1 00:00:01,829 --> 00:00:05,489 Well, Summer is almost upon us. And the days well, they are 2 00:00:05,489 --> 00:00:09,419 growing longer. They're growing warmer on both continents. It's 3 00:00:09,419 --> 00:00:12,509 time once again for no agenda coming to you from the curry 4 00:00:12,509 --> 00:00:14,969 manor in the United Kingdom. It's Adam curry. 5 00:00:15,449 --> 00:00:17,549 And then up here in northern California, where it looks to be 6 00:00:17,549 --> 00:00:21,179 another sunny day. I'm John C. Dvorak. Hey, John, 7 00:00:21,210 --> 00:00:24,420 good to talk. We haven't spoken almost all week. Have we? I know 8 00:00:24,420 --> 00:00:25,830 once we did you were in New York. 9 00:00:26,369 --> 00:00:29,849 Right? Yeah, I gave you a call because there are crappy cell 10 00:00:29,849 --> 00:00:34,349 phones. left me a message saying just a vague message. You know, 11 00:00:34,349 --> 00:00:37,739 they don't timestamp the messages. So just said, it's 12 00:00:37,739 --> 00:00:38,819 Adam. Give me a call. 13 00:00:39,299 --> 00:00:41,489 So the way that was a text message? 14 00:00:41,969 --> 00:00:43,679 No, no, this was a voice message. 15 00:00:43,889 --> 00:00:45,599 Really? Yeah. So 16 00:00:45,630 --> 00:00:47,280 who knows how old it was, 17 00:00:47,369 --> 00:00:52,679 holy crap. I have I did switch to maybe that was part of the 18 00:00:52,679 --> 00:00:55,049 problem. I did switch to the words the network, the three 19 00:00:55,049 --> 00:00:57,089 network instead of oh two, which is the one that was giving me 20 00:00:57,089 --> 00:00:59,429 all the problems. So now people are leaving me voicemail, 21 00:00:59,519 --> 00:01:02,099 because you actually get through when you call and I'm 22 00:01:02,879 --> 00:01:06,539 unavailable. Now, of course. The downside is I fixed the problem, 23 00:01:06,539 --> 00:01:14,879 but I have voicemail. Which means I gotta listen to it. I 24 00:01:14,879 --> 00:01:16,889 don't find voicemail very productive. 25 00:01:17,490 --> 00:01:20,070 No, I find it confusing for one thing, especially with those 26 00:01:20,070 --> 00:01:24,120 systems that we have. It's an 18 T system. They don't timestamp. 27 00:01:24,690 --> 00:01:27,240 I mean, even the hotel's timestamp half the time Pro 28 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:30,030 can Can you press a button and get a timestamp? If you there's 29 00:01:30,030 --> 00:01:31,800 got to be some command for that. 30 00:01:32,460 --> 00:01:34,440 I don't know. Maybe But who's gonna leave one? 31 00:01:36,060 --> 00:01:38,580 No, I mean, you should be Oh, no, no, no, I 32 00:01:38,580 --> 00:01:41,010 there's none that I know. I mean, it just comes in your 33 00:01:41,010 --> 00:01:44,550 first inheriting message. And then you know, hi, Madam Can you 34 00:01:44,550 --> 00:01:46,230 call? So 35 00:01:46,470 --> 00:01:49,620 that was an uncanny uncanny impression of me, John. Thanks. 36 00:01:51,150 --> 00:01:55,860 That was just fantastic. Yeah, well, I'm gonna get I'm done 37 00:01:55,860 --> 00:01:59,880 with them. Actually, something messed up. Last. Last Friday, I 38 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:04,350 was invited someone share Dr. Blonde bombshell banker in 39 00:02:04,350 --> 00:02:07,140 Holland, I invited her to come to the last episode, the last 40 00:02:07,140 --> 00:02:10,200 live show of HoloLens Got Talent. And I said, you know, 41 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:13,080 I'll send you a text message with, you know, when I've got 42 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,540 the ticket to the door, or whatever the studio number is, I 43 00:02:15,540 --> 00:02:17,970 sent you the text message. She never got it. So she didn't show 44 00:02:17,970 --> 00:02:20,130 up. And it's like, you know, then three days later, she gets 45 00:02:20,130 --> 00:02:22,710 a text message. It's not reliable anymore. Yeah, it 46 00:02:22,710 --> 00:02:23,250 sucks. 47 00:02:23,640 --> 00:02:24,930 That's not right. 48 00:02:25,530 --> 00:02:27,900 Now it's not it has something to do with all the you know it 49 00:02:27,900 --> 00:02:30,660 because it's hopping from one network to the other and 50 00:02:30,750 --> 00:02:34,530 someone's messed up somewhere. I would probably say AT and T is 51 00:02:34,530 --> 00:02:35,400 probably messed up. 52 00:02:36,780 --> 00:02:40,110 Well, you know, there's it's not rocket science to send the 53 00:02:40,110 --> 00:02:43,020 message out and ask for an acknowledgement. It's like hate 54 00:02:43,020 --> 00:02:46,230 mail, right? It's like it should work. Yeah. And then if you 55 00:02:46,230 --> 00:02:51,060 don't get the acknowledgement, you send it out again, until the 56 00:02:51,060 --> 00:02:53,550 phone says, Hey, okay, okay, okay, it's in here, or I've 57 00:02:53,550 --> 00:02:56,070 already got it listed, or the system is not even, it's not 58 00:02:56,070 --> 00:03:00,120 even kept on the phone. It's kept on a server someplace 59 00:03:00,180 --> 00:03:02,130 where you can choose to keep it on the phone, and you can 60 00:03:02,130 --> 00:03:05,490 actually choose to get a receipt and acknowledgement receipt. 61 00:03:06,030 --> 00:03:09,060 You can you can switch that on. No, nobody's gonna do that. 62 00:03:10,019 --> 00:03:12,389 No, I know. But you can actually do it but it's really annoying 63 00:03:12,389 --> 00:03:14,909 because then for every message you send you receive one you 64 00:03:14,909 --> 00:03:17,999 know that it's been verified, but there is a way to do it. 65 00:03:19,380 --> 00:03:21,420 Well, whatever the case, well, so I'm 66 00:03:21,420 --> 00:03:24,150 getting me a UK number when that with my new iPhone, which is 67 00:03:24,150 --> 00:03:24,630 coming out 68 00:03:27,900 --> 00:03:28,890 as a UK 69 00:03:30,330 --> 00:03:33,780 UK number I'm just gonna get a regular UK cell phone number. 70 00:03:33,780 --> 00:03:36,780 I'm done with it with this 18 T crap from the States. You still 71 00:03:36,780 --> 00:03:38,760 calling a US number when you call me over here? 72 00:03:40,170 --> 00:03:44,220 Yeah, do you? Are you sure we're gonna have to call long distance 73 00:03:44,220 --> 00:03:47,460 to get ahold of you now? Yeah. Convenience. 74 00:03:47,489 --> 00:03:52,319 Oh, boy. How horrible. Yeah, absolutely. 75 00:03:54,270 --> 00:03:56,670 So what's been going on that, you know, I didn't take any 76 00:03:56,670 --> 00:03:59,550 notes this week. So I have literally no agenda. Although, 77 00:03:59,550 --> 00:04:00,990 you know, there's a bunch of good things that have happened. 78 00:04:00,990 --> 00:04:02,280 I'm sure we can chat about. 79 00:04:02,730 --> 00:04:05,130 Yeah, I mean, I got lots of interesting stuff that's going 80 00:04:05,130 --> 00:04:07,170 on over here in Europe. I wouldn't mind here about what 81 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:10,050 what you got going on. I I always have to start off, John. 82 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:10,650 It's your turn. 83 00:04:12,060 --> 00:04:15,420 Well, you know, Obama seems to be the guy they're gonna run for 84 00:04:15,420 --> 00:04:16,740 the presidency. 85 00:04:16,770 --> 00:04:20,490 Do you know how many people are angry at me about this? Why 86 00:04:20,490 --> 00:04:24,420 would you do well, of course, I totally took your your theory. 87 00:04:24,420 --> 00:04:26,700 And I've been saying forget about it. Clinton's gonna get 88 00:04:26,700 --> 00:04:29,280 the nomination. So my wife has been telling everyone you Oh, 89 00:04:29,310 --> 00:04:31,860 Adam says Clinton's getting the nomination. And everyone I've 90 00:04:31,860 --> 00:04:35,100 told it like you douchebag you know, it's like, now we look 91 00:04:35,100 --> 00:04:37,290 like shit. Because there was such a short thing. It was a 92 00:04:37,290 --> 00:04:38,280 shoo in. You said 93 00:04:40,110 --> 00:04:42,030 it's not over. Well, that's 94 00:04:42,029 --> 00:04:43,949 what I'm saying. I keep saying look, you know, don't 95 00:04:43,949 --> 00:04:46,319 underestimate these Clintons. You know, she could run it as an 96 00:04:46,319 --> 00:04:49,289 independent and still try and go for the presidency. But you're 97 00:04:49,289 --> 00:04:52,199 right. It's not over. I don't quite understand how it works. I 98 00:04:52,199 --> 00:04:54,449 mean, does she have to concede before? 99 00:04:54,930 --> 00:04:57,690 No, even if she concedes it's not over? It's not it's not 100 00:04:57,690 --> 00:05:01,920 official until it goes to until the convention says it's over. 101 00:05:01,950 --> 00:05:02,370 Right? 102 00:05:02,639 --> 00:05:05,549 So anything can still happen. I am with you, John. I think that 103 00:05:05,549 --> 00:05:08,129 they've got shut up their sleeve that is not to be believed. I 104 00:05:08,129 --> 00:05:10,169 think they can change people's minds. 105 00:05:10,709 --> 00:05:13,139 It wouldn't take much. I mean, the thing going on the rumour 106 00:05:13,139 --> 00:05:17,639 right now is that there's a videotape of Michelle Obama 107 00:05:17,939 --> 00:05:19,229 doing something weird. 108 00:05:19,529 --> 00:05:21,479 You know, there's another thing that's out did you hear about 109 00:05:21,479 --> 00:05:27,119 this? Apparently two members of the, of the congregation the 110 00:05:27,119 --> 00:05:31,829 church he he belongs to in Chicago. Two of them have been 111 00:05:31,979 --> 00:05:38,309 murdered. And both were apparently now either gay or 112 00:05:38,309 --> 00:05:41,339 bisexual men. And you know, so now this is now the story going 113 00:05:41,339 --> 00:05:45,029 around that Obama had that he's bisexual and that he had an 114 00:05:45,029 --> 00:05:48,029 affair with one of them and that it says wacko guy who's all over 115 00:05:48,029 --> 00:05:54,209 YouTube saying he blew Obama in a limo is real I don't on 116 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:57,749 that. Do you think I would have heard of that? Or we would have 117 00:05:57,749 --> 00:06:00,089 blogged it by now. Is that her maybe? 118 00:06:00,689 --> 00:06:03,029 Oh shit, man. I'll find it for you. Hold on. Oh, yeah, 119 00:06:03,059 --> 00:06:06,029 let's send me I was looking at it today was sent me a link and 120 00:06:06,029 --> 00:06:10,679 I'll blog it so I didn't hear that one. But I'm not paying 121 00:06:10,679 --> 00:06:14,669 much attention on the wasn't on. I'd say Brian Williams wasn't 122 00:06:14,669 --> 00:06:16,259 discussing it. Let me tell you right now. 123 00:06:17,730 --> 00:06:21,360 Let me see if I Which one do you want to get you want the story 124 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:25,440 about the about the two guys who are executed? Right? And the 125 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:28,320 blowjob envelopes? And the blowjob guy Hold on. I'll give 126 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:31,650 you one blowjob guy if you can give me what was Michelle Obama 127 00:06:31,650 --> 00:06:32,070 doing? 128 00:06:33,179 --> 00:06:35,699 We don't know. Here's the story though. It's going around. 129 00:06:36,149 --> 00:06:40,949 Apparently, somebody's got a videotape of her going nuts. And 130 00:06:41,189 --> 00:06:42,929 just like a freak out knots are 131 00:06:43,139 --> 00:06:47,159 well you know, she's kind of a she might be bipolar for all we 132 00:06:47,159 --> 00:06:51,239 know. I mean, she's got something. She's a mean spirited 133 00:06:51,239 --> 00:06:54,419 person. You From the looks of it. And so 134 00:06:55,110 --> 00:06:57,780 Patricia says the same thing. She says I don't like her. 135 00:06:57,810 --> 00:07:00,900 There's something about her. And I think other more people may 136 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:04,740 have this. If it just I don't know what it is. You know, I of 137 00:07:04,740 --> 00:07:07,740 course have an immediate kinship being a not so likeable guy 138 00:07:07,740 --> 00:07:08,460 myself. 139 00:07:10,139 --> 00:07:11,129 She's a ballbuster 140 00:07:12,629 --> 00:07:15,989 Hold on. I got it here, John. Here it is. This is a great 141 00:07:15,989 --> 00:07:18,119 story. I can't believe they did about this. Hold on. 142 00:07:18,660 --> 00:07:20,580 Yeah, you know, maybe I'm not keeping up 143 00:07:20,579 --> 00:07:22,829 well, it's also from the American Free Press. dotnet 144 00:07:23,069 --> 00:07:27,419 dotnet here it is. Murder of Donald young a 47 year old choir 145 00:07:27,419 --> 00:07:29,909 mastered former Reverend Jeremiah Wright's Trinity, 146 00:07:30,359 --> 00:07:33,359 United Christ of church, a church of Christ, the same 147 00:07:33,359 --> 00:07:35,519 congregation that Obama has attended for the past 20 years 148 00:07:35,519 --> 00:07:38,039 to other young black men that attended the same church Larry 149 00:07:38,039 --> 00:07:41,009 bland and needs Spencer were also murdered execution style 150 00:07:41,009 --> 00:07:44,219 with bullets to the backs of their head all within 40 days of 151 00:07:44,219 --> 00:07:47,129 each other beginning in November 2007. All three were openly 152 00:07:47,129 --> 00:07:47,999 homosexual 153 00:07:50,819 --> 00:07:53,549 and Christian, and then the right you know, right right is 154 00:07:53,549 --> 00:07:55,829 decided to go back to to the pulpit. 155 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:59,310 I didn't even know he left 156 00:07:59,850 --> 00:08:01,800 when he was supposed to be retiring, but it looks like he's 157 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,020 not going to and I think he's worked about a lot of things. 158 00:08:05,339 --> 00:08:11,819 I'm just gonna hit you with this with this video page, Larry 159 00:08:11,819 --> 00:08:17,699 Sinclair's The guy, he's a real cook. I don't care how bisexual 160 00:08:17,699 --> 00:08:21,089 you are. You're not going to let that guy blow you okay? It's 161 00:08:21,089 --> 00:08:27,269 just not gonna happen. No way. I mean, Obama may or may not be my 162 00:08:27,269 --> 00:08:31,259 favourite politician. But I think he's a lot better than 163 00:08:31,259 --> 00:08:31,589 that. 164 00:08:34,409 --> 00:08:37,079 I never thought of you know so here's the story that I when I 165 00:08:37,079 --> 00:08:42,209 was in I was in Manhattan this week and was talking to my agent 166 00:08:42,239 --> 00:08:47,669 and there's a couple of appear apparently a I'm not sure who 167 00:08:47,669 --> 00:08:50,879 was involved in this but uh, but some guys that we both know, I 168 00:08:50,879 --> 00:08:54,929 guess who are like Democrats or whatever they like I don't know 169 00:08:54,929 --> 00:08:57,659 when the right that does a vague story. So let me start off with 170 00:08:57,659 --> 00:09:00,299 that premise. prepared that they had dinner with Obama and it 171 00:09:00,299 --> 00:09:08,549 turns out the guy something of a of a of a he was unlikable. They 172 00:09:08,549 --> 00:09:11,849 said at the end of the whole thing he was mean to the to the 173 00:09:11,849 --> 00:09:15,959 help and arrogant and has all these characters. I mean, if you 174 00:09:15,959 --> 00:09:18,989 watch the guy I find you know, I saw him the other day and I 175 00:09:18,989 --> 00:09:21,659 think people are gonna get tired of him. He just got bought. He's 176 00:09:21,659 --> 00:09:24,989 like a robot. Well, he's got a robot like anybody's always 177 00:09:24,989 --> 00:09:29,519 like, kind of like, kind of looking you know, with this kind 178 00:09:29,519 --> 00:09:34,169 of, you know, look at me kind of thing and he's very I don't 179 00:09:34,169 --> 00:09:36,419 know, I just gets on my nerves at this point. I mean, I thought 180 00:09:36,419 --> 00:09:39,359 when I when I first heard him give that speech at the 181 00:09:39,389 --> 00:09:41,309 convention, well substantiated 182 00:09:41,310 --> 00:09:44,640 this, John. I really appreciate it. He's just crazy. He just 183 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:46,080 creeps me out. He's no good. 184 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:49,140 The best I can do. Hey, I'm like I said I had 185 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:52,859 no agenda. I understand what I mean. I'm always thinking 186 00:09:52,859 --> 00:09:54,959 where's the guys money coming from? We talked about that last 187 00:09:54,959 --> 00:09:58,439 week. You guys got Scott 20s come out of his ears 188 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:04,560 and boy was a big years. And so I don't know, he just seems like 189 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:08,880 he's got a certain kind of quality that gets on that by the 190 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:11,010 time the election rolls around. I'm sure it's gonna get on 191 00:10:11,010 --> 00:10:14,280 everybody's nerves. If somebody doesn't start coaching him to be 192 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:19,860 a little more human. Yeah. And I'm not so sure that this order 193 00:10:21,330 --> 00:10:23,790 personality that he's got, you know, you know where 194 00:10:23,820 --> 00:10:31,470 everything's inauguration with the pauses and more pauses 195 00:10:31,500 --> 00:10:33,960 Yeah, that that's gonna get really irritating. I agree. I 196 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:34,170 think 197 00:10:34,170 --> 00:10:36,360 it's gonna get irritating because it's unnatural people. I 198 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:38,880 mean, those are that's old fashioned. I mean, it sounds 199 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:42,510 good. It was really, you know, in 2004. At the convention, when 200 00:10:42,510 --> 00:10:45,840 you first heard him do it, it was it was like, wow, because 201 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:46,290 caregiving 202 00:10:46,289 --> 00:10:50,759 was kind of cool, right? It was like a, like a famous leader, 203 00:10:51,149 --> 00:10:52,079 type of speech. 204 00:10:52,470 --> 00:10:54,960 Absolutely. It was one of the best speeches you've ever heard, 205 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:57,570 and especially in contrast to what the debt what the 206 00:10:57,570 --> 00:11:01,830 Republicans were up to. And so you know, it was jacked up about 207 00:11:01,830 --> 00:11:04,500 it, and then he's, you know, but he's never did still, that's 208 00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:06,480 what he does, apparently, the way just, it'll just I was 209 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:13,770 talking to you now. Well, Adam, what do you think of Obama? 210 00:11:14,310 --> 00:11:16,320 He's like, when you listen to Obama, it's like you're 211 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:20,580 continuously talking to someone on Skype. It's delayed, and 212 00:11:20,580 --> 00:11:23,100 sometimes the words get drawn out. 213 00:11:24,870 --> 00:11:27,300 So anyways, so while these murderers are interested, but 214 00:11:27,300 --> 00:11:30,690 somebody else was murdered for something else, there was some 215 00:11:30,690 --> 00:11:35,850 other Obama affiliation. No, no, this was another thing that was 216 00:11:35,850 --> 00:11:39,780 going on. And people were some it was like a whistleblower or 217 00:11:39,780 --> 00:11:41,880 something. I can't remember this. Maybe by the end of the 218 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:44,610 show. I'll figure it out. Or we'll talk about it next week. 219 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:49,140 But there was also a mysterious murder. I've been 220 00:11:49,140 --> 00:11:52,650 catching myself. spiralling down once in a while. Again, John 221 00:11:52,680 --> 00:11:55,260 into the conspiracy theory tunnel. 222 00:11:56,309 --> 00:11:59,369 Yeah, it's avoidable. Just stopped doing it. Well, yeah. 223 00:12:00,210 --> 00:12:02,940 Yes. And no, I mean, you know, like this weekend, you know, 224 00:12:02,940 --> 00:12:05,190 what's happening this weekend in Virginia, I'm sure you will log 225 00:12:05,190 --> 00:12:09,030 this somewhere. No, I don't know what the Bilderberg group's 226 00:12:09,030 --> 00:12:12,600 annual meeting. And by the way, I don't think that that's 227 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:16,410 probably just as harmless as the World Economic Forum. Now, 228 00:12:16,470 --> 00:12:19,470 except without Scoble as probably exactly the same thing. 229 00:12:20,940 --> 00:12:24,210 Ya know, there's just I don't see it being important or having 230 00:12:24,210 --> 00:12:26,220 to do with and he's just a bit of a drinking club, 231 00:12:26,490 --> 00:12:29,490 as well, although I must say, you know, it is a little bit 232 00:12:29,490 --> 00:12:34,290 irritating, that you've got the, you know, you've got owners and 233 00:12:34,290 --> 00:12:37,770 editors and big publishers of big media, who are also invited 234 00:12:37,770 --> 00:12:41,310 and nothing's ever, ever discussed, and nothing's ever 235 00:12:41,310 --> 00:12:44,610 printed about what goes on. That's irritating. 236 00:12:46,919 --> 00:12:48,149 Yeah, I guess. 237 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:52,350 But that's not the conspiracy theory thing. I'm going down 238 00:12:52,350 --> 00:12:54,210 just saying, you know, it's like, then you read about that. 239 00:12:54,210 --> 00:12:56,370 And then before you know what you're looking at David Icke 240 00:12:56,370 --> 00:12:58,560 videos, and everyone's a reptile, you know, it's like, 241 00:12:58,560 --> 00:13:00,180 whoa, you know, step back for a sec. 242 00:13:00,659 --> 00:13:02,759 Clean as always, I think that's more likely, 243 00:13:03,030 --> 00:13:06,930 everyone's a reptile. I was telling Patricia about it. And I 244 00:13:06,930 --> 00:13:10,500 was like, hon, you know, I'm just saying, Okay, I'm not 245 00:13:10,500 --> 00:13:13,350 saying I believe in this, but, you know, um, so this is guy, 246 00:13:13,350 --> 00:13:16,530 David Icke, he was, I think, a famous football player in the 247 00:13:16,530 --> 00:13:18,780 UK. And then he became, he went on to become a sports 248 00:13:18,780 --> 00:13:21,480 commentator. And then about 16 years ago, he went on the Terry 249 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:24,540 Wogan show. And it this whole thing about how the government 250 00:13:24,540 --> 00:13:28,200 is trying to, you know, gain control over us through a number 251 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:32,040 of ways and really have us just be enslaved and which you know, 252 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:34,440 is viable. And then all of a sudden, he goes on this whole 253 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:36,930 reptile wrap the Queen Mother's a reptile. 254 00:13:37,710 --> 00:13:40,950 Right? No, that's it. It's always funny, all these guys who 255 00:13:40,950 --> 00:13:44,430 are into this kind of craziness. You know, they, they make a lot 256 00:13:44,430 --> 00:13:46,710 of sense. And then all of a sudden, they fall off the cliff, 257 00:13:46,740 --> 00:13:47,100 what is 258 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:49,800 calculated? Are these guys just in the business of selling 259 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:52,260 books, or I mean, some of this shit, they say, I 260 00:13:52,260 --> 00:13:54,300 think they're nuts. I think these guys are crazy. But the 261 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:58,710 reptile thing, by the way, for anyone listening to it, I think 262 00:13:58,710 --> 00:14:01,410 we blogged it probably about a year and a half or two years 263 00:14:01,410 --> 00:14:04,620 ago, when he came out again, with one of these theories. And 264 00:14:04,860 --> 00:14:06,930 for anyone out there wants to know, I mean, essentially, what 265 00:14:06,930 --> 00:14:10,050 he's saying is that, you know, a number of people around the 266 00:14:10,050 --> 00:14:17,250 world are actually reptiles that are trying to children trying to 267 00:14:17,250 --> 00:14:22,260 kill us all. Yeah, I'm not. I'm not seeing any real evidence. 268 00:14:22,980 --> 00:14:25,320 Well, you know, the evidence they show in these videos is 269 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:28,650 historic, historic symbolism, you know, throughout the ages of 270 00:14:28,650 --> 00:14:33,750 the reptiles of the snake, you know, and lots of images of 271 00:14:34,110 --> 00:14:37,770 snakes and reptiles eating people eating children drinking 272 00:14:37,770 --> 00:14:42,000 blood. And then this is great, do you? This is a great video, 273 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,300 and I'm sure it's doctored, but it doesn't even matter. So, of 274 00:14:45,300 --> 00:14:49,770 course, George Bush senior is, of course, one of the reptiles, 275 00:14:50,250 --> 00:14:55,170 according to the theory, and that he after Katrina, Katrina. 276 00:14:56,850 --> 00:15:02,100 So 41 George Bush, President 41 And Clinton went on TV and they 277 00:15:02,100 --> 00:15:05,700 had some website and they were soliciting donations. It was it 278 00:15:05,700 --> 00:15:08,700 was really kind of uncomfortable to watch and, and Bush was kind 279 00:15:08,700 --> 00:15:10,890 of speaking a little bit slower than Clinton. It was kind of a 280 00:15:10,890 --> 00:15:13,350 we I don't even remember it just felt really uncomfortable that 281 00:15:13,350 --> 00:15:16,350 they weren't the way they were talking together. I remember and 282 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:20,550 so they have that video of Bush. And they zoom in on it and you 283 00:15:20,550 --> 00:15:24,120 sing Yeah. So the what the what the showing and what you see in 284 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:28,560 this video true or not is you see bushes eyes go reptilian and 285 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:31,440 they you know, they get like little little thin slit, and 286 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:32,280 they turn red. 287 00:15:34,049 --> 00:15:36,719 Yeah, that's not doctor. That's what that's the way they shot 288 00:15:36,719 --> 00:15:36,839 it. 289 00:15:36,870 --> 00:15:42,570 It's fantastic. It's fantastic. But anyway, now whatever. Hey, 290 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:45,000 here's one that I didn't send to you on purpose because I wanted 291 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,130 to talk about it on the show. And I did want you to blog it 292 00:15:47,130 --> 00:15:50,550 before before we talked about it. That's how bad is pecan 293 00:15:50,580 --> 00:15:51,090 Machame. 294 00:15:53,010 --> 00:15:55,230 Blog. We can't go on seeing each other this way. 295 00:15:55,559 --> 00:16:02,279 I can't send you anything. This is from the from Russia today. I 296 00:16:02,279 --> 00:16:06,269 shall I should send you the link. Russian geologists have 297 00:16:06,269 --> 00:16:09,779 discovered a new mineral which absorbs radiation from liquid 298 00:16:09,779 --> 00:16:13,589 nuclear waste. And now we're striving to chemically clone it 299 00:16:13,619 --> 00:16:16,169 in the hope a may solve the problem of radioactive waste 300 00:16:16,169 --> 00:16:16,739 disposal. 301 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:19,290 So that's called lead. 302 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:26,850 Kryptonite. No, it's not it's called. The hell is it called? 303 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:30,240 They don't give the name. 304 00:16:30,450 --> 00:16:33,000 Send me the link send me this. It sounds like a typical Russian 305 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:34,560 crock of crap story. Well, 306 00:16:34,589 --> 00:16:36,029 you'd like to believe it right? 307 00:16:36,870 --> 00:16:41,610 Yeah, everybody likes to believe this stuff. Russia today. 308 00:16:43,140 --> 00:16:46,200 Its nature that is showing us a way to solve the problem of 309 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:51,390 preserving those radioactive isotopes. Says inventor Dekoven 310 00:16:51,390 --> 00:16:51,810 joke. 311 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:54,990 Meanwhile, they have a picture here on this site. It looks like 312 00:16:54,990 --> 00:16:57,570 quartz doesn't it? Like I was just gonna say it looks just 313 00:16:57,570 --> 00:16:59,070 like a big thing. Oh, Rose Quartz. 314 00:17:00,780 --> 00:17:03,750 I used to collect rocks as a kid I have a little rock collection 315 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:09,510 you know the place to go if you haven't shot at it. There's a 316 00:17:09,540 --> 00:17:12,840 rock shop and this is dead people going to really roll 317 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:15,390 their eyes on this one. But everybody knows about it. By the 318 00:17:15,390 --> 00:17:20,700 way there's a rock shop in Sao Paulo Brazil. And one can only 319 00:17:20,700 --> 00:17:24,090 imagine because Brazil is one of these countries that has you 320 00:17:24,090 --> 00:17:26,520 know without the doodle the Amazon and the rest of it. 321 00:17:27,510 --> 00:17:33,330 treasure trove of rocks that are cool, but they have geocodes and 322 00:17:33,330 --> 00:17:37,380 this rock shop has probably I don't know 100 of these things. 323 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:42,600 God that are about me in many cases. What's the what is the 324 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:47,430 geo geo is said that rock that if you're busted open inside 325 00:17:47,430 --> 00:17:51,390 it's all crystal Garn and that's not gardens was that whatever 326 00:17:51,390 --> 00:17:54,960 that purple thing is and you crack it open in the oh and it 327 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:57,570 opens up like an egg and inside is all this beautiful crystal 328 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:05,760 and they have them there that 23456 feet high really awesome. 329 00:18:06,570 --> 00:18:09,510 And I have some pictures I'll probably try to remember to blog 330 00:18:09,540 --> 00:18:13,200 let me make a note I'll blog pictures of the God in Sao Paulo 331 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:17,100 Brazil is rock shop and it was a very famous place and they you 332 00:18:17,100 --> 00:18:19,380 can go in there and you can buy like individual what kinds of 333 00:18:19,380 --> 00:18:23,460 individual stones by the pound and you can use jewellers go 334 00:18:23,460 --> 00:18:25,290 there to make junk jewellery 335 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:29,490 right you see my I think was my my grandmother gave me like a 336 00:18:29,490 --> 00:18:33,420 starter kit rock collection when I was a kid like five or six and 337 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:37,530 and I got interested in rocks and you know I'd go out looking 338 00:18:37,530 --> 00:18:40,170 for rocks of course I could never find anything near the 339 00:18:40,170 --> 00:18:42,570 quality or anything is cool looking as there was in my 340 00:18:42,570 --> 00:18:45,540 starter kit collection and then you know I used to go by rocks 341 00:18:45,540 --> 00:18:48,360 and I feel kind of bad it's like son that's not really doesn't 342 00:18:48,360 --> 00:18:51,480 didn't feel right buying the rocks and sit and play or sing 343 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:53,970 them and finding them yourself. You know it just felt wrong. 344 00:18:55,740 --> 00:18:59,910 Well the My wife is into this. Let me she doesn't collect 345 00:18:59,910 --> 00:19:01,440 rocks. But she did she was she was 346 00:19:02,190 --> 00:19:04,710 geology she married one instead of collecting them 347 00:19:04,980 --> 00:19:10,140 there you have it rock hard. Anyway, so 348 00:19:10,830 --> 00:19:12,810 by Agra Yeah, what else does 349 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:18,720 she you know, there's a joke there. I'm not gonna use it. 350 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:21,870 This she anyway, she is still you know, we'll be driving 351 00:19:21,870 --> 00:19:24,390 around she Oh, there's a such an such formation that blah blah 352 00:19:24,390 --> 00:19:25,890 blah from uplift, and there's many 353 00:19:26,670 --> 00:19:27,510 people over honey. 354 00:19:30,120 --> 00:19:34,440 So anyway, oh. If you really like that kind of stuff, you 355 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:38,580 should go to the Museum of Natural History in New York 356 00:19:38,580 --> 00:19:41,970 City. Yeah, they have. They'll give you the geologists. They'll 357 00:19:41,970 --> 00:19:44,970 give you a tour. And they have some of the greatest stuff. 358 00:19:44,970 --> 00:19:48,540 There's amazing. I think you can buy a tour like us individual 359 00:19:48,540 --> 00:19:50,850 tour for about 100 bucks. 360 00:19:51,450 --> 00:19:52,710 On a private tour. You mean? 361 00:19:52,979 --> 00:19:56,999 Yeah. Private tour with the geologist. Oh, cool. That 362 00:19:56,999 --> 00:19:59,159 maintains the collection so you get to see stuff you wouldn't 363 00:19:59,159 --> 00:20:01,229 normally see. Yeah. Which reminds me know when I was in 364 00:20:01,529 --> 00:20:05,909 Korea. I met a guy who's, I gotta get this Carter. I can't 365 00:20:05,909 --> 00:20:10,379 remember his name right now. But he is the he's like the public 366 00:20:10,379 --> 00:20:17,099 relations, Gopher and go to guy and intermediary for the 367 00:20:17,099 --> 00:20:22,049 Vatican. Yeah. And so he says, I said, Well, when can I get a 368 00:20:22,049 --> 00:20:25,919 tour of the Vatican? You know, he says, Oh yeah, I can take you 369 00:20:25,919 --> 00:20:29,309 down into the archives that they'd never show anybody. And 370 00:20:29,309 --> 00:20:33,149 I'm thinking I gotta you should do that. Oh, I better yeah. 371 00:20:33,450 --> 00:20:36,330 Maybe when you're in Amsterdam is just a hop, skip and jump 372 00:20:36,330 --> 00:20:37,260 over to Vatican City. 373 00:20:37,260 --> 00:20:41,070 And this wouldn't be a bad idea. I mentioned to the guy that 374 00:20:41,790 --> 00:20:44,580 Toronto he said to me that he's got stuff. He's, you know, he 375 00:20:44,580 --> 00:20:46,680 goes through it. They don't even know what's down in the you 376 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:49,050 know, in the archives, outside from you know, they have their 377 00:20:49,050 --> 00:20:51,840 museum and then they have all this stuff. Most museums now, a 378 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:56,460 days people shouldn't realise her, probably only what 5% 379 00:20:56,460 --> 00:21:00,840 visible to the public dresses up, they rotate. Or if you take 380 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:04,140 that museum in China, that one in Taiwan, where they took all 381 00:21:04,140 --> 00:21:09,420 the artefacts from the mainland, when Chiang Kai Shek fled China. 382 00:21:10,110 --> 00:21:12,750 They is something that takes late like the collection that 383 00:21:12,750 --> 00:21:16,980 can rotate it like every month for the next 100 years. And just 384 00:21:16,980 --> 00:21:18,810 they still won't finish going through all this stuff and 385 00:21:18,810 --> 00:21:21,690 never write anything anything new. Never ever duplicate 386 00:21:21,690 --> 00:21:22,560 anything out there. 387 00:21:23,100 --> 00:21:25,620 Yeah, many ways. So he says that he was looking over some of the 388 00:21:25,620 --> 00:21:29,130 stuff down there, he found that divorce papers for Marco Polo. 389 00:21:29,310 --> 00:21:34,320 He thought they were pretty funny. Little How many of you 390 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:36,720 would be interested in that, but I did. I'd be amused 391 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:38,820 to historic document. That's interesting. 392 00:21:39,690 --> 00:21:43,410 Yeah. So they've collected you can imagine what the Catholic 393 00:21:43,410 --> 00:21:44,610 Church must have collected. 394 00:21:46,860 --> 00:21:49,290 That's in quotation marks collected. 395 00:21:50,190 --> 00:21:54,510 So. So I was in New York, and I found an interesting counter 396 00:21:54,510 --> 00:21:57,690 trend, which no one's discuss. I'm going to have to figure out 397 00:21:57,690 --> 00:22:01,230 what what this is about. But it doesn't surprise me. But so I'm 398 00:22:01,230 --> 00:22:05,220 sitting there in the lobby of this little hotel, which is it's 399 00:22:05,220 --> 00:22:08,070 not it actually was refurbished, so it's actually pretty nice. 400 00:22:08,070 --> 00:22:10,110 And even though it's in the middle of nowhere, which one was 401 00:22:10,110 --> 00:22:13,350 it? It was the Bentley, it's over by them. It's like, it's 402 00:22:13,350 --> 00:22:17,610 like about a block away from the bottom underneath the Queensboro 403 00:22:17,610 --> 00:22:18,300 Bridge. 404 00:22:18,330 --> 00:22:21,480 Oh, man. That's a it's a boutique hotel, I presume? 405 00:22:21,870 --> 00:22:24,930 Yeah, it's like an old dump that was that's been fixed up a 406 00:22:24,930 --> 00:22:26,760 little bit, even though they could have done a better job. In 407 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,370 some cases. At least the rooms are almost brand new. 408 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,890 Right? And what they did they just throw a sheet over some old 409 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:33,990 some old furniture and call it nouveau. 410 00:22:34,830 --> 00:22:37,260 No, actually, I think they actually have real new furniture 411 00:22:37,260 --> 00:22:41,700 in there. But anyway, it was okay. I didn't mind it. And they 412 00:22:41,700 --> 00:22:45,960 said for the location there's no subway around there was no way 413 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:50,070 in middle of nowhere. 62nd in New York, which is passed First 414 00:22:50,070 --> 00:22:54,840 Avenue is almost in the drink I mean, you could look out the 415 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:57,210 window there was FDR Drive That's how far away it was. But 416 00:22:57,210 --> 00:22:58,920 anyway, for you New Yorkers. 417 00:22:58,950 --> 00:23:02,490 That's not exactly the happening hood to be that's for sure. 418 00:23:03,330 --> 00:23:06,480 Right. And there wasn't any really notable restaurants in 419 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:12,570 the area although patsies the 1933 coal fired pizza place was 420 00:23:12,570 --> 00:23:13,800 within walking distance. 421 00:23:13,830 --> 00:23:18,180 Wait, isn't there isn't the What the hell is it? Isn't there a 422 00:23:18,180 --> 00:23:21,180 Greek restaurant there? That's pretty famous on that side like 423 00:23:21,180 --> 00:23:21,510 way 424 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:25,680 there might be I didn't see anything i was i I didn't do a 425 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,320 lot of research. I was I went to you know, when he went for a 426 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:30,900 couple of days because we had a meeting with the MarketWatch 427 00:23:30,900 --> 00:23:35,190 people that I had to meet with my book agent. And then And then 428 00:23:35,190 --> 00:23:38,760 so I stopped here and there and visited a few people. I just had 429 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,630 lunch with my editor at PC Magazine. And I expected this to 430 00:23:42,630 --> 00:23:46,620 be the that when you go to New York you have to go to one good 431 00:23:46,620 --> 00:23:53,070 restaurant. So I went to the cafe at country and country is a 432 00:23:53,070 --> 00:23:56,010 restaurant that I've never been to before it's around the corner 433 00:23:56,010 --> 00:24:00,990 from the PC Magazine offices. And it is a one star Michelin 434 00:24:00,990 --> 00:24:03,900 restaurant. Okay was terrible. 435 00:24:05,580 --> 00:24:07,260 There off the list. What was the name 436 00:24:08,340 --> 00:24:11,790 is well that was the cafe at country wasn't the restaurant 437 00:24:11,790 --> 00:24:14,730 itself, which was what got the star but it's beside the point. 438 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:16,950 It's the same kitchen when there's no 439 00:24:16,980 --> 00:24:20,550 that's the one on the corner. Yeah. Oh man. I've been there. I 440 00:24:20,550 --> 00:24:23,100 had had one of their they have hamburgers, right? They'd be 441 00:24:23,100 --> 00:24:26,880 like a really gourmet. For lunch. Yeah, they 442 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:27,750 do. Yeah. Oh, 443 00:24:27,780 --> 00:24:31,140 I totally agree. It's in the service was very iffy. 444 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:35,850 Ah, the service was absolutely ridiculous. It was terrible. 445 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,310 I had lunch with Ted leonsis, there. I was like, and it's like 446 00:24:38,310 --> 00:24:40,230 his favourite place. Well, Ted 447 00:24:40,230 --> 00:24:45,390 is crazy. So He's also a board member, John. Well, I know I've 448 00:24:45,390 --> 00:24:47,850 known Ted longer than you have. And so I can say that he'll 449 00:24:47,850 --> 00:24:49,260 think well, you know, divorce has you 450 00:24:49,620 --> 00:24:51,360 know, you've known him longer than I have. 451 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:56,130 I've known Ted I've since nine. Teen 84 452 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:59,040 Okay, yeah, you'd beat me there a couple of years but not much. 453 00:24:59,820 --> 00:25:05,220 Oh, So anyway, I knew him when he was doing a list magazine. Ah 454 00:25:07,290 --> 00:25:09,450 I don't even know about that. What's list magazine? What was 455 00:25:09,450 --> 00:25:09,690 that? 456 00:25:10,020 --> 00:25:12,720 Busy with Ted has always been Ted leonsis is one of the more 457 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,300 interesting characters in the industry, because he's 458 00:25:15,810 --> 00:25:18,420 considered to be one of the most creative people I've ever met. I 459 00:25:18,420 --> 00:25:24,420 agree. And although, you know, I, I think he's almost like a, 460 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,110 you know, a Ferrari engine and a Volvo. I mean, it doesn't 461 00:25:28,710 --> 00:25:29,340 necessarily, 462 00:25:29,370 --> 00:25:34,470 how about a Ferrari engine in a Hummer? That may be a little 463 00:25:34,470 --> 00:25:36,450 better analogy, or Ted there 464 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:40,260 that could be whatever the case is, he doesn't, you know, he's 465 00:25:40,260 --> 00:25:43,470 just a lot of good ideas. And he executes only a very few of 466 00:25:43,470 --> 00:25:48,030 them. But they always may do well, but did lists magazine was 467 00:25:48,030 --> 00:25:52,320 a craziest idea. It essentially was a magazine, I think it came 468 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:57,030 out monthly, that did nothing more than list every software 469 00:25:57,030 --> 00:25:58,740 product available on the market. 470 00:25:59,850 --> 00:26:00,600 Interesting. 471 00:26:01,890 --> 00:26:04,080 And it was actually quite successful. I think he sold it 472 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:04,950 to some suckers. 473 00:26:05,670 --> 00:26:07,440 You know what his new thing is? You know, he's doing hell 474 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:10,980 besides. He's on our board. And what's the other thing he does 475 00:26:10,980 --> 00:26:15,210 that clear, clear spring? The widget company? That's his? Is 476 00:26:15,210 --> 00:26:19,230 he starting a new credit card? Oh, really? Yeah. 477 00:26:19,289 --> 00:26:20,519 What's his special about? I 478 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:23,040 can't remember what it was. Oh, it had something to do with? 479 00:26:23,970 --> 00:26:25,860 Well, obviously, it's all about the deals, right. That's what 480 00:26:25,860 --> 00:26:29,460 all the credit cards are about. And I think it was what was like 481 00:26:29,460 --> 00:26:33,510 customised Oh, it was like a white label. back end system. 482 00:26:33,510 --> 00:26:36,870 That's what it was. So it's customised. You can have the, 483 00:26:37,230 --> 00:26:39,990 obviously he showed me the Washington Nationals credit 484 00:26:39,990 --> 00:26:41,400 card, and that's one of those deals. 485 00:26:42,870 --> 00:26:45,390 But there was some capital Capital One, I'll give you a car 486 00:26:45,390 --> 00:26:46,620 with anything you want on I know 487 00:26:46,620 --> 00:26:48,660 that there was there was some other benefit to it. I'll ask 488 00:26:48,660 --> 00:26:52,530 him. I can't remember. At the time. I was like, okay, cool. 489 00:26:54,030 --> 00:26:56,910 But anyway, so Ted, I always thought Ted should have been the 490 00:26:56,910 --> 00:27:00,960 CEO of AOL, because he was over there as the vice president. And 491 00:27:01,260 --> 00:27:03,870 he started a lot of the there's little programmes and over there 492 00:27:03,870 --> 00:27:07,620 that were all successful, but I don't know what it is that he 493 00:27:07,620 --> 00:27:13,290 doesn't take a higher profile on a lot of things. 494 00:27:13,470 --> 00:27:16,170 I think he doesn't like the politics, John. I think the you 495 00:27:16,170 --> 00:27:18,420 know, the whole time Warner thing. I think that just really 496 00:27:18,420 --> 00:27:20,850 turned him off. I just didn't enjoy it. 497 00:27:21,900 --> 00:27:25,620 You know, he should learn to I mean, a lot of people don't 498 00:27:25,620 --> 00:27:27,600 enjoy it at first, but it actually could be a lot of fun, 499 00:27:27,630 --> 00:27:30,690 but he's doing other stuff you'd like like the stadium they have 500 00:27:30,690 --> 00:27:32,400 for the for the team. He built that. 501 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,400 You know, right? He used you mentioned he owns a team. Yeah. 502 00:27:35,430 --> 00:27:38,250 Isn't it the nationals that he owns the hockey team? 503 00:27:38,580 --> 00:27:42,570 The hockey the Nationals is I think, I think the Nationals you 504 00:27:42,570 --> 00:27:45,450 talk to a baseball team, but he only the hockey team. 505 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,040 But he built the stadium and you know, wherever it used to be, 506 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:54,900 like complete ghetto land in, in DC. And yeah, when he built the 507 00:27:54,900 --> 00:27:57,240 stadium, they announced like a huge thriving economic 508 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:01,620 community. And he also did, he's, he's in he's in foreign 509 00:28:01,620 --> 00:28:06,690 food to he finance some film about I'm gonna say China, and 510 00:28:06,690 --> 00:28:09,810 he's worshipped over there, because it was he was about the 511 00:28:10,380 --> 00:28:13,380 oppression of the people. God, I wish I remembered all this 512 00:28:13,380 --> 00:28:15,990 because he tells the story really well. But he financed the 513 00:28:15,990 --> 00:28:19,170 movie of course, you know, he lost while I mean, it was 514 00:28:19,170 --> 00:28:23,430 intended to not make money. But now when he goes to China, it's 515 00:28:23,430 --> 00:28:27,750 like he's the, you know, he's he gets 516 00:28:27,750 --> 00:28:31,260 the red carpet. Yeah, he does as it were, yes, but red and boom, 517 00:28:31,290 --> 00:28:32,790 the Red Chinese carpet as 518 00:28:32,790 --> 00:28:36,660 he does. Anyway, how did we get to Ted I can't remember. Well, 519 00:28:36,660 --> 00:28:37,080 we 520 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,440 I was talking about this shirt this counter trend that 521 00:28:41,910 --> 00:28:45,360 witnessed the hotel he was somehow we got to Ted woods 522 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,880 because a country's while we got to Ted because you know, I ate 523 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,970 there and that was the way I killed my class. And that was 524 00:28:50,970 --> 00:28:53,820 the biggest disappointment because like I said, I mean, I 525 00:28:53,820 --> 00:28:57,090 did go to Patsy's and have a coal fired pizza and that was 526 00:28:57,090 --> 00:29:01,110 actually good, but I was hoping to go to one one star restaurant 527 00:29:01,110 --> 00:29:04,230 that had good food and I can't say the food was inedible 528 00:29:04,230 --> 00:29:08,010 because it was actually the food was okay even though Landstuhl 529 00:29:08,010 --> 00:29:11,580 enough who was eating it once before said that he did have 530 00:29:11,580 --> 00:29:13,470 that hamburger you're talking about me hated it. 531 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:17,970 I didn't like it was lame. Bad bad been to really poor choice 532 00:29:17,970 --> 00:29:18,480 have been? 533 00:29:19,140 --> 00:29:21,540 Yeah, this is inexcusable for a restaurant that has this 534 00:29:21,540 --> 00:29:24,690 reputation that place I have. I took a little movie of it with 535 00:29:24,690 --> 00:29:28,890 my one of my handheld you know, a little Kodak cameras. And I'll 536 00:29:28,890 --> 00:29:32,190 post the movie on the blog. Go walking out of the place. The 537 00:29:32,190 --> 00:29:34,860 place was dumb was dead empty. It was embarrassing. They should 538 00:29:34,860 --> 00:29:39,360 just close the place for lunch. Anyway, so I'm at this hotel and 539 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,270 I didn't have the newspapers in the lobby while you're waiting 540 00:29:42,270 --> 00:29:45,570 for your car or whatever. And there was a financial time and 541 00:29:45,570 --> 00:29:50,820 then there was a copy of big pile of the independent. I'm 542 00:29:50,820 --> 00:29:53,130 thinking the independent What's that doing here in New York City 543 00:29:53,130 --> 00:29:57,840 and it says in India is from the UK independent International 544 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,960 Edition. Interesting Yeah, that's what I thought because 545 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,810 this is like, to me is like the Herald Tribune. You know, we 546 00:30:03,810 --> 00:30:06,480 Americans, we have a paper called The Herald Tribune, which 547 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,820 is a comedy or used to be a combination in New York Times 548 00:30:08,820 --> 00:30:11,370 and The Washington Post it's published and again, is 549 00:30:11,370 --> 00:30:14,580 distributed throughout Europe for Americans floating around. 550 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:18,180 But I've never seen the other side of this. I mean, usually, 551 00:30:18,180 --> 00:30:20,400 it's would be the real paper wouldn't be like a special 552 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:21,750 edition for the US. 553 00:30:22,530 --> 00:30:25,050 Financial Times, which is pretty much the same edition. 554 00:30:25,980 --> 00:30:28,890 Yeah, that Financial Times looks like the same edition to me. But 555 00:30:28,890 --> 00:30:31,920 this was a special edition, it was not as thick as the real 556 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:35,160 independent, but it was pretty, pretty big. And it had all the 557 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,140 stories in there. I'm looking through the same thing this 558 00:30:37,140 --> 00:30:40,110 thing could take off, because it's interesting. A lot is 559 00:30:40,110 --> 00:30:45,600 right. Yes, better and better American news, including a 560 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,990 breakout story about how there's found a secret plan to keep us 561 00:30:48,990 --> 00:30:53,880 in Iraq forever. That was highlighted in this one edition, 562 00:30:53,910 --> 00:30:59,340 which I'll blog back to I guess. And I was just like, said, Well, 563 00:30:59,340 --> 00:31:01,890 this is an interesting turn of events, you know, that all of a 564 00:31:01,890 --> 00:31:05,700 sudden, now we have to get you know, it's getting to the point 565 00:31:05,700 --> 00:31:09,870 we're really going to turn to the British to get American 566 00:31:09,870 --> 00:31:11,850 news. Oh, that's how bad it's gotten 567 00:31:11,850 --> 00:31:16,890 was me. Yeah. Well, let me tell you. I don't know who owns the 568 00:31:16,890 --> 00:31:18,150 independent who runs that? 569 00:31:18,630 --> 00:31:21,600 I don't know. It's not a Murdoch paper. I know that. Oh, 570 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:26,490 no, it's definitely not. I like to find the Financial Times 571 00:31:26,490 --> 00:31:29,550 really does it for me, Jonathan, you really should try and pick 572 00:31:29,550 --> 00:31:30,660 that one up more regularly. 573 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,360 I you know, I shouldn't. The funny thing is, is that the 574 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,830 reason I got the trip to New York was MarketWatch. Had a they 575 00:31:37,830 --> 00:31:41,310 decided to have a summit with all their columnists. 576 00:31:41,370 --> 00:31:42,990 Oh, that's why some shitty Hotel. 577 00:31:44,250 --> 00:31:47,550 Well, the reason for the rishi hotel was united. It's a funny 578 00:31:47,550 --> 00:31:50,280 gag. But the reason for the city hotels because they they booked 579 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:53,910 late and nobody realises nowadays at all that New York is 580 00:31:53,910 --> 00:31:54,690 full full. Of 581 00:31:54,690 --> 00:31:57,960 course it is. It's a great place to go. It's full of your hands. 582 00:31:58,410 --> 00:32:01,650 Yeah, it's full of Europeans and it's full of Europeans all year 583 00:32:01,650 --> 00:32:04,560 round. And if you want to go visit New York, you have to book 584 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,020 months and months in advance and this was two maybe a month and a 585 00:32:07,020 --> 00:32:08,640 half in advance which was too late. 586 00:32:08,820 --> 00:32:10,920 And and what are people speaking there Russian 587 00:32:12,270 --> 00:32:14,430 this place was let me think 588 00:32:14,490 --> 00:32:17,850 because in London right now John, every hotel, every bar, 589 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:22,950 it's all Russian and the weed trade as as a trend while while 590 00:32:22,950 --> 00:32:26,520 we're talking about trends and counter trends. The Chinese are 591 00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:28,620 taking over the weed trade in 592 00:32:28,710 --> 00:32:33,300 the UK. They're buying buy weed, you don't mean gardening now and 593 00:32:33,300 --> 00:32:33,780 they're buying 594 00:32:33,780 --> 00:32:38,130 up council. So basically like what is Council like Social 595 00:32:38,130 --> 00:32:44,310 Security homes, council estates, a council estate homes, you 596 00:32:44,310 --> 00:32:48,150 know, and they're just cranking it out, cranking it out. I mean, 597 00:32:48,150 --> 00:32:50,850 the word is all over the place. The Chinese are taken over the 598 00:32:50,850 --> 00:32:56,640 entire business. Now can I just say one other thing? They got 599 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,400 primo shit dude, rock on to China. 600 00:33:01,260 --> 00:33:03,450 I don't know how they don't come over your house right now and 601 00:33:03,450 --> 00:33:04,320 put you in cuffs. 602 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,660 Ted leonsis was cruising the Caribbean on his yacht a couple 603 00:33:09,660 --> 00:33:12,210 of years ago poring over old newspapers when he noticed an 604 00:33:12,210 --> 00:33:17,370 obituary for Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking, the best 605 00:33:17,370 --> 00:33:20,790 seller about the killing in 1937. A 300,000. Chinese by the 606 00:33:20,790 --> 00:33:21,780 Japanese army. 607 00:33:22,079 --> 00:33:24,659 Oh, that's what the movies about. Well, yeah, the Chinese 608 00:33:24,659 --> 00:33:27,899 would love that guy. Well, he did it and he spoke good for 609 00:33:27,899 --> 00:33:31,469 him. You know that you know that that whole episode in history 610 00:33:31,469 --> 00:33:34,919 was was deplorable. And his skin has done nothing for the 611 00:33:34,919 --> 00:33:38,669 Japanese reputation test for sure, John, 612 00:33:38,670 --> 00:33:41,340 because I don't know about it. I will get I will get copies of 613 00:33:41,340 --> 00:33:44,940 the DVD from Ted no problem. Give me a copy of like the city 614 00:33:44,940 --> 00:33:47,190 I'll get copies. Sure. Tell me what what went on there. 615 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:52,470 But the Rape of Nanking that's when it's, that's pretty funny. 616 00:33:52,470 --> 00:33:54,750 You don't know that? Well, essentially, what happens is the 617 00:33:54,750 --> 00:33:57,870 Japanese occupied this part of Manchuria. And then they 618 00:33:57,870 --> 00:34:03,420 essentially enslaved and killed and murdered and raped the women 619 00:34:03,420 --> 00:34:06,510 and turn them into hookers. And they just they ravished the 620 00:34:06,510 --> 00:34:09,390 place. In fact, the Japanese, there's been a lot of studies 621 00:34:09,390 --> 00:34:12,990 about this, how the Japanese got so out of control, and how they 622 00:34:13,140 --> 00:34:16,200 tend to get out of control in situations outside their own 623 00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:21,120 country. There was a long series done by that that model who was 624 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,970 actually quite a good actress, that kind of a good looking 625 00:34:23,970 --> 00:34:27,300 brunette woman with a who's done a lot of work and came about 626 00:34:27,300 --> 00:34:29,760 thinking when they made Julie. No, no, no, we're talking about 627 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,760 an older model. That is fine, you know? 628 00:34:34,499 --> 00:34:35,339 No, no older. 629 00:34:36,269 --> 00:34:40,679 Well, hold on. I would cut I gotta know. She's as she mill. 630 00:34:40,679 --> 00:34:45,779 Yeah. You gotta know for sure. MILFy sorry. Is she a mill for a 631 00:34:45,779 --> 00:34:46,289 GILF? 632 00:34:47,940 --> 00:34:51,390 Oh, she's a she's beautiful. I mean, 633 00:34:52,679 --> 00:34:53,579 how old is she now? 634 00:34:53,940 --> 00:34:57,000 I think she's about 45. Maybe, maybe 50. 635 00:34:57,540 --> 00:34:59,520 She's an actress. Yeah, she's 636 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:03,570 a favourite Famous actress you know, this everyone knows about. 637 00:35:04,020 --> 00:35:05,970 I mean, I'm sure half the listeners are going to come on, 638 00:35:05,970 --> 00:35:06,240 come on. 639 00:35:07,020 --> 00:35:12,060 What's the movie? What's the movie? She? Who else is in? Oh, 640 00:35:12,090 --> 00:35:12,870 come on man 641 00:35:13,709 --> 00:35:16,829 was not too bad aim. I can't think of a movie. She's been in 642 00:35:16,829 --> 00:35:19,859 a lot of movies and she did a lot of TV work and she was in 643 00:35:19,859 --> 00:35:23,459 the movie she was in the way. The movie I'm talking about is a 644 00:35:23,459 --> 00:35:27,449 is a documentary that she narrated about the Japanese 645 00:35:27,449 --> 00:35:31,439 culture. And it's a very good series. It's called Japan or 646 00:35:31,439 --> 00:35:33,569 something like that. It was on PBS. And you can probably find 647 00:35:33,569 --> 00:35:36,089 it that way. Let me click on the keyboard. Somebody pointed out 648 00:35:36,089 --> 00:35:39,119 in Twitter, they sound like an old fart sitting here typing 649 00:35:39,119 --> 00:35:41,279 away and is noisy old keyboard like 650 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:45,240 it's not live. It's Oh, yeah. Someone did send an email about 651 00:35:45,240 --> 00:35:45,840 that, didn't they? 652 00:35:46,379 --> 00:35:49,229 Yeah, you know, you sound like it's funny. I can just see him 653 00:35:49,229 --> 00:35:53,159 hunched over the keyboard typing away like an old man at sea. 654 00:35:53,609 --> 00:35:55,739 Which is exactly exactly what's happening. 655 00:35:57,780 --> 00:36:06,420 It is. That's the irony of it. Dan, what was her name? It's 656 00:36:06,420 --> 00:36:08,310 kind of embarrassing not to you know, the thing is, you know, 657 00:36:08,340 --> 00:36:13,140 Pete That's the thing about marketing. If you're not if your 658 00:36:13,140 --> 00:36:15,960 name's not constantly out there, Jane Seymour. 659 00:36:16,619 --> 00:36:19,289 Oh, Jane Seymour. Yeah, she's a great actress. 660 00:36:19,860 --> 00:36:23,280 Yeah, let's she was a model turned actress and John, 661 00:36:23,369 --> 00:36:29,939 John. Jane Seymour. Excuse me, not 45 Okay, try closer to 60 662 00:36:30,869 --> 00:36:32,039 Well, she looks 45 663 00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:35,280 Sure. She's a good anyway. 664 00:36:36,510 --> 00:36:37,290 Which is what 665 00:36:37,739 --> 00:36:39,059 grandmother I'd like to do. 666 00:36:39,449 --> 00:36:40,289 Grandpa. 667 00:36:42,119 --> 00:36:44,189 God you're sick? Yes, I am. 668 00:36:44,639 --> 00:36:49,049 So anyway, she did this thing on Japan. And it was a did anyone 669 00:36:49,049 --> 00:36:53,069 give you ever see it on on its it was about five or six, maybe 670 00:36:53,099 --> 00:36:58,829 more part series? I don't know Fortis 789 parts? Not sure. But 671 00:36:58,829 --> 00:37:02,969 it was outstanding, because it really breaks down the the 672 00:37:02,969 --> 00:37:05,039 history of Japan where it's headed and where it and it was 673 00:37:05,039 --> 00:37:09,419 just, it was just fascinating. As you've never been to Japan 674 00:37:09,419 --> 00:37:11,639 before, it's definitely something to watch. But the 675 00:37:11,639 --> 00:37:14,129 thing that she did, she had, there's one section about the 676 00:37:14,129 --> 00:37:18,839 rape of Nan king. And, and there was she discussed the fact that 677 00:37:18,839 --> 00:37:24,659 the Japanese are concerned to some large extent about the fact 678 00:37:24,659 --> 00:37:28,769 that and once they leave, if a group of them leave their own, 679 00:37:28,889 --> 00:37:34,109 you know, enclave of, you know, like the island, and they go 680 00:37:34,109 --> 00:37:37,019 someplace else, and they have to start running things in a 681 00:37:37,019 --> 00:37:40,619 foreign environment. They become extremely brutal and weird. And 682 00:37:40,619 --> 00:37:42,449 was like, you know, Klingons or something 683 00:37:42,449 --> 00:37:45,629 really just kind of like the Kamikaze gene or something like 684 00:37:45,629 --> 00:37:46,559 that. Well, 685 00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,110 it's or some it's some other words, probably a more of a 686 00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:52,860 samurai Ronin kind of gene or something there, you know, or 687 00:37:52,860 --> 00:37:55,980 Toka. You know, it all stems back to the Tokugawa Shogun 688 00:37:55,980 --> 00:37:59,310 eight, which was a period of time where the Japanese had to 689 00:37:59,310 --> 00:38:02,910 learn to be expressionless because, you know, it gets it 690 00:38:02,910 --> 00:38:05,280 was legal for as you know, I knew that people were in the 691 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,470 government's just to kill you on the spot if they didn't like the 692 00:38:07,470 --> 00:38:13,230 way you looked at him. And anyway, so this seems to be some 693 00:38:13,230 --> 00:38:16,650 sort of an issue with them when they leave, they think is some 694 00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,050 sort of a cultural problem when they leave the country. They 695 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,360 think they can lord it over but they also have a superiority 696 00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:24,360 complex with a and I guess they don't think much of the Chinese. 697 00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:28,200 But anyway, the Chinese got really brutalised by them. And 698 00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,720 it was a horrible one of the worst. I mean, I think that you 699 00:38:30,720 --> 00:38:33,930 know, killed kind of close to a million people and maybe more 700 00:38:34,410 --> 00:38:39,480 and just just, you know, like, butchered them. And so anybody 701 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,450 who would do a documentary on this, like Ted apparently did, 702 00:38:42,450 --> 00:38:45,060 that would be adored by the Chinese who still hate the 703 00:38:45,060 --> 00:38:46,470 Japanese for this. Yeah. 704 00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:48,660 So you but you don't know what the title of it because I'm 705 00:38:48,660 --> 00:38:52,980 looking at her at an IMDB dot.com. And I've got Oh, yeah. 706 00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:57,030 Okay. Let me see How I Met Your Mother and know that it isn't a 707 00:38:57,060 --> 00:38:58,020 blind dating 708 00:38:58,050 --> 00:39:01,800 now. It would be it would be under the TV listing beach party 709 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:03,780 at the threshold of hell. Yeah, that's where I am. 710 00:39:06,150 --> 00:39:08,430 Jane Seymour 711 00:39:08,849 --> 00:39:11,459 was in Wedding Crashers. That was good. That was a good one. 712 00:39:11,879 --> 00:39:15,809 Dr. Quinn, of course. What a career this woman's had. And 713 00:39:15,809 --> 00:39:16,349 she's hot. 714 00:39:17,909 --> 00:39:19,949 Yeah, and there's a picture of her icy wood next to her 715 00:39:19,949 --> 00:39:21,329 daughter. She's prettier than her daughter. 716 00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,820 Is it the absolute truth? No, no, 717 00:39:23,820 --> 00:39:26,490 no. Hang on a second. Here it is. I mean, let me just get to 718 00:39:26,490 --> 00:39:31,320 the Jane Seymour list. It would probably be under it's a Debbie 719 00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:35,340 interesting was not here. Not an act as a reason. It's got to be 720 00:39:35,340 --> 00:39:36,060 down at the bottom. 721 00:39:38,610 --> 00:39:41,670 So it's old. It's like from the 80s or 90s it's it's pretty 722 00:39:41,670 --> 00:39:47,130 old. Yeah, it's probably from the 80s. Thanks. It's got to be 723 00:39:47,130 --> 00:39:49,020 way down, way down. Way down. 724 00:39:49,739 --> 00:39:56,909 Keys to freedom now. Jack the Angel of Death 725 00:39:56,969 --> 00:39:58,649 guide she's got a huge list. 726 00:39:58,650 --> 00:40:02,640 Amazing, isn't it? Well, I guess that's what you're doing actress 727 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:07,050 man. She does good work. And she's got like, 18 kids. 728 00:40:08,790 --> 00:40:12,000 Yeah, no, she's uh, that's she did it right? Yeah. 729 00:40:12,750 --> 00:40:15,630 All right, so we can't find it. Well, 730 00:40:15,690 --> 00:40:16,350 it's not here. 731 00:40:17,009 --> 00:40:19,619 It's, I'm not seeing it either, as should I don't want to see 732 00:40:19,619 --> 00:40:22,799 her television credits. Are you always sure she did it? Sure. 733 00:40:22,799 --> 00:40:23,039 She's 734 00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:24,300 the one. Oh, yeah. 735 00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:27,060 Believe me. It's nothing you'd forget. Oh, wait a minute. 736 00:40:27,060 --> 00:40:31,560 Here's a here's another these lists vs. 2000 80s. to click on 737 00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:34,230 the 80s Oh, I see. It's just part of a 738 00:40:34,289 --> 00:40:41,369 running dry. Is that what it's called? While we probably we 739 00:40:41,369 --> 00:40:42,059 should move on at this 740 00:40:42,060 --> 00:40:45,510 top. Yeah, whatever. But anyway, the point is, is that there's 741 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:51,960 you should look up the topic and catch up to it your your remiss 742 00:40:53,219 --> 00:40:55,319 as part of the world history, I should know more about 743 00:40:55,319 --> 00:41:01,649 particularly because I could certainly interrogate uncle Don 744 00:41:01,649 --> 00:41:03,869 about some of that he was all over Japan. 745 00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:08,400 Well, I'll tell you something you could. If you watch the de 746 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:11,910 leonsis piece, I'm guessing you'll probably write the right 747 00:41:11,910 --> 00:41:15,570 up to speed. I'm gonna, I gotta just get that from him. And 748 00:41:15,570 --> 00:41:16,500 you'll be all I'll get. 749 00:41:16,860 --> 00:41:19,200 I'll get you a copy too. Yeah, okay, good. 750 00:41:19,710 --> 00:41:22,410 So anyway, so that's the so anyway, so I'm looking at the 751 00:41:22,410 --> 00:41:24,390 independent that was that I thought that was an interesting 752 00:41:24,390 --> 00:41:26,400 trend. And now I'm thinking check. Does anyone get a 753 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,860 subscription to this? I mean, the news in there was just, you 754 00:41:28,860 --> 00:41:32,100 know, stuff that they don't even print here, is it our news has 755 00:41:32,100 --> 00:41:35,880 just gotten dreadful. Anyway, when I was in New York, I also 756 00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:39,900 did two other things. I really jam when I go anywhere. It's 757 00:41:39,900 --> 00:41:40,500 pretty funny. 758 00:41:41,310 --> 00:41:44,910 You'd even call me back, I emailed you. And I said, Call me 759 00:41:44,910 --> 00:41:47,220 if you have a second. You must have been really busy. 760 00:41:48,540 --> 00:41:54,030 So I was pretty busy. So I visited both Fox Business and 761 00:41:54,030 --> 00:41:56,670 got a complete tour. This is Chris with the MarketWatch 762 00:41:56,670 --> 00:42:02,670 folks. And then the next day I got a car out to out to Jersey 763 00:42:02,670 --> 00:42:04,920 and went and visited the CNBC studios. 764 00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:09,120 Yeah. Right across the run across the bridge, right. Yeah. 765 00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:14,220 And I got to meet all the people there one of the executive 766 00:42:14,220 --> 00:42:17,580 producers brings me on every so often. And so she gave me a 767 00:42:17,580 --> 00:42:20,910 complete tour I get to meet you know, I've got to meet you know, 768 00:42:21,540 --> 00:42:25,740 former MarketWatch person Trish Regan who's just gorgeous and 769 00:42:25,740 --> 00:42:29,580 then Courtney Reagan who was like really pretty she does a 770 00:42:29,580 --> 00:42:33,000 little spot news and can tell you all the hostesses which are 771 00:42:33,300 --> 00:42:37,140 and all the guys that do all the shows. And I got to compare the 772 00:42:37,140 --> 00:42:41,550 Fox Business operation with the CNBC because they're kind of 773 00:42:41,550 --> 00:42:43,530 competing with each other. And 774 00:42:44,010 --> 00:42:46,500 let me guess, let me guess Fox far superior. 775 00:42:47,610 --> 00:42:49,770 No force inferior. Really? 776 00:42:49,830 --> 00:42:52,320 Oh, I thought we have all kinds of cool shit going on there. 777 00:42:52,409 --> 00:42:55,229 They have a lot of cool stuff. But compared to what's going on, 778 00:42:55,229 --> 00:42:58,379 it's I mean, it's like night and day. It's like, I wouldn't, you 779 00:42:58,379 --> 00:43:01,829 know, they dropped I think 150 million or something into the 780 00:43:01,829 --> 00:43:02,339 fox. 781 00:43:04,260 --> 00:43:06,690 TV right into the studios and everything. Yeah. 782 00:43:07,619 --> 00:43:09,629 You know, some huge amount of money. It's all digital. It's 783 00:43:09,629 --> 00:43:15,749 really cool. It looks like a kitty car. Compared to like, you 784 00:43:15,749 --> 00:43:21,689 know, this Lamborghini stuff. Yeah, I mean, the the CNBC thing 785 00:43:21,689 --> 00:43:29,429 is, is probably three times bigger. It's, it's got different 786 00:43:29,429 --> 00:43:35,159 energy, the energy is really amazing. It's just, it's just, 787 00:43:35,369 --> 00:43:39,959 it's just, I don't see how Fox is gonna it's gonna be years and 788 00:43:39,959 --> 00:43:42,929 years before Fox can catch up to these guys. And I also don't 789 00:43:42,929 --> 00:43:46,439 think Fox has got the right idea how to do that kind of business 790 00:43:46,439 --> 00:43:50,999 channel, to be honest about I think they're completely going 791 00:43:50,999 --> 00:43:52,979 in the wrong direction in every which way. 792 00:43:53,100 --> 00:43:55,230 Didn't Brian Williams come from CNBC? 793 00:43:57,300 --> 00:44:00,930 Or that or MSNBC, but I think he came from MSNBC, 794 00:44:01,020 --> 00:44:02,970 because he's not he does the nightly news now, doesn't he? 795 00:44:02,970 --> 00:44:03,870 Because we get that over here. 796 00:44:04,650 --> 00:44:09,990 Yeah, he used to do MSNBC news. And he was always I used to work 797 00:44:09,990 --> 00:44:15,420 at MSNBC for a while. And when Soledad O'Brien was there, and 798 00:44:15,810 --> 00:44:20,040 it was always, always obvious to me that Brian Williams was the 799 00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:22,860 heir apparent to Tom Brokaw. Even though sometimes you can't 800 00:44:22,860 --> 00:44:25,950 really tell with NBC. It's pretty obvious because they line 801 00:44:25,950 --> 00:44:29,520 him up in a certain way. And I always thought Brian Williams 802 00:44:30,450 --> 00:44:32,790 was outstanding, and except for the fact that he's got this 803 00:44:32,790 --> 00:44:35,850 broken nose. That is annoying. I don't know why as well. You want 804 00:44:35,850 --> 00:44:36,120 to hear his 805 00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:37,680 story? Yeah. 806 00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:42,510 So he must have been either at CNBC or maybe doing human 807 00:44:42,510 --> 00:44:47,970 interest pieces for the nightly news. But he did a piece on a 808 00:44:47,970 --> 00:44:50,850 cosmetic surgeon in New Jersey and Patricia was there and she 809 00:44:50,850 --> 00:44:54,750 was asked to be a part of the piece. She had, I don't even 810 00:44:54,750 --> 00:44:56,610 know it was her boob job. I don't know something she had 811 00:44:56,610 --> 00:45:00,360 done. And Brian Williams was really hitting on her wall. Take 812 00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:04,440 her out. Because she, the other day we're sitting in I'm 813 00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:06,420 flipping through sky channels, you know, somewhere up around 814 00:45:06,420 --> 00:45:09,540 the five hundreds, you know, we're all the new shit is as 815 00:45:09,540 --> 00:45:11,910 Brian Williams on so, you know I hold it's the nightly news I'm 816 00:45:11,910 --> 00:45:15,270 looking at she says, Oh, that's the guy that hit on me. Like 817 00:45:15,270 --> 00:45:18,990 really? Yeah, he was he was courteous, but he was pushing 818 00:45:18,990 --> 00:45:19,590 pretty hard. 819 00:45:21,210 --> 00:45:22,980 courteous. I like that. 820 00:45:24,060 --> 00:45:26,820 But yet yet firm. courteous. 821 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:34,260 Yeah, I'm sure he was firm. So anyway, so the, the No, Fox is 822 00:45:34,260 --> 00:45:38,820 not going to. I mean, I did. I've only done one hit for them. 823 00:45:39,510 --> 00:45:42,720 I did the Neil Cavuto show, I think a few weeks ago and 824 00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:47,190 somehow Neil's got moved over there. And he's you know, he's 825 00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:51,090 talented guys, but I don't they don't have numbers and I think 826 00:45:51,390 --> 00:45:54,210 they don't have the right. Personally, I don't think 827 00:45:54,210 --> 00:45:54,780 they're they're 828 00:45:55,260 --> 00:45:58,530 well appointed to CNBC really have numbers. Oh, 829 00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:01,290 CNBC is one of the most profitable broadcasting 830 00:46:01,290 --> 00:46:02,250 operations in the world 831 00:46:02,250 --> 00:46:05,010 profitable, but you know, what are the numbers? What are the 832 00:46:05,010 --> 00:46:07,740 ratings? Right, you know, I don't know what the ratings are. 833 00:46:08,490 --> 00:46:11,610 Man. It's just not it's not that high. Can't, you know, you know, 834 00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:13,590 but it's a million I'd be very surprised. 835 00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,650 No, it's not that hated. But it's the point is, is it's the 836 00:46:16,650 --> 00:46:19,980 people who watch it. Yeah, of course it I mean, you have some 837 00:46:19,980 --> 00:46:22,740 of the you know, biggest money people in the world that just 838 00:46:23,100 --> 00:46:25,860 essentially have CNBC on just on 839 00:46:26,699 --> 00:46:29,519 because they run it properly. You got that Squawk Box in the 840 00:46:29,519 --> 00:46:33,659 morning? With that fat fuck, what's his name? Mark or 841 00:46:33,659 --> 00:46:34,169 whatever. 842 00:46:34,350 --> 00:46:35,520 I can't get up that early. 843 00:46:35,730 --> 00:46:38,580 I used to watch it religiously. And it's great. Because, you 844 00:46:38,580 --> 00:46:41,910 know, they do get all the CEOs on he's on a first name basis 845 00:46:41,910 --> 00:46:44,820 with him. He's, you know, he punches him around. They're all 846 00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:48,090 they are right on top of all of the fucking stories. I mean, 847 00:46:48,090 --> 00:46:50,160 anything that's breaking, they've got the right people. 848 00:46:50,220 --> 00:46:52,980 It's it's quite impressive. And that's what keeps people going. 849 00:46:52,980 --> 00:46:54,870 That's why they keep it on at the office. 850 00:46:55,650 --> 00:46:58,260 Yeah, no, they just keep it on 24/7 and tell you every time I 851 00:46:58,260 --> 00:47:02,220 do a CNBC spot, everyone I know who's in the financial world 852 00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:03,390 sends me an email and they 853 00:47:03,389 --> 00:47:06,239 see it. Of course, it's all Hey, you were on yesterday, 854 00:47:06,240 --> 00:47:08,340 it was pretty good. Good. You said, you know, I was on for 855 00:47:08,340 --> 00:47:10,110 like, two minutes, you know, a minute and a half. 856 00:47:11,610 --> 00:47:14,760 With Neil Cavuto talking about what let me guess Microsoft? 857 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,030 Well, with Kabuto was on it was actually on Fox because he's 858 00:47:18,030 --> 00:47:21,300 moved over. But no, generally speaking, I would do the Erin 859 00:47:21,300 --> 00:47:26,190 Burnett Show with Erin Burnett, that's done just before street 860 00:47:26,190 --> 00:47:28,920 signs or whatever it's called just before that 12 o'clock at 861 00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:30,480 the lunch. Yeah. 862 00:47:30,810 --> 00:47:33,090 So they have a different crew over here in the UK. They also 863 00:47:33,090 --> 00:47:36,510 have they have Squawk Box in the morning. And they have there's 864 00:47:36,510 --> 00:47:38,910 some interesting personalities to do it here. Same format, 865 00:47:38,910 --> 00:47:41,700 though. Same formula right on top of it really good watching. 866 00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:45,089 Yeah, well, if you go to see their operation, you can see 867 00:47:45,089 --> 00:47:49,139 why. I mean, they have I mean the number of people that are on 868 00:47:49,139 --> 00:47:52,949 any given show, I mean, I was taken to into the control room 869 00:47:52,949 --> 00:47:56,879 and they'll have like one person who just does the one just like 870 00:47:56,879 --> 00:48:01,079 the Chiron person in charge of only the graphs that they show 871 00:48:01,079 --> 00:48:03,389 and then there's a Chiron person in charge of all the names and 872 00:48:03,389 --> 00:48:07,739 all the other movement. It's like you know, for each show, 873 00:48:07,739 --> 00:48:11,069 there's probably five or six technicians doing behind the 874 00:48:11,069 --> 00:48:13,739 scenes stuff besides the director and all the camera 875 00:48:13,739 --> 00:48:17,519 people and everything was in between it's actually quite it 876 00:48:17,519 --> 00:48:21,209 was I mean Fox has that same kind of layout but it's just 877 00:48:21,209 --> 00:48:25,139 smaller everything is smaller their offices are you know less 878 00:48:25,139 --> 00:48:26,069 interesting 879 00:48:26,429 --> 00:48:29,099 is the same facilities where they had MSNBC 880 00:48:31,650 --> 00:48:33,300 the CNBC NBC offices. 881 00:48:34,860 --> 00:48:36,030 Oh, you mean the fox ones? 882 00:48:36,090 --> 00:48:39,300 No, no, the ones across the river in Jersey CMD I don't 883 00:48:39,300 --> 00:48:39,630 know. I 884 00:48:39,630 --> 00:48:42,840 mean, I didn't never went to this in MSNBC buffets is when 885 00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:45,390 they were out in the west east coast. I only worked on the West 886 00:48:45,390 --> 00:48:45,780 Coast. 887 00:48:45,900 --> 00:48:47,940 I don't know. All right. I thought it was the same, the 888 00:48:47,940 --> 00:48:49,110 same facility. 889 00:48:49,350 --> 00:48:51,960 I don't know. It might be it's, I'll tell you this is huge. 890 00:48:52,710 --> 00:48:59,310 Cool. So that was educational. And you know, you have to go 891 00:48:59,310 --> 00:49:01,440 over there once in a while and show your face so people say you 892 00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:04,950 know, we need somebody for today's show. I think anybody 893 00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:07,740 and then somebody says I divorced 894 00:49:07,739 --> 00:49:09,869 Rajon Can I can I tell you something? Because like, you 895 00:49:09,869 --> 00:49:11,789 know, because I know you're looking for money, like always 896 00:49:11,789 --> 00:49:13,319 right? You know, you're just like me, you're scrounging 897 00:49:13,319 --> 00:49:16,049 around. We're getting gigs. We're doing shit. Check this 898 00:49:16,049 --> 00:49:19,409 out, man. You got to get yourself an ISDN set. You could 899 00:49:19,409 --> 00:49:23,129 call into so many shows. You could just sit at home you could 900 00:49:23,129 --> 00:49:24,389 call into all these shows. 901 00:49:24,420 --> 00:49:29,190 When I finished my when I finished my book about American 902 00:49:29,190 --> 00:49:31,710 depressions then I'll need it because 903 00:49:31,710 --> 00:49:35,220 then you know, because I talked about on the daily source code. 904 00:49:35,220 --> 00:49:37,440 I talked about it. I had this thing. I got like three radio 905 00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:41,730 stations calling me saying hey, can we can we talk to you next 906 00:49:41,730 --> 00:49:44,070 Tuesday morning or whatever. And, you know, 907 00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:49,560 the problem is I'm not just I'm actually not generally speaking 908 00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:53,490 of the ill that I want to get on the air unless I have something 909 00:49:53,490 --> 00:49:54,180 to sell. 910 00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:57,629 Well, I'm sorry. I didn't get pissed off at me. No, I'm 911 00:49:57,630 --> 00:49:59,550 just saying I don't have anything to sell because you've 912 00:49:59,550 --> 00:50:02,040 been hounded me to get ISDN and Allah but I don't 913 00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:04,920 want the ISDN for us. I don't give a shit. What else do you do 914 00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:06,840 with it? I'm just trying to think of ways that you can you 915 00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:09,270 know, I'm like maybe it's too expensive. 916 00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:15,210 It is too expensive. That's the problem itself, John, and I 917 00:50:15,390 --> 00:50:17,370 won't pay for itself. That's the point. Let 918 00:50:17,370 --> 00:50:20,580 me tell you BT man. So I hooked up this line, right? I got a 919 00:50:20,580 --> 00:50:24,270 business line. And they called me on my home line and said, Do 920 00:50:24,270 --> 00:50:28,740 you want a free ad in the Yellow Pages? I said, No. This thing go 921 00:50:28,770 --> 00:50:32,850 at least four times a day. This and it's an auto answer, right? 922 00:50:32,850 --> 00:50:35,520 Because it's plugged into the into the codec. So it 923 00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:39,240 automatically hands on. What the hell are they testing the line 924 00:50:39,240 --> 00:50:42,000 and then click it'll it'll go on and you know, it's routed 925 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,250 through the mixer, and I'll hear me out with someone. Hello. 926 00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:49,560 Hello. And open up the microphone like Yeah. And, like, 927 00:50:50,610 --> 00:50:53,400 we want to offer you and it's like solicitations they gave my 928 00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:54,780 number away immediately. 929 00:50:55,830 --> 00:51:00,630 Oh, so you're getting a bunch of spam? Yes. ISDN. Spam. Wow, 930 00:51:00,630 --> 00:51:02,580 that's weird. Of course. 931 00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:07,350 Yeah, I guess it is ISDN spam. Well, you just I wonder if it 932 00:51:07,350 --> 00:51:09,510 calls if it just registers a regular number. 933 00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:17,490 It is a regular number when you look at it. Yeah. Anyway, yeah, 934 00:51:17,490 --> 00:51:20,160 yeah, yeah. Okay. Okay. Well, suppose I have something to 935 00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:22,770 sell. I'll do it. I mean, I'm just not going to. I definitely 936 00:51:22,770 --> 00:51:24,870 don't want to get a bunch of guys calling me left and right. 937 00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:28,680 So how does that work? So you you go with your agent and you 938 00:51:28,710 --> 00:51:30,960 What do you go to publishers and you pitch the idea? 939 00:51:31,469 --> 00:51:33,929 Oh, no, the way Well, it depends. I mean, my book and 940 00:51:33,929 --> 00:51:36,239 depression I'm going to self publish this as I went to see 941 00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:40,559 him about another project I'm working on with Gina Smith. And 942 00:51:40,709 --> 00:51:46,049 me about it. I'll tell ya shows we get shows we have it a little 943 00:51:46,049 --> 00:51:49,079 more hammered down because it didn't we're fine tuning the 944 00:51:49,109 --> 00:51:52,919 retouching with Gina. Together? No, no, I'm pitching by myself. 945 00:51:52,919 --> 00:51:55,919 Gee, but you know, Jean has worked with Brockman before this 946 00:51:55,919 --> 00:52:00,149 John Brockman, the one of the I actually worked work for him 947 00:52:00,149 --> 00:52:04,859 once. But Brockman is like does all these, you know, high end 948 00:52:05,489 --> 00:52:10,859 products that get big money. And she did that Wozniak book was 949 00:52:10,859 --> 00:52:13,889 through him and some other projects, I guess. So she knows 950 00:52:13,889 --> 00:52:17,729 who she is. And it's not an issue. I just wanted to sit in 951 00:52:17,729 --> 00:52:20,399 his office and chat for a while anyway, which is what you have, 952 00:52:20,399 --> 00:52:21,419 and you just sit 953 00:52:21,420 --> 00:52:23,670 there and you gotta say, give me a goddamn contract already. I'm 954 00:52:23,670 --> 00:52:24,510 not gonna leave. 955 00:52:25,020 --> 00:52:29,370 And so you know, so I essentially the way it works, 956 00:52:29,370 --> 00:52:32,550 though, generally speaking, is depending on the agent you work 957 00:52:32,550 --> 00:52:35,340 with, and all agents have a slightly different process. But 958 00:52:35,490 --> 00:52:38,280 for the most part, it goes like this, you come up with an idea, 959 00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:40,200 and people out there want to sell books, this is how you do 960 00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:43,710 it. First, you got to find an agent, which is not easy, but 961 00:52:44,190 --> 00:52:45,630 you come up with a 962 00:52:46,260 --> 00:52:49,950 name in the phonebook under L for lefty, Lefty Schwartz, 963 00:52:50,610 --> 00:52:54,510 L for literary agent. Anyway, so you come up with an idea and you 964 00:52:54,510 --> 00:52:56,910 write a proposal, and it's all everything is done based on 965 00:52:56,910 --> 00:53:00,900 this, generally speaking, and the proposal dependent proposals 966 00:53:00,900 --> 00:53:04,920 are interesting, because they're trendy, they they sometimes they 967 00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:07,770 want long proposals, and everybody wants a long proposal 968 00:53:07,770 --> 00:53:11,880 that goes on forever 15 pages, or they want short proposals. 969 00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:14,700 Nobody wants a long proposal, they want two page proposals, 970 00:53:14,700 --> 00:53:17,940 okay, whatever, like Hollywood. Yeah, it just goes back and 971 00:53:17,940 --> 00:53:19,650 forth, and back and forth. If you don't have an agent, you 972 00:53:19,650 --> 00:53:22,500 don't know what the trend is for the day, you know how it's three 973 00:53:22,500 --> 00:53:27,180 pages. Exactly. So anyway, so you write the thing up, and 974 00:53:27,180 --> 00:53:30,780 usually the eight depending on the agency, but many of them 975 00:53:30,780 --> 00:53:33,390 like to, you know, they go back and you go back and forth to the 976 00:53:33,390 --> 00:53:37,380 agent, with the proposal find honing it, and then the agent 977 00:53:37,380 --> 00:53:40,920 presents it to a publisher that usually a pal, because they all 978 00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:43,530 have, you know, every agent, that's which, which is just kind 979 00:53:43,530 --> 00:53:47,220 of interesting to me. Every agent has his own channels. 980 00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:50,190 They're all and they're all different. So if you went to 981 00:53:50,190 --> 00:53:54,120 agent a, they would have channels into maybe, let's say, 982 00:53:55,050 --> 00:53:58,800 two or three, like maybe 20 editors total from 10 different 983 00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:02,310 publishing houses. If you went to agent B, they'd have a whole 984 00:54:02,310 --> 00:54:05,100 different group that they would be pitching. 985 00:54:05,159 --> 00:54:07,589 And then it's the same with all agents. Oh, that's what you get 986 00:54:07,589 --> 00:54:09,779 an agent. Yeah, they have their friends. It's all their buddies, 987 00:54:09,779 --> 00:54:09,869 the 988 00:54:09,869 --> 00:54:10,589 Rolodex. 989 00:54:10,980 --> 00:54:13,830 And so you know, and if they've been making money for the for 990 00:54:13,830 --> 00:54:17,130 the publisher, then that you know, their buddies are, you 991 00:54:17,130 --> 00:54:20,070 know, happy to see him. So you know what you find the agent 992 00:54:20,070 --> 00:54:22,260 that's got a conduit you're looking for so in other words, 993 00:54:22,260 --> 00:54:26,010 you wouldn't take a fiction book and give it to somebody who does 994 00:54:26,010 --> 00:54:28,890 nonfiction because no matter how good of an agent they are, they 995 00:54:28,890 --> 00:54:33,330 don't have any, there's no channels. So finding the right 996 00:54:33,330 --> 00:54:37,380 agent is a big deal. And anyway, so then they take it in and then 997 00:54:37,380 --> 00:54:39,990 a couple of things can happen in the olden days you used to have 998 00:54:39,990 --> 00:54:41,940 these book auctions which are pretty cool because then they'd 999 00:54:41,940 --> 00:54:45,270 run up the price between you'd get two or three people together 1000 00:54:45,270 --> 00:54:48,600 that would all want it and then they argue amongst themselves 1001 00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:51,900 and give you way too much money. And but nowadays, it just, you 1002 00:54:51,900 --> 00:54:54,750 know, do a deal and it's over and then you anyway, so then you 1003 00:54:54,750 --> 00:54:57,990 do a book, generally speaking that is not the same book as the 1004 00:54:57,990 --> 00:55:02,370 one in the proposal and They take the book that you gave him 1005 00:55:02,370 --> 00:55:05,190 and print something that's not what you gave him. And then 1006 00:55:05,190 --> 00:55:06,030 outcomes. 1007 00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:10,770 Excellent. And how long is that process stick, 1008 00:55:11,130 --> 00:55:14,580 that the process takes too long. The process probably takes a 1009 00:55:14,580 --> 00:55:20,940 good nine months oh man, for and it's a you know and the way you 1010 00:55:20,940 --> 00:55:22,200 get paid generally 1011 00:55:24,179 --> 00:55:25,499 you get an advance, you get 1012 00:55:25,500 --> 00:55:27,720 what depends on the obey, if it's if it's a big advance, you 1013 00:55:27,720 --> 00:55:33,180 get it in three, in three payments you usually get if it's 1014 00:55:33,180 --> 00:55:36,540 a big advance, you can change you can Did you can be done in 1015 00:55:36,540 --> 00:55:40,770 any way you can make them agree to, which is the key. And I 1016 00:55:40,770 --> 00:55:43,650 always tell people, you know, you gotta be careful about the 1017 00:55:43,650 --> 00:55:45,990 main thing that that authors have to worry about is the dummy 1018 00:55:45,990 --> 00:55:51,180 contract. And dummy contracts are in fact, you know, me via we 1019 00:55:51,180 --> 00:55:53,760 have a dummy contractor that I've heard people bitch about. 1020 00:55:54,420 --> 00:55:58,140 And because everybody has a dummy contract, because if you 1021 00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:00,720 are going to hire somebody, and they're going to sign this 1022 00:56:00,720 --> 00:56:06,120 thing, fine. But, but in business, it's called the dummy 1023 00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:09,690 contracting, and that's what they call it. And because you're 1024 00:56:09,690 --> 00:56:13,290 a dummy, if you sign it, the idea is, of course, you change 1025 00:56:13,290 --> 00:56:15,330 what you want to change, and then they usually agree to it. 1026 00:56:15,630 --> 00:56:18,780 And unless you're a dummy, and there's an agent, by the way, 1027 00:56:18,780 --> 00:56:22,680 who did a lot of tech books, who I was talking to one of my 1028 00:56:22,710 --> 00:56:26,280 publisher, friends, he says they love this agent, and they take 1029 00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:28,320 anything and keep because he would actually encourage his 1030 00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:32,220 writers to sign the dummy contract. Cool. Yeah, what a 1031 00:56:32,220 --> 00:56:35,520 nice guy. Anyway, so you get this dummy contract, and then 1032 00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:37,470 you just change it to wherever you want. But typically, with a 1033 00:56:37,470 --> 00:56:42,180 big advance, you'll get 1/3 right away. And of the money 1034 00:56:42,210 --> 00:56:44,940 here, here's your money. And by the way, and if you don't turn 1035 00:56:44,940 --> 00:56:47,040 in the book, or anything, did, they have a hard time getting 1036 00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:49,920 that money back, so they have to you if you don't have a track 1037 00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:54,840 record, you know, they are very reluctant to do give you a lot 1038 00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:58,170 of money up front, because they're, I've you know, 1039 00:56:58,170 --> 00:57:02,370 situations do occur where you, the book isn't cancelled, or, or 1040 00:57:02,370 --> 00:57:05,580 you can't do it, or they or the project change, or the editor 1041 00:57:05,580 --> 00:57:07,860 quit. I mean, there's a million possibilities, and you end up 1042 00:57:07,860 --> 00:57:11,820 with this money. And they really don't, it's almost impossible to 1043 00:57:11,820 --> 00:57:14,370 get it back. Unless you go back to that publisher and have to do 1044 00:57:14,370 --> 00:57:17,040 another book deal with them, then that money is still 1045 00:57:17,040 --> 00:57:20,490 somewhere on the books. And it's like you get screwed, right, you 1046 00:57:20,490 --> 00:57:23,940 get you get money goes away, it gets recouped. It's just like 1047 00:57:23,940 --> 00:57:26,940 the record business. Right. And so anyway, so you get a third 1048 00:57:26,940 --> 00:57:29,820 upfront, and then when you deliver the manuscript 1049 00:57:29,820 --> 00:57:33,810 officially, even though you might be doling it out in pieces 1050 00:57:33,810 --> 00:57:36,720 of when the thing is finished, you get another third. And then 1051 00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:40,260 when it finally hits the street, you get the last third. In 1052 00:57:40,260 --> 00:57:45,210 smaller advances, you tend to get half of it right away. And 1053 00:57:45,210 --> 00:57:47,280 then when the book is delivered to get the other half, and then 1054 00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:47,790 you're done, 1055 00:57:48,030 --> 00:57:50,370 I should send you the contract that just sent over Patricia's 1056 00:57:50,370 --> 00:57:57,090 doing, she wrote a Dutch version of heatwave. And she's going to 1057 00:57:57,090 --> 00:58:00,180 do it do a duet with this guy's putting it on his album on our 1058 00:58:00,180 --> 00:58:02,970 on a CD, I should say. And I should send it over because you 1059 00:58:02,970 --> 00:58:05,790 really laugh when you see that. First of all, it's like 10% 1060 00:58:06,270 --> 00:58:11,160 versus 10% of the song which in itself is already 112 of the of 1061 00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:16,590 the CD. And then it's and that's over PPD over retail. So it's 1062 00:58:16,590 --> 00:58:23,610 really 5% of the 12 of the 112. And then it's after deduction of 1063 00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:28,920 like 20% for mechanical reproduction. But if it's, if 1064 00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:29,970 it's for download, 1065 00:58:30,119 --> 00:58:32,699 I'd love to see this kind of you know, we I have to say this and 1066 00:58:32,699 --> 00:58:35,999 this is kind of obscure, but we collect contrast, my wife has 1067 00:58:35,999 --> 00:58:39,809 become kind of so many lawyers she's really good at we don't 1068 00:58:39,809 --> 00:58:42,659 even use lawyers that often unless it gets really 1069 00:58:42,659 --> 00:58:43,439 complicated. 1070 00:58:43,469 --> 00:58:45,899 You just pull something out of the archives and just use that. 1071 00:58:46,289 --> 00:58:47,219 Well, we have all this 1072 00:58:47,220 --> 00:58:50,730 language and in fact, when I did the deal with me video, you 1073 00:58:50,730 --> 00:58:53,010 know, working with Bobby Garcia, I mean, we pulled a lot of 1074 00:58:53,010 --> 00:58:54,660 contract lengths. 1075 00:58:54,959 --> 00:58:57,119 You signed the fucking dummy contract. John, what are you 1076 00:58:57,119 --> 00:59:00,509 talking about? I saw that. You know what I'll send you I'll 1077 00:59:00,509 --> 00:59:04,769 send you the how about the MTV Adam Korea Settlement Agreement? 1078 00:59:05,190 --> 00:59:08,190 Yeah, I'd like that too. I mean, we have a collection of these 1079 00:59:08,190 --> 00:59:12,270 things and we use them, we actually developed a force 1080 00:59:12,270 --> 00:59:17,580 majeure. Some force majeure language which you can look up 1081 00:59:18,090 --> 00:59:21,330 for speaking engagements, because we when I started doing 1082 00:59:21,330 --> 00:59:24,540 a lot of public speaking through agents, through the speaking 1083 00:59:24,540 --> 00:59:26,100 bureaus, speaking bureaus, 1084 00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:29,790 I don't want to go hunting figure out some kind of force 1085 00:59:29,790 --> 00:59:31,080 majeure. So I can get out of it. 1086 00:59:31,500 --> 00:59:33,870 Well, no, you have to worry about that. That's the problem. 1087 00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:37,050 And but none of the speaker's bureau is used it in their 1088 00:59:37,050 --> 00:59:40,110 contract language. And we actually developed a contract 1089 00:59:40,110 --> 00:59:44,310 based on the with the basic template was from the Washington 1090 00:59:44,310 --> 00:59:48,960 speaker's bureau, and then we modified it and because they had 1091 00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:52,920 a beautiful contract, and then we modified it, and then we 1092 00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:56,040 added this force majeure thing and now we present it to other 1093 00:59:56,100 --> 00:59:59,220 agents. This is like the contract we like to use, and 1094 00:59:59,220 --> 01:00:02,160 they look at it and They all say, Wow, this is a great idea, 1095 01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:03,900 we'd have to put this in our contract. 1096 01:00:04,199 --> 01:00:06,929 I can't wait to meet your wife, man. Maybe I should be doing the 1097 01:00:06,929 --> 01:00:07,649 show with her. 1098 01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:12,870 She's more interesting. So anyway, but anyway, the thing 1099 01:00:12,870 --> 01:00:16,860 is, is a contract is are in some ways, almost like folklore, 1100 01:00:17,160 --> 01:00:19,920 because they get passed around and rewritten and it gets to the 1101 01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:22,590 point where you look at them, you can look at a contract, in 1102 01:00:22,620 --> 01:00:26,550 effect, the contract I did originally with CBS, when it was 1103 01:00:26,550 --> 01:00:30,000 CBS MarketWatch before it became Dow Jones, we had to really 1104 01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:32,460 spend a lot of time on it, because it was a really crappy 1105 01:00:32,460 --> 01:00:35,490 contract. It was written for broadcasters, not writers, 1106 01:00:35,550 --> 01:00:38,640 right. And I've seen this before where somebody you know, comes 1107 01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:41,580 in and they say, we use this and they use this, you know, wrong 1108 01:00:41,580 --> 01:00:44,430 contract. And we actually probably helped them get their 1109 01:00:44,430 --> 01:00:47,280 contract straightened out. So it's right, for the you know, 1110 01:00:47,310 --> 01:00:50,580 for the right purposes. But you can look at contracts really 1111 01:00:50,580 --> 01:00:52,980 quickly and say, this is written by somebody that doesn't know 1112 01:00:52,980 --> 01:00:56,460 what they're doing. And the typical giveaway, and I don't 1113 01:00:56,460 --> 01:00:59,880 want to beat this to death. But the typical giveaway for a 1114 01:00:59,880 --> 01:01:04,110 crappy contract writer is that the language is very legalese. 1115 01:01:04,110 --> 01:01:08,460 And really complicated when a good contract is simple to read 1116 01:01:08,460 --> 01:01:09,390 and understand. 1117 01:01:09,420 --> 01:01:15,990 So this morphs perfectly into the next topic, which is the 1118 01:01:15,990 --> 01:01:21,600 contract known as the Lisbon Treaty in Europe. Okay, are you 1119 01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:27,750 familiar with this? Nope. Okay. You will recall in 2005, there 1120 01:01:27,750 --> 01:01:32,070 was a European Constitution poured, put forth to all 27 1121 01:01:32,070 --> 01:01:37,440 member states, and two countries voted it down in a referendum. 1122 01:01:37,830 --> 01:01:39,330 Do you recall which two countries? 1123 01:01:41,400 --> 01:01:43,650 Well, I don't know. It'd be Norway and Switzerland? 1124 01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:47,220 No, France and the Netherlands? Oh, right. Right. This 1125 01:01:47,220 --> 01:01:49,470 is the one Yeah, yeah. No, I'm thinking Norway and Switzerland 1126 01:01:49,470 --> 01:01:53,760 didn't even get involved in this. They just said no. But you 1127 01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:56,190 right, where those are. And this became the big controversy. This 1128 01:01:56,190 --> 01:02:00,030 was a news for like, months on end when these when they you 1129 01:02:00,030 --> 01:02:02,070 know, especially the French, you know, they're gonna let's do 1130 01:02:02,070 --> 01:02:05,370 want to make the EU the EU let these guys sign off on this. And 1131 01:02:05,370 --> 01:02:06,390 now we vote against it. 1132 01:02:06,449 --> 01:02:09,689 Exactly. So, you know, so I didn't pay much attention to it 1133 01:02:09,689 --> 01:02:12,929 in 2005. My wife had, you know what she was ill. And so, you 1134 01:02:12,929 --> 01:02:16,559 know, I was paying attention to other things. And also, I was in 1135 01:02:16,559 --> 01:02:19,109 between countries I couldn't even read I think we just moved 1136 01:02:19,109 --> 01:02:21,539 here. I couldn't really even vote on it. I don't think I was 1137 01:02:21,539 --> 01:02:25,829 kind of like an illegal status for a while there. And so now 1138 01:02:25,829 --> 01:02:28,919 this thing crops up called the Lisbon Treaty. And I didn't pay 1139 01:02:28,919 --> 01:02:32,609 any attention to it. Until you know, all this stuff starts 1140 01:02:32,609 --> 01:02:34,949 surfacing. And of course, the my audience known as the 1141 01:02:34,949 --> 01:02:37,559 chuckleheads, they start sending me all these links about 1142 01:02:37,559 --> 01:02:41,039 Ireland, like Ireland is the only country that can now save 1143 01:02:41,039 --> 01:02:44,249 Europe from you know, the evil politicians in Brussels. You 1144 01:02:44,249 --> 01:02:45,359 know, me so Right, 1145 01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:47,730 right. Right. This has been coming up over the last week or 1146 01:02:47,730 --> 01:02:48,450 so. Okay. 1147 01:02:48,449 --> 01:02:52,919 Yes, exactly. And I'll tell you why. Because June 12, which is 1148 01:02:52,919 --> 01:02:56,549 what is that? Five days, five days from now. That's when 1149 01:02:56,759 --> 01:03:03,149 Ireland is the only country in the only state in the union to 1150 01:03:03,149 --> 01:03:06,149 hold a referendum on this. And of course, all 27 states have to 1151 01:03:06,149 --> 01:03:08,729 say yes to this Lisbon Treaty. So I got interested in it. And 1152 01:03:08,729 --> 01:03:12,209 I'm like, I'm not gonna go read this fucking Lisbon Treaty. And 1153 01:03:12,239 --> 01:03:14,909 so, you know, we discussed this last week, I think, you know, 1154 01:03:14,909 --> 01:03:18,119 the everything in Europe is published, but it's published 1155 01:03:18,119 --> 01:03:22,949 this raw form, there's rarely a translation for the common man. 1156 01:03:22,949 --> 01:03:26,039 So it's a real struggle, but it's in any 27 language, or more 1157 01:03:26,039 --> 01:03:28,529 than that, like 30 languages, everything's translated, they 1158 01:03:28,529 --> 01:03:32,399 spend a billion euros a year on translations alone. But it's 1159 01:03:32,399 --> 01:03:35,099 great. So I'm like, let me go to the reader Lisbon Treaty, and 1160 01:03:35,099 --> 01:03:38,699 I'm looking at this thing, John, like, what is this? And it's all 1161 01:03:38,729 --> 01:03:44,489 all it is, is? What would you call it? References to this 1162 01:03:44,489 --> 01:03:48,599 original Constitution? Like, so it would say, 1163 01:03:49,230 --> 01:03:51,330 Well, wait, how big is this document? 1164 01:03:53,730 --> 01:04:01,530 Like 70 pages? Okay. Just, it's like a contract. It really is. 1165 01:04:01,530 --> 01:04:04,830 And it's exactly like a contract because what the Lisbon Treaty 1166 01:04:04,830 --> 01:04:10,230 is, it says, okay, in reference to, you know, the original 1167 01:04:10,230 --> 01:04:14,460 document, the original Constitution, change all words, 1168 01:04:14,730 --> 01:04:19,200 like ECU, which used to be Yeah, that was the European Currency 1169 01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:23,550 Unit, change that to Europe. So, you know, that means basically, 1170 01:04:23,550 --> 01:04:26,640 this document is that document with these changes. And the most 1171 01:04:26,640 --> 01:04:30,300 important change, of course, was everywhere you reference in that 1172 01:04:30,330 --> 01:04:33,210 original document to the word constitution. We now replace 1173 01:04:33,210 --> 01:04:36,630 that with Lisbon Treaty. And the reason, you know, of course, 1174 01:04:36,630 --> 01:04:40,350 this is what the conspiracy theorists say is, and in fact, 1175 01:04:40,380 --> 01:04:43,710 Angela Merkel was heard saying this, by not calling it a 1176 01:04:43,710 --> 01:04:48,300 constitution, the member states had no obligation legally or 1177 01:04:48,300 --> 01:04:51,390 morally to call a referendum on it. So hey, it's not a 1178 01:04:51,390 --> 01:04:54,480 constitution guys. It's a treaty, but the treaty is just a 1179 01:04:54,720 --> 01:04:59,280 it's just a legal document of search and replace. So then I go 1180 01:04:59,280 --> 01:05:03,870 and read the The Constitution and like what in the 1181 01:05:03,870 --> 01:05:09,030 Constitution in itself has referenced his two protocol 1182 01:05:09,030 --> 01:05:12,780 documents. So, you know, people send me some links and stuff and 1183 01:05:12,780 --> 01:05:16,680 I'm looking at is like, the right to freedom, you know, some 1184 01:05:16,680 --> 01:05:19,410 of the basic human rights which are now you know, I wish I 1185 01:05:19,410 --> 01:05:24,360 presumed we're going to be meant only for, you know, for the for 1186 01:05:24,360 --> 01:05:27,270 the entire union. And it's like, well, you know, you cannot be 1187 01:05:27,270 --> 01:05:32,550 incarcerated, you know, without, without just cause unless you 1188 01:05:33,210 --> 01:05:36,960 have a transmittable disease you are an alcoholic, a drug addict 1189 01:05:36,990 --> 01:05:42,360 or a vagrant? Mike, that's going to be a fucking constitution, or 1190 01:05:42,360 --> 01:05:44,910 like, wow, like the death penalty you cannot be put to 1191 01:05:44,910 --> 01:05:50,310 death. Unless you try to escape or if you are running away from 1192 01:05:50,340 --> 01:05:55,380 a legal arrest, you know, then then you being accidentally or 1193 01:05:55,380 --> 01:06:00,120 on purposely killed would not be seen as, as a violation of the 1194 01:06:00,120 --> 01:06:04,500 Constitution. So I'm like, I'm like tripping out over this. I'm 1195 01:06:04,500 --> 01:06:08,250 like, This is amazing shit. And now I understand why Ireland is 1196 01:06:08,250 --> 01:06:11,040 such a big deal. So you know, I'm doing this radio show in 1197 01:06:11,040 --> 01:06:11,580 Holland. 1198 01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:14,550 But wait, you get you got to explain why Ireland is such a 1199 01:06:14,550 --> 01:06:15,450 big deal. I 1200 01:06:15,449 --> 01:06:18,269 did explain because they they're the only country that has a 1201 01:06:18,269 --> 01:06:21,329 referendum in every single every other country. This is now being 1202 01:06:21,329 --> 01:06:25,139 ratified. So last week, it was ratified in the Netherlands, 1203 01:06:25,349 --> 01:06:27,689 which means that the the government basically has a 1204 01:06:27,689 --> 01:06:30,509 little debate, and then it's like, okay, that was nice 1205 01:06:30,509 --> 01:06:33,869 opposition, guys. Thanks for speaking up. And I was ratified. 1206 01:06:33,869 --> 01:06:39,089 So now the Lisbon Treaty is put into law, and the only country 1207 01:06:39,089 --> 01:06:43,139 that has a referendum is Ireland. And if they say no, 1208 01:06:43,139 --> 01:06:44,999 then it's off the table for everybody. 1209 01:06:45,929 --> 01:06:48,689 Oh, so then I hope they say no. 1210 01:06:49,469 --> 01:06:52,709 Well, so anyway, so I want to investigate. And so I'm doing 1211 01:06:52,709 --> 01:06:57,179 this radio show. And I say, you know, call up the call someone 1212 01:06:57,179 --> 01:07:00,899 up call someone who's in this debate. And so I get the leader 1213 01:07:00,899 --> 01:07:06,089 of the one of the Democratic parties. And, and I asked him 1214 01:07:06,089 --> 01:07:08,249 these questions. I said, What the hell is this? He's like, you 1215 01:07:08,249 --> 01:07:10,859 know, honestly, I have no idea what you're talking about, like, 1216 01:07:10,859 --> 01:07:12,929 Well, have you read this thing? He said, it's very hard to read, 1217 01:07:12,929 --> 01:07:17,279 isn't it? Like, yeah, hell yeah. Is it constitution is once you 1218 01:07:17,279 --> 01:07:20,009 make it simple, like, you know, like the American constitution. 1219 01:07:20,249 --> 01:07:23,339 So he says, Okay, I will ask this question to the, to the 1220 01:07:23,339 --> 01:07:28,139 Minister of Foreign Affairs in, in Parliament today. And dude, 1221 01:07:28,139 --> 01:07:31,169 so I'm watching this, and I'm taping it. And he actually says, 1222 01:07:31,199 --> 01:07:36,119 you know, Adam curry asked me this morning. He's like, even a 1223 01:07:36,119 --> 01:07:38,069 step further. He says, you know, this morning, I was on the 1224 01:07:38,069 --> 01:07:40,469 arrow, classic rock, and the Adam curry asked me these 1225 01:07:40,469 --> 01:07:42,689 questions, and you know, and I really 1226 01:07:42,720 --> 01:07:45,990 didn't know how to just fallen on the floor. I had a 1227 01:07:45,989 --> 01:07:49,979 boner from here to Tokyo. And, and then he takes it one step 1228 01:07:49,979 --> 01:07:52,619 further, he says to the actually not the minister, but the the 1229 01:07:52,619 --> 01:07:55,679 Secretary of Foreign Affairs, he says, so I understand, Mr. 1230 01:07:55,679 --> 01:07:58,679 Secretary, that you're going to appear on the show tomorrow. So 1231 01:07:58,679 --> 01:08:01,889 why don't you rehearse your answer? Now, while before you go 1232 01:08:01,889 --> 01:08:03,539 and talk to Mr. Curry about it? I'm 1233 01:08:03,540 --> 01:08:06,120 like, Man, this is cool. 1234 01:08:06,960 --> 01:08:10,140 But anyway, so you know, it turns out that there is, what 1235 01:08:10,140 --> 01:08:15,360 they've done, is they've taken the rain, so across all of 1236 01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:19,230 Europe, the ranges from you know, you cannot be killed under 1237 01:08:19,230 --> 01:08:22,770 any circumstances to this very broad. Well, if you try to run 1238 01:08:22,770 --> 01:08:24,900 away while we're trying to arrest you, and we kill you, 1239 01:08:24,900 --> 01:08:27,090 then you know, that's not illegal, that would not 1240 01:08:27,090 --> 01:08:30,990 constitute a violation of your, of your basic human rights 1241 01:08:30,990 --> 01:08:34,410 according to the Constitution. And each individual country gets 1242 01:08:34,410 --> 01:08:37,170 to implement the version they want. That's how it's gonna 1243 01:08:37,170 --> 01:08:41,130 work. So anyway, it's very suspicious, no one understands 1244 01:08:41,130 --> 01:08:44,580 what the hell is in the document. It's unreadable. And I 1245 01:08:44,580 --> 01:08:47,640 think the reason why the Dutch and the French said No, three 1246 01:08:47,640 --> 01:08:51,720 years ago is because they, you know, no one read it. They just 1247 01:08:51,720 --> 01:08:54,480 were pissed off about the euro, and they weren't happy. And it's 1248 01:08:54,480 --> 01:08:57,240 like, you guys want something? Screw you. We're gonna say no. 1249 01:08:57,720 --> 01:08:59,910 So anyway, this is now bubbling up, you know, and there's a lot 1250 01:08:59,910 --> 01:09:02,100 of posting about it on the internet and doesn't you know, 1251 01:09:02,130 --> 01:09:05,820 it's a it's a big campaign, you can see it happening. And the 1252 01:09:05,820 --> 01:09:07,980 numbers according to the Financial Times has shifted 1253 01:09:07,980 --> 01:09:12,420 dramatically where the beginning of the week, they expected 41% 1254 01:09:12,420 --> 01:09:17,130 to say yes, 35% to say no, and now they're expecting 35% to say 1255 01:09:17,130 --> 01:09:21,240 yes and 30% to say no. And it's, it's pretty fundamentally you 1256 01:09:21,240 --> 01:09:24,810 know, it is it's it is a constitution is it's fascinating 1257 01:09:24,810 --> 01:09:25,440 to watch. 1258 01:09:26,010 --> 01:09:28,590 Okay, so I while you were talking about that, which is 1259 01:09:28,590 --> 01:09:31,860 interesting. I just did this, as an aside is the glue callback 1260 01:09:31,860 --> 01:09:36,840 here. Using again, Twitter, the real Dvorak, I just typed in 1261 01:09:36,840 --> 01:09:40,230 Does anyone remember Jane Seymour series on PBS in Japan, 1262 01:09:40,530 --> 01:09:44,670 and the date and the name and I know Tony course, Twitter, I got 1263 01:09:44,670 --> 01:09:48,480 22,000 people, you know that. So it's like, you know, there's a 1264 01:09:48,540 --> 01:09:55,350 bunch of geniuses. So J. J. J. J Trosper. says it was called 1265 01:09:55,350 --> 01:09:59,010 Japan and it was done in 1988. Just playing Japan. 1266 01:09:59,730 --> 01:10:02,640 You know, I'm so happy that you took me out of my European 1267 01:10:03,060 --> 01:10:06,720 Time. Sorry, I just, yeah, well, this was kind of Europeans. 1268 01:10:06,810 --> 01:10:11,130 Jason was from England. Let me say back to that. I'm sorry. But 1269 01:10:11,130 --> 01:10:12,630 back to that topic. All right. 1270 01:10:12,690 --> 01:10:15,150 It's boring. Most people that's the problem most people think is 1271 01:10:15,150 --> 01:10:16,920 boring. They don't think about it. They don't think that you 1272 01:10:16,920 --> 01:10:19,110 know that they could, you know, this shit life 1273 01:10:19,110 --> 01:10:21,600 always surprised that he's gotten this far to be honest 1274 01:10:21,600 --> 01:10:25,440 about it. If anyone you know, if you've anyone who's known me, 1275 01:10:25,440 --> 01:10:28,380 since the EU was first formulated as knowing I've been, 1276 01:10:28,410 --> 01:10:32,970 you know, sceptical, because of stuff like this. And I still 1277 01:10:32,970 --> 01:10:37,110 don't understand how the French and the Germans can ever agreed 1278 01:10:37,110 --> 01:10:39,900 anything at that level. I mean, they're already telling the 1279 01:10:39,900 --> 01:10:41,400 French how to make cheese. 1280 01:10:41,580 --> 01:10:45,060 Meanwhile, the Germans just passed the National Law, that 1281 01:10:45,060 --> 01:10:50,970 now by law, law enforcement officials can monitor and invade 1282 01:10:50,970 --> 01:10:55,230 your computer via the internet, and they can hang up covert 1283 01:10:55,230 --> 01:10:56,580 cameras in your house. 1284 01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:04,260 Just for no good reason. Now you got to have a reason. Let's use 1285 01:11:04,260 --> 01:11:06,690 your doesn't say you have to have a reason or they just feel 1286 01:11:06,690 --> 01:11:06,840 like 1287 01:11:07,170 --> 01:11:10,200 I'm my, my German is not good enough to read the actual lie I 1288 01:11:10,200 --> 01:11:12,420 have. Maybe I could find an English version of it, I'll find 1289 01:11:12,420 --> 01:11:12,720 out. 1290 01:11:13,170 --> 01:11:15,270 Well, let me ask my Twitter group, if somebody can translate 1291 01:11:15,270 --> 01:11:18,180 on the spot. While you're doing, I 1292 01:11:18,180 --> 01:11:21,060 got one for your Twitter group. This is cool. So I'm nosing 1293 01:11:21,060 --> 01:11:24,060 around, there's a new law going into effect. Now, of course, 1294 01:11:24,060 --> 01:11:26,700 this is not something that they can choose on a national level 1295 01:11:26,700 --> 01:11:29,880 in Europe. But this is a European law. It's something 1296 01:11:29,880 --> 01:11:32,490 that we've had in America for as long as I can remember, actually 1297 01:11:32,490 --> 01:11:35,040 only the of course, now with the exchange rates, it's a little 1298 01:11:35,070 --> 01:11:40,470 skewed. You may no longer transport more than 10,000 euros 1299 01:11:40,560 --> 01:11:44,580 in cash, or in other, you know, like traveler's checks or 1300 01:11:44,580 --> 01:11:48,120 anything like that, in or out of the European Union without 1301 01:11:48,120 --> 01:11:48,930 declaring it. 1302 01:11:50,880 --> 01:11:53,340 And then they give me this again, because this is the this 1303 01:11:53,340 --> 01:11:54,960 has always been the case with the US. 1304 01:11:55,140 --> 01:11:58,680 Yeah. So you know, this is, what they're saying is this is for 1305 01:11:58,680 --> 01:12:03,870 two reasons, you know, for money laundering, and financing of 1306 01:12:03,870 --> 01:12:08,670 terrorism, of course, you can no longer enter or leave the 1307 01:12:08,670 --> 01:12:12,660 European Union with more than 10,000 euros in cash or other, 1308 01:12:13,170 --> 01:12:18,180 you know, faceless, nameless cash equivalents without 1309 01:12:18,210 --> 01:12:22,350 registering it. And now it's like, alright, well, 1310 01:12:22,380 --> 01:12:25,440 obviously, you just can't you just do a money transfer? 1311 01:12:25,830 --> 01:12:27,780 Oh, yeah. Have you ever heard of Swift? 1312 01:12:29,400 --> 01:12:31,350 So I'm thinking, Yeah, well, yeah, 1313 01:12:31,379 --> 01:12:34,319 Swift is, you know, the CIA taps into Swift. 1314 01:12:34,980 --> 01:12:38,730 The wells, the money still big gets moved? Yeah. But you 1315 01:12:38,730 --> 01:12:43,740 know, it's like, you have to declare it, you know, it's what 1316 01:12:43,740 --> 01:12:46,290 you do with your money should be your business, unless you're 1317 01:12:46,290 --> 01:12:49,650 doing illegal activity. But anyway, so that's beyond the 1318 01:12:49,650 --> 01:12:52,050 point. Because here's, here's what popped up. And this is a 1319 01:12:52,050 --> 01:12:54,480 story that's been around for a while as well. So they don't 1320 01:12:54,480 --> 01:12:57,750 have that at the airports. They now have money sniffing dogs, 1321 01:12:57,960 --> 01:13:00,180 literally, the Donald and interesting, 1322 01:13:00,180 --> 01:13:02,970 you know, because I, I'm a big fan of these dogs, by the way, 1323 01:13:02,970 --> 01:13:05,520 and I'm always every time I see when I asked the guy what kind 1324 01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:08,640 of a dog it is. I say, is it a bomb dog? I know there's bomb 1325 01:13:08,640 --> 01:13:12,570 dogs. There's fruit dogs, you know, looking for fruit? They 1326 01:13:12,570 --> 01:13:15,540 they're all over to Hawaii. And because they don't want you're 1327 01:13:15,540 --> 01:13:19,020 bringing fruit to Hawaii. And there's his bomb dogs, two dogs 1328 01:13:19,020 --> 01:13:21,510 and drug dogs. I did not know there was the money dog. 1329 01:13:24,690 --> 01:13:25,680 Oh, you still there? 1330 01:13:26,310 --> 01:13:28,110 Yeah, barely. Okay, sorry. 1331 01:13:29,640 --> 01:13:34,080 Yeah, so they have money, money sniffing dogs. Wow, that's cool. 1332 01:13:34,350 --> 01:13:38,910 But now, so what pops up on the radar? Up pops on the radar, 1333 01:13:38,910 --> 01:13:41,520 this story, which is pretty interesting, because you can 1334 01:13:41,520 --> 01:13:45,150 kind of prove it. That, you know, obviously, with this new 1335 01:13:45,150 --> 01:13:47,910 law going into effect, that's not the most effective way to 1336 01:13:47,910 --> 01:13:51,390 try to track money or to see how much money you've got to 1337 01:13:51,390 --> 01:13:56,700 apparently, now in as far as I can tell the in the lower 1338 01:13:56,700 --> 01:14:01,230 denomination notes. The rumour is that there is an RFID chip 1339 01:14:01,230 --> 01:14:05,910 implanted in the Euro bill in the currency. And you can check 1340 01:14:05,910 --> 01:14:10,470 this, this is great. You put either a five a 10, or a 20 euro 1341 01:14:10,470 --> 01:14:13,860 note into the microwave, and you turn it on and within like a 1342 01:14:13,860 --> 01:14:17,040 second, you'll hear a pop, and there'll be a little hole right 1343 01:14:17,040 --> 01:14:19,980 off to the centre of the paper. And that's supposed to be the 1344 01:14:19,980 --> 01:14:22,860 chip that explodes because of the microwaves. You know, I 1345 01:14:22,860 --> 01:14:26,370 find this to be a folklore thing. And I suspect that the 1346 01:14:26,370 --> 01:14:30,600 thing exploding may be some sort of metallic ink. Well, and I'll 1347 01:14:30,600 --> 01:14:33,360 tell you why. Because I don't think you can make an RFID chip 1348 01:14:33,360 --> 01:14:33,990 that small. 1349 01:14:34,320 --> 01:14:37,440 No, man this is this is what I've been looking into. They're 1350 01:14:37,470 --> 01:14:41,820 getting it down to like 50 microns is outrageous. Really. 1351 01:14:41,820 --> 01:14:44,190 Yeah. Because it has it doesn't need a power source. You know, 1352 01:14:44,190 --> 01:14:47,130 it's activated the way the RFID chip works, you know it it's 1353 01:14:47,130 --> 01:14:50,610 it's passive. Yeah, you activate it with like a magnet magnetic 1354 01:14:50,610 --> 01:14:54,210 field and then yeah, thank you with induction and then it sends 1355 01:14:54,210 --> 01:14:55,920 back its identifier, 1356 01:14:56,340 --> 01:14:59,460 but ya know, the induction triggers to the circuit and it 1357 01:14:59,460 --> 01:15:03,510 turns it on. And essentially, and then it says, Hi, I'm here. 1358 01:15:03,540 --> 01:15:06,330 Here's my name then Right? Yeah, there's my number, whatever, 1359 01:15:06,360 --> 01:15:09,090 right? But so I've done this, I've done this with all 1360 01:15:09,090 --> 01:15:11,130 different notes, you put it in the in, you put in the 1361 01:15:11,130 --> 01:15:15,270 microwave, and then it pops. Now, I've asked the guy from the 1362 01:15:15,270 --> 01:15:18,690 RFID business platform, I have a call into the Minister of 1363 01:15:18,690 --> 01:15:21,000 Finance, because now I've got a radio show, I can get all these 1364 01:15:21,000 --> 01:15:25,050 fuckers on the phones pretty funny. And I said, you know, so 1365 01:15:25,050 --> 01:15:27,510 what's the deal? And so the RFID platform guy says, I don't 1366 01:15:27,510 --> 01:15:30,000 really know, and I've heard this too, but, you know, I hear this 1367 01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:32,160 little piece of wire in there that is seen, you know, for 1368 01:15:32,160 --> 01:15:35,850 counterfeit purposes. And I'm like, okay, so I go to the, you 1369 01:15:35,850 --> 01:15:39,900 know, to the the European Union money website, and it says, 1370 01:15:39,900 --> 01:15:43,860 here's the five ways that we've baked into the currency. You 1371 01:15:43,860 --> 01:15:46,440 have for you to able identify if it's authentic or not, none of 1372 01:15:46,440 --> 01:15:49,650 which is talking about some kind of wire that's in there. You 1373 01:15:49,650 --> 01:15:51,570 know, there's and it's not anywhere near anything that 1374 01:15:51,570 --> 01:15:55,620 looks metallic and it's popped with a little hole, John, I'm 1375 01:15:55,620 --> 01:15:59,250 Cat kitten, man, right? In the same spot, and every single bill 1376 01:16:01,560 --> 01:16:05,310 Hmm. You know, I've been I've been looking into this RFID 1377 01:16:05,310 --> 01:16:08,820 shit, man, that's pretty awesome. It's an everything. 1378 01:16:08,850 --> 01:16:12,900 It's in your clothes. It's in your like your jeans. It's, you 1379 01:16:12,900 --> 01:16:17,100 know, these chips are absolutely everywhere. And they now and 1380 01:16:17,100 --> 01:16:20,220 they're making them. I think you can get them commercially. You 1381 01:16:20,220 --> 01:16:23,880 could even buy them yourself for like, they're like 0.4 1382 01:16:23,880 --> 01:16:27,660 millimetres, which is already pretty small. But yeah, they're 1383 01:16:27,660 --> 01:16:31,470 trying to now they're, I understand the next level 1384 01:16:31,470 --> 01:16:35,430 they're trying to go below is 50 microns. I have no idea how big 1385 01:16:35,430 --> 01:16:38,700 that is. But it sounds like you want to see it? 1386 01:16:39,360 --> 01:16:42,210 No. And then the thing is, how much data can it hold? I mean, 1387 01:16:42,210 --> 01:16:45,660 it's just an identifier can't really have any information. You 1388 01:16:45,660 --> 01:16:46,110 can't you 1389 01:16:46,110 --> 01:16:49,470 can't rewrite them. And of course, the problem is, is 1390 01:16:49,470 --> 01:16:53,250 always the antenna. You know, the the chip is one thing, but 1391 01:16:53,250 --> 01:16:56,670 if you want to have any kind of reach at the antenna has to be a 1392 01:16:56,670 --> 01:17:00,060 certain dimensions. These higher frequencies are the most 1393 01:17:00,060 --> 01:17:03,270 desired. It's fascinating technology, and really is, you 1394 01:17:03,270 --> 01:17:05,550 know, but also the just the idea of you know, so there is this 1395 01:17:05,550 --> 01:17:09,210 data of all this stuff that is just not really broadcasting, 1396 01:17:09,210 --> 01:17:10,200 but it's accessible. 1397 01:17:10,590 --> 01:17:11,970 So you cook and all your money. 1398 01:17:13,050 --> 01:17:15,030 I cooked about eight bills. Yeah. 1399 01:17:16,380 --> 01:17:19,500 Well, now Now, having said that, of course, I'm sure surprises 1400 01:17:19,500 --> 01:17:23,520 are not over there knocking on your door. What would prevent 1401 01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:26,910 somebody who's of you know, who was a criminal that wanted to 1402 01:17:26,970 --> 01:17:30,930 smuggle out, you know, $100,000 in a money belt, just from 1403 01:17:30,930 --> 01:17:37,350 cooking all his money in advance of the of the induction? Do 1404 01:17:37,350 --> 01:17:38,370 whatever the receiver has 1405 01:17:38,669 --> 01:17:41,069 happened? Well, I mean, if you really want to smuggle out a 1406 01:17:41,069 --> 01:17:43,319 significant amount of money, you know, you're gonna be popping a 1407 01:17:43,319 --> 01:17:47,309 lot of individual bills. It's not really simple. And, you 1408 01:17:47,309 --> 01:17:50,459 know, by itself as it is pretty suspicious looking. I haven't 1409 01:17:50,459 --> 01:17:52,589 tried to spend it yet but you know, there's a hole in the 1410 01:17:52,589 --> 01:17:52,919 bill. 1411 01:17:53,550 --> 01:17:55,950 Oh, how big is the hole? It's just a little pinhole though, 1412 01:17:55,950 --> 01:17:56,940 right? No, no, it's 1413 01:17:56,940 --> 01:18:01,980 like a little, I'd say about the size of an eraser on a pencil. 1414 01:18:04,470 --> 01:18:07,080 Well, you know, it probably not. You mentioned the guy did say it 1415 01:18:07,080 --> 01:18:10,320 was about counterfeiting. I'm sure it might be actually about 1416 01:18:10,320 --> 01:18:11,040 counterfeiting 1417 01:18:11,070 --> 01:18:13,680 here. But then why wouldn't they list that as one of the ways to 1418 01:18:13,680 --> 01:18:14,190 see if it's 1419 01:18:14,369 --> 01:18:16,529 because they don't want a bunch of people like you out there 1420 01:18:16,559 --> 01:18:19,019 smoking the bill, just as a joke? Yeah, but 1421 01:18:19,919 --> 01:18:22,979 why not? It's my money if I want to burn it in the air, or if I 1422 01:18:22,979 --> 01:18:25,079 want to burn it in my microwave, that's up to me. 1423 01:18:27,180 --> 01:18:29,550 Or maybe they just don't want people knowing what you know 1424 01:18:29,550 --> 01:18:31,860 that, you know, because you could probably counterfeit that 1425 01:18:31,860 --> 01:18:34,230 chip. Just as easy as you could the rest of the crop on that. 1426 01:18:34,440 --> 01:18:36,630 Yeah, I'm sure it's not encrypted or anything like that. 1427 01:18:36,660 --> 01:18:39,240 I mean, I'm just saying it would make sense. You know, now you 1428 01:18:39,240 --> 01:18:41,790 could just when you're walking through customs, you know, the 1429 01:18:41,790 --> 01:18:45,930 sensor could go oh, well, that's quite a lot of, you know, 20 1430 01:18:45,930 --> 01:18:49,140 pound note and 20 Euro pound notes you have there, sir. You 1431 01:18:49,140 --> 01:18:55,920 know. BBB BBB BBB? I'm sure someone out there has dialled in 1432 01:18:56,190 --> 01:18:59,400 on it. Yeah, but I'm gonna. I'm gonna ask the Minister of 1433 01:18:59,400 --> 01:19:01,110 Finance. He's not the best I can do. 1434 01:19:02,220 --> 01:19:04,230 Both. I'll tell you. You're right. You're up there. Now. I 1435 01:19:04,230 --> 01:19:05,280 feel like a loser. 1436 01:19:06,090 --> 01:19:11,310 No Man's from Holland. Dude. No one cares. Holland is below 1437 01:19:11,310 --> 01:19:12,000 Ireland. 1438 01:19:13,590 --> 01:19:15,990 Have you checked bills from other countries because every 1439 01:19:15,990 --> 01:19:17,520 country prints their own euros. 1440 01:19:18,030 --> 01:19:21,870 There's actually I haven't tried this yet. Because I don't think 1441 01:19:21,870 --> 01:19:25,050 I have any the new $20 bills apparently have the same 1442 01:19:25,620 --> 01:19:26,730 characteristics. 1443 01:19:27,569 --> 01:19:29,279 You got a 20? Euro bill from 1444 01:19:29,310 --> 01:19:30,270 England? No, no. The 1445 01:19:30,270 --> 01:19:32,910 $20 bill, the new $20 bills. 1446 01:19:33,209 --> 01:19:38,069 The $20. US Bill. Yeah, yeah. The purple ones. The new ng con. 1447 01:19:38,489 --> 01:19:39,449 Yeah, yeah. 1448 01:19:39,810 --> 01:19:46,230 There's this is just Google it man. Google $20 Bill RFID. Yes. 1449 01:19:47,010 --> 01:19:47,910 Your Google I 1450 01:19:47,910 --> 01:19:54,510 have. I have a wallet from I've actually plugged this I think on 1451 01:19:54,510 --> 01:19:57,150 my PC mag calm some time ago. But there's a guy down in 1452 01:19:57,150 --> 01:19:59,880 Southern California who makes these really nice wallets that 1453 01:19:59,880 --> 01:20:02,970 have Have the Faraday cage built into them? 1454 01:20:03,120 --> 01:20:07,650 Oh, yeah. So that the canta nothing penetrates it. Right? 1455 01:20:07,740 --> 01:20:10,140 Yeah, I've seen those online. You go check this out. Here's a 1456 01:20:10,140 --> 01:20:15,390 picture. There's a picture to your now of the $20. Bills. 1457 01:20:16,200 --> 01:20:21,060 prison planet. Holy cow, this guy cooked these bills. Yeah. 1458 01:20:21,720 --> 01:20:25,680 RFID tags and new US notes explode when you try to 1459 01:20:25,680 --> 01:20:29,730 microwave them to say those are the big you got jet. Jackson's 1460 01:20:29,730 --> 01:20:30,930 head is blown off. And 1461 01:20:31,560 --> 01:20:34,650 it's in the same spot every single time. Yeah. 1462 01:20:35,880 --> 01:20:36,870 This is interesting. 1463 01:20:36,960 --> 01:20:39,480 And that's about the same spot where it's embedded in the in 1464 01:20:39,480 --> 01:20:40,410 the Euro bills. 1465 01:20:41,760 --> 01:20:44,910 Yeah, man, you can blog this? Yeah, got a lot of stuff to blog 1466 01:20:44,940 --> 01:20:46,830 on there. I won't get to half of it. That's why 1467 01:20:46,830 --> 01:20:48,750 I don't send you this shit, man. Because I know you're gonna blog 1468 01:20:48,750 --> 01:20:50,790 that before we talk about and take all the glory. 1469 01:20:52,350 --> 01:20:55,200 How many bills is this guy did the picture that's funny here, 1470 01:20:55,200 --> 01:20:57,570 which for people aren't watching this, but it's on prison planet, 1471 01:20:57,570 --> 01:20:58,470 you can probably look it up. 1472 01:20:59,340 --> 01:21:02,370 It's looked like he's probably fried about 15. Looks like 1473 01:21:02,400 --> 01:21:09,690 he's got like 12345 times 420 20 bills, plus two more 20 to be 1474 01:21:09,690 --> 01:21:12,960 taken. How many bills do you have to blow up before you get a 1475 01:21:12,960 --> 01:21:14,910 clue? Just like this. 1476 01:21:15,270 --> 01:21:17,640 Check this out. He says I want to share an event with you that 1477 01:21:17,640 --> 01:21:19,950 we're experiencing this evening, you gotta read this story. Dave 1478 01:21:19,950 --> 01:21:23,370 had over $1,000 in his back pocket in his wallet, new 20s 1479 01:21:23,370 --> 01:21:25,350 where the lion's share of the bills in his wallet, we walk 1480 01:21:25,350 --> 01:21:28,350 into a truckstop travel Plaza. And they have those electronic 1481 01:21:28,350 --> 01:21:30,150 monitors that are supposed to say if you were stealing 1482 01:21:30,150 --> 01:21:34,140 something, but through every monitor, Dave set it off. He did 1483 01:21:34,140 --> 01:21:37,110 not. He did not have anything to purchase in his hands or 1484 01:21:37,110 --> 01:21:39,480 pockets, after numerous times is saying these off of person 1485 01:21:39,480 --> 01:21:42,180 approach day with a one to swipe in. Anyway, so that's why the 1486 01:21:42,180 --> 01:21:45,450 guy started trying, you know, Fridays bills to see if if there 1487 01:21:45,450 --> 01:21:50,160 was something in there, too. If he's setting off, you know, 1488 01:21:50,160 --> 01:21:51,900 security gates. 1489 01:21:54,390 --> 01:21:57,420 Well, I'm gonna have to get into this minute to talk to my wallet 1490 01:21:57,420 --> 01:21:58,230 making buddy. 1491 01:21:58,440 --> 01:22:00,840 So apparently had Tachi because you know people have been 1492 01:22:00,840 --> 01:22:04,530 sending me stuff about this, but how Tachi developed some of this 1493 01:22:04,530 --> 01:22:10,650 technology in like 2000. And I think it's Phillips and Phillips 1494 01:22:10,650 --> 01:22:13,830 and one other company that are actually that are supposedly 1495 01:22:14,400 --> 01:22:19,170 supplying chips that came that are being put into paper. I 1496 01:22:19,170 --> 01:22:21,510 don't know if it's true, man. And you know, and all right, but 1497 01:22:21,510 --> 01:22:24,240 it's just if it's true, it's okay. But we should know about 1498 01:22:24,240 --> 01:22:24,450 it 1499 01:22:25,289 --> 01:22:29,399 was obvious. I mean, these bills were blowing up for no good 1500 01:22:29,399 --> 01:22:31,679 reason. I mean, people will see this link later. 1501 01:22:32,730 --> 01:22:34,050 Oh, man, scroll down. 1502 01:22:34,650 --> 01:22:36,450 Nigel. I was saying, Oh, man. 1503 01:22:36,480 --> 01:22:40,770 Oh, there's There you go. There's see there's the 10 euro 1504 01:22:40,770 --> 01:22:43,770 note. See where it's popped? 1505 01:22:44,310 --> 01:22:48,120 Yeah, that's a little hole. That's a lot smaller than the mu 1506 01:22:48,120 --> 01:22:51,240 s one we the whole head of Jackson gets blown on us because 1507 01:22:51,240 --> 01:22:53,970 the I think the US paper burns quicker. 1508 01:22:54,900 --> 01:22:58,740 Like could be. I guess it thinks catching on fire. Yeah, that's 1509 01:22:58,740 --> 01:22:59,520 what it looks like. 1510 01:23:00,120 --> 01:23:02,880 It just looks I mean, I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I mean, 1511 01:23:02,880 --> 01:23:05,610 it's just like, I guess you could take it into the 1512 01:23:05,700 --> 01:23:07,470 are you gonna put us or are you gonna put a 20 in your 1513 01:23:07,470 --> 01:23:08,490 microphone, microwave? 1514 01:23:08,940 --> 01:23:12,120 Do you want to hear something funny? I don't have a microwave. 1515 01:23:13,200 --> 01:23:16,050 You don't believe in him? No, it's not that I don't believe in 1516 01:23:16,050 --> 01:23:19,950 him. I just I don't see the purpose of him. I mean, you can 1517 01:23:20,040 --> 01:23:24,150 really see i All I do is reheat stuff. And you know, I could do 1518 01:23:24,150 --> 01:23:26,850 that in a million different ways. It's more practical. I 1519 01:23:26,850 --> 01:23:32,580 like to cook over flames. Yeah, you know, I'm not a big fan of 1520 01:23:32,580 --> 01:23:36,780 microwave cooking. I think it makes food tough. I think as a 1521 01:23:36,840 --> 01:23:39,870 DJ only thing that I ever used one for when I did have one was 1522 01:23:39,870 --> 01:23:44,430 to boil water for tea, and I got a tea pot kettle, it's just as 1523 01:23:44,430 --> 01:23:45,000 fast. 1524 01:23:46,320 --> 01:23:49,050 We only use it for we don't cook in it. We only use I think most 1525 01:23:49,050 --> 01:23:50,790 people probably just use it for reheating. 1526 01:23:51,270 --> 01:23:53,760 And some people use it for thawing. And I find that there's 1527 01:23:53,760 --> 01:23:55,860 better ways to thought as a matter of fact, don't 1528 01:23:55,860 --> 01:24:00,630 use upper thigh. Now just so it's just reheats or may be 1529 01:24:01,140 --> 01:24:03,510 here's the things I might do in the microwave. I might do a 1530 01:24:03,510 --> 01:24:07,980 potato in the microwave. And if I want to get one going quick or 1531 01:24:08,160 --> 01:24:11,820 I do happen to like if I'm if I'll take a corn on the cob. And 1532 01:24:11,820 --> 01:24:16,050 so I'll put butter around the the ear of corn, put a little 1533 01:24:16,050 --> 01:24:19,740 bit of sugar on it, roll it up in wax paper and then pop it in 1534 01:24:19,740 --> 01:24:20,490 the microwave 1535 01:24:22,560 --> 01:24:23,700 that's an eye roller 1536 01:24:25,770 --> 01:24:26,880 it tastes really good. 1537 01:24:27,300 --> 01:24:31,290 I'm sure it does mozzies let it give it some more heat and see 1538 01:24:31,290 --> 01:24:36,090 what happens if it needed to blow up. But no I don't I don't 1539 01:24:36,180 --> 01:24:41,220 you know don't have one in the house. So in fact I think in 1540 01:24:41,220 --> 01:24:44,610 both houses I got another house obviously in Washington and I 1541 01:24:44,610 --> 01:24:48,420 think we had one for a while and then I think we got rid of I 1542 01:24:48,420 --> 01:24:53,370 mean it's just just not a device I have much use light and own 1543 01:24:53,370 --> 01:24:56,490 and they're ugly. They they're just horrible looking things so 1544 01:24:56,490 --> 01:24:56,880 they are 1545 01:24:57,030 --> 01:25:01,080 I agree. Anyway quite handy when you want to See if there's RFID 1546 01:25:01,080 --> 01:25:02,370 chips embedded in your money? 1547 01:25:05,069 --> 01:25:07,289 Well, I don't think there's a question. There's no question 1548 01:25:07,319 --> 01:25:11,309 that that RFID chips are embedded. I think it is odd that 1549 01:25:11,309 --> 01:25:13,619 no one's talked about it, except on this show. 1550 01:25:14,099 --> 01:25:16,859 Well, if you look around, you'll see that people have been doing 1551 01:25:16,859 --> 01:25:19,709 this since 2003. They've been talking about it, it's like, you 1552 01:25:19,709 --> 01:25:22,649 know, it's one of these things that you see go in cycles, 1553 01:25:22,649 --> 01:25:24,629 because you know, you do the research and Googling around. 1554 01:25:24,629 --> 01:25:27,599 And even though it's kind of hard, Google doesn't do database 1555 01:25:27,599 --> 01:25:29,999 searches very well, or the results are kind of hard to 1556 01:25:29,999 --> 01:25:34,739 organise. But you'll see 2003 There's kind of a little little 1557 01:25:35,069 --> 01:25:39,029 blip there. And then around 2006 have popped up again, and then 1558 01:25:39,029 --> 01:25:41,279 it just died away, you know, something else happened, I 1559 01:25:41,279 --> 01:25:41,699 guess. 1560 01:25:42,060 --> 01:25:43,350 We as people don't care. 1561 01:25:44,640 --> 01:25:46,800 That's right, let's just ride this wave until people don't 1562 01:25:46,800 --> 01:25:47,400 care again. 1563 01:25:48,450 --> 01:25:53,190 So the hot news over here now they think about it is the Fast 1564 01:25:53,190 --> 01:25:56,430 Company article on China, which is a topic that we discussed 1565 01:25:56,430 --> 01:26:00,390 months ago, about how China's you know, taking stealing, or 1566 01:26:00,390 --> 01:26:02,730 getting or the calm making arrangements to get all this 1567 01:26:02,730 --> 01:26:06,240 stuff out to Africa, right? Yeah. So that's the business 1568 01:26:06,270 --> 01:26:09,300 talk shows everybody's are all over this article, which is 1569 01:26:09,300 --> 01:26:13,020 like, man, we should have known this before. And we've got you I 1570 01:26:13,020 --> 01:26:16,230 should have written I guess, but you know, what it was he 1571 01:26:16,230 --> 01:26:18,510 said, You were gonna write about it. And Mark It was you said it 1572 01:26:18,510 --> 01:26:20,790 was gonna make a great column you, I think you've said that 1573 01:26:20,790 --> 01:26:21,720 when we talked about it. 1574 01:26:22,560 --> 01:26:25,290 It's too late now. But the thing I think they overlooked was the 1575 01:26:25,290 --> 01:26:28,590 one aspect which is the most interesting, which is the fact 1576 01:26:28,590 --> 01:26:33,540 that they do these deals, where they get a free ride in terms of 1577 01:26:33,570 --> 01:26:39,450 of taxes, in taxes and tariffs. And they bring all their stuff 1578 01:26:39,450 --> 01:26:42,150 over here, they never finished the projects that they promised. 1579 01:26:42,330 --> 01:26:45,090 And then they sell everything, like, you know, they love to do. 1580 01:26:45,390 --> 01:26:48,480 And they put every little vendor out of business because they 1581 01:26:48,480 --> 01:26:51,210 have to pay customs and no and the Chinese don't. And that's 1582 01:26:51,540 --> 01:26:54,060 seems to be more interesting than the fact that the Chinese 1583 01:26:54,060 --> 01:26:57,660 are taking all the all the resources out of Africa, people 1584 01:26:57,660 --> 01:27:00,750 have been, you know, taking resources out of Africa, you 1585 01:27:00,750 --> 01:27:06,060 know, forever. It's not like, you know, it's that's what so is 1586 01:27:06,060 --> 01:27:08,340 there he has what is there for and the Chinese probably need 1587 01:27:08,340 --> 01:27:11,130 more resources than anybody else right now. And at least there's 1588 01:27:11,130 --> 01:27:14,370 a supply. I mean, otherwise, of prices of everything, it'd be 1589 01:27:14,370 --> 01:27:15,180 through the ceiling. 1590 01:27:15,990 --> 01:27:17,940 On like, $140 oil. 1591 01:27:19,260 --> 01:27:23,550 Yeah, the oil thing is, so I would listen to the, you know, 1592 01:27:23,550 --> 01:27:25,530 it's funny, because I talked to all these people about this oil 1593 01:27:25,530 --> 01:27:28,650 thing. So I was in it was actually when I was in New York. 1594 01:27:30,180 --> 01:27:36,960 I turned on C span. And they had the entire hearing about the oil 1595 01:27:36,960 --> 01:27:42,450 situation with with what's his name? George Soros. And this 1596 01:27:42,450 --> 01:27:47,280 guy. Let's see, his last name is green burger. Kenneth, I think 1597 01:27:47,670 --> 01:27:51,750 green burger, you can look that up. Or Michael, Michael or KEN I 1598 01:27:51,750 --> 01:27:53,220 think is Michael Green Moses, where 1599 01:27:53,220 --> 01:27:56,250 Soros said it's all speculators who are driving the price up. 1600 01:27:56,250 --> 01:27:59,610 It's the insurance companies who are rolling over month to month. 1601 01:27:59,909 --> 01:28:03,929 Yep, which is quotes we've talked about. And because it's 1602 01:28:03,929 --> 01:28:06,119 pretty obvious, that's what's going on. But anyway, this 1603 01:28:06,119 --> 01:28:08,219 Greenberger guy that was actually a lot more interesting 1604 01:28:08,219 --> 01:28:12,419 than he used to be one of these regulators in the government, I 1605 01:28:12,419 --> 01:28:15,329 guess, to around the year 2000 When they quit or retired or 1606 01:28:15,329 --> 01:28:18,179 whatever. And, and he said something interesting that 1607 01:28:18,179 --> 01:28:22,349 nobody seems to have picked up on. He says that there was a law 1608 01:28:22,349 --> 01:28:26,519 that was passed sometime around in the late 80s, or wherever it 1609 01:28:26,519 --> 01:28:29,939 was just before the energy first energy crisis that allowed it 1610 01:28:29,939 --> 01:28:35,429 was called the the called the Enron. The Enron bill or 1611 01:28:35,429 --> 01:28:37,409 something, said there's a he has a name for a night, but 1612 01:28:37,409 --> 01:28:39,209 unfortunately, I didn't write it down. Like I said, I didn't 1613 01:28:39,209 --> 01:28:42,269 write anything down. But it's some it was the thing that 1614 01:28:42,269 --> 01:28:46,259 benefited Enron, it was kind of snuck into some other bill. And 1615 01:28:46,259 --> 01:28:49,859 it allowed people to trade, you know, energy in a certain way. 1616 01:28:50,189 --> 01:28:54,989 And it was it was called it was called the Enron loophole. And 1617 01:28:54,989 --> 01:28:58,259 it made Enron what it was, which was an energy trading company. 1618 01:28:58,259 --> 01:29:01,349 And so then they closed a loophole. But according to him, 1619 01:29:01,349 --> 01:29:06,299 they left a loophole open for this sort of speculation that's 1620 01:29:06,299 --> 01:29:09,599 going on now with with oil and he says that's the only Lula's 1621 01:29:09,689 --> 01:29:14,069 unregulated speculation. And he blames mostly the Dubai people 1622 01:29:14,069 --> 01:29:17,939 because there's a Dubai trading desk, and of London does a group 1623 01:29:17,939 --> 01:29:20,639 in London and those are the guys doing all the all the heavy 1624 01:29:20,639 --> 01:29:23,489 lifting in this. And then he named two other American 1625 01:29:23,489 --> 01:29:28,619 companies, Goldman Sachs, and and what's the other one? 1626 01:29:29,159 --> 01:29:32,489 Goldman Sachs and Amen bears? No, it wasn't lame, and it was 1627 01:29:32,489 --> 01:29:35,369 the it was one of the ones that seemed to be unscathed, think 1628 01:29:35,369 --> 01:29:39,659 about it. But anyway, these two American you know, investment 1629 01:29:39,659 --> 01:29:43,229 bankers they said Morgan Stanley, he said he said Goldman 1630 01:29:43,229 --> 01:29:47,639 Sachs and Morgan Stanley are in up to their ears in the in this 1631 01:29:47,639 --> 01:29:52,199 oil scam. So when he says, go ahead, and until they changed 1632 01:29:52,199 --> 01:29:55,709 the law, were the words they have to you know, get these guys 1633 01:29:55,709 --> 01:29:58,739 back under regulation because they're speculating with you 1634 01:29:58,739 --> 01:30:02,339 know, essentially There's no money. I mean, they're just 1635 01:30:02,369 --> 01:30:06,389 essentially dry running this thing up, like, like crazy. So 1636 01:30:06,690 --> 01:30:10,110 what I understand is that it's gotten so out of control, that 1637 01:30:10,110 --> 01:30:13,650 there's actually tankers off the coast of have multiple 1638 01:30:13,650 --> 01:30:17,400 countries, including the US filled with oil just waiting to 1639 01:30:17,400 --> 01:30:21,450 unload. You know, the minute the minute they're at the, at the 1640 01:30:21,450 --> 01:30:24,060 peak of the game, you know, so, at certain point, everyone's 1641 01:30:24,060 --> 01:30:27,300 going to flip around and start selling, right? Yeah, they have 1642 01:30:27,300 --> 01:30:31,140 to. So there's apparently there's even a shortage of 1643 01:30:31,140 --> 01:30:33,630 tanker space right now, because these tankers are just at 1644 01:30:33,630 --> 01:30:36,960 anchor, waiting to rush into a port to offload. 1645 01:30:37,560 --> 01:30:40,560 Well, you know, this is the problem. And everybody knows 1646 01:30:40,560 --> 01:30:43,110 that there's some, you know, 80 billion barrels a day, some huge 1647 01:30:43,110 --> 01:30:45,510 number of oil that's actually coming out of the ground and has 1648 01:30:45,510 --> 01:30:48,090 to go someplace, and it has to go through the system and the 1649 01:30:48,090 --> 01:30:51,870 American has, in particular, I think we've dropped off 4% 5% of 1650 01:30:51,930 --> 01:30:53,760 them, it just doesn't sound like much, but it's 1651 01:30:53,880 --> 01:30:56,220 just like, you know, like 300,000 barrels a day or 1652 01:30:56,220 --> 01:30:56,640 something. 1653 01:30:56,670 --> 01:30:59,280 It's millions of barrels of the overall dead, you know, we're 1654 01:30:59,280 --> 01:31:02,490 not soaking up anymore, because we just people are, you know, I 1655 01:31:02,490 --> 01:31:05,520 noticed this when I commute to San Francisco. It's like, wow, 1656 01:31:05,520 --> 01:31:08,100 this is the way it ought to be. There's there's not as crowded 1657 01:31:08,100 --> 01:31:08,340 on 1658 01:31:08,340 --> 01:31:11,970 so yeah, no one's working. There's no jobs. Everyone's not 1659 01:31:11,970 --> 01:31:12,420 driving. 1660 01:31:13,470 --> 01:31:18,900 Buses, America. Fuck yeah. Here to save the motherfucking day. 1661 01:31:18,900 --> 01:31:19,380 Yeah. 1662 01:31:19,770 --> 01:31:24,660 Okay, so people, by the way, complain when you sing as they 1663 01:31:24,660 --> 01:31:29,040 should. So you've never heard me sing, then they really complain. 1664 01:31:29,310 --> 01:31:33,300 So So yeah, there's a problem. And so they I'm sure that all 1665 01:31:33,300 --> 01:31:36,240 these tanks had all the refiners and everything must be filled to 1666 01:31:36,240 --> 01:31:39,570 the brim. And you know, we can't this can't go on much longer 1667 01:31:39,570 --> 01:31:42,330 because at some point you have oil starts just being dumped on 1668 01:31:42,330 --> 01:31:45,510 the on the dirt in our something because you can't you know, it's 1669 01:31:45,510 --> 01:31:48,330 it's a it's a continuous process. It's not like these 1670 01:31:48,360 --> 01:31:51,240 contracts, you're buying commodities, you know, yeah, 1671 01:31:51,240 --> 01:31:53,820 it's, it's on paper, but at a certain point, it's like, 1672 01:31:53,850 --> 01:31:58,500 alright, pay me and deliver. Right, that's how it goes right. 1673 01:31:58,619 --> 01:32:01,919 Now this latest run up the I when I was at the thing with the 1674 01:32:01,919 --> 01:32:05,819 market watch guys, we had one guy who was the CEO of minion 1675 01:32:05,819 --> 01:32:10,229 Ville, and he was who was also a columnist for us, Todd, and he 1676 01:32:10,229 --> 01:32:14,279 was it was a really typical stock trader, he was on the 1677 01:32:14,279 --> 01:32:18,629 machine. And he was short on some energy futures and some but 1678 01:32:18,629 --> 01:32:21,599 he had to monitor it by the second so he's basically what 1679 01:32:21,599 --> 01:32:24,929 everyone else is talking about things he was like, he would say 1680 01:32:24,929 --> 01:32:27,719 something in check to check the chart and say something because 1681 01:32:27,719 --> 01:32:29,519 he was had to be a minute by minute thing because he knew it 1682 01:32:29,519 --> 01:32:33,389 was a little risky. His position because oil had was dipping that 1683 01:32:33,389 --> 01:32:38,819 day. And But anyway, he was you know, he was on top of this and 1684 01:32:39,059 --> 01:32:42,899 it felt that there was some some something screwy going on. And 1685 01:32:42,929 --> 01:32:45,599 he didn't have the opportunity to watch this hearing. And I 1686 01:32:45,599 --> 01:32:48,779 don't think a lot of people did, but it was fascinating. But the 1687 01:32:48,779 --> 01:32:51,539 thing that I was thinking when the thing took this big jump 1688 01:32:53,309 --> 01:32:56,039 way, the biggest jump in history, like the other day 1689 01:32:56,039 --> 01:32:59,909 yesterday, I'm thinking and of course it's sunk the market 400 1690 01:32:59,909 --> 01:33:03,929 points. I'm thinking that maybe this is the death knell because 1691 01:33:03,929 --> 01:33:07,049 at some point, you know, let's just do everything we can to get 1692 01:33:07,049 --> 01:33:10,409 it up to as high as we can as far as we can and then get out I 1693 01:33:10,409 --> 01:33:13,799 think that the I think may that might have been it possibly I 1694 01:33:13,800 --> 01:33:17,970 had exactly the same response only I'm going to take it one 1695 01:33:17,970 --> 01:33:22,380 step further. I think it was a test and they popped it and 1696 01:33:22,380 --> 01:33:24,930 they're like oh shit and you know because everyone's spec so 1697 01:33:24,930 --> 01:33:28,380 $150 is the next psychological barrier that will freak 1698 01:33:28,380 --> 01:33:32,220 everybody out. I think they they're gonna try for 200 1699 01:33:32,370 --> 01:33:36,030 because they there's no downside the credit the credit crisis 1700 01:33:36,030 --> 01:33:39,600 just show show that so what Yeah, so what if if it blows up 1701 01:33:39,600 --> 01:33:41,610 and Yeah, they'll get bailed out or somewhere happened or 1702 01:33:41,610 --> 01:33:45,870 whatever? I think they're gonna go for 200 And that's the pop 1703 01:33:45,900 --> 01:33:48,750 then all sudden this oil comes rushing in from your end up 1704 01:33:48,750 --> 01:33:49,140 ports 1705 01:33:49,170 --> 01:33:52,530 all over the place. romps the country we get back to $2 a 1706 01:33:52,530 --> 01:33:53,310 gallon Oh man, 1707 01:33:53,310 --> 01:34:00,330 it's gonna drop like an MF the dollar is gonna go sky high and 1708 01:34:00,450 --> 01:34:03,510 John you know I like what you said I think it's actually makes 1709 01:34:03,510 --> 01:34:06,780 more sense because the downside there dude yeah, no, no, 1710 01:34:06,780 --> 01:34:07,410 no, you're right. I 1711 01:34:07,410 --> 01:34:10,200 was thinking small you're right you got the right I think you're 1712 01:34:10,200 --> 01:34:10,650 right it's 1713 01:34:10,680 --> 01:34:13,410 that's the difference John between you and me? You think 1714 01:34:13,410 --> 01:34:14,610 small my friend. 1715 01:34:16,830 --> 01:34:19,710 Yeah, you might be right. They might just be saying okay, screw 1716 01:34:19,710 --> 01:34:23,670 it. We're just gonna take it to the wall. blows up. 1717 01:34:23,970 --> 01:34:27,420 Let's let's end it on that note. We're over an hour and a half. 1718 01:34:28,530 --> 01:34:29,940 That's what people complain about. 1719 01:34:31,410 --> 01:34:33,390 Actually, they don't I know they love it. 1720 01:34:35,220 --> 01:34:39,900 Ah, yes. Well, we'll see what happens. So what are the things 1721 01:34:39,900 --> 01:34:43,470 we need to look out for you have a lot to blog today John? Way 1722 01:34:43,470 --> 01:34:47,970 too much. Yeah, but so it's not over with Clinton yet. I we I 1723 01:34:47,970 --> 01:34:50,580 think we both agree on that. It's not over yet. Who knows 1724 01:34:50,580 --> 01:34:54,000 what they'll come up with. But it's not over with oil and it's 1725 01:34:54,000 --> 01:34:56,910 definitely not over with oil. They're gonna go for 200 It'll 1726 01:34:56,910 --> 01:34:58,560 be interesting to see if they make it because you know the 1727 01:34:58,560 --> 01:35:02,010 future the some of the contracts are already written so they 1728 01:35:02,010 --> 01:35:08,010 would make sense. And crap. I know you around this week. 1729 01:35:09,389 --> 01:35:11,879 I have to go to Michigan for a couple days. We'll be back on 1730 01:35:11,879 --> 01:35:15,269 Wednesday. Okay, giving us a talk about, you know, the future 1731 01:35:15,269 --> 01:35:17,069 of newspapers to a publishing group up there. 1732 01:35:17,640 --> 01:35:19,740 And that's your That's your new speech. Right. That's your new 1733 01:35:19,740 --> 01:35:20,130 thing. 1734 01:35:20,609 --> 01:35:21,539 Yeah, that's one of them. 1735 01:35:22,319 --> 01:35:24,389 You're gonna send me that. I want to see I want to see your 1736 01:35:24,389 --> 01:35:24,629 speech. 1737 01:35:25,079 --> 01:35:26,279 I'm finishing it today. 1738 01:35:27,209 --> 01:35:29,819 I thought you I thought you had already done this just recently. 1739 01:35:30,059 --> 01:35:33,239 I have but I got this. Now. I have a slideshow to go with it. 1740 01:35:33,239 --> 01:35:35,759 That's, that's a little more advanced. Wow. 1741 01:35:36,539 --> 01:35:38,849 When one's in the neighbourhood, would you get me an invite? I'd 1742 01:35:38,849 --> 01:35:42,779 love to see one of your shows. One of your gigs. Yeah, 1743 01:35:42,779 --> 01:35:45,749 absolutely. Do you sell merch? If like T shirts. 1744 01:35:46,199 --> 01:35:48,479 Now, you know, people say well, you should be selling books at 1745 01:35:48,479 --> 01:35:51,659 these things. And stuff to schlep. You know, I'm like a 1746 01:35:51,659 --> 01:35:54,329 light traveller. Yeah. 1747 01:35:55,380 --> 01:35:56,610 As a joke in that too. 1748 01:35:57,540 --> 01:35:57,990 Hey, 1749 01:35:58,980 --> 01:36:03,810 All right, everybody. This is it. we're winding down the show 1750 01:36:03,810 --> 01:36:06,990 once again from Guilford in the United Kingdom. I'm Adam curry. 1751 01:36:07,560 --> 01:36:10,500 And out here in Northern California, a nice sunny day, by 1752 01:36:10,500 --> 01:36:12,240 the way. I'm John C. Dvorak. 1753 01:36:12,270 --> 01:36:14,460 We'll talk to you again next week on no agenda.