No Agenda Episode 385, "CIA vs DIA" (2012-02-23)

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John C. Dvorak:
I will not use that word, or "ginormous".
Jingle:
Adam Curry.
John C. Dvorak.
John C. Dvorak:
[slide whistle]
Adam Curry:
It's Thursday, February twenty-third, two thousand twelve (2012-02-23), time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode three eight five (385).
Jingle:
This is No Agenda.
Adam Curry:
Jamming all GPSs here at Camp Mofo in the capitol of the Drone Star State, Austin, Texas.
In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
John C. Dvorak:
And from Northern Silicon Valley where we're only fifteen (15) episodes away from episode number four hundred (400) on the No Agenda Show, I'm John C. Dvorak.
Jingle:
It's crackpot and buzzkill.
In the morning!
John C. Dvorak:
[call bell]
Adam Curry:
That's right, man, four hundred (400) episodes.
Of love!
[thpppt]
[chuckle]
John C. Dvorak:
[duck call]
Adam Curry:
Okay, maybe not really love, but... you know.
[clears throat]
Two check two, one two, two, two.
John C. Dvorak:
Check two, check two, two two.
Adam Curry:
Two two two.
John C. Dvorak:
[call bell]
So it looks like the Israelis are gonna use drones to guard the Leviathan oil field.
Adam Curry:
[laughter]
Really?
Of all the things I thought I would have picked up...
Adam Curry:
...as a story, you found it, huh?
John C. Dvorak:
"Israel to use drones..."
Adam Curry:
Really?
[laughter]
John C. Dvorak:
"...to guard gas fields from Hezbullah".
Adam Curry:
Really?
What publication?
I need that link, that's fantastic.
John C. Dvorak:
World Tribune.
Adam Curry:
It makes so much sense, doesn't it?
John C. Dvorak:
Sure.
Adam Curry:
It's so cheap.
I mean, it doesn't make sense for the military industrial complex, but...
You know I was thinking, it's funny you bring this up, because I was watching... What was I watching? This, uh, some, uh, Chiner fellow who was demonstrating his drones and they can go like seventy (70) kilometers an hour, uh, two (2) kilometer distance and or altitude and with a camera and he's like, "Oh, this is going to replace helicopter pilots!" of course its true.
And I'm looking at that and I'm like, our game show, "Win, Lose, or Drone!" ... It should really be kind of like, it is a running man thing, but you have a shotgun, and these drones start flying around and it's like a skeet--
John C. Dvorak:
A shotgun? You get a shotgun or the shotgun is on the drone?
Adam Curry:
No. The drone has a taser and it can shoot bean bags. But you get a shotgun and its like a skeet shooting game and, uh, except the, except the skeets shoot back.
John C. Dvorak:
So how would you score this? Would the -- Would the drones throw a bean bag or a taser bomb at you and you'd be knocked out?
Adam Curry:
Think. It's like space invaders. So these drones are coming at you and it starts with one (1) or two (2) and they're happy little colors and they're easy to knock off and then as you keep going and, of course, you're in some bombed-out city or something so you do have some places to kind of hide, some of them are explosive and basically if one of them gets ya then its, the game ends
John C. Dvorak:
can you get killed?
Adam Curry:
yeah, well that's the get-ya part.
John C. Dvorak:
well.
Adam Curry:
I think it'll be cool, with the skeet-shoot angel is ah something, no ones thought of.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, No I think it would be cool if you had a nice, ah, nice shotgun that you could run around with and if you see the drone you turn and shoot it.
Adam Curry:
yeah drone hunt, that's what we'll call it drone hunt. I'm telling you, hear me now believe me later. This show will eventually be on the air. and you and I will be probably be sitting here doing this pod-cast going, 'I told ya..'
John C. Dvorak:
We need to get a piece of that
Adam Curry:
We need to get a piece of that action, man
SFX:
ding
John C. Dvorak:
We need some points
Adam Curry:
In the morning to ya, John C. Dvorak
John C. Dvorak:
In the morning to you, Adam Curry. In the morning to all the ships at sea, boots on the ground and feet in the air
male-announcer-over-dramatic-music:
Attention Mr and Mrs America and all the ships at sea. They are coming. It is useless trying to resist them
female-announcer:
Remain calm
male-announcer:
What we originally thought were flying saucers are actually an invasion like we have never seen.
female-announcer:
They mean us no harm they've come to bring their message to the masses.
male-announcer:
They're here.
Adam Curry:
So this was a commercial on the the local Austin television, guess what its for.
John C. Dvorak:
Mars needs women?
Adam Curry:
No the Volkswagen dealership, I guess the new... Jetta.
John C. Dvorak:
*laughs*
Adam Curry:
*laughs* You know 'cause I have like three (3) different stations on at one time. I think this was maybe a... I think this was the local station. And I'm... I hear this "ATTENTION ALL SHIPS AT SEA", and who's ripping us off now. I look over and was like "What is this?" There's this bunch of old footage.
You know there's some guy in some Advertising Agency in Austin going..."Hey man I got a good idea. I, uh, not that I heard this anywhere or anything but, I got a cool idea to use something."
John C. Dvorak:
Well, you know they can just do stuff like that in a little town like Austin, which is just cosmopolitan enough to have a few creative people there.
Adam Curry:
A few? We have more than a few.
John C. Dvorak:
And then get away with it, cause they won't have some guy saying "yeah, you know... uh"
Adam Curry:
We have more than a few.
John C. Dvorak:
"we have a bunch of suits."
Adam Curry:
We got tons of creative people here, man. Whatchu sayin' boy? Anyway, I also want to say In The Morning to all the Human Resources who are checking in at NoAgendaStream.com, NoAgendaChat.net, Mr. Oil and Gitmo Slave have a new system set up which I guess is working now so people can hear us streaming live, I hope so. But, I know the majority listen on the podcast, but boy is it appreciated to have those human resources bitching at us in real time, settin' us straight. Keep us on the straight path. The straight and narrow path. And..
John C. Dvorak:
Keepin' them honest
Jingle:
Two to the head
Adam Curry:
Do not use Anderson Pooper's slogan on this program.
John C. Dvorak:
Keeping them honest.
Adam Curry:
So last night, ah ...
John C. Dvorak:
I got a bunch of Pooper stuff.
Adam Curry:
Oh good. Well we rushed home. We had a ...
John C. Dvorak:
Why?
Adam Curry:
Well because it, we, um, the Presidential, the GOP X-factor starts at 7 here, we're on central time, instead of 8. So ah, so we had a nice bite to eat and watched the sunset, which by the way in Texas are spectacular. Just the most beautiful sunsets you've ever seen.
John C. Dvorak:
It's all that dust in the air.
Adam Curry:
OK, whatever, Mr California. Its so healthy where you live.
John C. Dvorak:
[Coughing] Go on.
Adam Curry:
and ah, so we get home, now many people will only see snippets of these so called debates and don't actually see the whole thing.
John C. Dvorak:
don't actually see how often they try to screw over Ron Paul where he had to actually interrupt to get a word in.
Adam Curry:
excuse me, excuse me, can I answer the question. By the way, John, as a television executive, which is how we analyse most of this, I mean they had these little desks that they had the guys sitting behind. They should have had a little ah little cup with crayons on every desk it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, it was pretty different.
Adam Curry:
Well they were too tiny. They did switch it up. I liked it they put Ron Paul on the left hand side next to ah Santorum, then Romney, then Gingrich, so it was a good mix up.
Um the director was horrible, he was cutting, you know he was cutting to stuff too fast, he would stay on people way too long. You know you knew a question was coming cause it was almost like they were previewing the camera for the question in the audience. I'm like, why are they showing the shot of this guy. And I'm like oh OK, and then John King would say 'Oh time for a question from the audience'. Whoever was directing or the technical director maybe had sticky keys. But the thing that really got me is um this episode of the GOP X-Factor. The opening montage. I don't know if you had a chance to catch it.
John C. Dvorak:
I missed the first five [5] minutes
Adam Curry:
The opening montage..I think they actually got the guy now from X-Factor to do the voice over. I swear to God. You'll hear this thing, this open, and after it, you just want Ryan Seacrest. You don't want John King. It's like, where's Ryan? I'm ready for this. Listen to this, John. I'm ready for this. Listen to this, John. This is. Listen to how they title the contestants in this contest.
Clip:
In Arizona tonight. A Grand showdown. In a Presidential Contest that's been all over the map.
Clip (Rick Santorum):
"You don't like the state of the race right now, wait a couple weeks."
Clip (Newton Leroy Gringrich):
"This has been like riding Space Mountain at Disney"
Clip:
The Republican Race could take another turn RIGHT NOW. With the GOP Candidates return to the debate stage. Rick Santorum, the late contender.
Adam Curry:
Listen to this! *laugh* The late contender!
Clip:
It's a two man duel now, and he'll be the one left standing.
Clip (Rick Santorum):
I stand here to be the conservative alternative to Barack Obama.
Clip:
Mitt Romney, the long distance runner, says 'Every Rival that's threatened him has made him stronger.'
Clip (Mitt Romney):
My conservatism is to the core!
Clip:
Newt Gringrich, the determined challenger, vowing to compete, win or lose, until the last votes are cast.
Adam Curry:
And now!
Clip (Newton Leroy Gringrich):
We intend to change Washington, not accommodate it.
Adam Curry:
Here it comes!
Clip:
Ron Paul, the delegate hunter. Keeping his campaign-
Adam Curry:
*laughs* RON PAUL. THE DELEGATE HUNTER.
John C. Dvorak:
I can't believe I missed that. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Adam Curry:
It's the duel in the desert! *laugh* And then you get-
John C. Dvorak:
I have a couple of poignant clips that just kind of explain what I'm talkin' about when I say this. Play the one..I just want you to listen to the question and start to listen to Santorum's answer and then I'll finish off by explaining what happened. Santorum on contraception
Clip:
You told an evangelical blog, if elected, you will talk about what quote "no president has talked about before. The dangers of contraception." Why?
Clip (Rick Santorum):
Uh. What I was talking about is, we have a society, Charles Murray just wrote a book about this. It's on the front page of the New York Times two [2] days ago. Which is the increasing number of children being born out of wedlock in America. Teens who are sexually active. What we are seeing is a problem in our culture with respect to children being raised by children. Children being raised out of wedlock and the impact on society economically
John C. Dvorak:
He goes on and on and on like this. He never talks about the dangers of contraception. He actually talks about..he gives the counter-argument..why contraception might actually be important because you are having all these babies everywhere. He went on for five [5] minutes with this crap and John King never says jack about it. He's asked him the question, what's the dangers of contraception? He doesn't even come close to answering it. He goes off the deep end about teenage pregnancy, which seems to me to be the obverse of the dangers of contraception
Adam Curry:
I figured this out, by the way
John C. Dvorak:
What is wrong with this guy?
Adam Curry:
I figured out what is going on with the contraception thing. So, we have to understand that we have these Super PACS and the Super PACS basically control the media messaging. Because all these millions of dollars go through the Super PACS straight to the media as you pointed out, John, that the whores at the mainstream media companies, they just want more of it. So, "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll talk about your ad. We'll run it. Do a media buy and we'll talk about it. Whatever the issue is, we'll talk about it, it's all good."
Adam Curry:
So, the problem with the Super PAC is that you can have money coming in..we could basically set up a Super PAC as, let's say that we were raging liberal Democrats, and we set up a Super PAC for Rick Santorum. And we just call it the Rick Santorum Is Awsome Super PAC. And we will then go pour ten [10], twenty [20] million dollars into media messaging, and we know that we will get our deals, because that's how it works. You know, money talks. And this happened..do you remember the debate with George Stephanopoulos? It was an ABC debate. Now, ABC is, of course, super compromised, and this is where this issue came up for the first time with Romney. And it came so out of left field and even Romney was like, "I don't understand. Why are you asking me this question? No one is talking about this issue whatsoever."
John C. Dvorak:
So this is the one where he was just flabbergasted by the question
Adam Curry:
Yes. Stephanopoulos is, of course, a Clinton operative. This is why he introduced this question. Completely done with one reason, and is to get the Republican party bitching and moaning and fighting. And Santorum is a total idiot. The guy is actually sitting there believing that he's great. You can see it in his eyes.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, it's hilarious
Adam Curry:
He believes that he has a chance. He doesn't understand that he is being played like a Stradivarius fiddle, my friend. So they've pumped this guy up and all week, all we hear for two [2] weeks is contraception, religion and Santorum is such a dufus. "Satan is attacking America." And mean while, Obama is like [laughing} "This is great. Good job guys. You got 'em off message. They're not talkin' about the economy. They're talking about rubbers and the pill." This is very, very, very dangerous for the Republican party who wants to unseat Obama and it's working!
Adam Curry:
They're so stupid!
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, Santorum is definitely at the top of the list. He's definitely the dumbest of the four [4] guys. There's no doubt about that
Adam Curry:
Did you see the subliminal messaging outside? It's all over the net and I tweeted a picture of it. I re-tweeted, I should say. They cut to this..they're going to commercial. They only have three commercial breaks..they cut to commercial. You see a whole bunch of signs. Most of them Ron Paul signs. But, then if you freeze-frame..and you know this subliminal stuff works..it's actually outlawed. You can't do subliminal messaging. So, you know, people saw it. That's why a lot of them tweeted this picture. There's a guy holding a sign..a professionally made sign..with real fonts and printed on a piece of wood or cardboard. And it says Frothy Mix. Like santorum, frothy mix anal lube and fecal matter. And CNN broadcast that
John C. Dvorak:
Oh God
Adam Curry:
Yeah, it's fantastic. Not only is Santorum being played. But, the audience is being played. Which is correct. This is why it's an entertainment show. This is why I thoroughly enjoy watching it. Unfortunately, it doesn't do much for the country. [snickers] It's not going to help America much.
John C. Dvorak:
[chuckles] No, not at all
Adam Curry:
You know, I've had an interesting e-mail conversation with Doug Wead. Remember Doug Weed?
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, I do remember Doug Wead
Adam Curry:
He's the guy that showed up and we like said 'hey, who is this guy all of a sudden?' And he's now the spokesperson and senior adviser for Ron Paul's campaign. I've had a very interesting e-mail back and forth
John C. Dvorak:
And what happened?
Adam Curry:
Well, so the last thing we discussed. I said, 'Look, listen, hear me now.I truly believe, the constant messaging, great. It's fantastic that Ron Paul not wavering. Not falling for the traps. But, I think the people are ready to understand that we don't need Romney to go kill people, brown people, in sandy areas to protect pipelines and oil and gas transport. And Wead came back with an interesting response saying, "Yeah I totally agree on that analysis." I thought Ron Paul was really good last night but, I think he failed on the Iran thing. And when he gets..
John C. Dvorak:
I was very disappointed with his performance, to be honest about it
Adam Curry:
I agree
John C. Dvorak:
Not finishing the sentences is the problem. He will have something..you know what he's going to say. You know what he's talking about if you've been following him. But, if you're just listening to him cold, it's like, can't this guy finish a sentence?
Adam Curry:
I agree. And when he gets excited
John C. Dvorak:
And it's very poorly..and he gets excited, tries to talk fast, because they don't give him enough time so he rushes
Adam Curry:
When he gets excited, then he completely messes up his sentences. So, he said, "Ok, look, I know that you are not listening to me, I've tried to explain this several ways. Let me attack it from an economic perspective." And instead of saying, if you say it like this, the reason why Russia left Afghanistan, where they were for over a decade, is because the whole process had bankrupted Russia. The way it came out of his mouth was, "The reasons why the Russians left here is.." I was, ahhh! It had no impact. It was funny in the beginning, when he said Santorum is fake. That was very strong. But I agree, and particularly the Iran issue, he didn't nail it. He did not nail it. It was very disappointing, I agree
John C. Dvorak:
He had the right idea
Adam Curry:
Of course he had the right idea. We all know that. He's got the right idea. Maybe we just say 'hey, American people don't want to kill brown people in sand anymore to protect oil and gas interests. Get over it already. And these douche bags are all in on it. I mean, what difference does it make?
John C. Dvorak:
That would get the point across. But, you know
Adam Curry:
Yeah, but we can't do that because..I don't know. That's kind of what I was trying to tell Doug Wead is, just say something the American people that they understand in English
John C. Dvorak:
I have this clip. There's a couple of other things these guys are doing that are weird. The one that got me, and I thought that maybe Ron Paul would come in on this, although he has got screwed about most of these uh, you know, they do three and they skip it and they do three and they ask some generalized question and they go to him first so it has the least impact. It was so rigged it was ridiculous. But the one that got me was Failure To Answer Questions Right is the clip. Why don't you play that one and I'll explain what I'm talking about
Clip:
Why was George W. Bush wrong in his efforts to save the auto industry and why was Barack Obama wrong to continue the effort? Senator Santorum, I want to go to you first with this question. You, like your friends on the stage tonight, opposed the auto bailout. Michigan votes on Tuesday, along with Arizona. We assure folks are watching there tonight. Address your answer to an auto worker who may believe strongly that he or she has that job tonight because of the bailout
Clip (Rick Santorum):
I would just say to them that I, in principal, oppose government coming in and bailing out a sector of the economy or an industry with government dollars and with government manipulation of that market which is exactly what happened twice in 2008 and 2009. The first time it happened was the Wall Street bailout. On principal, I opposed the Wall Street bailout. Even though I understand reasonable people can disagree, I felt that having the government come in such a major way and have a huge..
John C. Dvorak:
Ok, you can stop that. Now, all these guys answered this question in pretty much the same way.
Adam Curry:
All incorrectly
John C. Dvorak:
Except somebody jumped on Santorum for not really, he was opposed in principal. What crap. The question was, address the answer to auto workers who think that they have their job because of the bailout. And not one person answered it in an obvious way that would indicate they have some understanding of either business or workers. They never, never addressed the workers. And all you had to do was say..and you would have gotten away with this and it would have buried everybody else..and you could have started with, "Look"
Adam Curry:
[phfttt] Which is always a good one, because people at home go, 'uh, what? Something's gonna..'
John C. Dvorak:
Going through bankruptcy doesn't mean you are going to lose your job. You would have the same job today if the process had gone its normal course. What you've got now is a job where your just short of working for the government. You don't want to work for the government if you're in the private sector because there is no possibility about getting out of the government payment system, the GS, whatever it is. So, workers out there you would still be working. You might actually be doing better. There may be even more factories running under the bankruptcy laws. That's what they do, is protect the company. It's to protect the company from creditors. It's not to turn the company over to the government. So the workers..and not one person said this to anybody..the just bla, bla, bla..they don't give a crap about the worker
Adam Curry:
All they did was attack the unions
John C. Dvorak:
And Obama
Adam Curry:
Yeah, and if I were there I would have said "Look" Huh??? I would have said, "What happened is, they paid back all the money to the government, because they got a cheaper loan from the private sector." Which is the way it should be in the first place. Except without kicking out your CEO and everything by government mandate. John, how come we are not running for President? We'd be so much better
John C. Dvorak:
Well, maybe we'd choke
Adam Curry:
We'd be very dead, is what we'd be. Can you imagine me, with my Tourettes and you with your ehhh
John C. Dvorak:
Look!
Adam Curry:
Ehhh. What!? [laughing]
John C. Dvorak:
Who are you kidding with that question? I still have to give credit to Gingrich for doing that better than anybody else. Whatever he's asked, he says "that's not the right question to ask"
Adam Curry:
Yeah, he's very good
John C. Dvorak:
You're asking the wrong question is my favorite thing he says
Adam Curry:
[laughs]
John C. Dvorak:
So Mr. Gingrich, have you been killing anybody recently? You're asking the wrong question. The question should be whether Obama is going to do this or that
Adam Curry:
I know. He's good
John C. Dvorak:
And they don't stop him from doing this.
Adam Curry:
John King is the biggest loser in the universe
John C. Dvorak:
John King sucks at this. They obviously put him on cause he's a soft ball that can't call these guys out for not answering the questions or anything else. It's unbelievable
Adam Curry:
And did you see his eyes. They were like duhhh. Do you think he was coked out again?
John C. Dvorak:
No. He would have been..no, no, he, no. Just the opposite
Adam Curry:
He was on something. He was on something. His pupils were, like, dilated
John C. Dvorak:
Maybe they had to slow him down or something, because if he's normally speedy self from what ever. Could be natural high
Adam Curry:
Yeah
John C. Dvorak:
He talks too fast
Adam Curry:
Well anyway, was this the last debate and now we get to?
John C. Dvorak:
We wish. Take a look in the book of knowledge and see if there are any more debates coming up
Adam Curry:
No, I think..
Jingle:
Consult The Book Of Knowledge
Adam Curry:
I think they all cancelled the next debate before Super Tuesday, which is coming up, right? Isn't it like-
John C. Dvorak:
Tuesday!
Adam Curry:
*laugh* No, no. Like March 7th or something?
John C. Dvorak:
It's a Tuesday, I know that.
Adam Curry:
Yeah, is it Fat Tuesday? Is it-
John C. Dvorak:
No, Fat Tuesday was yesterday, or the day before. (2012-02-21)
Adam Curry:
But it is interesting that Super Tuesday is right around Mardi Gras. Hm. Can't be any coincidence.
John C. Dvorak:
The debate schedule. Here it is.
Adam Curry:
Alright, while you're looking that up. Another interesting donor to the SuperPAC's
John C. Dvorak:
Here. This is it. Twenty second [22] was today. March first [1], cancelled. March fifth [5], cancelled. March nineteenth [19] on PBS in Portland, Oregon, they're going to have it
ac: PBS!
Yeah
Adam Curry:
So they might as well not have a debate
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, that looks like the last one
Adam Curry:
And before Super Tuesday
John C. Dvorak:
I don't know when Super Tuesday is. I thought it was
Adam Curry:
Consult the Book Of Knowledge. When is Super Tuesday?
John C. Dvorak:
[groaning] Super Tuesday
Adam Curry:
Meanwhile, I will play a clip of the latest donor to the Ron Paul SuperPAC
Clip:
Co-founder of Paypal is pumping cash into the SuperPAC supporting Ron Paul. A new filing with the Federal Election Commission show Peter Teal donated one-point-seven [1.7} million dollars in January. That's on top of nine hundred thousand [900,000] he donated in December. The money from the Silicon Valley billionaire accounts for seventy six [76] percent of the SuperPAC's fund raising so far
Adam Curry:
I don't think that's a good..
John C. Dvorak:
March sixth [6]
Adam Curry:
Right. March sixth [6]. No more debates until Super Tuesday. My point exactly
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, and there's one after and that's the end
Adam Curry:
And then it will be a brokered convention and that's when Jeb Bush will rise from the ashes and they'll choose him.
John C. Dvorak:
[inaudible] Romney all the way
Adam Curry:
No, I think Romney's out. He's out. Oh yeah
John C. Dvorak:
No. That's why they brought those crazy things from 2008, that satanic crap from Santorum to calm him down a little bit
Adam Curry:
You know what he should have done? Santorum should have done, you know, 'have you ever listened to Yes We Can backwards? Because that's actually Thank You Satin. He's saying Thank You Satin. Obama's the anti-Christ!' That's what he should have said, man, now that would have been cool. And I bet you a lot of people would have bought into it
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, especially the people who like Santorum
Adam Curry:
[chuckles] There are no people who like Santorum. Look at the guy's eyes, look deep in his eyes. He believes it. He's such a bonehead. He really thinks people are lovin' him and his message. He has no idea. This guy, he is set for such a fall. It's, it's..ugh
John C. Dvorak:
I don't think it's going to be much of a fall. He's just going to be a little disappointed. I think Ron Paul will be the guy with the second..right now, Ron Paul still has the second most delegates
Adam Curry:
Yeah, but it means nothing because they are going to a brokered convention. It means nothing
John C. Dvorak:
They're not going to a brokered convention
Adam Curry:
Ohhhh, there we go. Ok
John C. Dvorak:
I'm putting it in the book right now
Adam Curry:
You're saying Romney, I'm saying brokered convention. Jeb Bush stands up. And at this point, I think the Republican
John C. Dvorak:
I know that the Bush cabal would love that, but I still don't think it's going to happen
Adam Curry:
Let's see, Jeb Bush was out there. He was out on the road doing something. You watch.
John C. Dvorak:
Picking up litter?
Adam Curry:
[chuckles] No, I think he does more than that. Hey, do we have people to credit as Executive Producers
Adam Curry:
of the No Agenda podcast, Episode three hundred and eighty five [385], known as the best podcast in the universe?
John C. Dvorak:
Yes we do. We have a whole bunch of people to credit. We have two [2] Executive Producers as a matter of fact
Adam Curry:
Yay. Right on
John C. Dvorak:
Shawn Potts, in Beaverton, Oregon. A first time donor. And he came in five hundred dollars and fifty five cents [555.55USD] because he is going toward his knighthood, obviously, right off the bat. [reads] "I started listening to your show in November on a recommendation from an employee
John C. Dvorak:
Matt Correctsman. I am behind on episodes and just finished episode three hundred seventy five [375]. Apparently Matt's got enough free time to call me out as a douchebag. So I figured I would just take the money that was going to be Matt's bonus..."
Adam Curry:
[laughs heartily]
John C. Dvorak:
[reading] "...and give it to your guys."
Adam Curry:
[still laughing]
John C. Dvorak:
[reading] "I've rounded it up just because, just because. So, enjoy Matt's bonus and keep up the good work.
John C. Dvorak:
[reading] "I forgot to ask, can I have a de-douching and a shart of, shot of, karma for good measure?"
Adam Curry:
A shard of karma? No
John C. Dvorak:
No shart
Jingle:
You've been de-douched
You've got karma
Adam Curry:
[laughing] Yeah, that's right. This is very good. I like how
John C. Dvorak:
There's going to be a lot of pencils that Matt is going to have to steal to make up for his lost bonus
Adam Curry:
No, this is very good. It's like, you call out your boss as a douche bag. First you get him to listen. Then you call him out as a douche bag. And then your boss takes your bonus. Thank you
John C. Dvorak:
This is the American way
Adam Curry:
Yes, thank you very much
Adam Curry:
Yes, thank you very much. This is how
John C. Dvorak:
We finally got to the bottom of it
Adam Curry:
Yes, thank you. Perfect. Appreciate it and welcome to the family, Shawn.
John C. Dvorak:
Frank DiZoglio, in Jamestown, Rhode Island, came up with five hundred [500} bucks to congratulate himself on a birthday. It's his birthday show. And he also needs general karma. Puts him over the top for his knighthood. [reads] "Keep up the great work. All your time and effort is appreciated. I know January was slow, but as the election approaches you will have a lot of great material for the show. Hopefully this will increase the listener-ship and donors." And it probably will
Adam Curry:
Well, unfortunately, election time does not give us any good material for the show because it's down to the point to its just boring.
John C. Dvorak:
Well, there is a boring aspect. But, give him a shot of karma
Adam Curry:
Yes. Absolutely
Jingle:
You've got karma
John C. Dvorak:
We have a slew of Associate Executive's. Sir Dirk, in Joondalup, Western Australia.
Adam Curry:
Oh, so this is a drunk donation
John C. Dvorak:
Yes. Ok, so I have to read it
Adam Curry:
Read it drunk
John C. Dvorak:
I'll read it slow. [reads] Ok, here is the sale of my iPhone
John C. Dvorak:
iPhone Four [4], so you don't have to. Minus an eBay fee of forty [40] what the f? Minus new bearings for the boat trailer, one hundred twenty five [125] bucks. So there has been very little work of late. So the drunken knight suffers financially and I do not know where are my followers. I save some dollars because of Jean Claude's advise on Johnny Walker Gold. Man, it's nicer than Blue by a long shot. But, still no work contracts. And you complain about donations,
John C. Dvorak:
[reads] perhaps all of us being in IT have lows around Christmas, explaining the boners. And, either way, after this lovely drop of golds, here I donate, so I some shills don't have to. John, you missed my son's birthday callout. Only ever sober message.
Adam Curry:
[laughs]
John C. Dvorak:
[reads] It's not healthy to get your attention, but man it's fun. So, drunk I say, I want want plenty more hookers and blow, damn Adam. Adam. Where are they? I look, but no find. Keep up the good work and don't get hooked too much on a word a person
John C. Dvorak:
[reads] says and my next knighthood should go to my son. Please shoot me some karma. I out-fished my seven [7] year old son and there has to be more jobs on the horizon. Ill tell you what the fortune reader says on Thursday. In the morning
Adam Curry:
[chuckling] Dirk. Ah, those guys in Australia. I love it when they get drunk. The Australian guys drunk are cool. You just want to hug 'em. I love you, man
John C. Dvorak:
Two eighty one twenty nine [281.29]. He did ask about what Johnny Walker to get
John C. Dvorak:
and so I turned him on to the Gold, which is the one all the connoisseur's are appreciating
Adam Curry:
Hold on, hold on, he needs a karma shot
Jingle:
You've got karma
John C. Dvorak:
We have to look into what happened with the seven [7] year old. Joseph Blake, without comment, two hundred fifty [250] dollars. Dean Bertram, Sir Dean Bertram to you, in Accra. He's in Ghana, I believe. [reads] Good day Adam and John, show three eight five [385] falls on my birthday so the timing is right
jd: [reading] show three eight five [385] falls on my birthday, so the timing is right for my usual"..put him on the list for birthdays, he's not on the list..
Adam Curry:
Oh, really, he's not listed? I'll put him on
John C. Dvorak:
He might be, but I don't see it on the spreadsheet. [reads] I hope the contribution can keep you supplied in your own favorite frothy mix for another month
Adam Curry:
[laughing]
John C. Dvorak:
Ok. Uh, Sir Bean, another one of our knights comes in from Thousand Oaks with two twenty four fourteen [224.14] [reads] ITM slaves. Sir Bean here, again, the best podcast in the universe in honor of the next PR film from my military industrial
John C. Dvorak:
[reading] best podcast in the universe, in honor of the next PR film from my military industrial academic complex. Please accept my donation. Two two four one two [224.12] for tomorrow's date of two twenty four twelve [22412] which is when that shill Tom Clancy's next movie, Act Of Valor, comes out
Adam Curry:
Oh yeah
John C. Dvorak:
[reading] featuring real Seal Team Six soldiers
Adam Curry:
[chuckles] Yeah, they're real. With real bullets
John C. Dvorak:
[reading] the trailer has all the memes. Including a hand launched drone. This this is way bigger than we thought it was. They are going to hit us at home. Unquote. This ain't going to happen, unquote. Can't wait to see how bad this really
John C. Dvorak:
is. Ok. We'll look forward to that too. James Von Aiken, in Temple, Texas, right up the street from you
Adam Curry:
Well, not quite
John C. Dvorak:
Two twenty three twelve [223.12]. In the morning, John and Adam, since Lake Travis has turned into a puddle, I won't be sailing my boat much this year. I'm more than happy to spend my boat money on the great work you guys do. Please give a shot of karma to my brother, John, he needs it
Adam Curry:
Yeah, this whole Lake Travis thing is a real problem
Jingle:
You've got karma
Adam Curry:
What they're doing, is they're selling
Adam Curry:
the water to the rice farmers, under some contract from the eighteen hundreds [1800] or something. So whenever it rains and we get some water, they siphon it right off to the rice farmers.
John C. Dvorak:
Huh
Adam Curry:
Yeah, it's messed up. So we can't sail our boats
John C. Dvorak:
[chuckles] You don't have a boat
Adam Curry:
There's nothing better than a boat than having friends with boats
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, that's true. That's the way to go. Matt Harley, in Perth. The place we've always wanted to visit. You've been there, western Australia. Two two two two two [222.22]
John C. Dvorak:
[reads] I was wondering if Adam can do me a favor, as a former MTV deejay and music industry player, I'd really like to hear what his thoughts are on my band's album, which we wrote, recorded and released ourselves. Don't worry, it's not shit
Adam Curry:
[laughs]
John C. Dvorak:
[reads] http://thedisguise.bandcamp.com If Adam could do a short album review on the show, I'd donate all the profits from the online sales to the No Agenda Show. I'm hoping to make a life in the music industry, but not be an evil douche bag
John C. Dvorak:
"...in the music industry but not be an evil douchebag."
Well, then you're not going to do it that well.
Adam Curry:
Well let me just say I'll definitely listen to it. If you want to give us anything, that's just fine and we appreciate your associate-executive-producership. The only tip I have, if you want to make it in the music business, make a song that includes the lyrics "Rain Man", that seems to be important, and put some Illuminati hand-signals and shit in there. Then you're good to go!
John C. Dvorak:
Frank Ajzensztat in Armadale, Victoria. Two-Two-Two-One-Two (222.12 USD)
"Hello fellow citizens John and Adam. Having recently celebrated my
John C. Dvorak:
Hello fellow citizens, John and Adam. Having fairly recently celebrated my twenty fifth [25] wedding anniversary, I thought it was a good time to make another Associate Executive Producer donation, in addition to my regular monthly automatic Paypal donation. Two two two one two [222.12] represents my wedding anniversary date of the twenty second [22] of February, twenty twelve [2012]. Also like a belated birthday shout to my wife, Michelle, and my son, Rohan. Better for you to have the money than the current Rudd/Gillard clown show
Adam Curry:
Yeah, I got some of that
John C. Dvorak:
Also known as the current Australian government
Adam Curry:
Yeah, I got some clips from that. It's pretty funny
John C. Dvorak:
John Negali, in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania. [reads] In the morning today. Two twenty one twelve [2-21-12] is my birthday, hence a donation. I am in the process of getting a better job. Some job karma would be appreciated. Citizen John
Adam Curry:
I'll do him some citizen job karma
Jingle:
Hey citizen
You've got karma
John C. Dvorak:
John Harrison, in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Two hundred [200]. Recent email update
John C. Dvorak:
was a brilliant synthesis of episode three eight one [381] and I look forward to donating a portion of my future pipeline stock earnings to the greatest podcast in the universe. Can I get a shot of karma and a milf for my smokin' hot wife, Sherry.
Jingle:
Milf
You've got karma
Adam Curry:
Hey, regarding that..if you've signed up for our email list, look in your junk folder or your spam folder. Apparently, just the way the Internet works now, is anything that includes a Paypal link will get filtered into junk
Adam Curry:
I'm thinking, John. Shouldn't we make an RSS feed for that thing? So people can subscribe to that. I think half the people that are subscribed to the mail list are not even seeing it
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, that's a good idea
Adam Curry:
I'll make it. I'll do that
John C. Dvorak:
There's actually an archive of all of them that's kept at the..we use Mail Chimp for anybody who wants a mailing list program. They keep an archive of all the mailings and you can actually make that into an RSS, I believe
Adam Curry:
Oh really? Let's look at that. Otherwise I'll make one up. Cool
John C. Dvorak:
Black Knight Sir Greg Burch, in Port Angeles, came with two hundred [200] bucks. He was enthused that a lot of dentists are supporting the show. Of course, he's a dentist. He's the official No Agenda dentist. Dentite. [reads] Here's a challenge to all the dentists that listen, to get their knighthood and join the Order Of Occlusion, because nothing chews through the weekly bull shit parfait like No Agenda
John C. Dvorak:
This month's been a wealth of deep..I thought he was going to continue with the puns. [reads] This month's been a wealth of deep [stumbles on pronunciation]informa..informattive..
Adam Curry:
Informative
John C. Dvorak:
Informative. God! [reading] Lastly, karma for pharmacists. Because they are the least appreciated health care providers. Pharmacists already let us know if a patient is getting multiple scripts from other doctors. They already tell us if a patient is doctor shopping for drugs. And they tell us if there is a new drug interaction that may be dangerous. Pharmacists keep costs down by recommending generic
John C. Dvorak:
generics or helping us by splitting doses
Adam Curry:
Well, unfortunately the pharmacists will be forced into not recommending generics. I think that was the entire point of that deconstruction. But, Sir Black Knight, Greg Burch. We'll give you a little bit of karma
Jingle:
You've got karma
Adam Curry:
For the Order Of The Occlusion
John C. Dvorak:
Now, this one came in late and I want to remind people that we really do a cutoff of midnight, Pacific time, the night before, because it's too hard to get the download from Paypal in the morning
John C. Dvorak:
In the morning. But, Patrick Brennen came in with two hundred [200] dollars saying [reads] It's been since show two eight seven [287] since I first donated, so I thought I would be a donator again. I want to call out Mitch Bedraun as a douche bag for not donating
Jingle:
douche bag
John C. Dvorak:
[reading] He did, however, teach me in tenth [10] grade what smegma was. And the secret sex tickle handshake which me a nice slap in the face
Adam Curry:
[laughing]
John C. Dvorak:
You ever done that one?
Adam Curry:
Yes. It's kind of weird when you do it with guys
John C. Dvorak:
I find the whole thing creepy. [reads] Please send out some karma to me and my future milf wife, Ulie, pronounced like Julie without the J. As we are also getting married soon. Adam's analysis on the Leviathan is amazing and gives new meaning to spring source, from Arab Spring. John plus Adam, your European listeners would be pleased to hear more analysis on the March twenty third [23] date fail of Greece and guesswork if other Gitmo European's would park their Euros
John C. Dvorak:
in cash, Swiss francs or what, before the Greece fire
Adam Curry:
Let me give him a little milf karma here
Jingle:
Milf
You've got karma
Adam Curry:
I will say on the Greece thing, March twenty third [23] is the date we hear and, of course, now they've received new funds. But Fitch has already downgraded them which triggers a technical default. So, they are going to default fully. All that we need is for Standard and Poor
Adam Curry:
and for Moody's to downgrade the bonds that will trigger all the hedge funds insurance policies popping open. So, that will be very interesting to watch. What is interesting is that March twenty fifth [25], two days later, is the Greek independence day. So, I think it's nicely timed
John C. Dvorak:
Huh. Yeah. To say the least. Sid Incogneto, in Melville, New York
John C. Dvorak:
[reads] Another donor, Doctor Nenninger, called me a douche bag because I criticized Adam's coverage of vaccine issues. This is quite a coincidence. Although I don't know him personally, I've known about his web site for a few years. I'm sure Doctor Nenninger and I disagree on many issues, especially homeopathy. But, I won't call him a douche bag over it. Please send him some karma instead. I'm glad my last donation coincided with the big Leviathan discussion, even though you may get some things wrong, from time to time, I remain in awe
John C. Dvorak:
I remain in awe of the amount of work you guys put into your show
Adam Curry:
Thank you very much. That's a very kind thing to do. Send karma to someone. It's like turning the other cheek. Turning the other karma cheek
Jingle:
You've got karma
Adam Curry:
Very nice. I encourage that
John C. Dvorak:
James Cherf also came in with two hundred [200] dollars. And Kevin Liang, in Richmond, British Columbia, near Spuzzum, two hundred [200] dollars
Adam Curry:
Is that north of Smegma? Spuzzum?
John C. Dvorak:
Spuzzum. [reads] trying to find that sweet spot doing the show for another donation. You know, when the bills are squared away and the bank account is padded? In show three eighty one [381] the donor pointed out something that will always come up. There's never a good time, ever. That was a wake-up call and here is some value for value. It took some time, but getting close to knighthood now, gents. Can I get some karma for my friend, Jeff Kimstra. Cancer took someone he loved last year and it's been hard on him. All the listeners sitting on the fence, stop stewing around like a frothy mix, step up and give back
John C. Dvorak:
Adam and John, you guys do great works as always
Adam Curry:
All right. Well he is some Screw The Cancer karma for your buddy there, Jeff
Jingle:
You've got karma
John C. Dvorak:
And that's a great list of Executive Producers and Associate's for this weeks show, three eight five [385]. I want to thank everybody and remind you it's dvorak.org/na, channeldvorak.com/na or the noagendanation.com. You can just click on the donation button there
Adam Curry:
Yeah, and pick up a cup
John C. Dvorak:
Pick up a cup and a shirt
Jingle:
dvorak dot org slash n a
Adam Curry:
Quick PR mention. A new domain name forwarding to noagendashow.com. Occupypodcasting.com apparently is pointing to our show site. The occupy movement my be kind of deadish, but appreciate that. And there is a Squarespace site, which one of our producers set up, with instructions on how to rig your Google +1 button.
Adam Curry:
Rig your Google-plus-one button. The idea here is... I guess there's a way to set up a custom image that displays when someone hovers over your Google-plus-one icon. To plus-one your post or your story or whatever.
And there's a way for the NoAgenda Show Art to come up. He has produced a webpage that explains how to do that.
I'm pointing to it. googleplus.NAshownotes.com
Adam Curry:
But, this Squarespace account is set to expire in two weeks, so if someone can re-code that in HTML and send me the HTML, I will be happy to set it up on the server. I thought that was also a good gesture. You've been following this, John, right? This +1 idea
John C. Dvorak:
You know, no. I am a member of the Google + thingy
Adam Curry:
Really
John C. Dvorak:
I don't know how anything..it just seems to me to be another one of these social media deals that benefits everybody but me
Adam Curry:
And also, I'd like to thank Maynard for interviewing the legendary John C. Dvorak. It was a good interview, I heard it last night before I went to bed
John C. Dvorak:
Oh, he actually published it
Adam Curry:
Yeah, he did. I think it's maynard.com.au And I'm saying it correctly now. May nard. I used to say May nerd. But, it's May nard
John C. Dvorak:
may Nard
Adam Curry:
May nard. And he's doing a great job publicizing and pushing the show down under and also interviewing some of our knights. So, thank you so much to our Executive Producers..and we have two [2] today and a nice list of Associate
Adam Curry:
Executive Producers. We have two [2] today and a nice list of Associate Executive Producers. These are actual credits. This is exactly how it works in Hollywood, with the bonus, that unlike the phonies in Hollywood, if you need someone to vouch, we will be happy to talk to anyone and tell them that you actually are a producer in the field of media. Meanwhile, all you else can go out and propagate the formula, please
Jingle:
Our formula is this: we go out, we hit people in the mouth
New world order
Adam Curry:
Alright everybody, say it loud and proud, shut up slave
John C. Dvorak:
You know, it's funny when you are working with Maynard, he's a pro
Adam Curry:
He's a major pro
John C. Dvorak:
He's like a major pro and so when you work with a pro, compared to like an amateur, 'cause I do interviews with normal pod..
Adam Curry:
Which is not a denigrating word
John C. Dvorak:
No, no, just a normal podcaster that do what they..but, they're not doing that for a living..so they never achieve that kind of screwy professionalism that you can't quite put your finger on, but you know it when you see it. He is like, way up there in that regard.
Adam Curry:
Oh yeah
John C. Dvorak:
It's actually quite funny. I find it amusing to work with such people
Adam Curry:
I find it pleasurable. You find it amusing. I find it pleasurable
John C. Dvorak:
I do. I find it amusing
Adam Curry:
But, that's good. I learned some things about you
John C. Dvorak:
What?
Adam Curry:
That you like Green day
John C. Dvorak:
I do like Green Day [chuckles]. They're a Berkeley group. They're local boys
Adam Curry:
We need to upgrade you on your..[chuckles] Green day..
John C. Dvorak:
I LIKE Green Day!
Adam Curry:
They're not boys any more. They're like my age
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, I know. I like them when they first started off twenty [20] years ago or whenever it was. You don't like the Beatles?
Adam Curry:
Love the Beatles
John C. Dvorak:
Well then, there you have it
Adam Curry:
Then why didn't you say you like the Beatles? You know, that Green day..
John C. Dvorak:
I'm just saying Green Day's been around for a while. They're long in the tooth. Is that what you're saying? That I should be upgrading to some hip hop group?
Adam Curry:
Well, it was in context of you saying 'I listen to classical music all day', which we can totally..all of a sudden I envisioned it. You're walking around..
John C. Dvorak:
I do listen to classical music all day
Adam Curry:
I know. You're walking around in your long johns..
John C. Dvorak:
No, I've had classical music playing twenty four [24] seven [7] in my house
Adam Curry:
I KNOW that
John C. Dvorak:
since nineteen..[19]. You were at the house
Adam Curry:
Once, thank you. I'm giving you the visual that I had. I see you walking around in your long johns, you know, this nice-beautiful [sings] Cinco De Mayo classical music playing everywhere
Adam Curry:
Then in contrast to that, 'Yeah I like Green Day.' [both laugh] 'Those kids are good, the Green Day kids.' Hey, um, so a couple things I've been working on. And I'm following very closely, what is going on with the campaign contributions. This whole Solyndra thing. And I can see that there's a lot of different elements working and trying to make this look very bad for
Adam Curry:
the Obama administration. And they haven't been able to package it. And the idea, of course, is that there was a billion dollars came in in contributions. A lot of the people who made these contributions then set up these great green funds and companies. And they got all their money back through the American Reinvestment Act, which was essentially the bail out.
John C. Dvorak:
A scam
Adam Curry:
We would call it a scam. It is a huge scam using our money
Adam Curry:
to finance his campaign. But they can't quite pin it on anybody. This thing about Lightsquared ties into it and I was blown away, as I'm researching this, I find an interview..and this is from November of last year..I guess we kind of missed it. It was there, but you know, the whole Lightsquared thing..we were looking at the GPS angle and for drones. And I think I was wrong. Because they have been trying to get this out in the forefront
Adam Curry:
So they have the Chairman of the investment fund. The guy is worth like two [2] billion dollars. Hold on, let me give you the guy's name for a second. And he's on with Megan Fox, and the accusation at the time..
John C. Dvorak:
Megan Fox?
Adam Curry:
Not Megan Fox. Megan Kelly, from Fox. [chuckles] Megan F, what ever
John C. Dvorak:
Ohh. I was going to say
Adam Curry:
[laughs] Wouldn't that be..hey, what difference does it make. Put Megan Fox on. I'll watch
John C. Dvorak:
Well, actually, yeah [mumbles]
Adam Curry:
So, Phil Falcone. You know this guy?
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, he's going to be broke after this whole experience. Falcone is a very famous plunger
Adam Curry:
Plunger?
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, a guy who puts a lot of money into one thing because he thinks he's really gonna get rich. He's got billions, so he put a billion in..
ac: Yeah, he's worth billions, so it's not a problem. So, at issue here..and I don't know if we discussed it. or we kind of glossed over it because something else was going on, but they had
Adam Curry:
some general muckity-muck go testify when they were talking about this Lightsquared. So he was basically gonna say 'look, this thing interferes with our military GPS so we cant'..and Lightsquared, for those of you who don't know, the idea is a multi-billion dollar satellite network that will provide broadband. Basically, a ring of broadband, all around, wherever the satellite coverage is. Which is kind of cool. And the accusation here, which is not the importance of the clip,
Adam Curry:
is that the General was asked by the White House to tone down the rhetoric about that this was bad
John C. Dvorak:
I thought we played this clip back in November
Adam Curry:
I don't think we did, because the the thing that hit me..now I used to be a millionaire. I had millions of dollars
John C. Dvorak:
I used to be a contender
Adam Curry:
And on paper I was very very wealthy. I had, like, twelve [12] million dollars at least. And it took me ten [10] years to spend it. And I'm very happy I did [chuckles]
Adam Curry:
Yay! I should have died at the end of it. But anyway, even when I had that kind of money, I don't think I've ever put ninety [90] thousand dollars into one investment
John C. Dvorak:
Really? Your helicopter company?
Adam Curry:
I mean just to buy stocks. I bought helicopters. That's different. I bought some hardware
John C. Dvorak:
It's an investment
Adam Curry:
I think it's different
John C. Dvorak:
Alright. So, he's a plunger
Adam Curry:
But, I'm not talking about him. Listen to the report and you will hear who put in ninety [90] thousand dollars in two thousand five [2005.
Clip:
..roll out a powerful new wireless system. One that might cause problems, some say, with GPS systems. Now this story started back in February, two thousand five [2005] at least. President Obama puts up to ninety [90] thousand dollars of his own money into a little-known firm at that time called Sky Terra. September of two thousand nine [2009] an investor named Philip Falcone meets his future business partner at the White House. Six month later, Falcone buys Sky Terra
Clip:
And the company becomes Lightsquared. January of this year, the FCC gives Lightsquared the green light to expand wireless Internet bandwidth. That was an important ruling for Lightsquared. Then, early this month, Air Force General William Shelton says the White House pressured him to change testimony he was giving to Congress, after revealing concerns about Lightsquared interfering with military systems. He says the White House wanted him to make his testimony a little bit more favorable
Adam Curry:
So, in two thousand five [2005] then Senator, freshman Senator, Barrack Obama his ninety [90] grand lying around?
John C. Dvorak:
I guess so
Adam Curry:
A community organizer?
John C. Dvorak:
He's a very successful community organizer
Adam Curry:
Yeah, but ninety [90] thousand dollars, I find to be quite a lot of money to throw into some start-up that has some cra..and this is before Falcone was involved apparently
Adam Curry:
Sky Terra is what it was called. So, the accusation
John C. Dvorak:
I don't know why they don't make a bigger deal out of this
Adam Curry:
If I had heard this, I would have made a bigger deal out of it then. But, it gets a little bit better. So, people have been bailing out of the White House. One after the other. And particularly, our buddies, Vivek Kundra, Mr. skip logic, and his boss Aneesh Chopra
Adam Curry:
They both bailed. Why do you think they bailed? Listen to this clip
Clip:
And this Eye Watch News put out the emails, including one that says..I think we've got the full screen..it says, 'Hi Aneesh' which is a reference to Aneesh Chopra, the President's Chief Technology Advisor, back in September. Uhh, who writes 'I touched base with my client, Sanjay Vehooja {sp?} which is the CEO and he expressed an interest in meeting with you. He's going to be in DC next week for a fund raising dinner with the President.
Clip:
'And what your critics say is all these attempts to meet with the White House officials mention that there is also going to be some fund raising going on by the CEO on behalf of democrats or the president' and they think it looks bad
Adam Curry:
Yeah!
John C. Dvorak:
[chuckles]
Adam Curry:
And so the CEO of this Lightsquared is part of the Indian cabal. And he's working with Aneesh Chopra, the Indian cabal.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah
Adam Curry:
And, of course, Vivek Kundra is on on the whole deal. That's why these guys bailed out. They're like, 'I'm gettin' outta here, because there's a take-down a'comin
Adam Curry:
But, there's a take down a-comin' and it also has to do with the recent FCC about..have you heard about this Spectrum Crunch? Have you heard this term yet?
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, I've heard it
Adam Curry:
This is [inaudible], Chairman of the FCC
Clip:
It is. You know, I didn't expect that when I came to this job, spectrum scarcity would be a big part of what I'd have to deal with. But, there's no question that
Clip:
the demand on our spectrum networks generated by smart phones and laptops connecting to the Internet wirelessly, generating huge demand that are putting huge pressure on our networks
Adam Curry:
Real pressure on our networks. So, the way it sounds to me, is there is a fight going on and they still want to push this Lightsquared thing through. I listened to the entire interview with Falcone, the investor, he said 'Really, the problem is not us, it is the GPS
Adam Curry:
receivers that the military is using is just shitty quality and they just need some filters in there to filter out the crap, which typically the problems do lie with the receivers. I know this from my CB radio days. It was much easier for me to go fix the neighbors radio with a little, you know, you put like a, something on the power line..
John C. Dvorak:
A choke
Adam Curry:
Yeah, a condenser or whatever
John C. Dvorak:
There's things you can do
Adam Curry:
Coil. All kinds of stuff and then it would remove the interference 'cause it's usually just a crappy receiver. A filter. And so I think it's very important..this deal on the one hand they want to get it through, and probably Obama wants to get it through, 'cause he's seeing his ninety [90] grand..I mean, we're talking about a six [6] million dollar investment from this Falcone. That's a lot of money. I can understand there is a lot of shenanigans going on to get this thing happening. And there's forces pushing back, but what I hope will happen
Adam Curry:
for the country's sale, is that it will rise to the top as an credible scam of money just flowing..just money flowing everywhere. Money, influence, the cabal
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, it's pretty obvious that the whole thing is just a bunch of flying money
Adam Curry:
So be on the lookout for the packaging of this story. I think they are really trying to do that. And you watch Valerie Jarrett get nailed in the process
Adam Curry:
I hope so. I hate that woman
John C. Dvorak:
Ahhh, fat chance
Adam Curry:
I hate her. Naw, she's going down
John C. Dvorak:
So, talking about Kundra
Adam Curry:
Oh no
John C. Dvorak:
He was hired as some sort of liaison or some thing
Adam Curry:
Didn't he go to Sales Force?
John C. Dvorak:
That's weird, because if you look at his Wiki entry, Wikipedia, it says
Adam Curry:
Which is truth
John C. Dvorak:
It doesn't mention..right..it doesn't mention Sales Force at all, but says he is currently a visiting fellow at Harvard University
Adam Curry:
Yeah, he went there first, as a fellow, and then
John C. Dvorak:
They've got to keep up with this stuff better than that, unless he's got nobody that monitors his..
Adam Curry:
He went straight from the White House to the fellowship and from the fellowship to..
John C. Dvorak:
Sales Force
Adam Curry:
Sales Force, yeah
Adam Curry:
Of course, it's perfect for him. A big bag of wind who has a whole bunch of catch phrases. He's perfect Silicon Valley meat
John C. Dvorak:
Totally is perfect Silicon Valley
Adam Curry:
It will shut himm up. So he won't say anything. They need to shut people up. Like, oh wow, Assistant U.S. Attorney General? John Walsh died while snow shoeing. [chuckles]
John C. Dvorak:
How'd that happen?
Adam Curry:
Well, he was snow shoeing and he died. I mean, make it snow boarding, running into a tree or something. But, snow showing? Really? Now, this guy was in the western district of Oklahoma City. When was the Oklahoma City bombing?
John C. Dvorak:
[sighs] This is the day of questions
Adam Curry:
Yeah
John C. Dvorak:
Ok, I'll consult the Book Of Knowledge
Jingle:
Consult the book of knowledge
John C. Dvorak:
Which is actually Google, but here it is
John C. Dvorak:
April nineteenth [19] nineteen ninety five [1995]
Adam Curry:
Ok, so it can't be that
John C. Dvorak:
No, it could be. There is a bunch of..somebody's reopening this thing
Adam Curry:
I know, but he was transferred out in nineteen ninety one [1991]
John C. Dvorak:
Oh, ok
Adam Curry:
Then he was transferred to the Colorado office. So I don't think it's that. He did, though, I was looking through all the news
John C. Dvorak:
What's this guy's name again?
Adam Curry:
It's a tough name. You have to do Assistant U.S. Attorney General John Walsh, because if you do John Walsh
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, John Walsh, you get whats-his-name. That's the new way of Google Washing yourself. Have a name like John Walsh or have a name like Jodie Foster
Adam Curry:
I'm going to change my name to Jodie Foster [laughs] Hey everybody! In the morning, it's Jodie Foster with 'ya everybody. How 'ya doin'. It's Jodie Foster and Tom Cruise
John C. Dvorak:
Jodie-aaaayyyy
Adam Curry:
Hey Tom, how 'ya doin' [laughs] We should do that. Tom C. Cruise and Jodie M. Foster with 'ya on the radio everybody [laughs]
Adam Curry:
What he did do is, he wrote a really weird letter about marijuana in the state of Colorado
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah. He apparently criticized the government for their crackdown that he says is not a bluff
Adam Curry:
Yeah, maybe not such a good idea. Maybe not such a good idea
Adam Curry:
So, I was just like hmmm, interesting
John C. Dvorak:
So he was apparently for bustin' up all these medical marijuana stuff. He's anti-medical marijuana, that's what I'm getting. Am I wrong?
Adam Curry:
That's what I'm getting too. I don't know. But, for a guy in his early sixties [60] to drop dead snow shoeing? It's not, not good. Particularly when it is an Assistant U.S. Attorney General. And you don't hear anything about it.
Adam Curry:
You know..like, hmmm, hmmm
John C. Dvorak:
Huh. Well anyway. Ok. Probably the forces of, uh, who knows..
Adam Curry:
Satan, man
John C. Dvorak:
Satan did it
Adam Curry:
Satan. Satan is attacking America. Satan. Yeah, for reals
John C. Dvorak:
Just as a premise, Pooper has..
Adam Curry:
Just let me say one thing, before you get into Pooper. Let me ask you one thing. Why is it that real journalists, like the chick with the eye patch, why do they get killed and not Anderson Pooper?
John C. Dvorak:
Anderson Pooper's got a million body guards and he's in the studio most of the time
Adam Curry:
This is mean. Then, send Pooper to Syria
John C. Dvorak:
He's not going. He's not stupid
Adam Curry:
Have you ever seen that woman? Did you know of her existance?
John C. Dvorak:
No, no
Adam Curry:
The woman with the eye patch
John C. Dvorak:
No, I don't know anything about it
Adam Curry:
Well, you know she died. Right?
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah. Yeah. She was on the front page of today's New York times as a matter of fact. A little square box with her picture in it
Adam Curry:
So, to me, this whole thing is like..it's just an addition to the script. It's like, ok, no one gives a crap about people any more. So we can't go in and mess around with Syria because, you know, people don't care
John C. Dvorak:
No, and if you have journalists actually roaming around in there giving real reports they're suppressed
Adam Curry:
She said on her Facebook, to her fellow journalists, [reading] "I'll probably wind up in front of the firing squad for my next report." I go, really.
John C. Dvorak:
That sounds planted
Adam Curry:
I don't know if it was planted, but to me, it's like, we had the guy from the New York Times, he died of an asthma attack
John C. Dvorak:
Nobody would put something like that on their Facebook without sending the report out first
John C. Dvorak:
Hey everybody, pay attention to me, I'm going to blow the lid off something and heads will roll. I'm behind enemy lines, I'm gonna really screw them over. Who's gonna do that?
Adam Curry:
What I find interesting..
John C. Dvorak:
You sneak out first and then you do your stuff
Adam Curry:
So this is an American-French journalist. She's an American and then the French photojournalist was also killed. We know nothing, you know, we've got pictures of all kinds of bodies, but we don't have pictures of them. No video, no nothing. Interesting
Adam Curry:
And Sarkozy is coming out saying, aaah we gotta go in and kick some ass, you know they killed a French journalist. But, we didn't hear him say anything when French journalist Gilles Jacquier was killed in Syria. So only now does it seem important. Now that we are ramping it up. And even McCain and Lieberman are back with the exact same Libya script
Clip (John McCain):
I'm not saying that the United States needs to directly supply arms to the Syrian National Army. I am saying that there are ways to
Clip (John McCain):
get assistance, ranging from medical assistance to technical assistance, such as GPS and other things that we could provide the Syrian National Army. Support of the Syrian National Council. And there are ways to get weapons into Syria. It is time that we gave them the where with all to fight back and stop the slaughter
Adam Curry:
What an a-hole. We don't even know who these people are. Except that they are al-Qaeda and they are terrorists. Yeah, let's just arm some terrorists. Good idea there McCain. This guy, I got no respect for him
John C. Dvorak:
Awww, the guy's horrible
Adam Curry:
He's an embarrassment to the uniform
John C. Dvorak:
He's terrible. It's just embarrassing that we ran him for President
Adam Curry:
Yeah, well, we didn't run him. So all this rhetoric is being..and I think there is something..I think there might be a CIA/Armed Forces thing going on here
John C. Dvorak:
Well, there's some CIA thing going on, because Pooper had on Bob..what's his name..CIA guy. He was in the CIA
Adam Curry:
Oh, with the beard? With the beard?
John C. Dvorak:
and Fran, our buddy Fran Townsend who was the CIA outside person. So, we have two [2] CIA people.
Adam Curry:
Uh huh. With Pooper
John C. Dvorak:
It's like, why..how about a professor or somebody..
Adam Curry:
Was there a map?
John C. Dvorak:
No. CIA person number one and CIA person number two. Now, I do have the Bob and Fran, Chip and Dale
John C. Dvorak:
CIA-person-number-one and CIA-person-number-two. Now, I do have the Bob and Fran Chip-n-Dale clip here. Which is kinda the way... This is just the overview of how it went with the two of them agreeing with everything. I thought it was pointless, but play that.
Clip:
With this region, Fran, how does this compare with what we've seen for the past decade or so.
cfran:
Well, as Bob rightly says, this is now... the powder-keg has ignited.
cbob:
Well, Fran is absolutely right.
cfran:
As Bob rightly says.
cbob:
Well, Fran is absolutely right. Well, Fran is absolutely right.
Adam Curry:
*laughs*
cfran:
Bob rightly says. Bob rightly says.
Clip (Speaker 1):
Fran's absolutely right. Fran's absolutely right
Clip (Speaker 2):
Bob rightly says. Bob rightly says
Adam Curry:
Hey, you spent some time editing
John C. Dvorak:
She also stammers a lot when she gets caught with something where she knows she has to lie
Adam Curry:
Fran is kind of hot, right?
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, she's pretty. She's a pretty woman
Adam Curry:
Ok
John C. Dvorak:
But, for some reason, she just looks CIA
Adam Curry:
I like my CIA agents kind of hot
John C. Dvorak:
So, we have a bunch of clips from this..and there's the journalism thing again comes up. Fran Townsend on safe passage of journalists
John C. Dvorak:
and the journalism thing again comes up. Fran Townsend on safe passage of journalists, which I think we debunked in the last show. It's bull crap. There are a lot of journalists over there and they are reporting, but if they don't say the right thing..for one thing, if they say something about the Syrian's being a bunch of pricks, then they're rousted and thrown out of the country. If they give the other kind of report, then no one picks it up
Adam Curry:
No, they get killed! That's what a real journalist with an eye patch is about to say. Hey, they're blowing up pipelines and this seems to be about two things: the gas that is found in the Leviathan field and, probably,
Adam Curry:
Syria's role in transporting heroin. Then you get killed
John C. Dvorak:
Play this
Clip (Fran Townsend):
I don't know that you can move Russia, other than to shame them by these horrific videos we see that [inaudible] gotten out. The other thing we need to have the international committee push for, is the safe passage of the journalists
John C. Dvorak:
Listen to the back ground
Adam Curry:
Sorry. Is that the wrong one?
John C. Dvorak:
The background. They got a bunch of [yelling gibberish] stuff going on to give you
Adam Curry:
Yeah, to give you the vibe. You go, 'yeah, that's good. That's good television
John C. Dvorak:
And she also, when she says horrific video
John C. Dvorak:
they show a bunch of them. I think what they mean by horrific, is that these are the worst videos
Adam Curry:
Yeah, the quality is bad
John C. Dvorak:
They're not horrible, like violent. It's just the horrible quality. Over exposed
Adam Curry:
[chuckles] Yeah, just bad work. Yeah. It ain't no Wag The Dog
John C. Dvorak:
Let her finish that
Adam Curry:
That was the end of that clip
John C. Dvorak:
It was?
Adam Curry:
Yeah, the other one I have is CIA Messenger. Is that the one you want?
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, put that one in
Adam Curry:
All right. Here we go
Clip:
You know, Anderson, what I'm worried about, this is really starting to spin out of control
Adam Curry:
Guy's gay. I can hear it in three [3] seconds. He's like, 'Anderson' Did you hear that?
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, I didn't infer as much
Adam Curry:
Ohh, my gaydar went off. He' comin' on to Anderson
John C. Dvorak:
And when your gaydar goes off..[clip starts to play, then stops]
Adam Curry:
What?
John C. Dvorak:
One thing I want to mention. This is the other CIA person and to me was the CIA messenger telling the public what we need to know. It's like a backgrounder and I thought it was the backgrounder for the group
Clip:
Anderson, what I'm worried about, this is really starting to spin out of control. You've got two [2] Iranian ships in [inaudible]. You have the Iranian's saying they're going to intervene. You've got problems up on the Turkish border. Is this going to spread? We have to do something
Adam Curry:
Right. So, this fits perfectly with my clip. So, that's the CIA angle. We got to do something, free passes, you know. Because the CIA..and I'm thinking, John, I'm thinking this might also have to do with drugs
Adam Curry:
Syria is a big drug trafficking country. Here's the other side. Very interesting. Farid Zakaria, a guy I certainly don't like and I don't think you like him either
John C. Dvorak:
Nope
Adam Curry:
He's very anti-bombing
John C. Dvorak:
He's essentially anti-American. His messages are anti-constitutional, anti-liberty, anti-everything that a Libertarian would like
Adam Curry:
But, he also seems to be anti-bombing Iran, interestingly enough. And he has General Dempsey on, who is the chief of the
Adam Curry:
Interestingly enough. And he has General Dempsey on, the Chief of the Joint Chief Of Staffs. He's the big kahuna. And it's talking about Iran and he says we should not do this at all!
Clip (Speaker 1):
What would you say to those who argue that the United States should arm the opposition movement in Syria?
Clip (Gen. Martin Dempsey):
I think it's premature to take a decision to arm the opposition movement in Syria
Adam Curry:
Listen very closely to his words, 'cause he's telling us what is going on without saying it
Clip (Gen. Martin Dempsey):
because I would challenge anyone to clearly identify
Clip (Gen. Martin Dempsey):
for me, the opposition movement in Syria at this point. And let me broaden the conversation a bit. Syria is an arena right now for all the various interests to play at. What I mean by that is that you've got great power involvment
Adam Curry:
Um huh
Clip (Gen. Martin Dempsey):
Turkey clearly has an interest
Adam Curry:
Ah, clearly Turkey. Why does Turkey have an interest? Because of the gas field
Clip (Gen. Martin Dempsey):
Russia has
acl Oh, Russia. Why? Because it's competition to their gas
Clip (Gen. Martin Dempsey):
Iran has an interest. And what we see playing out is that not just those countries..in fact, potentially not all of them in any case..but, we see the various groups who might think that at issue is a Sunni Shia competition for, you know, regional control.
Clip (Speaker 1):
You mean the Iranians on one hand
cjd:
I do
c1 and the Saudi's on the other
Clip (Gen. Martin Dempsey):
On the other hand, you saw, there was indications that Al Qaeda is involved. They are interested in supporting the opposition. I mean, there's a number of players, all of whom are tying to reinforce their particular side of this issue. And until we are a lot clearer about who they are and what they are, I think it would be premature to talk about arming them
Adam Curry:
So, for the Chief of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff to basically go contrary to his
Adam Curry:
boss's message..i.e. the President..who is saying [growling sound] 'They have no options on the table, send a clear message, kick their ass, bomb them' I think that this is a continuation of the CIA war against other factions of our armed forces
John C. Dvorak:
CIA/DIA
Adam Curry:
There 'ya go. CIA/DIA. Perfect
John C. Dvorak:
Got a little battle going on. With the President being another character in this play
Adam Curry:
A puppet
John C. Dvorak:
I picked up on something screwy that Gingrich
John C. Dvorak:
said in the debates, too, that kinda applies to this. Play Iranian Practice On Closing The Straights Of Hormuz
Clip (Newton Leroy Gringrich):
The Iranians have been practicing closing the Straights Of Hormuz, which has one out of every five barrels of oil going through it
Adam Curry:
Yeah, it's Asia
John C. Dvorak:
When was this? When were they practicing closing it? 'Alright, lets close it for a minute and see what happens' What were they practicing? What were they practicing. We were the ones the ones that were practicing it
Adam Curry:
You need a whistle. You need to blow the whistle
Adam Curry:
'Get ready for practice everybody!' Do you have a whistle? Not the slide whistle, you need like a shrill whistle
John C. Dvorak:
An everybody in the pool whistle
Adam Curry:
Yeah, that's the one [laughs]
John C. Dvorak:
I gotta get one of those. You're right. That's perfect
Adam Curry:
'Everybody in the pool. It's time to practice closing of the Straights Of Hormuz' I can't believe we don't have an everybody in the pool whistle
John C. Dvorak:
Believe me, I'll have one for Sunday
Adam Curry:
Oh my goodness. That's exactly it. This whole thing is just..they're insane. They're just all insane
Adam Curry:
I heard the funniest thing. This clip has been going around. No, I'm going to save it for later. It's the C-SPAN clip? About the underwear bomber? You probably didn't see that
John C. Dvorak:
Uhhh, I might have. I have a clip. I was watching Geithner
Adam Curry:
Ohhh, Little Timmie
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, Timmie's on there and he's getting more agressive and he's chewing out these guys
Adam Curry:
He's gonna bail, right? He's out. He's already announced..everyone wants to get out because they know Obama..and particularly
Adam Curry:
that, that arse. That Iranian arse, Jarrett. They're goin' dow
John C. Dvorak:
Well, he definitely is having more fun when he gives his testimony. I don't have too many clips of this. Over and over again, somebody asks him a question and he stalls. He's like all the rest of these guys. They filibuster, because they know thee is a limited amount of time. So his main thing is, he'll..the guy will ask the question..he'll look at the guy and go 'Really?
John C. Dvorak:
'You're gonna waste your time on that question?'
Adam Curry:
While he's stalling. He's stalling
John C. Dvorak:
He says 'Yeah, I want you to answer the question' He says, 'OK, if you want to waste your time on that question' And then he will start filibustering
Adam Curry:
Wow. This is Geithner On Killing The Economy?
John C. Dvorak:
Actually, this is the one, this is the key. Geithner's Threat. Which Geithner's good at this and I still think he still sounds like a little kid that talks like this [nasal voice] and he's always trying to make stuff up..because I didn't knock over the thing..' He sounds like the guy on Leave It To Beaver
Adam Curry:
I don't have the clip, Geithner's Threat
John C. Dvorak:
Well, that is the treat. Killing The Economy
Clip (Timothy Geithner):
Well, it depends on the circumstances. You are right to point out the UK experience. But, we're not in the position the UK is, nor anything like the rest of Europe in this context, in the sense that we enjoy, still, and you can see it in the prices of US financial assets, enormous confidence around the world..this country, this congress, this city, this government
Clip (Timothy Geithner):
will ultimately find a way to put in place a more substantial set of long term fiscal reforms. So, there's confidence out there in markets that ultimately congress is going to come to get them to do the right thing soon enough in this context and that's why we're able to borrow at relatively low rates and you see that confidence in US financial markets. If we were to, in the face of, you know, being able to borrow at two [2] percent, it's ten [10] year money. If we were to, now, decide..we're going to try to turn this deficit, swollen by the crisis
We are going to try an trim this deficit swollen by the crisis. Swollen by the Bush economic policies and try to reduce that to balance in two years or three years. You will kill this economy. You will kill this economy and you would traumatically set back the long term cause of deficit reduction because you'd swell the long term deficits bu inducing another crisis. That's not what the Ryan budget proposes, I will point out. Although there's some people that suggest that we need to cut faster now.
Adam Curry:
UUUggghh What did he just day?
John C. Dvorak:
Ah! Ha-Ha! He said that ...
SFX:
Loud whistle
Adam Curry:
Everybody in the pool!
SFX:
Whistle Blowing
John C. Dvorak:
[laughing] We need a real one that's got a little more shrill [laughing]
SFX:
Whistle Blowing [continued]
Adam Curry:
This is bad enough
SFX:
Whistle Blowing
John C. Dvorak:
More like some sort of an attack of a bunch of
Adam Curry:
[laughing]
John C. Dvorak:
The triffets [phonetic]
Adam Curry:
All right so what did Timmy say?
John C. Dvorak:
He said that we can't .. uh .. all these plans to like start the draw down the deficit and all this preoccupation will KILL the economy. It's what he says. He says we're right now on thin ice and we .. we're still topping the world and we can stay there
as everything collapses around us
Adam Curry:
Mmmm
John C. Dvorak:
If we're careful not to do anything stupid that You Republicans are wanting to do.
Adam Curry:
Ahh. Okay.
John C. Dvorak:
.. essentially is what he is saying ...
But he talks like this little kid and it just like you don't understand why he's even working in this place.
Adam Curry:
Hee. I'm telling you. He talks like Timmy from South Park. Mee mee meeeemeeem
Sticking with Leviathan just for a second. News coming out
and just trying to fit everything into the pipeline story. Moscow and Paris may launch a project to build new gas pipe lines from Russia to Europe with growing demand by the EU States. There's the competition! Popping up it's head! So this is a news announcement from Monday. Parties have come to agreement - that is necessary - to build new direct gas transport capacities from Russia to Europe. So I guess what they are thinking there is piping the gas through Syria
and then up and out and then through the existing lines? And we have so many Russian pipeline through Europe going through Turkey. But that is definitely the competition to this news .. where Israel says, and this is what you had essentially, they are going to build a base, this [inaudible] aerial drone for the Israeli's to protect their interests in the gas.
John C. Dvorak:
Well there's also a couple of articles and I think why Syria is getting so much attention is that the Leviathan thing goes ... it appears to be more vertical than they thought at first. So it actually goes into the area next to Lebanon which is Syria's proxy.
Adam Curry:
They are buddies.
John C. Dvorak:
They are buddies. And maybe even goes to the Syria area which now - NOW Syria and Lebanon become a energy producing state
which is why we would always get involved. We always get -- if you haven't noticed -- we've pointed this out in the show a million times -- that if there's [inaudible] .. that's why you can do google searches on this. Something going on, you type in ... whatever is going on ...
Adam Curry:
pipeline! [laughing] [coughing] pipeline!
John C. Dvorak:
and then you have BOOM there it is! And the explanation falls right in your lap. Now I am looking at the Russian pipelines and none of them go anywhere near Syria. There is one ...
Adam Curry:
They go up and then through the Balkins .. through Turkey
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah they go through.. some go through Turkey. Some straight across to the Ukraine
Adam Curry:
You know what I would really like. I'd love .....
John C. Dvorak:
Ukraine seems to be the main .. and then there is one that's through Estonia, which is interesting. Most of Berlin ...
Adam Curry:
I've been searching for a google earth KML file .. and overlay .. of pipe lines and I just can't seem to find it.
John C. Dvorak:
How do you know it's there?
Adam Curry:
Someone will find it. I mean it's ... that would be beautiful to have .. just ALL THE PIPELINES! And then tell me what it is. And you could overlay that with
the explosions! [Laughing]
John C. Dvorak:
[laughing] Right!
Adam Curry:
And these so-called "earthquakes" and all that groovy stuff!
John C. Dvorak:
That's interesting.. that's the .. I can see where the Russians are like ... they have this thing called Shtokman
Adam Curry:
Yes!
John C. Dvorak:
gas field
Adam Curry:
yes
John C. Dvorak:
There's a huge gas field. They went around a pipe line out from that
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah. It's a biggie.
Adam Curry:
It's an important one, yeah. There's this great article it's a blog post from 2002 and I want everyone to look at that in the show notes after the show. I'll actually... I'll tell you what is is the title of it ... It's called "The New Us British Oil Imperialism" and it's from a website oilcompanies.net written by Norman D. Livergood and it takes you back
Adam Curry:
Norman D. Livergood. And it takes you back to nineteen eleven [1911] and it's basically the days of Standard Oil, Shell, British Petroleum. And how all the colonies
John C. Dvorak:
The Seven [7] Sisters.
Adam Curry:
I'm not familiar with that term.
John C. Dvorak:
It's the big seven [7] oil companies around the world.
Adam Curry:
It takes you all the way back. Explains how the second [2nd] world war was also all about oil and how Hitler was involved
Adam Curry:
It's an easy read. And it takes you up to, basically, nineteen seventy nine [1979] where we had the overthrow of the Shah Of Iran. And from that, we got British Petroleum, BP, Amico. And it really gives you a good overview of how every single war is essentially about protecting either the fuel depot, the transport lines or the pipelines of oil, and now, gas. It's what it's always been about.
Adam Curry:
It's just, that's it! It's always been about that. And I think it's too bad. This blog, I guess, stopped in two thousand two [2002]. It has maps. Beautiful maps. Shows the existing and potential oil and gas export routes from the Caspian Sea and all that is now in place with the North Stream and the South Stream and the Blue Stream and all these different pipelines.
Adam Curry:
It's so eye-opening. Because you can fit this theory..you know..Afghanistan, Unical, and we know Karzai was a Unical official. That's all been about a pipeline. The Pakistan /Afghani border is about protecting the pipeline. This is why the Pakistani's aren't doing anything, it's because they need the pipeline. It's for them. When you start to realize this, I have to say, it's like a shot of Xanax man. It's like, ahhhh
John C. Dvorak:
[chuckles]
Adam Curry:
You feel good about it, don't ya
Adam Curry:
You just feel like, ok. Now at least I understand. Not that you can do anything about it. But, at least you get it. Because when you are being lied to, I think your psyche gets it.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, it causes a problem with the brain.
Adam Curry:
It does. It messes with your head
John C. Dvorak:
I pointed this out in the newsletter. It's unhealthy. We could be just blowing smoke, but it's unhealthy it seems to me to be bamboozled, befuddled, duped into believing
John C. Dvorak:
things that are not true when some part of your system says 'this doesn't make any sense' and you start getting sick.
Adam Curry:
You do. Brain sick. Which brings me to the pharmaceutical industry, with some interesting fun little clips. I've been paying attention. I've been waiting to see what the pharmaceutical industry is going to do on the heels of Whitney Houston. So far, I have not been correct in my assumption. Although legislation has now been introduced into the house by
Adam Curry:
douche bag Bono Mack. Of course, we have Feinstein and they are going to try and shut down generic medicines. That is not in play yet. You and I were both kind of agreeing like, 'wow, man, they're really hitting the pharmaceutical industry hard with the Xanax thing'. And that's Phizer. Hitting them really hard with Whitney Houston. So now, Doctor Drew, Sanjay Gupta and a new player, who I will intorcdce on to the scene are all out there
Adam Curry:
And this is fantastic. They are all out there shilling drugs against addiction to drugs. You can't make this stuff up. Here is Sanjay Gupta, and he is about to promote a brand new drug on CNN.
Clip:
[female anchor] Addiction is a brain disease, not a failure of will power. They are on medicines that actually short circuit addiction. So why aren't they even used more? We're going in depth
Adam Curry:
Because they haven't been promoted yet. You gotta get people hooked
Clip:
[female anchor] Sanjay Gupta is joining us with what they are calling
Clip:
Sanjay Gupta is joining us with what we are calling "cold turkey" in a pill.
Adam Curry:
[Chuckles] C'mon John. This is GREAT marketing! Cold Turkey in a pill!
John C. Dvorak:
Cold Turkey in a pill...
Adam Curry:
Yeah!
Clip:
I've actually never heard of this before.
Adam Curry:
Oh! Oh!
Clip:
You know, it's interesting and this is a bit of a culture shift in terms of how we approach addiction. If you call it a brain disease like I think most people agree it should be called ..
Adam Curry:
The science is in! It's a brain addiction. It a .. you are SICK, son! You are SICK! You gotta problem, you're "SICK". You're sick. It's evil. You're sick. You need a pill because you are sick on pills.
Clip (Sanjay Gupta):
Then it does put other options on the table. The idea of treating an addiction to pills with another pill doesn't sit well with everybody, which is why it has been tested for so long.
Adam Curry:
Which is why I am here to promote it!
Clip (Sanjay Gupta):
It doesn't work for everybody
SFX:
[bell ding]
Adam Curry:
[Laughing]
Clip (Sanjay Gupta):
but I want you to listen to Walter Kent's story specifically and what it did for him.
Adam Curry:
So then they go into this package about a guy who is an alcoholic and I'll just play a little bit of the package because it's funny and he's crazy and this is such a good commercial cause they conduct the interview in a bar!
Clip (Speaker 1):
This is the last place
Clip (Speaker 1):
This is the last place you would expect to find a recovering alcoholic.
Clip (Walter Kent):
One of my old favorite watering holes.
Clip (Speaker 1):
But this is where Walter Kent hangs out. A bar called goobers.
Adam Curry:
[Chuckles]
Clip (Speaker 1):
Walter is giant of a man. But for most of his life he couldn't find the strength to put down that bottle.
Clip (Walter Kent):
I was the type of person that the only time I drank was when I was alone or with somebody.
Adam Curry:
[Laughing] Classic!
Clip (Walter Kent):
Other than that, it was not a problem.
Clip (Speaker 1):
He tried rehab. And AA. Nothing worked.
Clip (Walter Kent):
Nothing seemed to get rid of the urge. I couldn't get
Clip (Walter Kent):
Nothing seemed to get rid of the urge. I couldn't get rid of the craving.
Clip (Speaker 1):
But then in 2000, he tried again. An experimental program at Brown University. This time he got counselling once a week. And a daily pill. A medicine called naltrexone.
Adam Curry:
Naltrexone! Okay! So the package continues and the guy is like "It's Fantastic! My life has changed. I was an alcoholic. I tried everything .."
John C. Dvorak:
Naltrexone was in one of our shows recently. What was it we were referring it to? What was the deal? Or Neltrexone?
Adam Curry:
I don't recall that being in one of our shows.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah. I do.
Adam Curry:
Well I don't.
John C. Dvorak:
But anyways ...
Adam Curry:
Well you look that up
John C. Dvorak:
Somebody mentioned it somewhere and it was in a clip.
Adam Curry:
Well let me bring you part two because just to show you how this is happening. And all of this has stemmed from Whitney Houston. All this. So they picked up the addiction meme and they are just running with it. So you've got on the one hand the legislative part that has not emerged yet and now it's like "You get hooked on our pills, there is a pill for that.." And he's going to wrap up the story with telling you how great this pill is and it's going to go right into a commercial
Adam Curry:
and it's going to go right into a promotion for another pill!
Clip (Speaker 1):
And I still cannot believe he's in a bar. That's amazing.
Clip (Sanjay Gupta):
It's better to be in a bar to illustrate that point. I mean he could not step foot in a bar before. It was too much temptation. Now he has no problem. Really quickly and I think it's important to point out. This isn't for everybody. These people were people who for nothing else worked. And it's about 17% [seventeen percent] more effective than what else is out there. But for someone like Walter ..
Adam Curry:
What? There's more out there?? You are not even doing a competitive study? Because you are only promoting this. You are only being paid to shill this pill, ya douche?
Clip (Sanjay Gupta):
Walter made a big difference. It tamps down the sense of euphoria you get from having a drink so you don't have the cravings for you know, getting that euphoria over and over again.
John C. Dvorak:
What??
Adam Curry:
It's a mind altering drug!
John C. Dvorak:
Well now I remember where this is from. It was actually something from something that I was working on but we didn't talk about it.
Adam Curry:
We didn't discuss it.
John C. Dvorak:
Which is naltrexone and topamax are these two pills. Topamax is mentioned in this report on CNN on their website.
Adam Curry:
Which they are promoting, yes.
John C. Dvorak:
There's a big debate going on. Both of these are used off label in combination to create a third drug which they are trying to legalize as this fabulous and unbelievable weight loss pill.
Adam Curry:
Oh! Well wait a minute! Listen to this! OH THIS IS GREAT!
Clip (Sanjay Gupta):
The concern is it could tamp down pleasures that you get from other things as well. Some people just cannot tolerate that side-effect.
Clip (Speaker 1):
Could you actually have a pill that works for other prescription drugs if you have somebody who is addicted to prescription drugs?
Clip (Sanjay Gupta):
This is ... absolutely ... is the answer.
Adam Curry:
Absolutely!
Clip (Sanjay Gupta):
That is what the researchers are kind of working the same sort of concept. Again, damping down the sense of well-being after someone has opiates or pain pills for example. There is a medication called suboxone. It's a little bit different in that people have to stay on it for really their entire lives. Where is with naltrexone, he was on it for about 4 months.
Adam Curry:
Here it comes!
Clip (Sanjay Gupta):
But you know, some of these things are in early clinical trials and the population of people that are being studied are people who have failed everything else, nothing has worked, so now they are going to this. They are adding counselling in as well
Clip (Sanjay Gupta):
So it's not for the pills alone but you can see for Walter it made a huge difference.
Adam Curry:
Oh crap! OH CRAP!
John C. Dvorak:
What??
Adam Curry:
How did that happen? Oh crap!
John C. Dvorak:
WHAT?!
Adam Curry:
Well for some reason it didn't get the last bit of the report. At the end of this report, she actually says, "We'll be right back with some great news about a diet pill which you just mentioned!
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah. That's the diet pill. There's something up with this.
Adam Curry:
Hold on! Hold on! This is really pissing me off. I've gotta find this. Aww, man!
Adam Curry:
I can't BELIEVE that. Here let me see the end of this one. Hold on. You gotta hear that cause it may be the actual ... what's the name of the pill?
John C. Dvorak:
Ahh.. topamax and naltrexone are the two. You can take them in combination and it creates a third drug in the system.
Adam Curry:
Hold on. Here's .. I think this might have her tag ..
Clip (Sanjay Gupta):
But for Walter it made a huge difference.
Clip (Speaker 1):
Alright Sanjay, thanks! Stick around because we are going to ask about another medical story in the news today that is a new diet drug that could be approved soon. It is called qnexa. We are going to talk about that at the top of the hour.
Adam Curry:
Is that what it is? Qnexa?
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah it's Qnexa is the combination of these other pills.
Adam Curry:
So they literally go from the commercial of one drug to the commercial of the combination of the next drug that does diet. I mean this is completely paid programming!
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah. I would say.
Adam Curry:
Now if you can't sell it with Sanjay Gupta. If you can't sell it with Dr. Drew. There's always one go-to guy in the media. If you want the crazy wacky kooky guy ...
John C. Dvorak:
Oz?
Adam Curry:
Close! Close!
Adam Curry:
Come on, take another guess.
John C. Dvorak:
Well let's see ..
Adam Curry:
He used to be -- he's a celebrity, used to be on television when he was a kid. Complete waste of space, messed up his life ...
John C. Dvorak:
Go on .. go on. I know you are talking about that red-headed kid.
Adam Curry:
Yes! Danny Bonaduce! Exactly! [Laughing]
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah Bonaduce.
Adam Curry:
Bring in Bonaduce!
Clip (Danny Bonaduce):
Don't do anything that will stop you from a .. if you think you can help yourself, PLEASE do. I am not an expert on ANY of these things. I know what works for me. Would you like to know how I got
Clip (Danny Bonaduce):
Would you like to know how I got thirteen (13) months not drinking?
Clip (Speaker 1):
Yes.
Adam Curry:
Would you like to know how he got thirteen (13) months not drinking, John? Are you interested?
John C. Dvorak:
No.
Adam Curry:
Tough luck
John C. Dvorak:
[Chuckles]
Adam Curry:
cause we're shoving it in your face! Now he takes out a pill bottle and he pops a pill and he drinks some water.
Clip (Danny Bonaduce):
It's called Antabuse. It's a pill! It turns alcohol into poison!
Adam Curry:
[Laughing hysterically] Hey! It's called Antabuse and it turns alcohol into poison if that isn't crazy enough,
Clip (Danny Bonaduce):
There you go! I take a drink right now I'll DIE!
Clip (Speaker 1):
So Danny! Well what is that? I mean so are you telling me that there needs to be that kind of intervention?
Clip (Danny Bonaduce):
Antabuse! Look it up on the internet!
Adam Curry:
Look it up on the internet! This is a commercial!
Clip (Danny Bonaduce):
Look it up on the internet. It turns alcohol into formaldehyde!
Adam Curry:
Really? Ahhhggghh!!
SFX:
[Bell ding]
Adam Curry:
[Laughing hysterically] I looked it up on the internet. Antabuse does not turn alcohol into formaldehyde. [Laughing]
John C. Dvorak:
What an idiot.
Adam Curry:
[Laughing] Formaldehyde!
Adam Curry:
[Laughing] Formaldehyde. What a dick!
John C. Dvorak:
[Laughing]
Adam Curry:
And he keeps saying it. The whole report, Antabuse Antabuse Antabuse
John C. Dvorak:
What station, what is this ON?
Adam Curry:
CNN!
John C. Dvorak:
CNN should be ashamed of themselves.
Adam Curry:
But they are just taking... they are raking in the dough are you kidding me? I'd be here like, [In a stoner voice] "You know how I kicked weed, man? I kicked weed. I took a pill and it is turned weed into like uh .. into like uh poison. And so if I took a hit of weed then I DIE ..."
John C. Dvorak:
[In a stoner voice] Yeah It turned it into arsenic!
Adam Curry:
[In a stoner voice] Arsenic, man! Like Monsanto crap so I could not take that anymore
Adam Curry:
[In a stoner voice] So I could not take that anymore, man. The pills are great! I'm Danny Bonaduce! That's right. Remember me? From The Partridge Family? Buy it now! Are you a loser?
He says one time, He says, "I woke up one day in a jail cell handcuffed to a tranny with blood all over me. [Laughing] I didn't know whose blood it was. But I took this pill! No more trannys!" [Laughing]
John C. Dvorak:
So this cold turkey in a pill is bullcrap. Let me read you this from the adverse effects:
Naltrexone should not be started prior to several (typically) seven (7) to ten (10) days of abstinence from opioids. In other words, you have to go cold turkey.
Adam Curry:
You have to go cold turkey to go cold turkey.
John C. Dvorak:
Because this is due to the risk of acute opioid withdrawal if Naltrexone is taken .... as Neltrexsone will replace most opioids from their receptors. In other words, it just knock, you know, ruin you.
Adam Curry:
Yeah well you can't just go cold turkey. It's very dangerous actually to go super cold turkey.
John C. Dvorak:
Some physician using Naloxone challenged to determine whether an individual has any opioids remaining. Yeah you already have to BE cold turkey .. and then I guess.. well you got the shakes and you feel like shooting everybody.
Adam Curry:
[Laughing]
John C. Dvorak:
You take this pill and it knocks you back to normal. So that's bull crap the way they ... this is all a set up for this diet drug. This is going to be the biggest diet drug in the history of the pharmaceutical industry, by the way.
Adam Curry:
Oooh! Let's put that one in the..
John C. Dvorak:
That's MY prediction!
Adam Curry:
Yeah let's put that one in the book of knowledge. What is it called again? Let's write that down.
John C. Dvorak:
She mentioned what the name was
Adam Curry:
Mmmmm ...
John C. Dvorak:
Something with a C .. I only knew about this combination. I didn't know what the name of the approved drug was going to be.
Adam Curry:
Oh. I'll get it again. It's important. Let's get this again.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah. Let's get it.
Adam Curry:
Hold on a second. Let me just load it up.
Just amazing though how blatantly -- and by the way -- good catch! Just how BRAZENLY they go from this great pill and this fantastic seventeen percent (17%) better than the competitor right into, "Okay we've got some fantastic news coming up
Adam Curry:
Right into, "We've got some fantastic news coming up about this great diet pill which happens to be the derivative of the pill we just talked about!" That, to me John, is just ..
John C. Dvorak:
[Chuckles]
Adam Curry:
It just blows me away!
John C. Dvorak:
Somebody.. who ever is putting the packages together is corrupt.
Adam Curry:
No. These aren't packages! This is coming through the department known as traffic. You know, the ones that do the sales. Here it is:
Clip (Sanjay Gupta):
But you can see for Walter it made a huge difference.
Clip (Speaker 1):
All right. Sanjay stick around because we are going to ask about another medical story in the news today that is a new diet
Clip (Speaker 1):
diet drug that could be approved soon. It is called Qnexa.
Adam Curry:
Qnexa. Chewbacca!
John C. Dvorak:
Qnexa. [Chuckle] What a name.
Adam Curry:
[Laughing] Look it up man and send me the link.
John C. Dvorak:
I will. I am doing that now.
Adam Curry:
Qnexa. Qnexa. Good job! I wouldn't have caught that one. That was good.
John C. Dvorak:
Oh it's Qnexa [pronounced queue-nex-ah] spelled funny. It's Q-N-E X-A. FDA advisers -- this is just five (5) hours ago -- endorse weight loss drug Qnexa
Adam Curry:
They endorse it so it's good to go!
John C. Dvorak:
It's going to be good to go and they got a picture in the Los Angeles Times of some big fat gut.
Adam Curry:
[Laughing] The Los Angeles Times! Every one is in on it! How come we can't? I mean Ahhhgg! Well you know why?
John C. Dvorak:
Here it is. Yeah it's topiramate and uh ...
Adam Curry:
Meanwhile they are trying to make Vitamin C illegal. Let's do away with all of the REAL stuff that will actually cure you. Let's take that off the shelf. That's dangerous.
Adam Curry:
Ooh that's dangerous. Can't have any of that Vitamin C!
John C. Dvorak:
According to this the combination is topiramate and phentermine which is ahh... not my understanding of the combination. Yeah I get emails for that constantly.
Adam Curry:
[Laughing]
John C. Dvorak:
Interesting. I really think it's the other drug because the phentermine is not a safe product. Anyway ...
Adam Curry:
So that's how the news media makes their money.
John C. Dvorak:
This kind of bull crap is
John C. Dvorak:
Well this kind of bull crap is, to me, I have another clip. This kind of bull crap that comes off of these networks is getting worse. I was watching .... One of the worst shows on is this thing called The Five on Fox.
Adam Curry:
Wait a minute, I have to say, I like looking at the legs.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah. They put the legs on the outside so get to look at legs constantly and when ...
Adam Curry:
Isn't Dana Perino on that?
John C. Dvorak:
When Guilfoyle is on, she's got the best legs in the business!
Adam Curry:
Wait. Isn't Dana Perino on that?
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah but she's always sitting over there on the other side because she's too short
John C. Dvorak:
to show off legs
Adam Curry:
But, but I will say I think she's smoking.
John C. Dvorak:
She's very pretty.
Adam Curry:
Yeah.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah I agree with that.
Adam Curry:
Remember when she showed up with that black eye? When she was still Press Secretary for Bush?
John C. Dvorak:
No! I don't remember that!
Adam Curry:
Yes! She showed up with a black eye! Cause you now, she had done something wrong ..
John C. Dvorak:
Bush must have clobbered her!
Adam Curry:
Yeah! She did something wrong and they beat her up. [Laughing] She's smokin'! I would put her on the bucket list actually.
John C. Dvorak:
So ah this is a piece of information that I just rolled my eyes
John C. Dvorak:
Rolled my eyes over because they throw this crap out. They are talking about the pipe lines and the oil prices and so play "The fact, The Five and the BS"
Adam Curry:
[Laughing] The fact, The Five ... that's a good title for a book.
John C. Dvorak:
It is.
Clip (Speaker 1):
Can you get on this gas price thing? You're an expert on this and I understand that.
Adam Curry:
Oh. I saw this actually.
Clip (Speaker 1):
But the fact is that what's going on in Iran
Adam Curry:
FACT!
Clip (Speaker 1):
Of which we have very little control. What's going on in Syria, which we should talk about more, frankly. Is causing
Clip (Speaker 1):
causing the price of gas to go up!
Clip (Speaker 2):
No.
Clip (Speaker 1):
No! Why would it?
Adam Curry:
No! No! No!
Clip (Speaker 1):
Why would it?
Clip (Speaker 2):
That is ... [unintelligible]
Clip (Speaker 1):
We've got warships in Iran and it didn't make natural gas prices go up. We use a lot of natural gas for our energy here, too.
Clip (Speaker 2):
Because we got a lot of it.
Clip (Speaker 1):
Oh yeah and we have a lot of crude oil, too.
[unintelligible - three voices talking at once]
Clip (Speaker 2):
Well that is your reason but it's no secret also that the President has been openly hostile to
fossil fuels, his tax plan released recently goes after oil companies and when you go after oil companies and you try and take away their tax breaks that just gets passed along to the
Clip (Speaker 2):
consumer ...
Adam Curry:
It's a fact!
John C. Dvorak:
Well that's not the clip I wanted.
Adam Curry:
Okay. Good. Do I get to hear Dana Perino this time?
John C. Dvorak:
She was actually in there
Adam Curry:
Oh
John C. Dvorak:
She was the first part of that
Adam Curry:
Ah. Okay.
John C. Dvorak:
Ah! Idiots on The Five! Idiots! That's the one!
Adam Curry:
[Laughing] How could we have missed that queue? Alright ...
Clip (Speaker 1):
Yes I had a business. I had a business of distributing gasoline, buying gasoline, bringing it in from overseas, selling it ....
Clip (Speaker 2):
Do you know that there reformulated gas plans and oxygenated blends
detergent regulations, specific vapor pressure blends, summer blends, winter blends, summer East Coast blends, West Coast blends ..
Clip (Speaker 2):
You can get those at Starbucks!
Adam Curry:
Is this about Starbucks?
John C. Dvorak:
[Chuckle] That what they are going to say ..
Adam Curry:
Oh really?
Clip (Speaker 1):
I have a way and I want to do it on here because I want you to attribute this to me. I'll take credit for it. I'll take the blame.
Clip (Speaker 2):
I thought that you were speculating ..
Clip (Speaker 1):
No. No. I did both. I have a distribution ....
Adam Curry:
This is the guy with the fat head, isn't it?
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah he's talking. But not the REAL fat head. That's the Democrat guy.
Adam Curry:
Mmm.
John C. Dvorak:
But this guy, this is the younger guy with the fat head and he's apparently
John C. Dvorak:
owned an oil distribution business before he became a pundit. I don't know.
Adam Curry:
Ahh. All right.
Clip (Speaker 1):
Gasoline will drop by a dollar! A dollar per gallon with one signature by Obama. All he has to do is say, "One Blend" and gas drops. And there is one blend for the whole country. Doesn't matter if you are in Chicago, West Coast, East Coast all year round give it shot. It can't hurt. The environmentalist will just have to take a deep breath and say, for now it's more important to get our gas prices down.
Clip (Speaker 2):
There's something to be said about that because they do have a blend. Remember when they had the blend in the upper mid-west north when they had mixed certain .. and it turned out to be good work.
Clip (Speaker 1):
Fees, storage issues, location transportation issues
Clip (Speaker 2):
They backed off of that and things seemed to work all right.
Adam Curry:
Mmm. All right. Explain this one to me.
John C. Dvorak:
This is the biggest crock of crap I can imagine. Every petroleum engineer and chemist has got to be rolling his eyes. You HAVE to have these different blends.It's the way it works. You can't have the same gasoline in Reno that you have in the San Francisco Bay area! Your car won't
John C. Dvorak:
start! Because of the atmospheric pressures and the different temperatures depending on whether it's winter or summer. That's why you have a winter blend and a summer blend. If you don;t put extra butane in the gas during the winter -- YOUR CAR WILL NOT START! This is all BULL CRAP and he just made this up and this guy is supposed to be in the business? I don't believe that for a minute!
Adam Curry:
Well that's interesting. Okay. So I know nothing about this. And you as a former chemical engineer, is very interesting. And these blends .... So for instance
John C. Dvorak:
I was an analytical chemist.
Adam Curry:
[heavy breath]
John C. Dvorak:
Big difference
Adam Curry:
You make me so horny when you say these things. Say it again.
John C. Dvorak:
[Whispering raspy voice] Analytical chemist
Adam Curry:
No, no. Say, "I was .."
John C. Dvorak:
I was man!
Adam Curry:
I was an analytical chemist.
John C. Dvorak:
All right. All right. Go on ..
Adam Curry:
So you are telling me that in Texas where it CAN freeze in winter time, that they actually give me a different blend even though I'm getting the 87 Octane, which is all I can afford. It's still under four bucks (4 USD) here
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah.
Adam Curry:
That they blend that differently in winter time.
jd, YEAH!
Adam Curry:
under four bucks here.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah.
Adam Curry:
That they blend it differently in Winter time.
John C. Dvorak:
YEAH!
Adam Curry:
Huh. I didn't know that.
John C. Dvorak:
Well, Your car won't run. Or it'll have trouble starting. Or it won't run right. I mean, you have to change the blends based on the temperature and the altitude, in particular.
You can take Reno gas and... or take Bay Area gas and try to drive around Reno...
Your car has no poop.
You put some Reno gas in and you're driving around like crazy. It's very noticeable.
Adam Curry:
So if I were to drive from Texas to Colorado and I could make it in one tank of gas.
Adam Curry:
By the time I get up there, I might run into trouble. I'll have to get a new blend really quickly.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, your car would not run correctly.
Adam Curry:
I didn't know this!
John C. Dvorak:
These blends are very different all over the place, and that's why... But he's saying "Well you only have to store one blend instead of two"
You still have to store the different. This is still bullshit even on that level because you can't keep every octane... You know those three typical octane levels...
Adam Curry:
Explain that to me for a second.
Adam Curry:
Why.. for what reason I've never gotten a high octane. I mean why should I? Does it REALLY make a difference?
John C. Dvorak:
On a car that required high octane, yes!
Adam Curry:
What car required that?
John C. Dvorak:
Well my Lexus. Any car that has got a high performance ....
Adam Curry:
Your Lexus is from 1991!!
John C. Dvorak:
[Laughing] Yeah. It's old, I know. [In a funny high voice] I don't have enough money!
Adam Curry:
Yeah but how come that requires the high octane? That's dumb!
John C. Dvorak:
Because it has a high performance V-8engine that has a high compression ratio.
Adam Curry:
I have a Dodge Ram from 2002. Probably uses regular.
Adam Curry:
I have a Dodge Ram, from two thousand two [2002].
John C. Dvorak:
Probably uses regular.
Adam Curry:
Yeah, but it's got eighteen [18] cylinders. It's a big fifty nine hundred [5900] engine.
John C. Dvorak:
Still could be regular. Probably is regular. What ever it says in the book, you have to use.
Adam Curry:
There's no book! It didn't come with a book! It' didn't come with a book!
John C. Dvorak:
Look it up on the Internet. If you are using low octane gas in an engine that requires ninety one [91] and you are using eighty seven [87], you're going to get a lot of pre-ignition. You are going to essentially lose gas mileage because the thing is going to fire before the cylinder's at the top of the head and it will just blow up in there
Adam Curry:
What does that mean?
Adam Curry:
Well if you don't know what that means
Adam Curry:
It's like, I can't [sighs]. Oh, ok.
John C. Dvorak:
So anyway, so you have to have these different tanks for these different gasolines anyway. So the storage stuff is bull crap. This guy's full of it. That's what I'm saying. And this show is filled with this kind of information. And then he comes out with this nonsense and the other guy comes in and agrees with him. He doesn't know what he's talking about either! Now, I will say this, we on this show..every so often we say something that is wrong..and people either catch us in the chat rooms and we can usually correct ourselves on the fly.
John C. Dvorak:
And yeah, you're gonna be wrong on these shows, so I don't want to be too condemnatorial about this. But, but!
Adam Curry:
If you had legs like that it would be ok!
John C. Dvorak:
But, the point is, there's five [5] people on this show. There's ten [10] people behind the cameras. There's producers, there's executive producers, there's all kinds of people that can correct this crap! There's news editors, there's writers, there's prompter operators, there's a hundred people that can say, "Hey, this is totally wrong." The two [2] of us, it's amazing we're so accurate!
Jingle:
John C. Dvorak Pet Peeve Of The Day
Jingle:
{Beatles accents} I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people that could do that? Oh yeah, that'd be fab. {singing} Yeah! On No Agenda!
Adam Curry:
High octane, baby!
Jingle:
[singing] In The Morning!
Adam Curry:
You know? I gotta tell you. When you go off on that, the chemical engineer stuff and you bring in cars and engines, man, I would like hug you now if you were near me.
John C. Dvorak:
Ha! Check your book.
Adam Curry:
It makes me just HOT for 'ya, baby. HOT! Smokin' hot for you now, John.
John C. Dvorak:
I would think that everyone would know this stuff anyway.
Adam Curry:
Well, guess what? This is very informative. And now I'm going to go find a book, see if I can find the book that goes along with my car and then I'm going to be very sad if I have to put in high octane, because that's like..
John C. Dvorak:
[laughs] It costs twenty [20] bucks a gallon. It's expensive.
Adam Curry:
Yeah! For real.
John C. Dvorak:
I was, actually, in San Francisco, the high octane in Union Station over in the city, where it is always over priced: four dollars and forty cents [$4.40]. Bad.
Adam Curry:
So, our chat room. The one we just talked up and said they're so great. Helping us and correcting us. Here's what we got back from that great rant of yours: [reads} Adam plays with Barbies. I mean, really?
John C. Dvorak:
[laughs heartily]
SFX:
ding
Adam Curry:
Yes, Malibu Ken. Hello? Malibu Ken here. Hello everybody!
John C. Dvorak:
Typical.
Adam Curry:
All Right.
John C. Dvorak:
We actually got a lot of Executive Producers and then our regular donors, the lesser ones, that [chuckles] kind of a short number here.
John C. Dvorak:
But, that's fine. Jonathan Healey, in Santa Clara, California came with a hundred [100] dollars saying [reads} "Thanks for continuing the good fight on the best podcast in the universe." Michael Shoemaker, in Rancho Cucamonga, California..somewhere on the same line that goes from Anaheim and Azusa. [reads] "ITM John and Adam. Greetings from Gitmo Nation Inland Empire. Just a reminder to the producers to check out their Paypal accounts. Why? Because"..
John C. Dvorak:
..By the way, I got a thing today, I just sent it to the guy. Paypal rejected a fifty five dollar and ten cent [$55.10] payment
Adam Curry:
Why?
John C. Dvorak:
Because they were suspicious of the guy giving the money.
Adam Curry:
What is that? It's like, hey man, we're protecting you. Dvorak and Curry, this guy's suspicious. What is that? That's ridiculous.
John C. Dvorak:
It's totally ridiculous. So they sent him his money back!
Adam Curry:
[stammers] Well, we're screwed. You watch.
Adam Curry:
That's how they're going to kill us. They can't kill us by taking away advertisers, because we have none. They're going to kill us with [voice change] "oh, your people are suspicious, because they normally pay with cash and uh they use the Internet and Internet cafes and they could be terrorists, I tell you, terrorists, all of them!"
Jingle:
Squirrel!
Adam Curry:
"And donating to that No Agenda show is suspicious behavior"
John C. Dvorak:
He signed up for monthly donations and Paypal has yet to make a second payment automatically. [reads] I had to visit dvorak dot org slash n a .. insert jingle here .. to make sure you guys get your..
Jingle:
dvorak dot org slash n a
John C. Dvorak:
[reads] to get your just-deserve tithing. Here's my monthly donation, this time ninety nine ninty nine [$99.99} just to hear Adam say niner niner niner niner.
Adam Curry:
Niner niner niner niner
John C. Dvorak:
[reads] I also need a serious de-douching.
Jingle:
You've been de-douched
John C. Dvorak:
[reads] John started choking while reading my last donation email, passed it to Adam, and I never got my de-douch. I don't need karma, as life is good. But, I would like to pass the karma onto my fellow hard working IT
John C. Dvorak:
slaves, who keep many companies running smoothly without credit or recognition.
Adam Curry:
Duh!
John C. Dvorak:
Give him a karma
Adam Curry:
Yeah, of course, this is big IT karma. We know what it takes to keep that crap running.
Jingle:
You've got karma
Adam Curry:
That's very nice, very kind. Very kind. We've got a lot of dentists and IT guys listen to the show.
John C. Dvorak:
Dentites
Adam Curry:
Dentites and ITites. Dentites, it's a combo word.
John C. Dvorak:
ITites. I like that word. Anyway, he says ..he's in the chat room ..
John C. Dvorak:
Anyway, he's in the chatroom. California McShoe.
Matthew Hamilton. Sacremento, California. Sixty-Nine-Sixty-Nine (69.69 USD) on to our Sixty-Nine-Sixty-Nine meme.
Adam Curry:
Soixante-Neuf
John C. Dvorak:
I'm going to have to put that on the sheet.
Adam Curry:
Well you keep threatening with that. That's our "Get-Laid" Karma.
John C. Dvorak:
"ITM, gentleman. I'd like you to 'de-douche me' and then 'de-douche me'
Oh no.
I'd like you to 'douche me' and then 'de-douche me'. Why? Because. I've been enjoying the Best Podcast in the Universe since last October without helping.
I'd also enjoy being the NoAgenda listener for the shortest time spent douched.
My birthday is February"
John C. Dvorak:
[reads] My birthday is February twenty third [23rd] so I've made the popular contribution of sixty nine sixty nine [$69.69] which is three [3] times twenty three twenty three [$23.23]. Please send some citizen karma to my smokin' hot girlfriend, Kristi, in advance of our pending move from the People's Republic Of California to the blue skies, drones and chem trails of [cupped hands] Austin, Texas!
SFX:
ding
Adam Curry:
You will love it here, my friend. Ok, so we've got a douche bag, de-douching and a hey citizen karma
Jingle:
Douche bag
You've been de-douched
Hey citizen
Jingle:
You've been de-douched
Hey citizen
You've got karma
Adam Curry:
Tight!
John C. Dvorak:
Tight. Except for you stepping on it.
Adam Curry:
Tight.
John C. Dvorak:
Sir Troy Walters, Hawthorn East, Victoria, sixty [60] dollars. [reads] "In the morning. Let everyone know that Gitmo Nation Downunder us available to view on YouTube. Sorry for the low donation amount. It's all I can afford. Wish Dame Jess Walters a happy second wedding anniversary for the twenty second [22] of February. The call out needs to happen today."
John C. Dvorak:
in February. The call-out needs to happen today. If you did it on Sunday's show, we would hear it on the twenty-eighth.
Adam Curry:
oh, that's right, everything's a day ahead
John C. Dvorak:
it's a day off
Adam Curry:
okay, well, so uh
John C. Dvorak:
if you're going to Australia you change your time to one day ahead and 5 years back
Adam Curry:
[laughs] enough about the Australian government
John C. Dvorak:
Chad Lawrence in,
SFX:
bell
John C. Dvorak:
oh, give her a, uh, yea, just give her a call-out. Happy Anniversary, Dame Jessie. Walters.
Adam Curry:
Jess
John C. Dvorak:
Jess Walters, okay. Chad Lawrence in Springfield, Oregon.
John C. Dvorak:
okay, Chad Lawrence in Springfield, Oregon, fifty-eight seventy-nine ($58.79) in memory of Evan C.; Carston O'Schwartz-Neison in someplace, I can't see its symbols on my thing. [inaudible] a Little Mermaid so he's got to be in Copenhagen, uh, Denmark. "Hi John and Adam fifty-five eleven ($55.11). Thank you for the great effort in the eternal struggle to fight all the douche-baggerie. Keep exploring the splinter in my mind, you're truly one of a kind. And, Adam, don't stop trying to teach John the
John C. Dvorak:
"splinter in my mind, you're truly one of a kind. And Adam, don't stop trying to teach John the Dutch pronunciations - it's Hilarious!"
Adam Curry:
[laughs]
John C. Dvorak:
he also says "more slide whistle, please."
SFX:
john plays the slide whistle
Adam Curry:
[laughs]
John C. Dvorak:
from overtaxed Denmark"
Adam Curry:
[laughs] Danamarken [phonetic] as we say in Holland "danemarka" [phonetic]
John C. Dvorak:
dananark
Adam Curry:
danemarken
John C. Dvorak:
Mickey Keck in Wyoming, Ohio. Double nickels on the dime ($55.10). Been listening since last year and wanted to make a "catch up" payment for all the news and entertainment you've provided over the time. My hot wife, Joy
John C. Dvorak:
enjoyed your deconstruction of the media, here's some blankets and water, no need for dedouching, but my girlfriend could use some job Karma. She got hired for a job right out of school and the douchebags let her go over the phone on her first day
Adam Curry:
oh, no
John C. Dvorak:
during lunch.
Adam Curry:
oh, [groan] I hate that.
John C. Dvorak:
give her a Karma/MILF double shot
Adam Curry:
I would love to do that.
SFX:
MILF/Karma; slide whistle
Adam Curry:
What was that? Was that a slide whistle MILF horn?
John C. Dvorak:
Jeremy Slate in Hamburg, Jersey, New Jersey to you. Fifty-one fifty ($51.50)
Adam Curry:
John has a ghostwriter on his columns. Man, it's only five hundred words. Gazillion.
John C. Dvorak:
*laugh*
Adam Curry:
What, is Mimi writing them now?
John C. Dvorak:
I'll tell ya, I didn't use that word. I'm stunned that somebody would put it in there when it's this inaccurate. It doesn't mean anything. It's one of those vague words that should never be used.
Adam Curry:
No.
John C. Dvorak:
It's only... it's like natch. Somebody uses it 'cause they think it's cute.
Adam Curry:
and snatch is okay, though?
John C. Dvorak:
Well. Yeah, it's probably better.
Adam Curry:
Anyway, so I think there's a lot going on with Facebook. This report has two meanings. One:
Adam Curry:
Right you are.
John C. Dvorak:
That's the way these deals are usually done.
Adam Curry:
[call bell]
Adam Curry:
Right you are.
So, I'm thinking we gotta set up an agency.
A photo agency.
[laughter]
John C. Dvorak:
[laughter]
Adam Curry:
I got another idea.
It's a photo...
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah just use Twitter photos.
Adam Curry:
Twitter photo agency...
Jingle:
[closing music begins]
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah you'll be a middle man for Twitter, they'll make money on the deal.
They need to make money.
Adam Curry:
Document came out, the Obama administration coming out with a "Online Bill of Rights", which is the most disgusting document I've ever seen, but I have not dissected it enough, so we'll talk about that on Sunday...
Adam Curry:
...I will be all over it.
'Cause it's exactly what this is about.
How you, er, the government will actually help commercial companies...
John C. Dvorak:
Screw you!
Adam Curry:
...and take your stuff, exactly.
So, get off Facebook.
Get rid of your cable.
And move to Austin.
Because that's where it's at, baby.
Everyone here is tall and pretty, too.
Hah!
Alright, coming to you from Camp Mofo here in the Drone Star State...
Adam Curry:
...in Austin Tehas [sic], that be the capitol.
In the morning everybody, my name's "Adam Curry".
John C. Dvorak:
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where there actually is a pool on how long Adam will stay in Austin.
Adam Curry:
Heh!
John C. Dvorak:
I'm John C. Dvorak.
Adam Curry:
Yeah, enough about your family.
And a reminder, "Dirty Boxers", Leigh Brown, is live Monday to Friday on the stream from nine to eleven AM eastern (9:00AM - 11:00AM EST/EDT), and you will definitely want to check him out.
He's a British dude, does a fun little show there, you should check it out on the stream, no agenda stream dot com [http://noagendastream.com/].
Adam Curry:
We'll be back again on Sunday with another fun-packed episode, right here, on No Agenda.
John C. Dvorak:
[slide whistle]
Jingle:
[closing music plays out]
Dvorak dot org, slash N A [http://dvorak.org/na]