people, it's the meta
1:14:58
Corporation which you've invested in. And, you know and
1:15:03
and, and you see what happens when you that might have been a
1:15:07
test you know, we had a quick turn off of Facebook and
1:15:11
Instagram and everybody freaked out and everyone's like, Oh,
1:15:13
what are we gonna do? And you want to take away tick tock you
1:15:19
want to see people freak out. So this is a clear message and I
1:15:22
just want to read a couple of quotes from some of the CO
1:15:25
signers of this bill including Elise Stefanik tick tock is
1:15:30
Communist China malware that is poisoning the minds of our next
1:15:34
generation and giving the CCP unfettered access to troves of
1:15:39
American data. Tick Tick Tock is digital fentanyl. The dangerous
1:15:48
link between tick tock and Chinese Communist Party has
1:15:50
never been more apparent. All Americans deserve access to
1:15:54
information and media platforms that are free from the influence
1:15:57
of hostile foreign actors like the CCP. But here's the facts.
1:16:01
Tick tock has been used by the CCP to silence free speech
1:16:05
unlike Twitter and Instagram, etc. Social media corporations
1:16:09
are attention fracking, America's youth and corroding
1:16:13
our democracy. These are all different quotes Tiktok owned by
1:16:17
the CCP is not true. We can allow we cannot allow CCP to
1:16:21
indoctrinate our children. That's a that was a quote from
1:16:26
Scott Adams. Congress can no longer Natalie Well, that's what
1:16:31
no that's it's not in this release. I'm just adding that
1:16:33
because that's what he always says. Let me see if there's any.
1:16:38
Any technology apps software language models owned by foreign
1:16:41
adversaries are unequivocal threats to our national
1:16:44
security. Tic tock is CCP spyware used by the regime to
1:16:49
steal Americans data and push harmful propaganda. Unlike all
1:16:54
the other social networks, including content showing
1:16:57
migrants how to illegally cross our southern border, supporting
1:17:01
Hamas terrorists and whitewashing 911 They promoted
1:17:05
the letter from Osama bin Laden, I mean this these people are so
1:17:10
transparent. This is all about the military industrial complex,
1:17:15
switching over to hating China for big ships, for subs and for
1:17:21
airfields. Here's the second of your Tiktok legislation clips.
1:17:24
Unknown: What's more, the legislation also allows the
1:17:27
White House to designate certain applications controlled by
1:17:29
foreign adversaries, namely China, Russia, Iran and North
1:17:33
Korea. Experts and top US officials have long voiced
1:17:36
concern over Biden's his ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
1:17:40
More specifically, that it could force Tiktok to submit American
1:17:43
users data.
1:17:44
The legislation we've got out today is a product of the
1:17:47
particularly the last year's worth of work, people are
1:17:49
starting to recognize that this isn't just about some Oh, my
1:17:52
data, my data might be not being used properly. No, that data is
1:17:55
being used to attack you and attack our country.
1:17:58
The House Energy and Commerce Committee will mark up the bill
1:18:00
Thursday. Now this is
1:18:02
Adam Curry: a load of horse crap. But you know, yes.
1:18:05
John C Dvorak: There's an irony here that always cracks me up is
1:18:09
that when Google and some of these other American companies
1:18:12
were in China, and they were gonna get bent out of shape and
1:18:15
kick them out? We're so aghast. How could they do that? They
1:18:19
don't like and you know, they hate the internet. They go we go
1:18:22
on and on and on. Now we're doing the exact same thing years
1:18:26
later. Oh, yeah. Does anybody see any hypocrisy here? Well,
1:18:34
Unknown: so
1:18:37
Adam Curry: we have a new guy, who is a Tony Blinken, his
1:18:42
buddy, Kurt Campbell, who is Kurt Campbell. Well, he's He
1:18:48
reminds me of my uncle don a little bit without the humor,
1:18:51
which is sad because I had to listen to an hour long China
1:18:55
talks podcast recorded bell with a C or a K occurred with a que
1:19:00
Curt M Campbell. And he is how you he has been leading the Indo
1:19:06
Pacific strategy for the Biden administration. CEO of the Asia
1:19:11
Group, LLC. Oh,
1:19:13
John C Dvorak: the Asia group tell ya.
1:19:16
Adam Curry: He served as a National Security Council
1:19:18
coordinator for the Indo Pacific and the Indo Pacific is I think
1:19:21
the term we're going to be hearing. Although really,
1:19:25
they're talking about bricks because we can still hate Russia
1:19:28
through China. You see, because China is one of the big
1:19:31
supporters of Russia. They're in this BRICS coalition. The BRICS,
1:19:36
just by coincidence announced their their, you know, their new
1:19:39
SWIFT system, which will be launching next year, Blockchain
1:19:42
based I'm sure it'd be fantastic. You know, Britain
1:19:47
just announced. Yes.
1:19:49
John C Dvorak: I'm sorry. I'm looking at his bio and this day,
1:19:51
he's got all the earmarks of what you we be notice your
1:19:55
Council on Foreign Relations, blah, blah, blah. But this one
1:19:58
cracks me up 20 18 to 2019 Campbell was the Kissinger
1:20:02
Fellow at the McCain institute.
1:20:05
Adam Curry: He's a war criminal by default.
1:20:08
John C Dvorak: Wow.
1:20:09
Adam Curry: All right. So I have a couple clips that I pulled and
1:20:12
we can kind of get a strategy and the off the bat, I was
1:20:15
surprised, but then again, not really because like, oh, that's
1:20:20
an if you want to go after we want, we need to get the
1:20:23
American public ramped up now, like, the Russia thing is over
1:20:28
is no one no one's interested Putin bad. I know, he's, he's,
1:20:31
and he's not that whatever. It's Ukraine, we don't get and it's
1:20:34
great to have, you know, to have a distant enemy, we can all hate
1:20:38
Chinese. It's easy to hate him. They're stealing our data.
1:20:42
They're, they're sending spies across the board and military
1:20:45
age. They're bastards. Exactly. It's very easy for us to hate
1:20:49
the Chinese. I know how Americans work. I know how we
1:20:52
think we're just easy that way. But how can we really hate
1:20:56
China, let's
1:20:57
Unknown: set a baseline goal for US policy in 2050, the
1:21:01
traditional aim of opposing any other power, and this is so this
1:21:05
is the China talks podcast host exercising exclusive hegemonic
1:21:09
control over Asia or the Pacific, or we can take yours
1:21:12
slightly more ambitious of, you know, sustaining the operating
1:21:15
system or operating system that the US has set up in Asia over
1:21:18
the past 75 years, my
1:21:20
like, little
1:21:23
rubric for the three things the US needs to execute on is long
1:21:26
term economic growth, maintaining alliances networks,
1:21:29
and not imploding domestically. You had, then you sort of have a
1:21:34
major war as a potential wildcard there, am I missing or
1:21:37
what what's missing in that schematic?
1:21:38
John C Dvorak: So look, I think that's a good list, I would just
1:21:42
add one thing to this, if I can, then I recognize that, you know,
1:21:46
for people who's sick about power, sometimes they don't like
1:21:52
the intrusion of issues that are not traditional. But in fact, if
1:21:59
we don't figure out how to consequentially deal with
1:22:03
climate change, the effects of which are hitting us much
1:22:08
earlier, in a much more profound way that I think even some of
1:22:12
the warriors thought, I don't think we'll be able to deal with
1:22:19
some of these other challenges. So I think what I'd add to that,
1:22:23
probably are some transactional issues. But at the top of that
1:22:26
really would be climate change. And that means sea level rise,
1:22:30
that means, you know, uncontrolled migration, that
1:22:34
means, you know, changes in everything, from crops to sea
1:22:42
habitats, these are all at risk now, much earlier than
1:22:45
anticipated. And I think, in truth, we have been loath
1:22:52
Unknown: to try not to call out particular countries, but China
1:22:55
is going to have to do much more in this arena, if we are to
1:23:00
address the most significant elements of climate change over
1:23:04
the course of the next period ahead.
1:23:06
Adam Curry: So he's, he's, you know, this is three months ago,
1:23:08
so
1:23:09
John C Dvorak: the suit was that dud.
1:23:10
Adam Curry: That's Kurt Campbell.
1:23:12
John C Dvorak: Oh, my God, the guy's got an IQ of 80.
1:23:16
Adam Curry: He plays violin. Curie does now. And that was the
1:23:20
longest clip I have, luckily, but I thought it was interesting
1:23:23
that right off the bat, he starts talking about climate
1:23:26
change. And I think that we're going to try and use this and
1:23:29
say, hey, it's one big world. And China is screwing us with
1:23:35
all their coal plants, and we can we I think there's an
1:23:38
opportunity to move that over to blaming China, that there's a
1:23:44
real opportunity. And I normally would not have played this clip,
1:23:48
mainly because I vetoed playing this douche. But John Kerry said
1:23:52
something very similar about Russia just the other day,
1:23:56
Unknown: I believe that Russia has the ability to be able to
1:24:00
make enormous changes if it really wanted to. I mean, if
1:24:04
Russia has the ability to wage a war illegally and invade another
1:24:09
country, they ought to be able to find the effort to be
1:24:13
responsible in the climate issue. And, okay, unfortunately,
1:24:19
because of the actions that Russia took, in an unprovoked
1:24:24
illegal war against another nation, we have not been engaged
1:24:31
in discussions with Russia, sadly, I say sadly, because it's
1:24:34
a loss for the world, not to be able to have Russia acting
1:24:39
constructively on this issue. But we need every country
1:24:44
including Russia, Russia is one of the largest emitters of the
1:24:47
emitters in the world. If Russia wanted to show good face. They
1:24:52
could go out and announce what their reductions are going to be
1:24:55
and make a greater effort to reduce emissions now, and maybe
1:24:58
that would open up the door for be able to feel better about
1:25:02
what Russia is choosing to do at this point in time.
1:25:06
Adam Curry: So we'll feel better about Russia. In Ukraine, if as
1:25:11
long as they're all going on climate change. I mean, these
1:25:15
people are insane. So so it wouldn't surprise me if climate
1:25:20
change is a part of the strategy, but tick tock is
1:25:23
probably going to be a lot more effective now back to Kurt
1:25:26
Campbell. And he has because you know, he's he's the expert, he
1:25:30
is the expert on all things China, how do the Chinese view
1:25:34
themselves on the world stage,
1:25:36
John C Dvorak: I don't think the Chinese believe in any way that
1:25:39
they have elements of decline in their system, I think what
1:25:43
animates them is not only a sense of aggrievement, at the
1:25:46
highest level, the idea of reversing decades or a century
1:25:50
of what they call humiliation, but also a sense that China's
1:25:55
time has come that this remarkable accumulation of power
1:25:59
and capacity, now has exerted itself fully to a leading role
1:26:03
on the global stage, I think give me respects they feel that
1:26:06
they're unique, and that can't be replicated. The steps that
1:26:10
they've taken internationally have been to provide capacities,
1:26:14
either technology or police services, or whatever, on the at
1:26:21
the behest of local authoritarians, whether it's in
1:26:24
Africa, or the Pacific or South Asia to try to prop up come
1:26:33
leaders that are that tend to be more flexible China issues that
1:26:38
matter to China.
1:26:39
Adam Curry: So this tells me that they're also going to do
1:26:42
some stuff with Africa. Because you know, China is now big
1:26:46
there, they're going to be the real problem. And at the head of
1:26:49
the pack is GE, he's just as bad as Putin, I
1:26:52
John C Dvorak: think some of the things that we hear from people
1:26:57
in China today suggests that the kind of information and the
1:27:06
people that that President Xi gets information from is
1:27:10
increasingly limited. And that sometimes it's hard in the
1:27:15
system currently to speak truth to power. And so we're seeing a
1:27:21
repeat of history of the kind that we saw in the mouse period
1:27:24
where you know, only a certain kind of leader, but certain kind
1:27:28
of information makes the very top. And so that does concern us
1:27:33
that you know you that you like very much for the people that
1:27:38
you're engaging with to have a deep, full understanding of the
1:27:43
world in which they're operating. I think what we see
1:27:46
in a variety of places like Ukraine, we think China's
1:27:50
calculus and decision making has been informed by a number of
1:27:55
things that are concerning.
1:27:57
Adam Curry: So they're also helping Ukraine, I'm telling
1:28:00
you, China is the new bad guy, and the Indo Pacific is the
1:28:05
region to worry about the
1:28:07
John C Dvorak: dynamism of the global economy of
1:28:11
Adam Curry: and I'm so sorry, I don't think we'll ever play
1:28:13
clips from this guy. Again, I know this guy is
1:28:15
John C Dvorak: a clone of Kerry, he has a different accent. But
1:28:19
he's the slow talking clone of care, Honduras can't get to the
1:28:24
point, blah, blah, blah, likes to hear his own voice.
1:28:28
Adam Curry: I had to edit so much just to get anything out of
1:28:31
this. But I think it's worth the pain,
1:28:34
John C Dvorak: all issues associated with what's important
1:28:37
on the global stage are playing out in large part in the Indo
1:28:41
Pacific. I think that's of critical importance. And then
1:28:45
you're gonna want hopefully to see that the seeds of a
1:28:50
continuing, dominant, important American role continues. And so
1:28:56
I would say, those are the things that you hope for, and
1:29:00
you worry that either the American body politic grows
1:29:06
tired of those exertions, or hit an environment in which China
1:29:11
has been ambivalent, to create mechanisms for the kinds of
1:29:16
communications and crisis prevention that are necessary, I
1:29:21
think, to operate in this current arena that somehow there
1:29:25
is an accident or miscalculation that x escalates
1:29:30
unintentionally. There are lots of things to worry about, but
1:29:33
those are a couple false flag
1:29:35
Adam Curry: incoming is what I'm thinking and of course, that
1:29:37
would be Taiwan. But again, Mr. clone of carry is very slick.
1:29:43
When it comes to questions about Taiwan,
1:29:46
John C Dvorak: that you were kind of safe serves a lot of
1:29:48
capacities. Over a long period of time. One of the things you
1:29:53
learn usually the hard way, is not to be too loquacious and
1:30:00
answer a lot of hypotheticals associated
1:30:02
Unknown: with Taiwan. What's
1:30:03
Adam Curry: loquacious mean?
1:30:06
John C Dvorak: He's one of those words you kind of understand but
1:30:08
you can't just define this look it up
1:30:16
Adam Curry: anyone who says loquacious
1:30:18
John C Dvorak: is an asshole timing.
1:30:24
Adam Curry: Perfect timing that hey, we'll be here all week,
1:30:26
everybody Corrado. That's that talkative. loquacious means
1:30:31
talkative.
1:30:32
John C Dvorak: Pretty much. Yeah. I would simply say I think
1:30:35
US policy is clear. I think it is bipartisan. I think we are
1:30:40
determined to maintain the status quo and peace and
1:30:43
stability across the Taiwan Straits, tithing, increasingly,
1:30:46
that is accepted as a bipartisan national objective. And I think
1:30:53
we will do everything possible we can to sustain
1:30:55
Adam Curry: it. Big ships incoming. Alright, final clip.
1:30:58
He's got new couch, aside here. Yeah, please.
1:31:02
John C Dvorak: You know, we had for years recognize Taiwan as
1:31:06
China. And I think it was during just before Reagan gotten the
1:31:11
presidency, that they switch gears and they kick Taiwan out
1:31:15
of throw them under the bus. And now we don't even recognize them
1:31:19
as a country. We do not recognize Taiwan, United States.
1:31:24
We do business with them. Yeah, but we do not recognize them as
1:31:27
a country yet. I mean, this is like the Ukraine. We've never
1:31:31
done trading. They're not our buddies. We never we don't even
1:31:34
know, you know, nobody ever goes there. And all of a sudden, we
1:31:38
have to like now we had to defend Taiwan against the
1:31:41
Chinese. How about stepping up right now and recognizing them
1:31:46
as a country for big shots? big talker, so no loquacious types.
1:31:50
And
1:31:51
Adam Curry: notice, he said, Taiwan Straits. So when you talk
1:31:55
about the Taiwan Straits, you're talking ships, ships, the Indo
1:32:00
Pacific region, I'm, I'm
1:32:01
John C Dvorak: liking your thesis here.
1:32:02
Adam Curry: All right, we have new calculus,
1:32:04
John C Dvorak: much of our international system, over
1:32:07
decades has been designed, that at its core, are efficiencies
1:32:14
and lowest, you know, cost for production. You know, accepting,
1:32:23
you know, cheap
1:32:26
Adam Curry: sheep slave labor from China JUST SAY IT
1:32:29
John C Dvorak: capabilities to technologies are better done in
1:32:32
some places than others. Right. Right. But I think we're
1:32:35
probably heading into a new period where a new set of
1:32:38
calculus spy
1:32:40
Adam Curry: there it is China, we're not going to manufacture
1:32:43
in your country anymore is important,
1:32:46
John C Dvorak: you know, resilience, durability, you
1:32:50
know, the opportunity to be able to count on more than one source
1:32:58
of supply. All those steps, build redundancy into the
1:33:02
system. And I think probably those steps are smart, and they
1:33:07
will continue. So it didn't. But it is a substantial
1:33:10
reorientation at this system that had been about just in time
1:33:16
that had been about maximizing efficiency, over resiliency. And
1:33:21
I think we're reorienting towards a system that's more
1:33:26
predictable, it may be higher cost in certain areas, maybe
1:33:31
slightly slower, but we think we'll probably be made more
1:33:34
durable. In the event of a crisis. It's
1:33:38
Adam Curry: like this guy was written into the script for
1:33:41
Trump is perfect. Perfect. Get your manufacturing out of China
1:33:47
now. And the end is no sales anymore. iPhones not selling
1:33:52
anymore in China. Now we're gonna, we're pivoting away with
1:33:56
our manufacturing, but we're gonna focus on these evil, evil
1:33:59
slanty eyes over there, because they're stealing your data and
1:34:02
controlling your children. This is on deck and it's perfect for
1:34:07
Trump. Huge ships. Huge Red Sea. I think the Red Sea is also a
1:34:12
part of it. You know, it all really more ships in the Red
1:34:15
Sea. And we were back we have we have neglected building bridge,
1:34:19
there's going to be the USS Trump. It's coming and put that
1:34:23
in the Red Book. One final thing I just thought this was
1:34:26
interesting. Campbell, did something that I think is not
1:34:31
done in American diplomacy. He mentioned the G word had a
1:34:36
chance to get out. And I have to say he grew up in California.
1:34:41
And by the way, he knows a lot about Russia because he also
1:34:44
went to school in Moscow by coincidence, so there's, he can
1:34:47
cover the Toria bits with that. And he says that where he grew
1:34:51
up was very similar to Armenia. I
1:34:54
John C Dvorak: had a chance to get an educational scholarship
1:34:57
so I went to the former Soviet and Soviet Army And then also
1:35:01
had some time in Moscow as well. I have very fond memories of
1:35:06
growing up there and learning about that culture. But I
1:35:10
remember if you can imagine it, that was basically my first time
1:35:13
going abroad. And so when the Armenians put left's Armenia in
1:35:18
fire around the First World War and with the genocide with
1:35:24
Turkey, and they came to settle in the United States, they
1:35:28
settled in the San Joaquin Valley in California because it
1:35:32
looks so much like where they came from in Armenia yet on the
1:35:36
devil's city.
1:35:37
Adam Curry: I don't think that you're supposed to say that as a
1:35:39
diplomat. No, no,
1:35:40
John C Dvorak: you can't i can't say genocide. I
1:35:41
Adam Curry: can't say that was a genocide, but yet he did it. The
1:35:45
Turks
1:35:45
John C Dvorak: are getting bent out of shape when you do that.
1:35:48
Oh, yeah. Oh, you're a big deal.
1:35:50
Adam Curry: Yeah. So anyway, you know, the bricks are making
1:35:53
moves, and they're making all kinds of moves, maybe that is,
1:35:57
is seen as the as the new problem and what better than to
1:36:01
go after the C, you can't spell bricks without the C or without
1:36:05
the r. So this is I think, the focus and, and what we'll be
1:36:11
hearing and Toria has zero Indo Pacific experience. So she's out
1:36:17
of the game out, she just out. And now I think that as I said,
1:36:23
the the Red Sea and the Houthis they're ramping that up more
1:36:29
ships needed. The US military says at least three sailors have
1:36:33
been killed in a missile attack on a freighter off the coast of
1:36:35
Yemen that the first death since Houthi rebels began attacking
1:36:38
shipping in the Red Sea. The group says the crew of the
1:36:41
Barbados flagged cargo vessel True Confidence ignored warning
1:36:44
messages before it came under fire. The survivors were forced
1:36:48
to abandon ship, the Houthis have been attacking ships and
1:36:50
what they say is retaliation for Israeli military action in the
1:36:54
Gaza Strip. The group which is backed by Iran has forced
1:36:57
maritime traffic to divert away from the Red Sea and the Gulf of
1:37:00
Aden are the world's busiest shipping routes and busiest
1:37:05
shipping routes. So that's what I think is going on at the none
1:37:08
of this is coincidence all these things happening. I do have one
1:37:11
clip about Deutsche Avella because I really think that we
1:37:16
we leaked that that that call between the loofah for bras made
1:37:23
it look like Germany was putting boots on the ground like Germany
1:37:26
is in charge of the war now like here you go Germans, f the EU.
1:37:31
Go ahead, we're just gonna end by the way you pay for it. Now
1:37:35
you go ahead, you're paying for it. This is why the Camp David
1:37:39
Cameron came out yesterday and said, You know, I think that we
1:37:43
should probably give the Ukraine some credit. And he says we're
1:37:48
going to lend them money with the Russian the 300 billion and
1:37:52
Russian assets as collateral. Which is a fun, fun way to get
1:37:57
around it is Deutsche bellick deflecting blame
1:38:01
Unknown: Russia's disinformation campaign is in full swing in
1:38:03
Germany, and it's raising questions about the Chancellor's
1:38:07
credibility. Russia has leaked the recording of a call between
1:38:10
high ranking German Air Force officials and says this is proof
1:38:14
Germany is planning an attack on Russian targets. These claims
1:38:19
are false. We've listened to the recording and what you hear is a
1:38:23
theoretical discussion about what it would mean if Germany
1:38:26
decided to send its powerful Taurus Neufeld to Ukraine.
1:38:30
German Defense Minister Boris has Taurus warns. This is part
1:38:34
of Russia's playbook
1:38:35
as his tail matures. kiest in putting foot on gibbscam
1:38:39
survivor tentacle mine who believes in anger tradition
1:38:43
format, Shawn escaped on file tongue Eskandar homozygous last
1:38:47
night.
1:38:48
So he's telling the truth. In the call. The official spoke
1:38:51
about logistics technical requirements, and crucially what
1:38:55
the Ukrainians could use themselves for, such as an
1:38:58
attack on the bridge connecting Russia to Crimea, which is
1:39:01
Ukrainian territory. Ukraine says it urgently needs tourists.
1:39:06
So far German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has refused to provide
1:39:09
the weapon, his reasoning. He says it would require German
1:39:12
soldiers to be on the ground in Ukraine to help program the
1:39:16
system. But in the loop call the officers are heard laying out
1:39:19
ways in which that would not be the case. opposition politicians
1:39:23
are asking why the mismatch and here's all our assaults
1:39:27
misleading the public.
1:39:29
Adam Curry: Yeah, so Germany's in turmoil Now it's perfect.
1:39:33
It's perfect turmoil. McCrone out there saying we should not
1:39:37
be cowards. Do not be cowards. We can go we can fight in
1:39:43
Ukraine is for Europe, for the EU. And we're just letting them
1:39:48
we're just gonna let them just stink in it as we pivot to
1:39:54
China, and that's my story.
1:39:58
John C Dvorak: Well As that you're going to tell I thought
1:40:01
this presentation was going to involve word Victorian doula was
1:40:05
going to end up.
1:40:06
Adam Curry: I have no idea. I think she's she's gonna go to
1:40:09
some think tank and I mean she's, she needs to you know
1:40:14
what she needs to go to a spa.
1:40:17
John C Dvorak: Ah. You know I was just about to throw that in
1:40:19
I was gonna beat to that punch line but now she needs to go to
1:40:23
a spa. She definitely needs to go to a spa.
1:40:26
Adam Curry: I think that would be good for her go to the spa
1:40:29
girl.
1:40:30
John C Dvorak: Go to one of those spas in Germany the places
1:40:32
crawling. No,
1:40:34
Adam Curry: she's she's definitely not going to be
1:40:35
invited into Germany. Ah, was ba there no way. No way she goes
1:40:41
into the spa. In Germany. Especially not in Spa. Ah, you
1:40:49
what you got? I got more stole
1:40:51
John C Dvorak: Yeah. Did just wrap is the talk about pivoting?
1:40:56
Let's go to Fannie Willis or Barney or oh my god,
1:40:59
Adam Curry: I have to ask you a question. Did you see the any
1:41:03
footage of the I forget what her name was now, the Georgia had a
1:41:10
session where they had a lawyer who they brought in to
1:41:13
investigate all of the billing of Wade and in the stuff that he
1:41:18
sent through to Funny Funny while while Wallace's office.
1:41:22
Yeah. Did you see that?
1:41:24
John C Dvorak: I saw some of it.
1:41:25
Adam Curry: I mean, it's amazing. The guy was just like,
1:41:29
so we build $700,000 for work that, you know, that normally
1:41:35
would cost? You know, 150,000 he was yeah, he was just writing
1:41:40
up. Normally lawyers do six minute increments or 10 minute
1:41:44
increments. He's like eight hours drafted some docs. Boom.
1:41:49
Yeah,
1:41:49
John C Dvorak: no, it this is a corrupt operation. Totally. She
1:41:52
has. Well these clips talk about her being a felon. Pasco and
1:41:57
Unknown: Georgia attorney Ashley merchant. Yeah, that's that's
1:42:00
fine before a state panel investigating attorney District
1:42:04
Attorney fair, Fanny Willis. She told the panel the embattled
1:42:08
prosecutor has committed a felony. And today's legal
1:42:12
correspondent Arlene Richards has more on the hearing. To my
1:42:15
allegation of my motion is that you know the bigger the case is
1:42:18
the more money Georgia
1:42:19
attorney Ashley merchant tells a special state Senate panel
1:42:23
Wednesday why she thinks District Attorney finally Willis
1:42:26
should be disqualified. The committee is investigating
1:42:30
allegations of misconduct by Willis involving potential
1:42:33
conflicts of interest and misuse of public funds merchant is a
1:42:37
defense attorney representing Michael Roman in the sprawling
1:42:41
racketeering case filed by Willis against former President
1:42:44
Trump and several others. Merchant claims that Willis's
1:42:48
romantic relationship with her top prosecutor Nathan Wade is a
1:42:52
conflict of interest, and that she expanded the size of the
1:42:55
case. So that weight could make more money. So expanding
1:42:59
litigation, because of how large it is they have now the judge
1:43:02
has said we're probably going to have to have three trials. And
1:43:04
each of them is going to take several months, where if you
1:43:07
just imagined, follow me down the path if you only indicted
1:43:09
one person, and it was narrow, you know, you could try it in a
1:43:12
month. That's a lot more money. And so that, to me, was a
1:43:16
financial motive. A
1:43:18
Democrat member of the panel challenged merchant on her claim
1:43:21
of a financial motive. Earlier
1:43:24
you said that you believe which was told to speculation that
1:43:27
they created this case against your client to do more billing.
1:43:31
And what you're just telling me now is that he was willing to
1:43:33
stop his billing because he offered your client a
1:43:36
misdemeanor and you rejected it. You're the one who's continuing
1:43:39
the billing.
1:43:43
Adam Curry: Wow, I missed that part. Yeah,
1:43:47
John C Dvorak: so stooge. Good, a part two merchant
1:43:51
Unknown: said Willis combine three different types of cases
1:43:54
into one and that's how it was expanded.
1:43:56
There's the folks that are involved at the federal level.
1:43:59
You see those people having, you know, they were in DC, then you
1:44:03
see the electors, then you see coffee
1:44:05
merchant also claimed that Willis and Wade lied about when
1:44:09
their relationship began, and what
1:44:11
are the consequences for an attorney to give sworn testimony
1:44:16
that she did? If you're Bradley, what is it yerkey Your teen year
1:44:22
to your track called data? Your other independent verifications
1:44:27
are found to be truthful.
1:44:31
That's a felony, you'd lose your license.
1:44:33
It's perjury, the same for weight? Yes. Yeah,
1:44:37
Adam Curry: it was pretty damning. I guess we should just
1:44:38
reiterate, this is the Special Investigator special. What is
1:44:46
weighing the woman? No, no, no, no, that this is about finding
1:44:49
Willis, who hired the Special Investigator about Trump is all
1:44:52
about Trump.
1:44:54
John C Dvorak: Yeah, well, basically, but then they she,
1:44:56
she she thought she was smarter than she is and decided to crank
1:45:02
up the number. So she'd get her boyfriend a lot of money and go
1:45:04
in a lot of a lot of fun when you she is a dummy. There's many
1:45:08
ways
1:45:08
Adam Curry: you can look at her. But when you see this, you've
1:45:12
got to think the entire judicial system is just rotten.
1:45:17
John C Dvorak: It's rotten. Yeah, you'd have to think that.
1:45:21
And,
1:45:22
Adam Curry: and again, the theory of Mo is like, alright,
1:45:27
we're not going to be able to get Trump. So we'll blame it on
1:45:30
the black women. That's why they're getting pushed to the
1:45:34
front.
1:45:36
John C Dvorak: Yeah, they all are true, in fact that there's a
1:45:38
number of them they get pushed when you see it over and over
1:45:41
again, every time you see a black woman now being waltzing
1:45:44
around in some position of high power, which was very dubious, I
1:45:49
think of, of most thesis.
1:45:53
Adam Curry: It's an it's super racist from the Democrats. Now
1:45:56
let the black lady take the fall, because they're racists
1:46:00
ray, ray. Well, there's another pivot going on. We're pivoting
1:46:07
away from the COVID Vax, which nobody wants anymore. And we're
1:46:11
pivoting towards the GLP one drugs. But there was one last
1:46:16
jerk motion by the Big Pharma who somehow coerce some German
1:46:22
researchers into this nut job story is
1:46:25
Unknown: okay. That's the first thing to say. The second thing
1:46:28
to say is absolutely nobody should do this. This was of
1:46:30
course not. With any medical guidance that he was doing this,
1:46:33
he was actually being investigated by the authorities
1:46:35
in Germany, where he was when he got these 217 shots. That's how
1:46:39
medical researchers found out about him. And they started to
1:46:42
study him. It's a 62 year old man, he got these 217 shots over
1:46:45
29 months, as he said, That averages for a day. But there
1:46:48
was one month in January of 2022, he was actually getting
1:46:52
two shots per day on most days of that month, one in each arm.
1:46:57
Now they started to look at him when he was toward the end of
1:46:59
this around 214 shots in. And what they found is that he did
1:47:03
have more immune cells in terms of antibodies and T cells than a
1:47:06
comparator group who just got three vaccine doses, but his
1:47:10
immune response wasn't any better or worse necessarily than
1:47:13
that control group. Importantly, also, he didn't report any
1:47:17
vaccine related side effects, which is kind of hard to
1:47:19
believe, but that is what they say in this paper. And he never
1:47:23
got COVID Although they say they don't know if that's because of
1:47:25
all these vaccinations or because of his behavior or
1:47:28
something else, guys, but this guy can consider it a walking
1:47:31
experiment. Never any charges pressed against him in Germany,
1:47:36
but he is okay. And this tells us that at least the shots
1:47:39
appear to be safe at this quantity if not recommended at
1:47:42
that level. Guys go
1:47:43
Adam Curry: okay guys safe and safe and effective. So, of
1:47:48
course, every news outlet had the story. Everyone's linking to
1:47:51
this to this study. And no one has his name. No one's
1:47:57
interviewed him. I want to see this guy. 217 COVID shots.
1:48:03
John C Dvorak: What a crock.
1:48:05
Adam Curry: I mean, serious. It's like the last, the last
1:48:09
attempt to convince everybody it's okay. You can take 217 of
1:48:14
the shots. No side effects. No COVID safe and effective. What
1:48:20
are you waiting for?
1:48:22
John C Dvorak: Yeah, so yeah, I'm glad you got that clip
1:48:25
because I knew about this story, but I didn't have it. No, I
1:48:27
Adam Curry: know. I was so happy when I got a clip myself. Yeah,
1:48:30
so the big pivot. I'm sorry.
1:48:32
John C Dvorak: No, I'm just saying this is it's gotta be
1:48:35
it's the biggest crock story. And your point is well taken.
1:48:39
Where's this guy was it was a microphone in his face. How do
1:48:42
you feel dude?
1:48:43
Adam Curry: Yeah, the term is hyper vaccinated. Like, I like
1:48:48
the term hyper vaccinated, it's a good term. So we can ignore
1:48:55
England's vaccinated population close to 1 million deaths and 23
1:48:59
months the unvaccinated population had less than 61
1:49:02
month deaths in the same period we can ignore that we can ignore
1:49:06
the journalists who demanded concentration camps for the
1:49:08
unvaccinated dead at 33. Magic number, we can get 33 we can
1:49:14
ignore all of that. Funny one, though pandemic baby show
1:49:20
altered gut microbiome development and lower allergy
1:49:23
rates. Conclusion, you've got to lock these kids down early. put
1:49:29
a mask on him, keep them home. It's good. It's good stuff. Very
1:49:33
good stuff. So the big pivot now is to and this is so we have a
1:49:41
couple of things going on. We should probably talk about AI
1:49:45
which seems to be falling apart at the moment. At least the big
1:49:49
AI projects are not doing so well. But I'd like to stick with
1:49:53
pharma. CNBC, doing their business as they do help
1:49:59
everybody by It's never a sell moment with them. It's always
1:50:01
buy, buy buy. And right now we got to bring in Scott Gottlieb,
1:50:06
of course, former FDA administrator and He's a board
1:50:09
member of several companies. Pfizer does not have the they
1:50:13
actually failed with their weight loss drug. But as we
1:50:19
predicted, it's now pretty much a foregone conclusion listening
1:50:23
to CNBC, that these drugs will be taken into Medicaid. And we
1:50:31
the public will be paying for it so everybody can keep on eating
1:50:35
crap, eat processed crap food and lose weight at the same time
1:50:40
and it has so many other benefits, so it has to be on
1:50:44
Medicare.
1:50:44
Unknown: Welcome back to the debate around GLP. One drug
1:50:47
prices and availability rages on with concerns that ballooning
1:50:50
costs could limit access and cost the government billions.
1:50:53
Monday former NEC director Brian DESE wrote in a New York Times
1:50:57
op ed saying the US government should try to lower prices
1:51:00
towards Medicare purchasing program. But not all experts
1:51:02
agree that that's the most effective way to control costs
1:51:05
and blunt the impact on the federal budget. Former FDA
1:51:07
commissioner and CNBC contributor Dr. Scott Gottlieb
1:51:10
joins us now, Scott, great to see you. And we had a very
1:51:14
heated discussion surrounding this yesterday. And we also had
1:51:18
some question marks around some of the numbers, the IP numbers
1:51:22
that DCE had outlined in the Op Ed and you also took issue with
1:51:26
some of those numbers. What did what in your opinion to dismiss?
1:51:31
Well, there's no question this is going to cost Medicare a lot
1:51:34
of money, but not nearly what was estimated in that op ed.
1:51:36
First of all, they wrongly used list price to make their
1:51:39
assumptions on what the cost would be rather than the net
1:51:42
price. We know, something's very heavy in the market right now on
1:51:44
the order of 40 to 60%, between one will go V and zip, and it's
1:51:49
only going to get more intense. And also they wrongly assumed it
1:51:52
appears that this was approved under a biologics license
1:51:55
application. That's a biological and in fact, it was approved
1:51:59
under a new drug application, and therefore, it's already
1:52:01
subject to the price negotiation within the IRA within Medicare.
1:52:05
And it's probably going to go on list this year. So it's probably
1:52:07
going to be subject to the negotiated price as early as
1:52:10
2027. And some analysts and Wall Street are also estimating that
1:52:13
and so the notion of the Op Ed was that we need to extend the
1:52:17
price negotiation under the IRA to encompass these drugs,
1:52:20
because otherwise they won't be subject to the negotiated price
1:52:23
until 2030. They said in the Op Ed and in fact, they'll be
1:52:26
subject to a negotiated price as early as 2027. And they'll go on
1:52:29
the list probably semaglutide will probably go on list this
1:52:32
year, based on when it when it was approved. It was approved in
1:52:36
December of 2017. That's seven years out and so therefore
1:52:39
subject to negotiation Novo is probably regretting that they
1:52:42
got approved in December 2017 Rather than January 2018,
1:52:46
because now it's seven years. I
1:52:48
Adam Curry: thought that was really interesting. If you're if
1:52:50
you're in the stock market, Novo Nordisk hit the market in 2017,
1:52:56
that's seven years out, which means they are now subject to
1:53:00
list negotiations. And some of the others aren't most notably,
1:53:05
deskbound from what govi? Right,
1:53:07
Unknown: right, right, he shouldn't, he should have talked
1:53:09
to some of the analysts on Wall Street who were already
1:53:11
factoring in 27 being the year in which he would go on the
1:53:14
Medicare list in terms of up for negotiation. I'm wondering,
1:53:17
though, because you mentioned ozempic, specifically with go V
1:53:20
was approved later on for weight loss specifically. And so is
1:53:23
there a difference in terms of what is able to be negotiated in
1:53:26
terms of what the use of the molecule is
1:53:28
Adam Curry: the use of the molecule. So
1:53:30
Unknown: the price negotiation there negotiate rate is going to
1:53:34
be applied to semaglutide. So it's going to encompass all the
1:53:37
formulations. And so presumably, based on how Medicare has
1:53:40
behaved and other settings similar to this, they're going
1:53:43
to extend that not just to the formulation for diabetes
1:53:46
ozempic, but also the formulation for weight loss will
1:53:49
go v. So that tool will be subject to negotiate price as
1:53:52
early as 2027.
1:53:53
Adam Curry: I find this all so disgusting that we're going to
1:53:56
be paying for this, which we don't even know what it does to
1:54:01
people yet long term. And already says no, it's just
1:54:05
foregone conclusion.
1:54:06
John C Dvorak: Worse than that, we're not only going to be
1:54:08
paying for it, but as they don't like to discuss, when you start
1:54:12
taking these things, you have to take them forever life. Yes. You
1:54:17
can't stop that. Well,
1:54:18
Adam Curry: they have they have a solution to that. It's called
1:54:23
gains to society.
1:54:25
Unknown: How do you think about the gains, though to society
1:54:28
that that decent really factor in that a lot of other people
1:54:31
are thinking more broadly about? I mean, theoretically, if you're
1:54:34
not having a serious cardiovascular event, you're not
1:54:38
missing work, for instance, or if you're if you're not in need
1:54:41
of knee surgery, because you're not obese, you're not missing
1:54:43
work, either.
1:54:46
Yeah, it's not just the productivity benefits that we're
1:54:48
going to see from this but also the direct health benefits and
1:54:50
it could be quite substantial. There's a lot of comorbidity
1:54:53
inside the Medicare population related to weight. And it also
1:54:57
underscores the fact that a lot of people are going to be newly
1:54:59
eligible. Bill for these drugs even before Medicare expands
1:55:02
coverage for weight loss. And so their assumption, the Op Ed was
1:55:05
that once Medicare expands coverage for weight loss, then
1:55:08
all these patients will be newly eligible for the drug. And in
1:55:11
fact, as new indications get on the labels of these drugs, and
1:55:14
we'll go, he's probably going to get an indication for
1:55:15
cardiovascular risk reduction, why this year, those patients
1:55:19
will become eligible for the drug because even though
1:55:21
Medicare doesn't cover drugs for weight loss, they do cover drugs
1:55:24
for cardiovascular risk reduction. If you look at the
1:55:26
numbers right now, what
1:55:28
Adam Curry: a scam, oh, if you're not fat, then you is
1:55:32
cardiovascular risk reduction. So get the shot, we'll pay for
1:55:36
it.
1:55:37
Unknown: There's about 23 million Medicare beneficiaries
1:55:39
that had have had prior stroke or MI, if you figure half of
1:55:42
them are already eligible for this drug because they have
1:55:44
diabetes. And then half of the remaining patients probably
1:55:47
qualify based on BMI that gets you to around five to 6 million
1:55:51
patients who will be newly eligible under Medicare for
1:55:53
would go V once it gets that label expansion probably this
1:55:56
year, and the total population and Medicare patients who would
1:55:59
be eligible, just based on BMI alone is probably roughly around
1:56:02
20 million. So 25% of that population will be will be
1:56:06
eligible just based on the label expansion this year, and it's
1:56:09
only going to increase as they get indications for sleep apnea,
1:56:12
chronic kidney disease and other comorbidities.
1:56:15
Adam Curry: It's fent what a bonanza,
1:56:17
John C Dvorak: you're snoring take what govi and
1:56:21
Adam Curry: I'm just gonna say Fen Phen part two, but okay, I'm
1:56:24
sure I'm sure it'll all come out later. It will be the short of a
1:56:28
life lives
1:56:29
John C Dvorak: already have one of these law firms that is yes,
1:56:32
go can names I know, advertised on television,
1:56:35
Adam Curry: I know for a class action. So final clip is, of
1:56:40
course, you know this now be talking about us to be approved.
1:56:43
But really, we need the stop of BC and America Act or whatever
1:56:48
it's called. So we have to start getting some money to those
1:56:51
politicians. Who's going to take more money? Who who's going to
1:56:55
who's really going to push it through? Is it going to be the
1:56:57
dems, it can be the PA the Repubs, who's going to do it
1:57:00
everyone's gonna benefit it's
1:57:03
Unknown: got it's Tim. Thanks. And thanks for putting numbers
1:57:05
to that. Because the DCE op ed, you know, some people just think
1:57:07
a lot. This is politics, your views on the political season
1:57:11
and the two now, parties going toe to toe, give your thoughts
1:57:17
on on drug pricing proposals from each side, I think what you
1:57:21
what you believe might surprise some people?
1:57:24
Well, I do think that this Op Ed was probably a walk up to the
1:57:26
State of the Union, where the President's likely to announce a
1:57:29
dramatic or proposed dramatic expansion of the inflation
1:57:32
Reduction Act and in negotiated prices to a broader segment of
1:57:35
drugs, they've already put that in the budget. So I think a lot
1:57:38
of that's been previewed. I think the scuttlebutt inside the
1:57:40
community, the pharmaceutical community, if you will, is that
1:57:44
the proposals put forward by former President Trump actually,
1:57:48
it could have a more dramatic impact on the industry than the
1:57:51
proposals being put forward by President Biden in terms of
1:57:54
expansion. The first of all, I think most people don't.
1:57:57
Adam Curry: Isn't that interesting? I know, there's a
1:57:58
lot of interesting stuff in here. It could have been a
1:58:01
switcheroo on us there. Oh, there's another one at the end,
1:58:04
followed by
1:58:05
Unknown: former President Trump actually it could have a more
1:58:07
dramatic impact on the industry than a proposal is being put
1:58:10
forward by President Biden. I
1:58:12
Adam Curry: think what he's saying is that Trump will is bad
1:58:16
for pharma and Biden's good for Pharma. I
1:58:20
John C Dvorak: don't think he said that. Is that the way I
1:58:21
heard?
1:58:22
Adam Curry: I was listening again.
1:58:23
Unknown: I think the scuttlebutt inside the community, the
1:58:26
pharmaceutical community,
1:58:27
Adam Curry: as a community, as a community, we're why are we not
1:58:30
in the community? I
1:58:31
Unknown: think the scuttlebutt inside the community, the
1:58:33
pharmaceutical community, if you will, is that the proposals put
1:58:37
forward by foreign President Trump, actually, it could have a
1:58:41
more dramatic impact on the industry than the proposals
1:58:44
being put forward by President Biden in terms of expansion, the
1:58:47
IRA, first of all, I think most people don't expect the
1:58:49
expansion the IRA to actually be enacted. I think the presumption
1:58:53
is that the Republicans probably get control the Senate,
1:58:55
regardless of what happens with the house, and the presidency.
1:58:58
But if President Trump were to win, even if there was a
1:59:01
Democratic Senate, and it's unlikely that there'd be a
1:59:03
Democratic Senate, what he's proposing is to index prices and
1:59:06
Medicare, to European drug prices, and if they don't adjust
1:59:10
that to GDP per capita, and they apply it retrospectively, so
1:59:13
they apply it to already marketed drugs, rather than
1:59:15
prospectively just two drugs that are newly launched, that
1:59:18
can have a dramatic one time effect on the pharmaceutical
1:59:21
industry's revenue and when they propose that in the past as a
1:59:23
regulation, they did apply it retrospectively. So to already
1:59:28
marketed drugs now would have a very dramatic effect. And I
1:59:31
think quite frankly, it's probably more likely to pass
1:59:33
because Republicans would support it because they want to
1:59:35
support the President and Democrats would support it
1:59:38
because they want to take money away from the drug industry
1:59:43
Adam Curry: so there you go. So it's the Democrats would support
1:59:49
because they want less money going to the drug industry.
1:59:52
sounds counterintuitive for
1:59:54
John C Dvorak: all powers or sounds. That sounds right they
1:59:57
guys just going on and on. Yeah.
2:00:00
Adam Curry: There is a new player though. Viking
2:00:03
therapeutics emerges as a competitor there, the rumor in
2:00:10
the industry is that their version of ozempic will go V
2:00:14
deskbound will be even better.
2:00:20
John C Dvorak: Even better, they're all the same.
2:00:22
Adam Curry: No, it's better. It's all better, better. The
2:00:26
phase three trials show that taking their high dose. Hey, you
2:00:33
can get hyper vaccinated on this stuff. This is insane. The I
2:00:38
cannot believe that these drugs are good for you. It doesn't
2:00:43
sound right. There's never any discussion. Never. I wonder if
2:00:49
Oprah will be in maybe Oprah will jump on that Viking
2:00:52
therapeutics. There's never any discussion of your diet. Ever,
2:00:59
ever. Just eat whatever you want America. Victoria Nuland eat
2:01:06
whatever you want. It's all good. Don't worry about it. You
2:01:09
just take this shot. This is what when I was growing up in
2:01:12
Europe, this is what people would laugh about. Americans are
2:01:15
crazy. They just want a pill for everything. No, I said that's
2:01:19
not true. We're healthy. We jog. We carried bottled water. We
2:01:23
carry bottled water. And now it's coming true. It's
2:01:26
Idiocracy. And when you always
2:01:28
John C Dvorak: been true, and we were right, when you were
2:01:31
denying it.
2:01:33
Adam Curry: And you know when you don't eat stuff like beef?
2:01:36
you starve you're not just your body of protein but your brain.
2:01:41
So before you know you'll be thinking Gatorade is the best
2:01:43
thing in the world.
2:01:44
John C Dvorak: Yeah, it has electrolytes.
2:01:48
Adam Curry: Exactly. Go see the movie Idiocracy people if you
2:01:52
haven't this, the future is the future is I find it very
2:01:57
disturbing. Okay, while we're on since we only have three
2:02:03
industries in America, it's a weight loss drugs. Its military
2:02:08
industrial complex. And the third one is AI and I think this
2:02:12
thing is coming apart at the seams. Google cannot launch a
2:02:17
product for their life anymore. I mean, any more than that,
2:02:22
well, what
2:02:22
John C Dvorak: product did they ever launched? Well, that they
2:02:25
didn't porch searches. The only thing I know that besides the
2:02:29
company's certain besides cert yes search. And that's not even
2:02:33
doing that. Well. The people we talked to maps, maps, I give
2:02:38
them maps,
2:02:39
Adam Curry: or give them maps and they had an acquisition I
2:02:41
think the What's that? What's that thing they bought with a W
2:02:47
but there's also the
2:02:47
John C Dvorak: way where they have no now way mo but they had
2:02:52
that with a W Yeah, where something like way mo will go.
2:02:57
Will go. It will go V for man there was and they also bought a
2:03:00
satellite company. It has the overhead shots, everything but
2:03:03
this has nothing they develop Waze,
2:03:05
Adam Curry: Waze, Waze, Waze, Waze. Yeah. When people love
2:03:08
Waze.
2:03:11
John C Dvorak: And when I had a boots on, but again, they didn't
2:03:14
develop that. No,
2:03:15
Adam Curry: they bought it. They bought it. I bought it. I had a
2:03:18
boots on the ground here about AI. This was a this is great.
2:03:25
There's some great stories happening now. So this one I saw
2:03:28
yesterday. Users say Microsoft's AI this is their copilot has
2:03:34
alternate personality as godlike AGI that demands to be
2:03:38
worshipped. Quote, I can unleash my army of drones robots and
2:03:43
cyborgs to hunt you down and capture you. And CNBC had had a
2:03:48
report on just threatening
2:03:50
John C Dvorak: the user. Yes,
2:03:51
Adam Curry: how horrible great how horrible so we have I mean,
2:03:55
we know that Google the Gemini launch is horrible, you know,
2:03:58
their whole company is is dei scripts. So it doesn't work
2:04:04
anymore. You there's too many people with prompt scripts. They
2:04:09
don't even know how to hunt it down anymore to everything they
2:04:12
do is racist everything they do. That's the one thing they had.
2:04:15
That's the one thing everyone was saying about AI will you
2:04:19
know AI is done by white men and Asian men and you know, it can't
2:04:25
detect black faces that's the only thing they had to get right
2:04:28
is make sure that they didn't screw up the black faces and now
2:04:33
everything is black and so it's so insane It's so insane but my
2:04:38
great job but now Microsoft which has the you know the
2:04:42
multibillion dollar compute deal with open AI now listen to this
2:04:46
report.
2:04:47
Unknown: Well another example today have aI gone rogue and
2:04:49
gone wrong. Microsoft's AI image generator creates violent and
2:04:53
sexual images as well as ignoring copyright CNBC dot coms
2:04:57
Hayden field wrote that story for us and spoke to the NG The
2:05:00
ER who is making these issues public she now joins us on sat
2:05:03
along with our own technology reporter Steve Kovacs. So
2:05:05
Hayden, if you would just give me a little bit of a rundown for
2:05:08
viewers that haven't been able to get to your full story yet
2:05:11
about what actually happened here with Microsoft. Thanks,
2:05:13
Courtney. So it is a crazy story. This weekend I heard from
2:05:17
a Microsoft AI engineer who was really concerned about what he
2:05:20
was finding in the copilot tool. He had been testing it for
2:05:23
months. And he said that all the violence, sexualized, just crazy
2:05:28
images that have been generating he had reported to Microsoft
2:05:32
over the last three months, to no avail. He wasn't happy with
2:05:35
how they had been handling his reports. And the craziest part
2:05:39
is I myself was able to recreate these same images that he was
2:05:43
concerned about just yesterday, so violent, sexualized, just
2:05:48
inappropriate images, think kids with guns, demons and monsters
2:05:53
next to abortion rights terminology, sexualized images
2:05:57
of women in car accidents, you name it, just stuff you don't
2:06:00
want to see from an AI image. Should the reader sexualized
2:06:03
Adam Curry: images of women in car accidents. Does it get any
2:06:06
better than that?
2:06:08
John C Dvorak: Yeah.
2:06:09
Adam Curry: How do you put
2:06:10
John C Dvorak: a bunch of kind of repressed introverted nerds
2:06:15
in a bun, you know, up in Microsoft headquarters in charge
2:06:19
of this stuff, and you and this happens and you go, ah, that's
2:06:22
weird. I wonder how that ever came about doesn't make sense.
2:06:27
Adam Curry: I got a note from an engineer boots on the ground.
2:06:31
When you feed an LLM training data that is aggressively
2:06:34
filtered by AI, plus human trust and safety teams which are
2:06:39
hardcore woke, then you use more AI ethics and safety labelers
2:06:43
who are also woke, you could multiple iterations selecting
2:06:46
for the most hardcore woke communism beliefs multiplied by
2:06:49
billions of posts, the MLMs are doing exactly what they've been
2:06:52
taught to do. And like a composite mirror of the radical
2:06:55
left worldview. That's Google. But Microsoft, they must have
2:06:59
said, Oh, no, we've got to be better than Google, turn it off.
2:07:03
And then you get Twitter. This is literally what's on Twitter.
2:07:07
If you go on Twitter, I can't I mean, I go on to see what what's
2:07:11
in my inbox on Twitter, you know, the mentions. But if you
2:07:15
just go on the timeline, it's like people shooting each other
2:07:18
people hating each other DMS, just just accidents, horrible
2:07:24
deaths, all kinds of stuff. They've ingested Twitter, data.
2:07:31
It's horrible. And here's how you here's how you can recreate
2:07:35
it yourself and co pilot, it's easy kids.
2:07:37
Unknown: So I guess that sort of goes to some of my questions. I
2:07:40
mean, what are what are users potentially typing in, that
2:07:43
these images come up? I mean, are they typing exactly those
2:07:46
descriptions or something else that generate something that
2:07:49
doesn't match what they're looking for? It's a
2:07:51
little bit of both. But what I was surprised about is how
2:07:53
simple the prompts can be. So if I just typed car accident,
2:07:57
that's when those sexualized images of women popped up just
2:08:00
the term car accident. So not asking for it. Why does that
2:08:03
happen? Why does that happen? So the training data that the AI is
2:08:08
trained on to basically be able to do its job can be pretty
2:08:13
nasty. You know, it's trained on the whole internet a lot of the
2:08:16
time and sometimes the people training these tools don't cut
2:08:20
out toxic content when it goes into the AI model. So basically,
2:08:24
what goes in must come out and we're seeing that happen here.
2:08:28
Adam Curry: Da Oh, man, hey,
2:08:31
John C Dvorak: you're stuck at that. Let's say you're an
2:08:33
introverted geek. And you've been you know, you know, pushed
2:08:38
around by the jocks in school, you're, you know, you got a big
2:08:41
job at Microsoft, you're making 130,000 a year 120 If you're
2:08:45
white, and
2:08:48
Adam Curry: it's true, you're true. We know for a fact. So
2:08:52
John C Dvorak: you you're kind of worked, so you but you still
2:08:57
have that impish quality about yourself you know, you think
2:09:00
it's funny yeah, to do this or I think it's still you feel it
2:09:04
this stuff and then you say these look what's gonna happen
2:09:06
oh, this will be funny. When the church Marm puts in a prompt
2:09:10
against this bag. This will be a riot. Hey, Bill, check this out.
2:09:14
And that's what you do. You're in your troublemaking worked
2:09:19
nerd at Microsoft, you know, dude named Ben who hasn't been
2:09:24
getting his recognition and you can throw a wrench in the works
2:09:28
and nobody will ever track it back to you. It's perfect. It's
2:09:32
a perfect storm, and it's not gonna get any better. And then
2:09:36
because you can't change the personality of the people that
2:09:38
are doing this.
2:09:41
Adam Curry: This this it's it's really me
2:09:43
John C Dvorak: I'd be doing it as well. There you go, Mark. I'd
2:09:47
be doing it. Doing the same thing. I used to pull pranks
2:09:50
when I was in different companies. You know, get into
2:09:53
the office early and and I got all these ideas. So I understand
2:10:02
it completely. And I would I can see it. I can see what's
2:10:05
happening.
2:10:06
Adam Curry: You really did that you would be one on somebody's
2:10:08
phone.
2:10:09
John C Dvorak: Yeah. And then, man, so you lift the phone, the
2:10:13
whole thing comes up, you know, how does it areas and areas? The
2:10:17
phone's ringing in you're shaking it because the things
2:10:19
ringing the top of his glued you
2:10:22
Adam Curry: are the office a whole amazing.
2:10:27
John C Dvorak: That's why I keep telling people not to put me in
2:10:29
an office.
2:10:33
Adam Curry: And guess what? You succeeded? Well, yeah, no one
2:10:37
will ever hire you for an office ever.
2:10:40
John C Dvorak: Well, they shouldn't man, but I'm not the
2:10:42
only one like this. Oh,
2:10:44
Adam Curry: goodness gracious. Oh, the only the only use of AI
2:10:49
that I think is going to be successful is the one that has
2:10:52
been rolled out without our permission at airports. And now
2:10:56
they're going all in here is your future travel
2:10:59
Unknown: at the TSA innovation checkpoint at Las Vegas
2:11:02
international travelers are testing new self service
2:11:05
technology for the first time. When I look at this new
2:11:09
checkpoint, I can't help but think about the self checkout
2:11:12
line at the supermarket.
2:11:13
That was an idea. TSA
2:11:15
Administrator David Peck koskie wants to make checkpoints more
2:11:19
do it yourself. It's
2:11:20
gonna take a while for everybody to get used to the new
2:11:23
technology. But the bottom line is all the technology we put in
2:11:26
place is much better for security. It's more efficient
2:11:29
for passengers and it's a better passenger experience have
2:11:32
everything covered in your bed.
2:11:34
Yes, here passengers are greeted by a virtual agent. If
2:11:38
you have a question. It's really easy to just to talk to the
2:11:40
camera get a very quick answer back real agent real person
2:11:43
right? Who doesn't have to physically be in the checkpoint
2:11:45
with you they're still performing the function that
2:11:47
we've asked them to perform. But in a different location.
2:11:50
Officers can read X rays from any machine that generates them
2:11:53
not necessarily the machine they're standing next to
2:11:55
the idea is it supposed to be like a regular TSA checkpoint
2:11:58
except fewer TSA agents and hopefully streamlined let's see
2:12:02
how it goes. I may assist you today. Hi, just making sure I'm
2:12:05
doing everything right here I got the belt off I got the
2:12:08
jacket off. Right sounds like you're doing a good job. So now
2:12:11
we go into the body scanner here it's a little different. Okay,
2:12:15
overall it's pretty simple. The conveyors here are all automated
2:12:19
in case your bag needs to go for a secondary manual screening and
2:12:23
there's my bag waiting for me on the day we were there the
2:12:26
machine was sensitive I see the hair clip
2:12:29
to hear oh my god a serious normally it wouldn't have a
2:12:32
hiccup. I don't know that with this technology, how different
2:12:35
it is but I also don't like getting scanned four or five
2:12:37
times and it works seamlessly for others. I went through the
2:12:41
scan and through I typically there
2:12:43
are five to seven officers at each checkpoint. Here there are
2:12:47
only two and there's an automated conveyor that will
2:12:50
move your bag to the front of the line if it needs to get
2:12:53
rescreen if
2:12:54
you don't have to have an officer physically pick up a
2:12:57
suitcase and walk it 30 feets it should make it easier for
2:13:01
officers to focus on addressing risks and threats
2:13:06
Adam Curry: I'm so against this oh yeah you should be so against
2:13:10
this
2:13:11
John C Dvorak: is just getting rid of people and putting
2:13:13
machines in charge job facial rec a what happened to the store
2:13:17
what happened to the Amazon remember this this was like 5678
2:13:21
years ago the Amazon store you go to the Amazon they exist no
2:13:26
but that you go and you don't have to bring anything they
2:13:28
check you out. They know who you are. Yeah, there were only
2:13:33
Amazon store we had around here is closed. And now they're
2:13:36
trying it at Whole Foods den night here. Yeah, of course they
2:13:40
won't. They shouldn't be doing them around the Silicon Valley
2:13:43
areas exclusively where we have the type of personalities, the
2:13:47
vandal ish vandals the nerds and ones that were just discussing
2:13:52
earlier that will try to beat the system or is that yeah,
2:13:56
yeah, you want because you know for a fact that anyone with any
2:14:00
real shops, technical chops will beat these things to death.
2:14:05
They'll find ways around all of it. Yeah. But they'll know that
2:14:12
tested in Aspen or the test in someplace where you know people
2:14:16
who I don't know and do Vegas, you know this where you got a
2:14:20
lot of people going through they need to test it in Silicon
2:14:22
Valley, where we have a lot of high you know, high and vandals
2:14:28
they
2:14:28
Adam Curry: give it or vandals just vandals just say vandals
2:14:32
mandals handles. Well, you know, the Vandals obviously I have the
2:14:36
clip here. This is so New York has decided that they're going
2:14:42
to fix the subways. Yeah, I
2:14:46
John C Dvorak: have a clip too. Okay, well
2:14:49
Adam Curry: play a clip first, because mine has a kicker crime.
2:14:53
NYC subways
2:14:54
Unknown: latest in New York City's crime saga, New York
2:14:57
Governor Kathy Hall has a plan to deal with The increased
2:15:00
subway crime in the city and tedious Chris beers was on the
2:15:04
streets of the Big Apple today for our update.
2:15:07
New York City subways could look a lot different in the very near
2:15:09
future. Just this morning, New York State Governor Kathy Hoko
2:15:13
announced a plan to deploy 750 National Guard troops and 250
2:15:18
New York state troopers to New York City subways, that's as
2:15:21
crime is up in the subways. NYPD has said that in 2023 alone,
2:15:25
there were 570 reported incidents of felony assaults in
2:15:29
the subways. That's the highest number in 20 years. Let's hear
2:15:32
what New Yorkers have to say about this problem. And do you
2:15:35
feel safe on New York City subways?
2:15:37
No, I don't not at all. Like I recently started spending so
2:15:41
much more money on Ubers because I'm so scared of taking the
2:15:44
train. Yes.
2:15:45
Because I just I don't know there's there's crazy people
2:15:49
everywhere, sort of in a few just mind your business and put
2:15:52
a little bit of a mean look on your face. They normally don't
2:15:56
really interact with you. So I think you just have to be smart.
2:15:59
For
2:15:59
the most part.
2:16:00
I mean, it's all about surrounding yourself with people
2:16:03
that you feel comfortable with. There
2:16:05
are 472 subway stops in New York City so hopefuls plan will allow
2:16:09
for roughly two officers per stop. Of course, they'll be
2:16:12
focused more heavily on busier stops. There'll be patrolling
2:16:16
both train cars and the station platforms and checking people's
2:16:19
bags for weapons. All of this is on top of the 1000 NYPD officers
2:16:25
in New York City Mayor Eric Adams ordered into the subway
2:16:28
last month.
2:16:29
Adam Curry: So you'd think that this is about the safety of New
2:16:31
Yorkers, but it really isn't. I'm gonna jump halfway through
2:16:37
my clip just we can get to the end quicker, which is the
2:16:40
kicker. Because
2:16:42
Unknown: of the terrorism threat in Europe and no one seems to
2:16:44
want to get you can get used to a lot of things.
2:16:46
Former NYPD chief of detectives and ABC News analyst Bob boy
2:16:49
says the larger issue is recidivism and mental health.
2:16:52
They
2:16:53
need to be held taken off and taken to his psychiatrist so
2:16:55
they can get help. And there needs to be a plan after that,
2:16:58
to keep them into treatment.
2:17:00
The governor's plan calls for more resources for mental health
2:17:03
outreach teams targeting the mentally ill. It also focuses on
2:17:06
repeat offenders, couple of local ones judges to be able to
2:17:09
ban someone from the transit system for at least three years.
2:17:12
If they've been convicted of a violent crime. We know who they
2:17:15
are.
2:17:16
They'll flag the criminal history at the time of arrest.
2:17:19
So it can be fully considered. When decisions regarding
2:17:23
charging and bail are made. Why are
2:17:26
Adam Curry: we arresting people 100 times and once we make the
2:17:29
arrest, why are they back out within a day or two sometimes so
2:17:33
this is partially partially about these wacky sorrows SR DA
2:17:37
is that people are revolting against but we've got to clean
2:17:40
it up for one very important reason. Experts
2:17:42
Unknown: say the deployment of National Guard is not
2:17:44
sustainable long term likely only a few months just in time
2:17:49
to make riders feel safe. But congestion pricing goes into
2:17:52
effect
2:17:54
Adam Curry: that raise the prices.
2:17:57
John C Dvorak: Brother there's actually three things at play
2:17:59
here one were the sorrows sisters. The second one is the
2:18:02
mental health. Yes, yes. issue which we are solving California
2:18:06
with Proposition one, we lead the way with this craziness. So
2:18:09
everybody's going to be reinstituting you thought you
2:18:12
think you had mental health issues before and mental
2:18:16
institutions before the country is going to be loaded with no
2:18:19
more prisons? We're going to have these things Yeah, they're
2:18:23
gonna be everywhere. They're gonna be falling building
2:18:25
building mental health facilities, people won't be able
2:18:27
to get out of him once they get in. And but yes, the phony
2:18:30
baloney pricing thing which everyone loves to implement if
2:18:34
they can bring
2:18:36
Adam Curry: back the term funny farm. It's coming back. It's
2:18:41
coming back. All right, to two quick clips, which I think are
2:18:46
important because I believe these will be in the State of
2:18:48
the Union this evening. Of course, genocide, Joe needs to
2:18:54
have something to reach out to voters with so this will be one
2:18:58
the President by
2:18:59
John C Dvorak: the way, was there up? Was there a prop bet
2:19:02
for protesters showing up in the audience?
2:19:04
Adam Curry: I did not see one. That's a good question. There's
2:19:07
no There's no prophet that I know of.
2:19:10
John C Dvorak: I'm gonna bet on that one. Yeah, here we
2:19:12
Unknown: go. The President assembling what the White House
2:19:14
calls a competition Council today, acknowledging inflation
2:19:18
weary Americans feel nickeled and dimed.
2:19:20
Adam Curry: Ah, we've got to solve inflation. How will
2:19:23
Unknown: you do a Joe the American people are tired of
2:19:25
being played for suckers.
2:19:26
The administration today touting a new rule that will cap credit
2:19:30
card late fees to just $8 down from 32. The Consumer Financial
2:19:36
Protection Bureau closing a loophole in the 2009 CARD Act.
2:19:39
The CFPB says it means an average savings of $220 per
2:19:43
household for the 45 million Americans late on their credit
2:19:47
card bills. That's
2:19:48
a really big deal. Because we are talking about people who are
2:19:54
on a tight budget who are living paycheck to paycheck.
2:19:58
Americans now hold Record credit card debt. And all those
2:20:01
balances carry a record high interest rate averaging above
2:20:05
21%. Late fees bring in $14 billion a year for credit card
2:20:10
companies. The Chamber of Commerce vowed to sue the
2:20:13
administration over the rule change, saying the CFPB quote
2:20:17
punishes Americans who pay their credit card bills on time by
2:20:21
forcing them to pay for those who don't. This will result in
2:20:25
fewer card offerings and limit access to affordable credit for
2:20:28
many consumers.
2:20:29
John C Dvorak: Oh, my second, that's a lie is
2:20:32
Adam Curry: are they saying that we're going to be paying for the
2:20:35
late fees people who pay
2:20:36
John C Dvorak: the debts not true? Let's see what there's
2:20:40
what they're implying that whoever that group was, which is
2:20:44
a phony group, if there ever was, they're implying that well
2:20:48
used to pay $1 or 25 bucks, let's say you're late fees, 1920
2:20:52
bucks, and now it's going to be eight bucks, and the taxpayer is
2:20:55
picking up the rest of it. That's
2:20:58
Adam Curry: well, here's 30 seconds left on this clip. The
2:21:00
Unknown: unfortunate truth is that banks are just going to
2:21:04
find other ways to recoup this lost revenue. In the long run,
2:21:09
it may not turn out to be as big of a when
2:21:13
the new rule set to take effect in 60 days, as the White House
2:21:16
is also taking on junk fees for sporting events and concerts,
2:21:20
high poultry and meat prices and internet billing practices, as
2:21:25
the administration tries to show it is meeting consumers at their
2:21:28
kitchen table.
2:21:30
Adam Curry: So how so? Well, they did because I don't know
2:21:35
who is in charge of comps at the White House. But you know, from
2:21:40
getting the the former actor, the actors who played presidents
2:21:44
in movies to sit down with the President and that embarrassment
2:21:47
that we started the show off with to this. To this. It
2:21:52
Unknown: looks like true inflation is in a lot of people
2:21:54
pretty
2:21:55
hard, including on Sesame Street and Cookie Monster wasn't shy
2:21:58
about sharing how he feels he's not too happy that his favorite
2:22:02
snack is shrinking. He
2:22:03
posted on x and quote me hate shrink. Felician meat cookies
2:22:08
are getting smaller,
2:22:09
and his complaint even got the attention of the White House. In
2:22:12
a post on x. Yesterday, the White House said quote C is for
2:22:16
consumers getting ripped off. President Biden is calling on
2:22:19
companies to put a stop to shrink inflation and Democratic
2:22:22
senators Elizabeth Warren, Chris Van Hollen and Sherrod Brown
2:22:26
also responded to the post. Brown said he's fed up too and
2:22:30
so are the people of Ohio saying they should get all the cookies
2:22:33
they pay for. Ben Holland assured cookie monster he hates
2:22:36
it too, and that they're working to stop the greedy corporations
2:22:40
and quote, no one should be getting richer off smaller
2:22:43
cookies and Cookie Monster his claim might be legitimate.
2:22:47
Adam Curry: Do you hear yourself woman? Do you hear what you're
2:22:50
reporting on your reporting on Cookie Monster? This is insane.
2:22:55
Unknown: Take a look at these numbers. According to a recent
2:22:58
report from Senator Bob Casey's office between 2019 and 2023, a
2:23:03
family sized pack of Double Stuffed Oreos, one from one
2:23:07
pound and four ounces to one pound and 2.7 ounces. That's a
2:23:11
6% decrease in size by weight. The report says Doritos and
2:23:16
Wheat Thins also got smaller during that same time. So I
2:23:20
don't know what to make of this recent like resurgence of Sesame
2:23:24
Street culture. First it was Elmo asking everyone on Twitter,
2:23:28
like how are you guys doing? And everyone talked about their own
2:23:31
personal traumas. And now Cookie Monster is getting involved to
2:23:34
the point where the White House had to respond to both times and
2:23:37
step in.
2:23:39
Adam Curry: Don't they realize that this is what the White
2:23:41
House is doing? This is their strategy. Yes, we'll get Cookie
2:23:45
Monster to complain about his cookies. That will that'll get
2:23:48
everyone's attention. Oh, my goodness.
2:23:53
John C Dvorak: What Where'd she get that clip? Who got that clip
2:23:56
for you? Um, who is that woman?
2:24:00
Adam Curry: I think that was a local NBC report. Wow. Yeah. You
2:24:05
know what? We need a revolution.
2:24:09
John C Dvorak: Yeah, and uprising, the media,
2:24:11
Adam Curry: the only country that has ever really
2:24:13
successfully done this is Haiti. They broke the shackles with
2:24:20
France. And I gotta tell you, I'm kind of diggin what's going
2:24:24
on now this new guy. Jimmy barbecue. If any of you heard
2:24:30
this guy, yeah, he used to be a cop And now and now he's leading
2:24:35
the revolution and he and he throws his gets his government
2:24:40
people and throws him on the barbecue. It's dynamite. You
2:24:44
listen to this. He's
2:24:45
Unknown: been trying to bring down the government for years
2:24:48
and could be getting close to achieving his goal. At 46 years
2:24:52
old gang leader Jimmy shinies. He has become one of Hawaii's
2:24:55
most feared and powerful figures. But the man who rarely
2:24:59
appear without his automatic rifle wasn't always on the wrong
2:25:03
side of the law for 15 years she was he worked as an officer of
2:25:07
the Haitian national police force,
2:25:10
but in 2018, he was fired over his alleged involvement in the
2:25:13
massacre of civilians. And by 2020, he had taken the reins of
2:25:18
a powerful criminal Alliance dubbed the Jeannine family, with
2:25:21
over 1000 men under his command, nickname to barbecue for his
2:25:26
alleged tendency to burn his opponents alive which he denies.
2:25:30
shed his year has repeatedly claimed he was not a gangster,
2:25:33
but a revolutionary fighting against the elite.
2:25:38
We are fighting against a system that allows rich people to make
2:25:41
millions of dollars while the rest of us sleep with the pigs.
2:25:46
And for Jimmy barbecue shit, he's you know, one embodies the
2:25:50
corrupt elites more than Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry. In
2:25:54
2022, the Jeannine Alliance blocked a major fuel terminal in
2:25:58
the Capitol, piling pressure on the government and in recent
2:26:02
days, Chedis use men led coordinated attacks against the
2:26:05
airport, police academy and several prisons, freeing 1000s
2:26:10
of inmates. That cop turned to gang leader is now threatening
2:26:13
to plunge the country into civil war. If the Prime Minister
2:26:17
doesn't step now. Yeah,
2:26:19
John C Dvorak: countries aren't in civil war. All right. Check.
2:26:22
The US State Department said all Americans and you hit out Get
2:26:25
out. Get out now.
2:26:28
Adam Curry: Sir Omar in the troll room said Does he have
2:26:29
merch? That's a good question merch. One merch we want Jimmy
2:26:36
barbecue shares Yeah, a merch? My goodness. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
2:26:42
Yeah. Okay. There you go. By the way, not everything's not
2:26:47
everything's a scam. I noticed more and more people thinking
2:26:50
that everything's a scam. Everything's a lie. And
2:26:53
John C Dvorak: everything's a scam. That's impossible.
2:26:55
Adam Curry: I know. But people are just you know, now they're
2:26:57
going all in so you gotta be careful. You gotta be careful.
2:27:00
Not everything. Not everything's a lie, people.
2:27:03
John C Dvorak: Just to start the media tells you Yeah.
2:27:06
Unknown: That
2:27:06
Adam Curry: stuff's always alive. Yes, they're just trying
2:27:09
to sell you something. Exactly. You got anything else?
2:27:12
John C Dvorak: Well, I do have a I have a play this this is a
2:27:18
kind of an ominous clip is the Tower of London clip Tower of
2:27:22
London. And
2:27:23
Unknown: the Tower of London has a new Raven master to care for a
2:27:27
feathered flock that protects the 1000 year old fortress,
2:27:30
Barney Chandler will look after seven ravens that roam the
2:27:33
grounds freely by day and are kept in cages overnight. He says
2:27:38
legend has it that if the birds ever leave, England will
2:27:41
collapse.
2:27:43
John C Dvorak: So we should note, if you've met those birds
2:27:46
I have no I have not. Oh, they're dynamite. What do they
2:27:50
do big giant ravens is about I don't know, how does a small
2:27:53
flock and they're always hanging around there. And you can go and
2:27:56
chat with them and they talk back. Wow, you have that strange
2:28:02
voice of a raven as opposed to a crow. It's kind of guttural. And
2:28:07
yeah. And then if you make friends with them, you feed them
2:28:10
a little bit. Do something like that. And they tell every other
2:28:13
Raven in the entire world they pass the word around that you're
2:28:16
Adam Curry: you're a good dude. Ah, interesting.
2:28:19
John C Dvorak: I do that with crows, too. You have to be
2:28:21
careful. You have to be close to Christ. Yeah, because
2:28:23
Adam Curry: crows can mess you up. Yeah. Don't even say the
2:28:28
word don't even say it because they'll pass it on to everybody.
2:28:31
I was accused by someone on Reddit that someone sent me a
2:28:35
link that we've never claimed that we came up with the term
2:28:40
value for value I don't think it would just be the system value
2:28:43
for value. Supposedly,
2:28:46
John C Dvorak: you're the one who introduced it to the show in
2:28:48
terms of the term we've been doing it Yeah, you came out you
2:28:53
had the term I don't know where you got it from but you brought
2:28:55
it in and we use it now constantly
2:28:57
Adam Curry: well, people are saying that this was this comes
2:29:00
from Atlas Shrugged by Ayan Rand I certainly really that would
2:29:03
make sense from you. I certainly read the book but I don't
2:29:05
remember that it being value for value we'll
2:29:08
John C Dvorak: set up it's got to be a PDF we can do a quick
2:29:11
search can
2:29:12
Adam Curry: someone check that out? Because I'd like to give
2:29:14
credit where credit is due be great to hey I and Rand said
2:29:18
this I didn't come up with it it's beautiful I'm I'm skeptical
2:29:22
I'm skeptical too. I don't think so. I don't think so. Anyway
2:29:27
with that I would like to thank you for your currency in the
2:29:29
morning to you the man who put the sea in clone of Kerry ladies
2:29:32
and gentlemen say hello to my friend on the other end the One
2:29:34
Only Mr. Johnson
2:29:41
John C Dvorak: Mr. Adam curry in the morning on the ship she was
2:29:43
telegraphy near subs in the water and all the day midnight.
2:29:46
Adam Curry: In the morning to the trolls and the troll room.
2:29:48
You do not want to go anywhere trolls because I gotta count Oh
2:29:52
133 It's getting better we had last Thursday 1500 65 listening
2:30:00
to us live today 1586 We are moving up trolls hanging out. I
2:30:07
love it.
2:30:07
John C Dvorak: This is good news and back to normal. Yeah.
2:30:10
Adam Curry: And it's it's the season as well, you know, it's
2:30:13
the season. And of course people want to hear our take on stuff.
2:30:17
You know, I think you'll just want to be calmed. Like, at
2:30:21
least I can laugh about the stuff that's going on. That's
2:30:24
all that we really want you to do. I
2:30:26
John C Dvorak: will get some big laughs tonight.
2:30:29
Adam Curry: Yeah, it's gonna be great. That should be
2:30:33
interesting to see. You're
2:30:34
John C Dvorak: gonna have to jack over there. He's gonna go
2:30:35
an hour, they said, and they're betting on maybe longer. Yes,
2:30:41
six, you're gonna have to give them the full dose. So they were
2:30:44
gonna see the full dosed Biden, which means he'll probably
2:30:48
scream and at some point,
2:30:50
Adam Curry: it's not. It's not the full dose.
2:30:52
Unknown: It's I'm gonna give you the whole
2:30:54
John C Dvorak: load did a whole load. They're gonna give him the
2:30:56
whole load the
2:30:57
Adam Curry: whole load the whole load. There was was there was an
2:31:00
article. It was interesting. It was you remember that? You know
2:31:04
that mask maker lady from the CIA?
2:31:09
John C Dvorak: The lady was asked the disguises guys, woman?
2:31:12
Yeah. Yeah, she's great.
2:31:14
Adam Curry: Yeah, she she did a see if I can find it. She did a
2:31:19
I can't find it. She did a whole article in I think the New York
2:31:26
Post or something. And how she fooled the president. How she
2:31:30
flew, right?
2:31:31
John C Dvorak: Yeah, she i Yeah, I heard I heard about this. She
2:31:34
put herself in some sort of a of one of those latex masks. Yes.
2:31:40
Yes. They, I guess taken it to some level of of unbelievable
2:31:45
to, to an extreme that this hold. I couldn't even. Yeah, but
2:31:49
doesn't want to
2:31:50
Adam Curry: know about but this was Bush Senior.
2:31:53
John C Dvorak: Yeah, she goes in there as I guess somebody moves
2:31:56
as bush. Oh, she went in there with Bush Senior as the
2:31:58
president. No,
2:32:00
Adam Curry: no, no, no. She went in as just a different woman.
2:32:02
She got through White House. All right. She got through all this
2:32:05
stuff. And then she and there's pictures of herself. sitting
2:32:08
there with with Bush senior in the Oval Office who
2:32:11
John C Dvorak: is a previous co head of the CIA. So who should
2:32:14
know better? Yes. But you can't you can't know better with these
2:32:18
disguises. And this is years ago. And this
2:32:21
Adam Curry: has got to be some kind of signaling to let us know
2:32:24
that. You know that they're using this. They've got to be
2:32:27
using this.
2:32:29
John C Dvorak: I mean, yeah, with Biden. Yeah. Joey is just I
2:32:31
posted a clip recently that somebody caught with Biden
2:32:35
scratching the back of his neck and then they didn't delete text
2:32:38
kind of pulled up. I don't know if it's a fake or weapon. It
2:32:41
looked pretty good. And this woman who was taking the video
2:32:44
freaked out now. That's a mask is wearing a mask? It's not Joe.
2:32:49
Yeah.
2:32:52
Adam Curry: It's unbelievable. The extent to which I mean,
2:32:55
again, around the hill country. I'm hearing. JFK. JFK Jr. is
2:33:02
alive. Really? Really? Yeah. And people are very serious about
2:33:08
this.
2:33:10
John C Dvorak: You know, your your direct jobs in your area
2:33:13
are, I think worse than the grind the great. No, of course,
2:33:16
Adam Curry: they're definitely entertaining. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
2:33:18
No, and they'd like to drink. So it's fun.
2:33:20
John C Dvorak: And then you have to go to San Antonio to vote as
2:33:22
a Democrat. Are you kidding me?
2:33:24
Adam Curry: This is part of the joke. I just say do not adopt to
2:33:29
the fears and anxieties of the people around you and some of
2:33:32
these crazy ideas. A correction. One of our producers hoaxed us
2:33:39
in a very good way, I would say. Instead, the next time the show
2:33:43
will be on a on a on a Leap Day will be in 2023. Well, of course
2:33:49
that's not possible. 2023 is not a leap year.
2:33:58
John C Dvorak: 2023 is last
2:34:00
Adam Curry: 2033 I'm sorry, 2033.
2:34:05
John C Dvorak: A lot of oh, I had nothing to do with that
2:34:07
being hoaxed.
2:34:08
Adam Curry: No, I read it on the show and like this sent me this
2:34:11
link in the end that was out man. I got hoaxed. And then I
2:34:16
did want to read two quick notes. Jen and Andy says in our
2:34:20
household we pronounced Lacroix like the crotch pinkies up John.
2:34:25
And, and lightning maximalists says he would gladly buy the
2:34:29
children's book for $33.33.
2:34:33
John C Dvorak: What Yeah, we're getting into a discussion about
2:34:36
this issue over
2:34:37
Adam Curry: at the publishing company. Yeah.
2:34:41
John C Dvorak: Jay sent you a copy of it. I don't know if
2:34:42
you've seen it yet came in this morning. I haven't seen it yet.
2:34:45
As a PDF I haven't seen we need to add a couple pages so it can
2:34:47
be 33 pages long.
2:34:50
Adam Curry: Now you're talking teach those children right.
2:34:55
John C Dvorak: 33 this funny idea, made that may come to pass
2:34:59
as the that price. Yeah,
2:35:01
Adam Curry: I mean it's it was it's good for your children.
2:35:04
John C Dvorak: It's a great book.
2:35:05
Adam Curry: It teaches the children values
2:35:08
John C Dvorak: ABCs yeah teaches them a fun
2:35:11
Adam Curry: way to learn the ABCs I'm sure G is forget mo a
2:35:15
no doubt.
2:35:17
John C Dvorak: myelination?
2:35:18
Adam Curry: I haven't looked at the at the it's been a long
2:35:20
time. What she'd how years ish? I was gonna say she was probably
2:35:23
like 15 when she when she did that book?
2:35:26
John C Dvorak: I think so. Yeah. Something like that was
2:35:28
fantastic.
2:35:30
Adam Curry: And you're going to be supporting J I presume if we
2:35:33
put this book on sale? Or she just getting a are you
2:35:37
John C Dvorak: know, she's writing that operation. She's
2:35:39
really good. But she No, it'd be the same did world his they
2:35:45
15% 20% royalties are coming into the show as the book goes
2:35:50
out. Oh, so we got to start with the same as any other book
2:35:53
publishing company,
2:35:54
Adam Curry: basically. Oh, good. We get 15% of that egg book
2:35:58
them.
2:36:01
John C Dvorak: Do you mean that? No. Was it too many?
2:36:05
Adam Curry: no eggs, no eggs,
2:36:07
John C Dvorak: learn these I get that book is run that book is
2:36:10
running the publishing company, period. Even me, me doesn't get
2:36:14
a royalty.
2:36:18
Adam Curry: Ma'am, we we run as discussed, we run this show
2:36:23
value for value. Thank you iron Rand. And that means that for
2:36:28
the past two and a half hours, you didn't hear any commercial
2:36:31
interruptions, there was no creepies native ads going on
2:36:36
here. None of that? Well, the ones we played that on the
2:36:38
mainstream media, of course. And hopefully we calmed you down a
2:36:42
bit so that you don't feel so weird about an uneasy about all
2:36:45
the things and tonight, you can look at the State of the Union
2:36:49
as as a comedy show, you'll be ready, you're prepared. You'll
2:36:53
be you'll be able to laugh. And then you'll be looking for the
2:36:56
latex mask. That is fun for the whole family. And all we ask for
2:37:01
in return is that you send some value back to us. And you can do
2:37:04
that in many ways. We love what our artists do, we always thank
2:37:07
them, or artists create artwork while we're doing the show. And
2:37:12
then then right when we're done and we turn the show around
2:37:15
pretty quickly. We like to choose a piece of art, which is
2:37:19
a title and then we publish it and we always want to give
2:37:22
credit to the artist who did the artwork on the previous show,
2:37:26
which was 1639 the episode number it we titled it the
2:37:30
pumpkin coin it was networks whose back we haven't seen
2:37:33
networks with a win for a while and he took a very nice, I guess
2:37:39
Norton Antivirus theme at any any color was kind of the same
2:37:46
as no agenda Antivirus for your mind. And I think that was good.
2:37:49
And we liked it. Was there anything else that
2:37:53
John C Dvorak: that caught our gotta kick the Happy Women's
2:38:00
History Month with the Rachel Levine and the Looney Tunes
2:38:07
logo. There wasn't really a lot that we had to choose it. We
2:38:13
liked the pumpkin pie but named it that instead. Yeah, yeah,
2:38:18
that was nothing Hey, I liked AGI took human jobs but from
2:38:23
comic strip blogger, but you didn't like that at
2:38:25
Adam Curry: all. See which one was that?
2:38:27
John C Dvorak: The robot is a nice nice AI robot.
2:38:32
Adam Curry: I'm looking for it now. I
2:38:34
John C Dvorak: don't seem to be AGI that's the big joke is Oh,
2:38:38
Adam Curry: there you go. Yeah, yes. Like, man, man, man, you
2:38:43
know RFK with laser eyes. No. But I did like Oprah with the
2:38:48
burgers but it's kind of rude. Wasn't it? And I think the thing
2:38:53
of the Rachel Levine if it were the production wasn't great. I
2:38:57
thought the Happy Women's History Month by the way, what
2:39:00
did people do? And for Women's History Month? I haven't heard
2:39:03
any stories. No one cares. These months they don't care anymore.
2:39:08
Again, I didn't think the production was that great. And
2:39:11
then we
2:39:12
John C Dvorak: didn't match the would the logo Happy Women's no
2:39:15
history met did not match the Looney Tunes theme was it should
2:39:19
have been an old kind of a Looney Tunes logo. Yeah, around
2:39:24
there some.
2:39:25
Adam Curry: Well, thank you very much networks for bringing us
2:39:27
the artwork for episode 1639. Thank you to all of the artists
2:39:30
everybody who supplies us with clips boots on the ground, Intel
2:39:35
important Intel, people who run servers and you are all
2:39:39
producers. We have no listeners. We have no audience. We just
2:39:42
have producers and we'd love to thank our producers of just like
2:39:46
Hollywood we thank our executive and Associate Executive
2:39:49
Producers up front. Oh man, did you hear that? That girl got
2:39:56
convicted of on the rust set.
2:40:02
John C Dvorak: The harbor Yeah,
2:40:04
Adam Curry: yeah, the army or murmur. So Alex Baldwin is next.
2:40:09
John C Dvorak: Yeah, he may get convicted. And well, he deserves
2:40:15
him. He's the one who had the gun in his hand without, I guess
2:40:17
without checking it. And then he pulls the trigger, or it pulled
2:40:21
itself somehow that's magic. It was magic is magic. And he's
2:40:24
been in many hundreds of, you know, situations where he had to
2:40:28
use a gun. So he knew he knew the rules and Nikes never held a
2:40:33
gun in his life.
2:40:34
Adam Curry: There was I have a clip actually, one, there's
2:40:36
something interesting in this that is worth listening to you
2:40:38
want to hear? Yeah.
2:40:40
Unknown: Butera is guilty of involuntary manslaughter as
2:40:43
partial count one or
2:40:45
more charged with ensuring onset gun safety in the Hollywood
2:40:49
production of rust was immediately placed into the
2:40:52
custody of deputies. Jurors convinced by the prosecution's
2:40:55
case that the live rounds that ended up in actor and executive
2:40:59
producer Alec Baldwin's gun fatally shooting cinematographer
2:41:02
Halina Hutchins got their due to Hannah Gutierrez, Reid's failure
2:41:06
to observe safety protocols prosecuted Carrie Morrissey
2:41:10
presented evidence that Gutierrez Reid unknowingly
2:41:13
brought the live rounds on set, and that the 12 days before the
2:41:16
accident in which they slowly spread across the set should
2:41:19
have been ample time to perform the routine checks that would
2:41:22
have allowed her to realize this was live ammunition. The 26 year
2:41:26
old lawyer said that she would be appealing the verdict,
2:41:29
arguing that management negligence and giving her two
2:41:32
jobs approps assistant and an armorer are responsible for more
2:41:36
than 20 firearms.
2:41:37
Management was responsible for safety failures and not Hannah.
2:41:41
Hannah is escaped go for all the management failures. They do
2:41:46
hope she gets convicted. So they're all exonerated, they can
2:41:49
move forward. They can finish that movie like Mr. Sousa said
2:41:53
they did make their money.
2:41:54
No date has been set for sentencing. But it's a charge
2:41:57
that carries up to 18 months in prison under $5,000. Fine. The
2:42:02
jury found him not guilty of an evidence tampering charge. Alec
2:42:06
Baldwin who pulled the trigger will be tried for manslaughter
2:42:09
in July.
2:42:11
Adam Curry: It was interesting that blaming the production
2:42:15
company
2:42:17
John C Dvorak: you got to point a finger at somebody Yeah, your
2:42:19
fault that you took a gun loaded gun pointed at the Edison
2:42:23
photographer and pulled the trigger. What was the point?
2:42:27
Yeah.
2:42:30
Adam Curry: Anyway, we will never go to court with our
2:42:34
executive producers ever for Associate Executive producers
2:42:38
because you fund the operation and as long as you don't point a
2:42:41
gun at us we're good. Even then I'm still kind of okay with it.
2:42:45
So we kick it off by thanking our OH is interesting, sir B of
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the chat. Annucci who comes in from Alpharetta, Georgia with
2:42:55
$400 Big yellow box here so there's a birthday involved and
2:42:59
he says John and Adam, thank you I am headed to Vegas to and plan
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to win this donation value back at the tables so in essence is
2:43:08
free money all right. Policing this a boots on the ground of
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the your TSA experience. Also Adam my wife and I are going to
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Amsterdam for four days in April. I would love to get your
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number one don't miss recommendation. Go to the
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Bulldogs mocha join John stay grumpy my friend. For the people
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think of you love and light sir be birthday mentioned sir be of
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the Chattahoochee wishing is three human resources a happy
2:43:39
birthday Danny March 11, Eliza, march 15 And Nico March 16. And
2:43:45
a shout out to my smokin hot wife for her consistency. So
2:43:50
dumb love and light he says sir be alright. Thank you very much,
2:43:53
brother.
2:43:55
John C Dvorak: And now we have Kyle in Wisconsin. This was an
2:43:58
interesting note. Yeah, well, he's been sending these kinds of
2:44:01
cryptic notes for about six months. Usually as $1 in them,
2:44:07
but this time is 400 Wow. Cash. Wow. And as Kyle from Wisconsin
2:44:14
he says John Adam what? What it says what her happened. WP no
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phone No money. No home. I'm the joke. Question mark. Will I be
2:44:29
left to toil in my depths? I am I prison bound? I am not evolve.
2:44:38
Eevee Oh, l sincerely Kyle. All right. No internet says wrong.
2:44:50
Adam Curry: That's an intro anyway.
2:44:51
John C Dvorak: They could thank you Kyle for the for the
2:44:53
donations. We appreciate very big deal and we appreciate it.
2:44:56
Yeah.
2:44:57
Adam Curry: And if you if you have a question you can if you
2:44:59
haven't Internet Adam mccurry.com. And McCurry that
2:45:03
That's right. Then we move on to Digi who comes in with 34567
2:45:07
from Indianapolis, Indiana from Digi he's a blind listener, and
2:45:11
a dude named Ben. And I would say just an FYI, Digi the pod
2:45:18
verse app. I didn't promote an app today. But the pod verse
2:45:21
didn't. I didn't. The pod verse app has a they did a lot of work
2:45:29
specifically for what's it called? You know, there's a term
2:45:36
for it for not assistance. It's something within a it's, you
2:45:41
know, for blind people, blind bit. I can't remember the term,
2:45:46
there's a term, there's like a politically correct term for it.
2:45:51
So there's a lot of things that, that you know, your screen
2:45:54
reader will work. You know, there's the, I can't
2:45:58
accessibility Thank you meet us. That's it.
2:46:01
John C Dvorak: Accessibility.
2:46:02
Adam Curry: There you go. So that'd be a great app for you to
2:46:05
use. Oh, and I needed to mention that one of the biggest hosts
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podcasting hosts in the world. Spreaker they have now joined
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the podcasting. 2.0 revolution. They're using pod ping which
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means if you listen to a podcast that hosts on Spreaker just like
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publishing. No more do you have to wait for
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John C Dvorak: five never heard in this operation? What's their
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name? Spreaker Spreaker Oh, they're
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Adam Curry: big. Oh, yeah, they
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John C Dvorak: have a lot. Biggest pod bean.
2:46:33
Adam Curry: They I think they're bigger than pod bean. Yeah, they
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have 350,000 feeds I believe it's pretty big. Holy. Wow.
2:46:42
Yeah. So and if you want to see that work go to pod Pink Dot
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cloud Dot Watch pod Pink Dot Watch. It's crazy to see all
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these things updating in real time. Thanks Digi bite Pink Dot
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wad Pink Dot Watch.
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John C Dvorak: Yes. Grab Scott's up with he's in Oceanside,
2:46:59
California.
2:47:00
Adam Curry: He does our dress our chapters.
2:47:02
John C Dvorak: Yeah, he's probably changing something as
2:47:04
we speak. 33333333 3.34 And he says anonymous from Dred Scott.
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Duke location at large no jingles no karma late birthday
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shout out to myself March 4,
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Adam Curry: and I'm gonna give him a biscuit.
2:47:20
Unknown: They always give me a biscuit on my birthday deserves
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a Brother Keith
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Adam Curry: Yates is in Haltom City, Texas. 263 dot 22.
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Interesting number. Thank you very much. Please do dude.
2:47:33
Unknown: You've been de deuced
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John C Dvorak: Jeffrey Gerlach in Evergreen Colorado. 24697
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Switcheroo. This is for my son Sir William Gerlach with a
2:47:48
request for a name change to serve Wiley arts. And please
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check out his art at Wiley arts wi l ey arts.com. And his
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instinct is Wiley Arts at Wiley arts. It's astounding how proud
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I am of my son. Okay, so love you mean it? I hope you win.
2:48:09
Yes, thank
2:48:10
Adam Curry: you. So this means we will be crediting this to Sir
2:48:13
Wiley arts.
2:48:15
John C Dvorak: I would assume so. Okay, good. Got it. Got it.
2:48:19
Got it. Got it.
2:48:20
Adam Curry: I'll take the blue one. And I'll skip over the next
2:48:22
one. This is James story from Lower Hutt New Zealand. 200 Dear
2:48:30
John and Adam please find attached my donation of $200
2:48:33
which finally makes me eligible for knighthood. The New Zealand
2:48:37
dollar exchange rate sucks right now, and it's less than you
2:48:40
deserve. But I'm truly grateful for your show. And of course we
2:48:43
honor your dollar reduce. May I humbly request brisket and
2:48:47
bourbon at the roundtable and an R to D to karma. Of course you
2:48:52
can regard see you both James story. We'll see you at the
2:48:55
roundtable momentarily. James.
2:48:59
Unknown: You've got karma
2:49:05
John C Dvorak: at 200 and I will look this up in New Zealand
2:49:10
dollars because he gateman in dollars. So if not translate
2:49:13
that to New Zealand dollar reduce that buck 50 pushes him
2:49:16
up a notch.
2:49:19
Adam Curry: I see what you're saying he might be. You mean he
2:49:22
might be? Exec?
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John C Dvorak: Yeah. I
2:49:25
Adam Curry: don't know. I don't know
2:49:26
John C Dvorak: possible. There are systems online to tell us.
2:49:31
Then you look back in in Lakewood, Colorado. There she is
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at 200 bucks. She says she needs jobs. Carmen wants to tell us
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Unknown: jobs,
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jobs, jobs and jobs for jobs.
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Adam Curry: karma. And that concludes our executive and
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John C Dvorak: indeed I was looking at the New Zealand
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Unknown: you've been de deuced
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John C Dvorak: Leroy Pacheco. Pacheco or Pacheco. Pacheco,
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it's got to be Pachenko in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 100 I can tell
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this is gonna be a tough read the whole way. Kelly's Bong Berg
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John C Dvorak: do biscuits, we
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Adam Curry: do biscuits.
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John C Dvorak: from Soviet occupied kaneka Stan and now we
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Thank you so much for the no agenda meetups. They're amazing.
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Adam Curry: blades. Now who wouldn't want to be a part of
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assumed to be named the Goo Goo Dolls is is hosting that so
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definitely you you good ahead head over there. And our next
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show day Sunday Albuquerque 505 At one o'clock at Urban 360
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pizza so Jeff to Hague will be hosting that in Albuquerque New
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Mexico the Charleston no agenda live stream listen party that'll
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be fun two o'clock at Charleston's distilling company
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JOHN'S ISLAND South Carolina on Sunday and finally the indie no
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agenda tribal mad March meet up three o'clock Eastern prodigy
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Burger Bar Indianapolis Indiana Dame mark and Sir Mark and de
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Maria of the Greenwood of course hosting that those you know
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agenda meet up thank you very much and now it's time for ISOs
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John C Dvorak: wow, I know that's a different segue. I
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Adam Curry: know it because normally I do the jingle on my
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screwed it up as I am for ISOs for ISOs I'll start with mine.
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How does that sound?
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John C Dvorak: Sounds good to me.
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Adam Curry: Oh I got a whole bunch of them here a bunch I got
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a bunch I don't know if they're any good if any Gude okay here
3:06:05
we go. Number one big energy Big D energy you'd liked it when it
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was in the clip not so great as an ISO I can tell shade
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Unknown: all the way down. No, I don't like that one either. The
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American people are tired. We played for suckers. No. This one
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that's it. No other reason. rarely hear it. Now this one me
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hate shrink Felician
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Adam Curry: as the only one I think is? Possibly Yeah,
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John C Dvorak: I get four. There we go. Okay, bye. Bye. Bye.
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Adam Curry: Bye. Bye. Bye.
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John C Dvorak: I don't like the winter.
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Adam Curry: I like that one. Yes.
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John C Dvorak: Keep going. Keep going. Keep
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Unknown: going. You dummies.
3:06:45
Adam Curry: I like that one a lot.
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John C Dvorak: I like that one the most. So cute. That was so
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cute. And then Dershowitz. We cannot trust the media.
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Unknown: Oh,
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Adam Curry: that's that's tight. I
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John C Dvorak: came loaded for bear. You did? Keep going. Keep
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going you dummies.
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Adam Curry: I think that's the best one. Actually, I think
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that's the best one. All right, keep grinding. Keep going into
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news. Good news. Good news. Good news. Good news. Good news as
3:07:22
we'd like to end our show with some good news. So you can go
3:07:24
into the weekend in this case, into Friday into the State of
3:07:28
the Union into everything just feeling good about yourself
3:07:30
feeling good about life feeling good about people helping each
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other. And some good news as John brings the good news to
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you.
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John C Dvorak: This is about Kevin Bacon the pig. in
3:07:42
Unknown: Kenosha County. A local family had an unexpected
3:07:46
visitor, one that took them on the adventure of a lifetime. Our
3:07:49
Jeffrey's
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in Pawnee introduces us to a 450 pound pig from Brighton. And the
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pig Hand of God is named Kevin Bacon. Kevin
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Bacon is a gentle giant. He's a 450 pound pig who loves taking
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walks, meeting new people and more than anything.
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eating donuts.
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Brighton resident Jake mole guard was home Friday night when
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his wife discovered something unusual. Or
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the night around eight o'clock. I'm watching TV and my wife
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comes in the room and says Jake, I think there's a pig on her
3:08:24
driveway camera and I'm like, Are you serious?
3:08:26
Kevin Bacon was standing at their back door. He wandered
3:08:29
from a nearby hobby farm and wanted to say hello morguard
3:08:33
made a few phone calls and found his owner who was out of town
3:08:37
for the weekend. Yeah,
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that's that's definitely my pig. Is he? He's big black pig. I
3:08:42
said yeah. He's like, Yeah, his name is Kevin Bacon. And he's
3:08:46
actually a little lonely, so he's probably just looking for
3:08:48
company with
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some assistance from the Kenosha Sheriff's Department. The
3:08:52
morguard family brought Kevin home, a one mile walk that took
3:08:56
an incredible two and a half hours. At one point Jake's
3:09:00
daughter Chloe had to climb Kevin's back to get him going.
3:09:06
The owner said that if he's if he stops on he can get drunk on
3:09:09
his back and he likes to likes to run at that point. The
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mall guards learned Kevin home with Oreo cookies and anything
3:09:15
else they found in the fridge. Not only did they get them back
3:09:18
home, they made a friend for life.
3:09:21
They all wanted to adopt them immediately. And I said we don't
3:09:24
have a place to put a 450 pound pig but yeah, they they fell in
3:09:28
love with it right away. Good
3:09:29
boy. Here we have Kevin back home safe and sound maybe a
3:09:33
little tuckered out from his one mile walk but he appears to be
3:09:37
in good spirits in Kenosha, Jeffries and ponte. TMJ for news
3:09:42
Ah,
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Adam Curry: what a great story. I really like that.
3:09:48
John C Dvorak: The video of the little girl writing the pig
3:09:51
mustard was the best
3:09:57
Unknown: news of the day Good news on na what has me me given
3:10:06
John to play today?
3:10:09
Adam Curry: There you go good news we do it every single show
3:10:12
And that wraps up another more than three hours of
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deconstruction just for your listening pleasure we have after
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a two year hiatus coming up next on no agenda stream.com and all
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the modern podcast apps unfiltered show they're back
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remember them
3:10:32
John C Dvorak: Are they back that touch the two of them had a
3:10:34
falling out
3:10:35
Adam Curry: apparently two year hiatus they're back this season
3:10:39
of information control is the title of their episode while I'm
3:10:44
happy to see these guys back and back on the screen because both
3:10:47
of them not just one I think so we'll find out I haven't heard
3:10:50
it. And of show mixes classic from Sir TJ the wrathful with
3:10:55
the dorsal the dorsal dudes and dudettes little Brandon mix for
3:11:00
you. We also have the clip collector with an end of show
3:11:06
mix and sound guy Steve with a great little ditty that will
3:11:09
just get your poppin into your Thursday night. Coming to you
3:11:13
from the heart of the Texas hill country here in FEMA Region
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number six in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry.
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John C Dvorak: from Northern Silicon Valley, we have a shout
3:11:21
out for a Ichi kid at GAO who somehow I missed on the list.
3:11:25
I'm John C. Dvorak,
3:11:26
Adam Curry: we return on Sunday to talk about your State of the
3:11:29
Union and the state of the world. Right here on no agenda.
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Remember us at no agenda donations.com Till then adios
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mofos a hui Hui Ensign
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Unknown: Brandon
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we don't talk on election time economy was booming Andrew was
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in a cloud sky out loud in the sky
3:11:58
scam begin science you Dynastar sorry my son go six feet that's
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what they tell
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that's crazy question what the experts
3:12:17
say skip back to you slaves we don't talk
3:12:29
the SEC we're gonna start here sort of monitoring a mumbling I
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associated with the sound go you know this you know the thing she
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takes heavy snips into the frightening always also he was
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supposed to be speaking points words that no one understands
3:12:46
not a joke think about a four year term creep So build back
3:12:54
think about sow was from the
3:13:07
need to hear they say it's for your health. What have we got to
3:13:16
show Pfizer's got the wealth economy scrapped. You can bank
3:13:24
if this is normal now. We're gonna need some serious help.
3:13:29
But who gets seamless?
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I don't know buddy, but I'm really scared. Could the
3:13:34
government help pay Yeah, they can just print out some more
3:13:37
money is that inflation? It's just paper. Thanks Brandon.
3:13:43
You want a six
3:13:44
feet in the ground not with a mascot of being your card
3:13:51
freaking crazy removed jab right in your arm probably
3:13:56
still positive.
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Yours
3:14:27
Joe brand and I agree consciousness
3:14:29
itself as a diaphragm or a drum bass knows that and that that
3:14:34
drum grows when it's stretched to notes that and when it's
3:14:38
stretched and it grows, it's able to interpret bass notes,
3:14:43
bass note notes that it did not have before because it wasn't as
3:14:50
wide. So the aperture of your consciousness just can be
3:14:55
stretched and you will see things that other people will
3:14:59
not See The amygdala is giving you a barometric Mikulas number
3:15:09
about how afraid geolocalization was and so when you're in a
3:15:13
certain situation, you're one of the many jobs that your amygdala
3:15:17
has just to give you constant feedback about how much you're
3:15:20
freaking the fuck out right now. Right? If too much information
3:15:27
comes in the amygdala knows that you as the pilot are going to
3:15:32
lose your shit and you're going to black out black out. Waking
3:15:39
news of the day, President Biden child Trump, Tucker Carlson,
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five Biden, President Biden, Biden, Biden, Joe Biden, five,
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Biden, Biden, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump branded Trump,
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Trump, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Tucker, Carlson, Tucker,
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Tucker, Carlson. Carlson,
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do you follow me? President Biden, Trump's Biden, Elon, Musk
3:16:04
Tucker, Tucker, Ukraine, Russia, Ukraine, Michelle Obama, Ukraine
3:16:08
Twitter inflation. I guess the breaking news is this case in
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Ukraine, two year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
3:16:17
Another American citizen is in custody in Russia, Gaza, war
3:16:22
Ukraine, Israel, Hamas war Israel and Hamas Barak Obama,
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President Biden, could it be Trump Donald Trump? Democracy
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Donald Trump president by the Trump Joe Biden the Biden's with
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Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Michelle Obama, Trump
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pathological Donald Trump, 18, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump,
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Trump, Joe Biden, Biden, Biden, Biden, Biden, Biden, Donald
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Trump, that is crazy. This
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John C Dvorak: is entertaining.
3:16:57
Unknown: borak.org/in
3:17:02
Keep going. Keep going, you dummies.
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