1 00:00:03,870 --> 00:00:07,590 Adam curry, John C. Dvorak coming to you from both sides of 2 00:00:07,590 --> 00:00:12,330 Gitmo nation. This is no agenda for Sunday, February 22 2009. 3 00:00:12,540 --> 00:00:17,430 This is no agenda from Gitmo nation east in southwest London 4 00:00:17,490 --> 00:00:21,690 safe and secure in the crackpot command center. I'm Adam curry. 5 00:00:23,190 --> 00:00:24,420 And I'm John C. Dvorak. 6 00:00:24,930 --> 00:00:26,610 Oh, give me a little more than that. 7 00:00:27,750 --> 00:00:28,590 Well, that's it. 8 00:00:28,649 --> 00:00:30,329 But aren't you don't you have a location? 9 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:34,380 I am in northern Silicon Valley in the Git foundation 10 00:00:40,470 --> 00:00:42,060 you're supposed to fill it up, man. 11 00:00:43,380 --> 00:00:50,970 Give me a rehearsal on this crazy. Still sounds like I don't 12 00:00:50,970 --> 00:00:54,000 know. What is this? Is this the cue? I don't know. Let me just 13 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:55,020 trust that man. 14 00:00:55,020 --> 00:00:57,630 After I say I'm Adam curry thing you're supposed to save from 15 00:00:57,660 --> 00:00:58,710 Northern. Yeah, no, I 16 00:00:58,710 --> 00:01:02,490 got that part. I may hit it, but I didn't hit you know, whatever. 17 00:01:02,550 --> 00:01:04,740 Okay, well, I get it right. Let's go and do it again. 18 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:07,530 No, no, no, I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. Well, we'll do better 19 00:01:07,530 --> 00:01:10,680 next week. It'll be a surprise and love to change it a little 20 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:16,680 bit every single time. So you are in the absolute northwestern 21 00:01:16,710 --> 00:01:19,710 corner of Gitmo nation today. Yeah, this 22 00:01:19,709 --> 00:01:22,919 is northern northern get more nation Silicon Valley. This is 23 00:01:22,919 --> 00:01:25,859 actually Silicon Valley, northeast Microsoft country. 24 00:01:25,890 --> 00:01:29,580 Oh, that's true. It is Microsoft country. Yeah. Up in the divorce 25 00:01:29,610 --> 00:01:30,660 compound. 26 00:01:31,589 --> 00:01:39,899 Exactly. Well, John, what's been happening with you? Right, we're 27 00:01:39,899 --> 00:01:44,129 just up you're freezing to death. And yeah, much going on. 28 00:01:44,159 --> 00:01:47,549 We had beautiful, absolutely stunning weather yesterday, here 29 00:01:47,549 --> 00:01:50,999 and on the continent, and my aircraft is due for its annual 30 00:01:50,999 --> 00:01:54,839 in March. So I decided to fly it over to Antwerp. And it was 31 00:01:54,839 --> 00:01:57,719 great. I'm flown in four months. So it was really it was fun. 32 00:01:59,219 --> 00:02:03,809 Moved to Antwerp. Oh, Antwerp is where my my flight instructor 33 00:02:03,809 --> 00:02:05,399 and mechanic has his hangar. 34 00:02:06,420 --> 00:02:09,150 Did you leave the plane behind? Yeah, well, so 35 00:02:09,150 --> 00:02:14,160 what you do is I fly over, and then pick up either my 36 00:02:15,030 --> 00:02:18,750 instructor slash mechanic and he'll fly back or some if he's 37 00:02:18,750 --> 00:02:21,300 busy, then they'll have some other pilot and then they'll fly 38 00:02:21,300 --> 00:02:24,210 back with me. And then I'll be back in the UK. Then he takes 39 00:02:24,210 --> 00:02:29,340 the plane back. You did that? Yeah. Yeah. So I flew back and 40 00:02:29,340 --> 00:02:34,800 forth. It was beautiful. 5500 feet all the way. It was just 41 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:37,740 fantastic. It was really, really nice. No, I don't pre announce 42 00:02:37,740 --> 00:02:40,380 any more when I'm going flying for some obvious reasons. 43 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,130 You're paranoid freak. So 44 00:02:46,350 --> 00:02:47,580 I love you too, honey. 45 00:02:50,190 --> 00:02:53,880 But the you thought the file flight plans it wouldn't take 46 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:57,690 that much to figure out what's going on? Somebody wanted to? 47 00:02:58,380 --> 00:03:01,800 Well, yeah, if you want zapped me out of the sky, but you know, 48 00:03:01,980 --> 00:03:04,920 it gives a little less preparation time for some actual 49 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:06,420 sabotage. 50 00:03:07,109 --> 00:03:11,399 So if you're, if you're flying at 5500 feet, which is a really 51 00:03:11,399 --> 00:03:17,039 low, you know, relatively low altitude or your is your plane 52 00:03:17,039 --> 00:03:21,479 have it has plastic windows, I'm sure but are they clear enough 53 00:03:21,479 --> 00:03:24,149 to take photos out of Is it a good plane to take pictures from 54 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:26,790 it's actually an excellent plane to take pictures out of because 55 00:03:26,790 --> 00:03:30,930 it's a high wing? So all all the windows all round you have 56 00:03:30,930 --> 00:03:33,690 complete clear view down to the ground. It's a fantastic plane 57 00:03:33,690 --> 00:03:34,410 for that. Yeah. 58 00:03:35,100 --> 00:03:40,440 Is it but is it cloudy? Or you know, kind of scratched window? 59 00:03:41,790 --> 00:03:43,770 Pretty scratched and it is that was like 60 00:03:43,829 --> 00:03:48,749 I know in fact, it's not No it's a nice aircraft John and it has 61 00:03:48,749 --> 00:03:52,229 great windows and it's we can even if you want I can even take 62 00:03:52,229 --> 00:03:55,349 a door off you can just sit there and take pictures and we 63 00:03:55,349 --> 00:03:58,439 can fly around. Because again, it's a high wing and you can 64 00:03:58,439 --> 00:04:02,249 tilt it to kind of a continuous tilt angle. It's perfect for 65 00:04:02,249 --> 00:04:05,219 that stuff. Okay, but if you really want to take good 66 00:04:05,219 --> 00:04:10,169 pictures a guy I know at the airport has I think a Seneca 67 00:04:10,169 --> 00:04:13,739 twin Seneca with a hole in the back and a whole mount system so 68 00:04:13,739 --> 00:04:17,639 you can just literally you know, either kneel or sit or crouch or 69 00:04:17,639 --> 00:04:20,609 lay down if you want and stick your lens out through the hole 70 00:04:20,609 --> 00:04:25,049 on the bottom. Which is the best way that they do it 71 00:04:25,049 --> 00:04:27,419 professionally. Aerial Photography. That's yeah, yeah. 72 00:04:27,419 --> 00:04:27,749 No, I'd 73 00:04:27,750 --> 00:04:29,160 love to do that. Yeah, there's 74 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,610 another guy there who does imaging they do high I mean 75 00:04:32,610 --> 00:04:38,280 super high resolution imaging of high voltage wires. But I'm but 76 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:43,410 I'm talking it's super resolution. Yeah. And they get 77 00:04:43,410 --> 00:04:46,140 every single point of this all these data points essentially 78 00:04:46,140 --> 00:04:50,280 you see a wireframe of what's on the ground of these high tension 79 00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:53,820 wires, but it's it's all geo mapping. It's pretty cool stuff. 80 00:04:54,540 --> 00:04:57,810 Got good toys out there. Good toys. 81 00:04:58,230 --> 00:05:00,870 Yeah, like you do that because it's Have you taken a lot of 82 00:05:00,900 --> 00:05:04,140 I've taken a lot of aerial shots now and again, but not really 83 00:05:04,140 --> 00:05:07,110 set up, you know, not in a plane that's actually set up for it. 84 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:14,700 Well, oh, man, that headset it's I'm trying to adjust it. I mean 85 00:05:14,700 --> 00:05:18,060 it would it would it? Would it be hard to get a duplicate setup 86 00:05:18,060 --> 00:05:20,760 in Seattle and you're gonna wind up living there eventually full 87 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:22,890 time anyway, you might as well don't set up the studio 88 00:05:22,890 --> 00:05:23,490 properly. 89 00:05:23,969 --> 00:05:27,989 Yeah, no, I'm going to do that. Okay, good. The problem is today 90 00:05:28,019 --> 00:05:32,999 with one of the problems today is that the this machine had a 91 00:05:32,999 --> 00:05:37,769 couple of those Seagate drives. Yeah, blew up. And so the 92 00:05:37,769 --> 00:05:41,129 machine had to be rebuilt and one of the soundboard is shot 93 00:05:41,699 --> 00:05:46,109 for some reason, and needs new drivers or some so instead of 94 00:05:46,109 --> 00:05:49,829 the machines not ready ready for to be thrown up. So I can 95 00:05:50,070 --> 00:05:53,520 well, you sound significantly shittier than normal. Yeah, 96 00:05:53,550 --> 00:05:57,570 well, I'm normally I'm running through a $400 mic and a 97 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:01,590 compressor and a real gear. This is going through a $25 thing. 98 00:06:03,750 --> 00:06:07,920 Noticeably, so yeah. So a couple of big stories that we didn't 99 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:10,800 talk about on Thursday, which, you know, because we did focus a 100 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:15,870 lot on US politics and Obama. And I think we feel we've 101 00:06:15,870 --> 00:06:18,840 neglected some other parts of the world, although this does 102 00:06:18,840 --> 00:06:22,770 tie into the states as well. A big story that is there's now 103 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:26,970 action being undertaken online, which I consider to be 104 00:06:26,970 --> 00:06:31,590 completely senseless. This blackout for New Zealand if 105 00:06:31,590 --> 00:06:32,580 you've been following that. 106 00:06:33,060 --> 00:06:35,940 Yeah, apparently the New Zealanders have they're gonna 107 00:06:35,940 --> 00:06:39,660 put some law in place that's censorship thing of some sort. 108 00:06:40,230 --> 00:06:47,130 And so to to protest this, the meaningless use of black icons 109 00:06:47,460 --> 00:06:50,130 on Twitter, among others. Apparently, you're supposed to 110 00:06:50,130 --> 00:06:55,050 do it everywhere is been encouraged. This reminds me if 111 00:06:55,050 --> 00:06:58,560 you remember some years ago when the use of the black websites 112 00:06:58,590 --> 00:07:02,040 Yeah, oh, this this has happened many times in the past 2025 113 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:06,840 years. It accomplishes nothing. Yeah, it makes it hard to read. 114 00:07:08,940 --> 00:07:12,900 To write with the blank websites, but these little black 115 00:07:12,900 --> 00:07:16,620 icons i i somebody said you're gonna put a black icon up and 116 00:07:17,250 --> 00:07:18,990 answer by No, I'll write a column. Do you think that's 117 00:07:18,990 --> 00:07:21,120 maybe a better idea? Exactly. 118 00:07:21,180 --> 00:07:26,850 Oh, thank you. Thank you. This is this is a part of this new 119 00:07:26,850 --> 00:07:32,880 activism. You know, it's like we feel so satisfied. If we've done 120 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:36,030 something hey, man, at least I did some. No, I made my icon 121 00:07:36,030 --> 00:07:38,400 black. That'll really change the world. 122 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:43,920 It's the it's the online equivalent of an armband. Yeah. 123 00:07:44,700 --> 00:07:48,930 Yeah, that's a that's your right. A black armband. We used 124 00:07:48,930 --> 00:07:52,410 to have those a lot to back in the 70s. That was a kind of a 125 00:07:52,410 --> 00:07:53,460 regular occurrence. 126 00:07:53,820 --> 00:07:59,790 Right? That morphed into yellow ribbons. And around the old 127 00:07:59,820 --> 00:08:02,760 starting with the old oak tree, so you have these ribbons around 128 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:08,730 trees. And then they little, the little dinky the mini ribbons 129 00:08:08,730 --> 00:08:14,280 showed up on the as a as a pin, a lapel pin, right? Yeah. And 130 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:16,650 then that morphed and then of course, we got the AIDS ribbon. 131 00:08:16,650 --> 00:08:20,130 Yep, yeah, that worked into the AIDS ribbon. And then that 132 00:08:20,130 --> 00:08:27,090 morphed into the cheap rubber band bracelet the bracelets 133 00:08:27,090 --> 00:08:32,940 right which of course contain high RFID tracking units. 134 00:08:34,620 --> 00:08:40,950 Were were they that expensive? And and then the that started 135 00:08:40,950 --> 00:08:44,340 with the yellow one, of course, yellow was operative, and maybe 136 00:08:44,340 --> 00:08:47,880 we should have yellow icons instead of black. That would 137 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:49,680 have made more sense in the in the fractal. 138 00:08:49,860 --> 00:08:52,860 But let's let's just let's just take a tally here. Have we 139 00:08:52,860 --> 00:08:55,980 stopped aids? Have we stopped war? Have we stopped 140 00:08:57,450 --> 00:08:58,170 homelessness? 141 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:01,380 That's another good one. No, of course not. I agree. John, 142 00:09:01,410 --> 00:09:02,820 please write a great column. 143 00:09:04,770 --> 00:09:09,360 Yeah, writing and bitching in MIG public scene is more 144 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:15,090 interesting than passive activity like black icons. I 145 00:09:15,090 --> 00:09:17,940 mean, it's nice. I guess it's you know, shows solidarity. So 146 00:09:17,940 --> 00:09:21,930 what? Anyway, what's in the news? 147 00:09:22,380 --> 00:09:24,690 What's in the news? Oh, man, there's so much in the news. 148 00:09:24,690 --> 00:09:28,020 Well, actually, the I was just going to tack on to that and say 149 00:09:28,020 --> 00:09:31,470 that it's kind of amazing because with every day, I see 150 00:09:31,470 --> 00:09:34,740 how the internet is actually functioning in fantastic ways. 151 00:09:35,340 --> 00:09:40,140 And how the the established elite totally underestimate the 152 00:09:40,140 --> 00:09:43,200 power of the internet and you couldn't see this happening now 153 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:46,590 with Obama. You know, it's it's just, he's even a part of it 154 00:09:46,590 --> 00:09:49,320 with this whole calling out thing of mayors and governors 155 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:54,210 I'm gonna call you out is the internet is basically one big 156 00:09:54,210 --> 00:09:58,290 calling out machine. So when you use the internet, and you 157 00:09:58,290 --> 00:10:01,200 promise a whole bunch of things, but ticularly when you promise 158 00:10:01,260 --> 00:10:05,340 internet related stuff, like, I'll be twittering, which of 159 00:10:05,340 --> 00:10:08,940 course stopped. I think the last time he tweeted, Obama twittered 160 00:10:08,940 --> 00:10:11,130 was that after he got elected, 161 00:10:11,670 --> 00:10:14,370 is that right? He'd been even as people aren't twittering for him 162 00:10:14,370 --> 00:10:15,870 because he was never really twittering. 163 00:10:17,220 --> 00:10:23,520 What is He? Is he the real Obama? It's just Barack Obama, 164 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:26,670 isn't it? I think so. Yeah, I follow it. And I haven't seen 165 00:10:26,670 --> 00:10:30,150 anything. So let me just see what, what pops up here in my 166 00:10:30,150 --> 00:10:38,430 Tweet Deck. Here at Barack Obama. Let's see what the last 167 00:10:38,430 --> 00:10:47,040 post was. No, no, the last post was January 19. There you go. 168 00:10:47,970 --> 00:10:49,590 I'm looking at it now asking you to 169 00:10:49,590 --> 00:10:51,390 honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 170 00:10:54,330 --> 00:10:56,190 So that's a while ago. 171 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,220 Now if you do Joe Biden, it's even funnier. Joe Biden 172 00:10:59,220 --> 00:11:01,560 literally hasn't twittered in a year or his people. 173 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:03,719 Joe Biden doesn't even know what Twitter is? 174 00:11:03,900 --> 00:11:06,990 Well, I'll tell you, you know, I actually pulled the soundbite 175 00:11:07,290 --> 00:11:12,090 Robert Gibbs, who is the press secretary, started off. And I 176 00:11:12,090 --> 00:11:15,540 watch these religiously, because it's just great entertainment. 177 00:11:15,540 --> 00:11:21,030 People, please go to C span. C span.org. It's the entertainment 178 00:11:21,030 --> 00:11:24,300 is there ready for you? And listen to how we started off the 179 00:11:25,170 --> 00:11:29,280 the Friday morning press briefing is what it's called 180 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:29,910 press briefing. 181 00:11:29,940 --> 00:11:37,740 It has been amusing this week to read the many press releases and 182 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:45,000 Twitter comments on those that found the stimulus on C span 183 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,220 during the vote. Interesting, huh? 184 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:51,390 So they're, they're listening. 185 00:11:51,930 --> 00:11:53,910 Yeah, they're monitoring Twitter, obviously, for some 186 00:11:53,910 --> 00:11:55,530 reason. Well, 187 00:11:55,860 --> 00:11:58,770 this, hopefully for the same reason I'm monitoring Twitter, 188 00:11:58,770 --> 00:12:01,410 as it says, This is how he find out what people are interested 189 00:12:01,410 --> 00:12:03,300 in. Well, at least 190 00:12:03,450 --> 00:12:08,880 a sub segment. I mean, let's be real here. I mean, the average 191 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:13,860 Twitter user is not the average American. Yeah. And we're 192 00:12:13,860 --> 00:12:17,460 actually here in Port Angeles, we have this is where the 193 00:12:17,460 --> 00:12:19,890 average American is, it's one of the great tests or one of the 194 00:12:19,890 --> 00:12:22,380 good reasons to be here. It's one of the great test markets 195 00:12:22,890 --> 00:12:26,640 of, of the United States. And in fact, the Pacific Northwest is 196 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:30,750 generally this is a test market. Seattle, is notoriously used by 197 00:12:30,750 --> 00:12:35,130 Hollywood as a test market for films. The films are successful 198 00:12:35,130 --> 00:12:38,940 in Seattle, they should be in testing, they should be 199 00:12:38,940 --> 00:12:41,820 successful throughout the country. But this area here, 200 00:12:42,510 --> 00:12:45,180 although I've run into errors that are also the same within 201 00:12:45,180 --> 00:12:47,160 the Midwest, I've seen these towns, you can spot them a mile 202 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:50,070 away, because they test weird stuff, you'll find like here, 203 00:12:50,070 --> 00:12:54,930 they had a McDonald's that had for a while they had a self 204 00:12:54,930 --> 00:13:00,150 service counter for adding stuff to the hamburger. So you could 205 00:13:00,150 --> 00:13:03,270 buy like a 99 cent cheeseburger, and you could load it up with 206 00:13:03,270 --> 00:13:05,640 tomatoes and lettuce, and you could make it into whatever you 207 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:09,630 want it. And that kind of in the course they dead got swapped out 208 00:13:09,630 --> 00:13:14,370 for something another test. And so it's an interesting place. 209 00:13:14,370 --> 00:13:17,520 And I can, I can assure you that the number of Twitter users up 210 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:18,660 here is about eight. 211 00:13:20,940 --> 00:13:22,170 But they all follow you. 212 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:25,590 I'm sure they do. Because I mean, a couple of I know they 213 00:13:25,590 --> 00:13:27,750 do, because they're always talking about I went to the deli 214 00:13:27,750 --> 00:13:29,460 today they keep keep tabs on, 215 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:32,940 you know, you bring up an interesting point. And this was 216 00:13:32,940 --> 00:13:36,840 accentuated even more we've been emailing back and forth over the 217 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:41,790 past couple of days about the New York Post cartoon racism, 218 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:49,680 controversy. And I, and I think I even said, Oh, wow, man, I 219 00:13:49,680 --> 00:13:52,020 don't know if we want to talk about this. Because it's such a 220 00:13:52,020 --> 00:13:56,010 it's such a loaded topic, but it all of a sudden, it dawned on me 221 00:13:56,820 --> 00:14:01,680 that, and it's really sad to have to realize this, that the 222 00:14:01,680 --> 00:14:08,010 people do not understand who makes up the law, and who makes 223 00:14:08,790 --> 00:14:14,010 things happen. Because when you look at a cartoon, and you 224 00:14:14,010 --> 00:14:18,090 associate the chimpanzee being shot with Obama and consider 225 00:14:18,090 --> 00:14:22,620 that racist, that means that deep inside of you, you really 226 00:14:22,620 --> 00:14:25,890 believe that Obama made wrote the stimulus package, which of 227 00:14:25,890 --> 00:14:29,100 course he did not this is what your your government does what 228 00:14:29,100 --> 00:14:32,700 Congress in the Senate does. And they are of course, the chimps 229 00:14:32,700 --> 00:14:36,510 who should have been shot dead. And then just to see the 230 00:14:36,510 --> 00:14:41,280 protest, and people in their own mind justly outraged because 231 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:45,240 they really make that association proves that people 232 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:47,610 have it because when I saw it, I'm like, pants kind of funny. 233 00:14:47,610 --> 00:14:50,310 Yeah, of course. Yeah. And I'm the way when I see the dead 234 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:54,060 chimpanzee, I'm thinking yeah, like some shitty ass lawyer 235 00:14:54,060 --> 00:14:56,250 who's been writing this thing for three months while they were 236 00:14:56,250 --> 00:14:59,490 preparing for it, you know, and all these other dipshits copying 237 00:14:59,490 --> 00:15:01,650 stuff and I just Have a whole different vision, I don't see 238 00:15:01,650 --> 00:15:05,190 Obama writing the stimulus package at all. 239 00:15:05,580 --> 00:15:07,650 I mean, there's a couple of interesting things about this 240 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:11,880 monkey cartoon one. Of course it had, it was a call back to the 241 00:15:12,450 --> 00:15:17,970 killing of a chimp, by the police. That was apparently the 242 00:15:17,970 --> 00:15:23,070 chimp was attacking somebody. It was a Pet Pet champ. And so they 243 00:15:23,070 --> 00:15:26,730 shot it dead. And so that was the call back, although the make 244 00:15:26,730 --> 00:15:31,080 the call back work as a cartoon. I think I looked at this cartoon 245 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:32,850 a couple of times. And I was thinking, you know, if they 246 00:15:32,850 --> 00:15:36,360 didn't want to do anything about it, it was just a standalone 247 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,240 without the callback to the dead Chimp, they would have just had 248 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:42,270 a Bozo the Clown with two bullets in him. She'd been the 249 00:15:42,270 --> 00:15:46,200 same same gay basically right to make. But to make this gag work 250 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:49,410 better or to have made it work better, the chimp should have 251 00:15:49,410 --> 00:15:52,980 had a diaper on him. Because the chimp that was shot dead had a 252 00:15:52,980 --> 00:15:55,950 diaper. So the cartoon has made a blunder there. That should 253 00:15:55,950 --> 00:15:59,190 kind of ruin the callback. Now. The other thing is, in fact, 254 00:15:59,190 --> 00:16:04,380 Eric pointed this out, he says we he says this is ridiculous. 255 00:16:04,620 --> 00:16:08,850 Distraction. There's all this, you know, controversy going on 256 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:11,070 about the stimulus package and some other stuff. And now it's 257 00:16:11,070 --> 00:16:14,910 about the cartoon is like the Danish Muslim cartoons. Yes. 258 00:16:15,570 --> 00:16:18,630 Everybody's all up in arms about and, and now. It's just another, 259 00:16:18,630 --> 00:16:21,330 you know, example of somebody coming along. Obviously, he's 260 00:16:21,330 --> 00:16:24,300 been listening to our show long enough to start coming up with 261 00:16:24,300 --> 00:16:25,380 this kind of thing. 262 00:16:26,610 --> 00:16:29,730 He's come over to the dark side, which is that 263 00:16:29,730 --> 00:16:32,760 this is just a it was maybe it was even put in there on 264 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:33,450 purpose. 265 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:36,900 Well, thank you. You know, who owns the New York Post? Right? 266 00:16:37,350 --> 00:16:37,560 Yeah, 267 00:16:37,559 --> 00:16:41,129 Murdoch. Yeah. And so I mean, put on purpose. And that 268 00:16:41,159 --> 00:16:45,869 definitely takes heat off of the the real political discussion 269 00:16:45,869 --> 00:16:50,249 about the stimulus package, or the bailout of the bankers and 270 00:16:50,249 --> 00:16:52,259 all these other things that we should be talking about, rather 271 00:16:52,259 --> 00:16:55,319 than talking about an idiotic cartoon. And so Gregory, 272 00:16:55,319 --> 00:16:59,579 Mohammed, one of our listeners, who is always providing me with 273 00:16:59,579 --> 00:17:03,479 some cool stuff, he sends me the update from John Legend page, 274 00:17:03,479 --> 00:17:06,359 which is an open letter to the New York Post let John Legend Of 275 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:11,159 course, being a another musician, you know, has to get 276 00:17:11,159 --> 00:17:13,949 involved, you know, wish musicians would just, 277 00:17:14,459 --> 00:17:18,599 you know, there is this the John, which John Legend is this, 278 00:17:18,719 --> 00:17:19,169 who is the 279 00:17:19,170 --> 00:17:22,470 guy plays the piano, and he's really, you know, he became a, 280 00:17:22,710 --> 00:17:29,250 he's like a lounge act as extremely popular. And Amy and I 281 00:17:29,460 --> 00:17:33,570 say, you know, about a year or two ago, and he's like, huge. 282 00:17:34,050 --> 00:17:36,540 Anyway, it goes on and on with his long, I'm not gonna read the 283 00:17:36,540 --> 00:17:39,330 whole thing. It goes on forever. He just goes, but it's just 284 00:17:39,330 --> 00:17:42,540 like, scathing, you should print an apology in your prep and 285 00:17:42,540 --> 00:17:46,500 dodged the cartoon was ignorant, offensive and racist that should 286 00:17:46,500 --> 00:17:48,660 not have been printed. I'm aware. It could be just your 287 00:17:48,660 --> 00:17:52,350 racism and violence, violence, violence. I truly believe we're 288 00:17:52,350 --> 00:17:55,440 better than this filth, as we attempt to rise above our 289 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:58,230 difficult paths and look toward a better future. We don't need 290 00:17:58,230 --> 00:18:01,620 the New York Post or resurrect the images of Jim Crow. Yeah, 291 00:18:01,620 --> 00:18:01,770 but 292 00:18:01,770 --> 00:18:06,000 this is, this is offensive, because it hadn't. If anything, 293 00:18:06,360 --> 00:18:09,060 the New York Post should apologize for just not being all 294 00:18:09,060 --> 00:18:11,940 that great. You know, it was a stretch. It wasn't well 295 00:18:11,940 --> 00:18:17,850 executed. But I don't believe it was. It was meant as a racist 296 00:18:17,850 --> 00:18:18,780 cartoon. 297 00:18:19,650 --> 00:18:22,260 Well, probably wasn't. I mean, why would it be? I mean, you 298 00:18:22,260 --> 00:18:23,460 wouldn't do run a cartoon. 299 00:18:23,940 --> 00:18:27,150 Crazy, of course, right? Stupid. But you 300 00:18:27,150 --> 00:18:29,880 know, you're gonna start to see this kind of response to just 301 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:32,760 about anything, especially as you know, what's going to happen 302 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:35,550 because I don't think Obama is going to you know, and he's so 303 00:18:35,550 --> 00:18:39,150 far he's put lobbyists MEC, all these rules, things that he was 304 00:18:39,150 --> 00:18:42,060 going to do to for change, and hope he hasn't done any of it. 305 00:18:42,420 --> 00:18:44,760 You know, because he's so preoccupied with this bill. He's 306 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:48,000 got to load up his cabinet and there's nobody to pick from he 307 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,700 won't bring the professor's in like we were expecting. He 308 00:18:50,700 --> 00:18:53,610 weren't weren't bringing in the non Washington insiders. He 309 00:18:53,610 --> 00:18:56,610 wasn't he didn't have I don't know why. I mean, it's but you 310 00:18:56,610 --> 00:18:59,520 know, you got Rama Manuel who's like a politician, so they're 311 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:02,370 only going to put their own buddies in. And so we haven't 312 00:19:02,370 --> 00:19:04,470 seen anything and he's got lobbyists and he's hasn't done 313 00:19:04,470 --> 00:19:07,170 this, he hasn't let these bills sit. So the public can, you 314 00:19:07,170 --> 00:19:10,740 know, comment on them. So as this goes on, because there's a 315 00:19:10,740 --> 00:19:12,960 couple of websites that are keeping track of all this, you 316 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:18,360 know, 450 promises that as this goes on, and people start to 317 00:19:18,360 --> 00:19:21,240 get, you know, the start to turn and a lot of people who are big 318 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:23,040 Obama supporters have already you know, these, especially 319 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:27,480 these carping liberals who don't like anything anyway, once they 320 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:30,060 start to turn on him and be critical, it's going to be 321 00:19:30,060 --> 00:19:32,190 really interesting to see the reaction to it because it's 322 00:19:32,190 --> 00:19:34,920 going to be like, you know, anything, everything's going to 323 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:38,910 be seen as offensive and racist. And that's the only reason is 324 00:19:38,910 --> 00:19:40,080 because you're a racist. 325 00:19:40,110 --> 00:19:44,850 It's gonna be exactly exactly the same as Windows Mac fanboys 326 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:49,920 that's what it's gonna be. Yeah, it'd be bad. That would be very 327 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:54,210 bad, but but that seems to be the human psyche. And again, it 328 00:19:54,210 --> 00:19:57,780 just it just flabbergasted me that people if you if you see 329 00:19:57,780 --> 00:20:00,690 this cartoon is racist, then you don't understand how it works. 330 00:20:00,690 --> 00:20:03,420 You don't understand what the President does and what Congress 331 00:20:03,420 --> 00:20:08,250 does and what the Senate does. Are people not being educated? 332 00:20:09,090 --> 00:20:13,110 Well, hello, there's that for sure. And everybody, you know, 333 00:20:13,110 --> 00:20:16,620 still thinks the President does everything. And I mean, you 334 00:20:16,620 --> 00:20:19,500 know, the economy caved. I mean, the Congress has the purse, the 335 00:20:19,500 --> 00:20:22,020 holder of the purse strings are the ones who do the IGA. 336 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:25,920 That's supposed to be but of course, they're not entirely 337 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:28,620 anymore because they don't really control the 338 00:20:28,620 --> 00:20:33,390 money. While you're taking one step further and saying that the 339 00:20:33,690 --> 00:20:38,130 Fed Yeah, really, but the Fed is, you know, pretty much, you 340 00:20:38,130 --> 00:20:40,320 know, if they tell you to print we have to Congress tells the 341 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:42,990 Fed to print more money, they're not going to say no, 342 00:20:43,020 --> 00:20:45,930 no, no, the when the Fed wants to print more money, they don't 343 00:20:45,930 --> 00:20:49,230 ask Congress anymore. That's the problem. Well, 344 00:20:50,490 --> 00:20:53,760 maybe we'll get I'm sure somebody will come in and tell 345 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:56,400 us that that's not necessarily true. I think they have the you 346 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:58,740 have to have some sort of permission. I'm not sure 347 00:20:59,279 --> 00:21:01,829 what since this is going to happen. Anyway. John, let's just 348 00:21:01,829 --> 00:21:06,479 run down a few more things that are not change a couple things 349 00:21:06,479 --> 00:21:14,939 from this week. Number one, right. Obama administration's 350 00:21:14,939 --> 00:21:20,159 from AP is trying to kill the email case, this was the case 351 00:21:20,159 --> 00:21:23,459 that is ongoing from the previous administration, trying 352 00:21:23,459 --> 00:21:25,859 to recover the millions of missing White House emails, 353 00:21:25,889 --> 00:21:28,859 apparently, the Obama administration is doing its best 354 00:21:28,859 --> 00:21:36,629 to block this investigation. And there's an AP story which I 355 00:21:36,629 --> 00:21:42,839 presumed to be true. So I'd say that's a that kind of goes 356 00:21:42,839 --> 00:21:44,639 against the transparency thing. 357 00:21:45,540 --> 00:21:48,270 Ya know, the transparency thing, I haven't seen any evidence of 358 00:21:48,270 --> 00:21:48,660 that? 359 00:21:49,470 --> 00:21:52,470 Well, I've been looking@recovery.org. Waiting. 360 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:55,560 You know, I still have yet to go to that site, 361 00:21:55,590 --> 00:21:58,560 or you shouldn't I'm sorry.gov not.org. Yeah, I mean, 362 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:00,600 yeah. So here's the thing they have, you should go to it. Now, 363 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,810 Matt. So they have a timeline. And this is what I like about 364 00:22:03,810 --> 00:22:08,340 it, it tells you on February 19 2009, federal agencies to 365 00:22:08,340 --> 00:22:12,420 begin reporting their formula block grant award, so Okay, so 366 00:22:12,450 --> 00:22:15,270 and they have to report and there's this whole big, you 367 00:22:15,270 --> 00:22:18,540 know, PDF file, you can read about the directives handed out 368 00:22:18,540 --> 00:22:21,300 by or zag Of course, the guy we talked about on the last show, 369 00:22:22,140 --> 00:22:26,250 but they don't actually report until May 8, the third federal 370 00:22:26,250 --> 00:22:29,490 agencies to make performance plans publicly available and 371 00:22:29,490 --> 00:22:31,950 federal agencies to begin reporting on their allocations 372 00:22:31,950 --> 00:22:34,260 for entitlement programs. So we're going to go through almost 373 00:22:34,260 --> 00:22:43,950 three months of work that will not be posted. Yeah, well, 374 00:22:43,980 --> 00:22:48,480 that's lane. If the federal agencies are reporting as of 375 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:51,930 three days ago, how come we don't see that 376 00:22:53,580 --> 00:22:56,160 you're asking the wrong guy, by the way, the wrong guy? Yeah. 377 00:22:56,850 --> 00:23:01,440 The recovery.org I'm looking at it and it's really.gov.gov I 378 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:06,480 mean, I got it yeah.gov And it's got you know, they gotta get 379 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:10,830 another movie of Obama. But this still free still. 380 00:23:11,310 --> 00:23:14,580 I saw it's funny, isn't it? Yeah, it's not a very flattering 381 00:23:14,850 --> 00:23:17,160 Bill and I guess they probably couldn't figure out how to like 382 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,190 change the frame. So you know the least maybe you should be 383 00:23:20,190 --> 00:23:22,560 smiling or something it just looks it looks like a big 384 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:24,660 brother and it's just gonna be a good actually I'm gonna capture 385 00:23:24,660 --> 00:23:28,380 this and then Photoshop it because this is a great picture 386 00:23:28,380 --> 00:23:31,650 to use if you want to have you know for big brothers watching 387 00:23:31,650 --> 00:23:34,830 you. So by the way, I want to mention something because you 388 00:23:34,830 --> 00:23:37,080 mentioned or zag before we go off because I know I have 389 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:40,020 something bad or as I go ahead. Okay, so I you told me about 390 00:23:40,020 --> 00:23:43,320 orange egg and check out his bio. So I went and found his bio 391 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,650 I guess it's like his you know, what he got how he got the job. 392 00:23:47,070 --> 00:23:50,730 So I'm dying because it's got it's like his, you know, it's 393 00:23:50,730 --> 00:23:54,330 got his basic bone to feed he's but it has essentially a 394 00:23:54,330 --> 00:23:58,980 documentation of every little article and scrap of paper he's 395 00:23:58,980 --> 00:24:03,120 ever written. Like, you know, the thoughts on this is you 396 00:24:03,120 --> 00:24:07,770 know, what is it the attribution scrap of paper you know, found 397 00:24:07,770 --> 00:24:09,750 in garbage it this is this 398 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,620 guy's Nancy Drew novel series. 399 00:24:14,370 --> 00:24:18,300 Jelly is like a diary. It's just like, if I had, you know, if I 400 00:24:18,300 --> 00:24:22,710 put my bio together, and I, and I wrote down every thing that I 401 00:24:22,710 --> 00:24:26,220 had ever published, which is essentially what he's done over 402 00:24:26,220 --> 00:24:29,010 like, a long period of time, including just short letters to 403 00:24:29,010 --> 00:24:33,240 the editor. I mean, it would be it would be a book so I guess 404 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,820 what he does, so I guess what he did was, which is an interesting 405 00:24:35,820 --> 00:24:38,220 idea for anybody that wants to get a job in this particular 406 00:24:38,220 --> 00:24:41,790 administration. You know, over document everything you've ever 407 00:24:41,790 --> 00:24:45,090 done. So it's this huge tome of you know, what you what you did 408 00:24:45,090 --> 00:24:48,480 in high school, you know, the fact that you are the you know, 409 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:52,410 the the cheerleader, you know, the boosters, you know, you were 410 00:24:52,410 --> 00:24:57,060 in the PTA, you know, every little thing, and then you drop 411 00:24:57,060 --> 00:25:01,110 this on on them as a big funk. They probably Oh, 412 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:05,340 that's impressive. Oh, yes, we need to hire him. You're in? 413 00:25:05,580 --> 00:25:09,120 Yeah, just, I was just always just, it was just it's an eye 414 00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:09,750 roller. 415 00:25:10,110 --> 00:25:13,680 Well, so I'm reading through some of these documents because 416 00:25:13,860 --> 00:25:18,780 or zag is also responsible for the entire not just the $75 417 00:25:18,780 --> 00:25:24,960 billion housing re thingamajig, but also for the almost $800 418 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,380 billion stimulus package. So I'm reading through some of the 419 00:25:28,380 --> 00:25:29,100 documents 420 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:32,610 before you do that, what remind people who or zag is in the 421 00:25:32,610 --> 00:25:35,310 past, because I think new a new listener may not know what we're 422 00:25:35,310 --> 00:25:36,450 talking about. Okay. Well, 423 00:25:38,910 --> 00:25:41,280 the only thing I remember, of course, was the funny bit that 424 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:41,700 he 425 00:25:41,790 --> 00:25:44,040 right, that's all we need to know, we need to know is orange. 426 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,370 Orange, is the head of the budget. Yeah. 427 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,580 And he's the guy that doles out the money, essentially, he has 428 00:25:50,610 --> 00:25:54,240 oversight over all this money. And his one of his previous 429 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:58,830 gigs, was as a consultant to the Central Bank of Iceland, which 430 00:25:58,830 --> 00:26:02,640 is the whole country is now bankrupt. So you know, of all 431 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,730 the things to put on that enormously long CV, which I 432 00:26:05,730 --> 00:26:08,100 think I have it in the show notes for this week. Maybe it 433 00:26:08,100 --> 00:26:10,680 was there last week, but I'm trying to put as much in as 434 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:16,020 possible now all these links. So I'm searching around and I see 435 00:26:16,020 --> 00:26:18,450 his directive, which is very detailed on this. There's 436 00:26:18,450 --> 00:26:22,020 basically the transparency directive on the reporting. And 437 00:26:22,020 --> 00:26:25,710 it's very detailed, John, it goes into the spreadsheet, how 438 00:26:25,710 --> 00:26:29,160 many characters can be in each cell what each cell is supposed 439 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:32,820 to contain? I mean, it's a real government document, and you 440 00:26:32,820 --> 00:26:36,420 feel good about that. And along with these documents, I find 441 00:26:36,450 --> 00:26:43,410 there was a question from Charles Grassley, who is he's a 442 00:26:43,410 --> 00:26:48,690 Senator for pup, I don't remember right now. So he's 443 00:26:48,690 --> 00:26:53,250 asking some tough questions in this document about accounting, 444 00:26:53,520 --> 00:27:00,390 and it's being answered by or zag and copied on. On this note 445 00:27:00,390 --> 00:27:05,850 on this. On this correspondence, is Counsel to the President 446 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:10,980 Gregory B. Craig. Have you heard of this gentleman? 447 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:17,160 No. Well, let me tell you, he's so he's the Obamas. Lawyer. Yes, 448 00:27:17,190 --> 00:27:20,550 he is Obama's lawyer. I'm reading from Wikipedia, which of 449 00:27:20,550 --> 00:27:23,640 course, is highly unreliable, but usually a good starting 450 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:27,510 point. past clients. Craig has represented numerous high 451 00:27:27,510 --> 00:27:31,320 profile clients in 1981. He represented John Hinckley Jr, 452 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:35,820 who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan. He represented Senator 453 00:27:35,820 --> 00:27:40,200 Ted Kennedy during the 1991 Rape trial of William Kennedy Smith. 454 00:27:40,710 --> 00:27:44,010 He represented the Cuban father of alien Gonzalez during the 455 00:27:44,010 --> 00:27:47,730 2000 child custody dispute with the US Marshals remember that 456 00:27:47,730 --> 00:27:51,510 one. Craig represented United Nations Secretary General Kofi 457 00:27:51,540 --> 00:27:54,300 anon during the Volker Commission's investigation into 458 00:27:54,300 --> 00:27:57,180 the scandals involving the oil for food program. 459 00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,580 This is unbelievable sky he 460 00:27:59,580 --> 00:28:00,390 represents 461 00:28:00,420 --> 00:28:02,070 who's wrong side. 462 00:28:03,930 --> 00:28:07,200 But of course, he was personal. He also represented Bill Clinton 463 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:11,310 during the Monica Lewinsky trials. It's just unbelievable. 464 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,100 And this is the this is the president's lawyer Counsel to 465 00:28:14,100 --> 00:28:14,880 the President. 466 00:28:15,090 --> 00:28:18,840 Why would he pick this? Well, obviously well, well, hello. 467 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:24,630 Ted Kennedy, not in jail. Kofi Annan still at the UN, I mean, 468 00:28:24,630 --> 00:28:27,540 sounds that was Kofi Annan, who didn't his son steal millions of 469 00:28:27,540 --> 00:28:28,080 dollars. 470 00:28:28,470 --> 00:28:32,670 It was a complete pleat fiasco. It was just corrupt. David, just 471 00:28:32,670 --> 00:28:33,420 the worst thing ever. 472 00:28:33,810 --> 00:28:37,320 Craig earlier represented the Panamanian government, during 473 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:44,310 the trial of Manuel Noriega just goes on and on and on. Wow, it 474 00:28:44,310 --> 00:28:48,690 just goes on. So I'm just like, wow, that's unreal. 475 00:28:50,610 --> 00:28:53,130 You think just for image sake alone? You wouldn't have that 476 00:28:53,130 --> 00:28:57,870 guy? Well, it was it's. Yeah, well, not. Yeah. Well, I guess 477 00:28:57,870 --> 00:29:00,750 except for you know, 1000s of Let me see. Let 478 00:29:00,750 --> 00:29:03,870 me see if it even says it in his wiki entry. Washington based 479 00:29:03,870 --> 00:29:06,630 lawyer. Yeah. Current White House Counsel. The President 480 00:29:06,630 --> 00:29:10,470 Barack Obama says right at the top. And John Hinckley, Jr, of 481 00:29:10,470 --> 00:29:13,110 course, was acquitted of the assassination on Ronald Reagan. 482 00:29:14,250 --> 00:29:15,240 Yeah, but 483 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:19,440 he wasn't he locked up. 484 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,490 He's also been a foreign policy adviser to Edward Kennedy and 485 00:29:23,490 --> 00:29:26,610 Madeleine Albright. When she was Secretary of State. It's just 486 00:29:28,470 --> 00:29:31,560 Yeah, it's a good laundry list. Well, Obama's not gonna get 487 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:32,970 himself in any legal trouble. 488 00:29:34,290 --> 00:29:38,640 No, not with those guys on his team. Something I did realize 489 00:29:38,670 --> 00:29:43,200 which I just caught a actually a Twitter about someone was 490 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,560 bitching. Now that I'm using TweetDeck I'll just put in 491 00:29:46,770 --> 00:29:50,100 Gordon Brown Obama and it's great because you really see 492 00:29:50,100 --> 00:29:54,330 what what a small segment of the universe admittedly. But now 493 00:29:54,330 --> 00:29:56,370 we've got celebrities coming onto this thing. You got to 494 00:29:56,370 --> 00:29:58,500 figure that you know, lots of people are gonna come in and 495 00:29:58,500 --> 00:30:00,720 it's kind of like blogging. I can see it As blogging on your 496 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,030 cell phone, I mean, that's not the way I use it, but I can see 497 00:30:03,030 --> 00:30:06,180 why people would would gravitate toward that. And so you get a 498 00:30:06,180 --> 00:30:09,000 lot of interesting comments. So you know, not just from your 499 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:17,040 Twitter sphere and good post in boston.com Now there's a lot of 500 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:20,610 criticism that in the $787 billion stimulus bill there's 501 00:30:20,610 --> 00:30:26,820 not a single dollar for Katrina victims, not a single dollar 502 00:30:27,210 --> 00:30:30,420 which would would seem like an obvious place to put some money 503 00:30:30,420 --> 00:30:30,870 into 504 00:30:32,970 --> 00:30:37,050 Yeah, it is interesting. And doing a lot of work on this show 505 00:30:37,050 --> 00:30:37,710 by the way. 506 00:30:38,940 --> 00:30:43,830 Well, yeah, I am Thank you. Yes, 507 00:30:43,860 --> 00:30:47,160 I was impatient back off a little if you know what I'm 508 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:47,580 saying. 509 00:30:49,020 --> 00:30:50,910 What are you talking about the Vortech 510 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:55,110 just saying you know, it's good for you. 511 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:58,920 Well, you remember we talked about 512 00:30:59,910 --> 00:31:03,180 I think we yeah, here's I think it's part of our formula you say 513 00:31:03,180 --> 00:31:06,900 really doesn't have an agenda except for bringing out we do 514 00:31:06,900 --> 00:31:09,870 put we I guess we do have an agenda to to expose you know, 515 00:31:10,230 --> 00:31:13,170 corruption or not or corruption or just bad government 516 00:31:13,170 --> 00:31:13,710 essentially 517 00:31:13,740 --> 00:31:16,080 it's to lift the veil of the matrix John 518 00:31:16,740 --> 00:31:21,360 so that I think one of their formula or what's evolving in 519 00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:26,850 the in the evolving formula? Is this highlighting one new guy 520 00:31:27,750 --> 00:31:31,500 or one guy per show? One guy that go look at 521 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,010 Yeah, one guy you will look at because I'm sure this is Look 522 00:31:35,010 --> 00:31:38,610 they have enough people in that office now I'm sure that we 523 00:31:38,610 --> 00:31:42,120 could do one guy you know twice a week and do different guy and 524 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:45,000 then we always do callbacks to the various guys because it's I 525 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,250 think it's going to be a goldmine. This is like gold 526 00:31:47,250 --> 00:31:48,000 gold. 527 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:49,920 It's total gold everybody. 528 00:31:51,870 --> 00:31:54,870 Okay, well, we need a lawyer hit on that we need a will Okay, 529 00:31:54,870 --> 00:31:55,410 well, so 530 00:31:55,410 --> 00:31:59,760 the new guy we need a gold jingle. Gold hit Yeah. Well, 531 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,310 it's got to have a names gotta it's gotta be like an item name. 532 00:32:02,310 --> 00:32:06,300 You know, it's gonna be like, yeah, yeah, bad guy of the day. 533 00:32:07,980 --> 00:32:10,410 Something like that. Yeah, something like that. But you 534 00:32:10,410 --> 00:32:12,930 know, it says such thing as a same thing or okay. 535 00:32:13,170 --> 00:32:20,700 It's an acapella sting. Bad guy of the day, okay. So, on 536 00:32:20,700 --> 00:32:24,810 Thursday, when we were actually doing the show, is when I think 537 00:32:24,810 --> 00:32:27,600 currently is still the number one video on YouTube. When on 538 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:32,190 CNBC Rick Santelli, just started yelling and screaming, which was 539 00:32:32,190 --> 00:32:35,850 fantastic. Of course to see it was it was bad. I mean, look, 540 00:32:35,850 --> 00:32:39,210 I'm a guy who loves making television. And boy, that was 541 00:32:39,210 --> 00:32:42,150 some good as television and this Santella he's running with it. 542 00:32:42,150 --> 00:32:45,990 He is so smart. He's like, on every talk show. And he's like, 543 00:32:46,020 --> 00:32:49,020 Oh, I apologize. It seems like losers, but I'm really angry. 544 00:32:49,020 --> 00:32:52,200 And you know, very much a mad as hell. I'm not gonna take any 545 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:53,370 longer type of vibe. 546 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,920 Yeah. Did you read my market watch column on this? No, I'm 547 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:57,660 sorry, what? I didn't want to say 548 00:32:58,170 --> 00:33:01,410 I attacked the whole Well, it wasn't about this, but it was it 549 00:33:01,410 --> 00:33:06,000 but it was in there. I attacked the centrality for this 550 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:10,350 particular outburst. And my rationale is pretty 551 00:33:10,350 --> 00:33:16,890 straightforward. Go forward. We have over the last 12 or 15 552 00:33:16,890 --> 00:33:20,010 years, both through the end of the Reagan administration. 553 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,560 Definitely throughout Clinton's administration, Clinton pulled 554 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,950 the plug on, you know, all these laws that were put in place 555 00:33:25,950 --> 00:33:29,610 after the depression, which have resulted in essentially, you 556 00:33:29,610 --> 00:33:32,700 know, banks being able to do what they did. And then of 557 00:33:32,700 --> 00:33:38,250 course, go broke. Most of these things on a list I'll put up but 558 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:42,390 the consumer protection laws have all been gutted. We can you 559 00:33:42,390 --> 00:33:47,010 know, they have you surrender usury, it ridiculous interest 560 00:33:47,010 --> 00:33:50,040 rates you have these places that you know take your paycheck 561 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,950 payday or pay cash, you know, whatever paying it gets to get 562 00:33:52,950 --> 00:33:54,810 your money in advance places, 563 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:58,830 your your taxes, your refund tax and your tax refund. We know 564 00:33:58,830 --> 00:33:59,160 that no, 565 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,410 there's these places all over the country where you can take 566 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,380 your pay stub in because you say your paychecks coming in two 567 00:34:04,380 --> 00:34:06,690 days, but you want some money now, you can go in they'll give 568 00:34:06,690 --> 00:34:09,840 you the money in advance and then stand back but if you don't 569 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:13,380 pay it back, you have to pay 10% 20% interest it's all it's 570 00:34:13,380 --> 00:34:14,100 essentially a 571 00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,160 loan shark loan shark but it's 572 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,130 legal because they changed all the laws and there's no consumer 573 00:34:20,130 --> 00:34:22,890 protection anymore and it's and the fact of the matter is that 574 00:34:22,890 --> 00:34:25,530 the consumer protection is the Public Utilities Commission's 575 00:34:25,530 --> 00:34:28,260 don't exist anymore. So the phone company that we're all 576 00:34:28,260 --> 00:34:30,750 busted out while we don't need them anymore, and then they all 577 00:34:30,750 --> 00:34:34,200 reform like that led liquid guy on the Terminator two or 578 00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:37,050 Terminator three, they just formed back as AT and T again 579 00:34:37,050 --> 00:34:39,570 what happened there How did that happen? So now you can get a 580 00:34:39,570 --> 00:34:42,330 phone bill with a bunch of weird charges and uh, you can't do 581 00:34:42,330 --> 00:34:44,880 anything about it. Because there's nobody that you can 582 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,490 pitch to. You can't say that the PUC that you're getting ripped 583 00:34:47,490 --> 00:34:50,400 off and you can't say the phone company that I'm not paying it 584 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,290 because then they'll cut you off. You have no place to go? 585 00:34:52,290 --> 00:34:55,530 Well, don't worry about it. Because the free market is what 586 00:34:55,530 --> 00:34:57,930 the absolute is say the free market will take care of it. The 587 00:34:57,930 --> 00:35:01,290 free market doesn't take care of stuff for him. individuals you 588 00:35:01,290 --> 00:35:04,260 know if you're like one person fighting AT and T the free 589 00:35:04,260 --> 00:35:06,990 market doesn't do you any good you do need these protective 590 00:35:06,990 --> 00:35:09,990 bodies, and you need consumer protection laws which are all 591 00:35:09,990 --> 00:35:12,990 gone. So the consumer protection laws are gone. And these poor 592 00:35:12,990 --> 00:35:15,420 saps these people who got into over their head on these 593 00:35:15,420 --> 00:35:18,660 mortgages, these huge people who were sold the bill of goods by 594 00:35:18,660 --> 00:35:22,170 salesmen, that there was no protection for them may have 595 00:35:22,170 --> 00:35:24,930 expected there'd be some protection but No, they weren't 596 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,930 walked down the primrose path. They're not like Santos 597 00:35:28,500 --> 00:35:32,790 Sanatory, right. Santilli, Santilli. They're not like 598 00:35:32,790 --> 00:35:35,100 Santella. They're not like those guys on the trading floor. 599 00:35:35,100 --> 00:35:37,950 cheering, good. They're not professional investors of the 600 00:35:37,950 --> 00:35:41,070 public. There's some people out there, they don't know anything 601 00:35:41,070 --> 00:35:43,080 like that they're going to get ripped off, or they're going to 602 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:45,270 be put in a bind, or they're going to get screwed over by the 603 00:35:45,270 --> 00:35:49,050 system. So why are you jumping on them? Why is it their fault? 604 00:35:49,050 --> 00:35:51,450 All of a sudden, why should they be condemned and essentially 605 00:35:51,450 --> 00:35:55,470 called idiots? When the entire system doesn't support the 606 00:35:55,470 --> 00:35:58,590 public anymore? This is just an attack on the middle class. I 607 00:35:58,590 --> 00:36:02,190 think that that scene on CNBC was abhorrent. I think it was 608 00:36:02,190 --> 00:36:05,190 disgusting. I think he should have apologized profusely and 609 00:36:05,190 --> 00:36:07,170 the fact that he's taken advantage of the situation he's 610 00:36:07,170 --> 00:36:11,610 going to have a meeting with Obama is is unbelievable to me. 611 00:36:11,670 --> 00:36:12,690 It's sick. 612 00:36:13,110 --> 00:36:17,970 Let's let's have a quick listen to Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. 613 00:36:18,750 --> 00:36:23,700 The same briefing on Friday, where he addressed his sentence 614 00:36:23,700 --> 00:36:27,450 and tele specifically which I found highly unusual the house 615 00:36:28,350 --> 00:36:32,400 it won't bail out. Find it and it is not going to help us 616 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,820 persons home from being foreclosed i the money that's 617 00:36:35,820 --> 00:36:38,640 invested in trapped with a mortgage payment or one that's 618 00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,550 been foreclosed shit reading, 619 00:36:42,210 --> 00:36:45,270 Leah cussing Aladdin over the stove. Yeah, she has stopped 620 00:36:45,270 --> 00:36:46,380 because I had a queued up 621 00:36:46,769 --> 00:36:51,659 to feed the President's plan. Yeah. And understand that it 622 00:36:51,659 --> 00:36:54,509 will head back up a little bit. Here we go. I would encourage 623 00:36:54,509 --> 00:37:00,629 him to read the President's plan. And understand that it 624 00:37:00,629 --> 00:37:06,059 will help millions of people, many of whom he knows. I'd be 625 00:37:06,089 --> 00:37:10,379 more than happy to have him come here and read it. I'd be happy 626 00:37:10,379 --> 00:37:13,319 to buy him a cup of coffee. decaf. 627 00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:28,020 I want to sort of follow up on the What's even crazier. John is 628 00:37:28,020 --> 00:37:30,390 now now that he's responding to that. 629 00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:33,480 This is another distraction. 630 00:37:33,510 --> 00:37:40,800 It's a total distraction. Let me thought I had it to your dog 631 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:44,670 while he was on Kudlow show. And he's like, Yeah, of course. I'm 632 00:37:44,670 --> 00:37:47,850 gonna go to the White House. And I, there's a lot to your rant 633 00:37:47,850 --> 00:37:52,440 there. John. I must confess, there's a lot to your rant. If 634 00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:56,310 anything, it's well, even the fact that the press secretary is 635 00:37:56,310 --> 00:37:59,580 responding to it, you know, and saying, oh, you should go to his 636 00:37:59,580 --> 00:38:04,200 computer. Look at it printed out. That almost reeks of a 637 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,860 setup, doesn't it? Oh, absolutely. Distractions. Of 638 00:38:07,860 --> 00:38:14,970 course, Ge Ge is a subsidiary or CNBC is a subsidiary of NBC, 639 00:38:14,970 --> 00:38:17,670 which is owned by General Electric and the CEO of General 640 00:38:17,670 --> 00:38:21,420 Electric is on the President's Economic Advisory Board. So 641 00:38:21,450 --> 00:38:24,210 that's that's three hops. You know, that's, that's, that's 642 00:38:24,210 --> 00:38:27,180 better than the Kevin Bacon game. Right? Hey, maybe we 643 00:38:27,180 --> 00:38:30,660 should change it to the Obama game. If you can be connected to 644 00:38:30,660 --> 00:38:33,810 I like it within six, six separations from Obama and not 645 00:38:33,810 --> 00:38:38,070 bad. I'm gonna do that. Cuz I bet you I bet you any buddies. 646 00:38:38,550 --> 00:38:40,590 That's how you show business for Ugly people. And now they're 647 00:38:40,590 --> 00:38:43,140 getting beautiful. Damn. 648 00:38:44,430 --> 00:38:47,010 Anyway, well, that's a good rant, but my column and my 649 00:38:47,010 --> 00:38:49,530 column and Market Watch discusses this. It's running 650 00:38:49,530 --> 00:38:49,980 right now. 651 00:38:50,820 --> 00:38:53,700 So the distraction of course, what is distracting from is a 652 00:38:53,700 --> 00:38:57,210 number of things including well, right after the stimulus 653 00:38:58,050 --> 00:39:04,230 package. 17,000 more troops going to Afghanistan. Pakistan 654 00:39:04,230 --> 00:39:05,730 is out of control. Dude. 655 00:39:06,750 --> 00:39:10,260 This is all Yeah, Pakistan. So is it a nightmare? I mean, it's 656 00:39:10,260 --> 00:39:14,400 it is was a foregone conclusion years ago. I mean, we should I 657 00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,890 mean, I actually I think everybody knew this was coming. 658 00:39:18,030 --> 00:39:20,400 Because who's running the place now that Musharraf is out? Is 659 00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,940 anyone running the place? Just the Taliban. 660 00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:27,540 Know the tally bonds only got that one area? 661 00:39:27,660 --> 00:39:29,970 No, I thought they were now in the north like they have this 662 00:39:29,970 --> 00:39:30,960 whole onslaught. 663 00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:36,120 Right? Yeah. They gave him it. They gave him the area. Pakistan 664 00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:39,690 gave it to him. Yeah. Basically gave Well, you know, the Taliban 665 00:39:39,690 --> 00:39:43,410 came from Pakistan to begin with the Pakistanis. You know, they 666 00:39:43,410 --> 00:39:46,920 switched there was a really good I got a I have this really good 667 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:50,400 article about the history of this era. The Pakistanis went 668 00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:55,320 into the Wahhabi camp of of extreme fundamentalist Muslim is 669 00:39:55,350 --> 00:40:01,710 Muslim ism or, sorry, Islam Islam Islam. Yeah. or is Islam 670 00:40:01,740 --> 00:40:07,350 and the I think I don't have the exact date, but I think it was 671 00:40:07,350 --> 00:40:12,870 in the 70s or some or later. And not sure. But anyway, they 672 00:40:13,020 --> 00:40:16,650 there's a real good paper that documents that this history, and 673 00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:21,450 it's really part of the real world wide wide problem. And 674 00:40:21,450 --> 00:40:26,280 nobody has done anything to reverse the, this essentially 675 00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:36,960 change in, in philosophy of the, the the poorest of the Muslim 676 00:40:37,590 --> 00:40:42,750 Muslims in Pakistan. But obviously I'm wondering Yeah, 677 00:40:42,780 --> 00:40:46,350 yeah, floundering. But if I had this, just because one of those 678 00:40:46,350 --> 00:40:48,600 things, you know, there's something sometimes you run into 679 00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:51,360 you find a document that says, like, outlines a history of some 680 00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:56,700 sort, and it's so dense, and obviously hits everything hits 681 00:40:56,700 --> 00:41:01,080 all the right buttons. And it's, you can't express it, 682 00:41:01,110 --> 00:41:03,690 unfortunately, you had the best you can do just pass on the 683 00:41:03,690 --> 00:41:06,660 document somebody else. And I have to go back and get that 684 00:41:06,660 --> 00:41:09,480 document. I think I'd sent it to you. As a matter of fact, you 685 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:14,040 might have I have here from The Times on Saturday, President 686 00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:16,500 Obama's administration is brought in the number of radical 687 00:41:16,500 --> 00:41:19,560 groups targeted by the CIA inside Pakistan. So I guess 688 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:25,110 we're in now. And we're doing covert operations. Yeah, I 689 00:41:25,110 --> 00:41:31,950 guess. And also, there was an admission Oh, I should find that 690 00:41:32,310 --> 00:41:38,880 an admission by the Israeli government that they've been in 691 00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:43,140 Iran targeting nuclear scientists and Nuclear 692 00:41:44,610 --> 00:41:45,840 Laboratories 693 00:41:45,899 --> 00:41:47,849 and blowing up Machad the Mossad. 694 00:41:47,850 --> 00:41:51,750 Yeah. Yeah. But it was like an eight Yeah. Yeah, I was I was 695 00:41:51,750 --> 00:41:53,940 amazed I mean, so that's what's going on. I mean, you really 696 00:41:53,940 --> 00:41:54,840 think that's happening? 697 00:41:55,349 --> 00:41:59,429 I think it's just it's just disinformation personally. 698 00:42:01,139 --> 00:42:03,869 Really, I mean, all you have to do is go in there and do you 699 00:42:03,869 --> 00:42:06,959 know shake do something weird just and then put the word out 700 00:42:06,959 --> 00:42:09,479 that this is going on figuring out because they don't you know 701 00:42:09,479 --> 00:42:12,269 the problem with Iran I think everybody over there knows that 702 00:42:12,269 --> 00:42:15,299 especially the scientists is that they don't you know that 703 00:42:15,299 --> 00:42:20,399 the the media is is is is not I guess you can call it corrupt 704 00:42:20,399 --> 00:42:22,919 because the government won't let you print anything that's not 705 00:42:22,919 --> 00:42:26,609 approved and so you can't trust the media to give you accurate 706 00:42:26,609 --> 00:42:29,759 information so you can steal rumors this by the way is going 707 00:42:29,759 --> 00:42:33,779 to happen in this country. So you can go happen gonna happen 708 00:42:34,409 --> 00:42:39,179 well, I mean, to more of an extreme and so you can I think 709 00:42:39,179 --> 00:42:42,599 you can actually move opinion with rumors and innuendo a lot 710 00:42:42,629 --> 00:42:47,039 easier in an environment where the media is basically no good. 711 00:42:47,609 --> 00:42:53,039 And it is happening here to some extent. And but there must be 712 00:42:53,039 --> 00:42:55,409 just a piece of cake because no one's gonna believe anything 713 00:42:55,409 --> 00:42:58,409 they're reading the newspaper so if somebody says the word starts 714 00:42:58,409 --> 00:43:02,189 passing around that the Israeli Mossad is killing scientist in 715 00:43:02,189 --> 00:43:05,669 Iran, you know, murdering them and then you know, but there's 716 00:43:05,669 --> 00:43:07,979 since there's no real good communications there you can't 717 00:43:08,429 --> 00:43:13,379 you know, really Yeah, can't double check it so you can get 718 00:43:13,379 --> 00:43:16,739 real freaked out so I think it's pretty you know, pretty 719 00:43:16,739 --> 00:43:19,829 interesting that they tried to pull that I don't I just don't 720 00:43:19,859 --> 00:43:22,439 see it happening. I mean, maybe I don't know I mean, it would be 721 00:43:22,439 --> 00:43:25,949 something that is not unknown to the Israeli intelligence that do 722 00:43:25,949 --> 00:43:28,529 this stuff they shot that remember that guy they killed a 723 00:43:28,529 --> 00:43:29,849 built that big cannon 724 00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,150 oh yeah the 100 foot long cannon you mean that one? 725 00:43:33,540 --> 00:43:36,420 That guy with me he was the most famous cannon designer in the 726 00:43:36,420 --> 00:43:39,690 world he was very you know used by as a consultant he was going 727 00:43:39,690 --> 00:43:43,590 to apparently build this you know 100 foot lower longer mile 728 00:43:43,590 --> 00:43:48,000 long cannon huge cannon that there was going to put in Iraq 729 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:51,960 and they were going to build a shell Tel Aviv because as you 730 00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:55,710 can shoot a shell of it, this guy was it was like, apparently 731 00:43:55,710 --> 00:43:58,470 just very, I can't remember his name bowl, I think was his name 732 00:43:58,470 --> 00:44:02,880 or something like that. He was just, like, minutes away from 733 00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:04,830 being able to eat and he believed you could do it. 734 00:44:05,100 --> 00:44:08,100 Designing a cannon that could put a satellite in or 735 00:44:09,090 --> 00:44:11,610 Yeah, sounds feasible, I guess, if you 736 00:44:12,270 --> 00:44:17,580 can, it was long enough. Yeah. And, and he, he's most modern 737 00:44:17,580 --> 00:44:22,950 Canons today are of his design. For a lot of different reasons. 738 00:44:22,950 --> 00:44:26,340 I mean, he's was a genius. Mariana cannon nut. So this 739 00:44:26,370 --> 00:44:29,910 Mossad, and I don't think anyone that no one's ever denied it was 740 00:44:29,910 --> 00:44:32,850 Israeli intelligence. They got sick of this guy, you know, 741 00:44:33,810 --> 00:44:36,210 building this thing. They've tried to stop him. I guess he 742 00:44:36,210 --> 00:44:38,940 told him to shove it. And so they just shot him in the hall. 743 00:44:38,940 --> 00:44:42,210 And so in his hotel somewhere, goodbye. That was the end. Bye, 744 00:44:42,210 --> 00:44:42,660 bye. 745 00:44:43,260 --> 00:44:44,610 You're not a problem anymore. 746 00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:50,220 You know, so. So it's not beyond the possibility? Well, yeah, I 747 00:44:50,220 --> 00:44:53,040 think if the guy who backed off he wouldn't have been killed. So 748 00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:53,280 I 749 00:44:53,970 --> 00:44:57,150 possibly, but I agree with you. I'll just take it a step 750 00:44:57,150 --> 00:45:00,000 further. I think our media is already completely infiltrated. 751 00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:04,710 And it's, again, it's not like, people are being forced to write 752 00:45:04,710 --> 00:45:06,600 something, but it's a culture. It's a culture of these 753 00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:10,680 companies and stuff gets passed down and they on the 40th floor 754 00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:14,100 said they want this to happen. It just kind of happens. And 755 00:45:14,100 --> 00:45:16,200 disinformation gets out all over the place. 756 00:45:16,590 --> 00:45:20,970 My Well, there's two. Well, let me just add to that, there's a 757 00:45:20,970 --> 00:45:22,830 couple other things that probably should be mentioned, if 758 00:45:22,830 --> 00:45:25,770 we're going to talk about this kind of thing. Generally 759 00:45:25,770 --> 00:45:28,230 speaking, if you're working for a media company, like General 760 00:45:28,230 --> 00:45:34,020 Electric, or I'm sorry, NBC, or any of these other or Disney, 761 00:45:34,020 --> 00:45:37,740 I'm sorry, ABC, or any of these other large corporations that 762 00:45:37,740 --> 00:45:41,370 happen to have, you know, ownership of, of the outlets. 763 00:45:42,330 --> 00:45:46,740 You probably, you know, don't do one of two things. One, if 764 00:45:46,740 --> 00:45:49,980 you're working for ABC, you're not going to do a an expose a on 765 00:45:49,980 --> 00:45:54,420 the dangers of one of the rides at Disney World, Orlando, 766 00:45:54,450 --> 00:45:58,200 probably not probably ain't gonna happen. No, and you're 767 00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:02,280 probably not going to go after General Electric. If you know 768 00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:04,980 that there's a strike that exists. That's dangerous. 769 00:46:04,980 --> 00:46:08,820 Because if you go after General Electric in a, in a in an attack 770 00:46:08,820 --> 00:46:11,400 piece, saying well, they're jet engines are near probably going 771 00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:15,210 to lose your job. You're gonna but I'm saying at ABC, you're 772 00:46:15,210 --> 00:46:19,020 not gonna go after the NBC story or the or the General Electric 773 00:46:19,020 --> 00:46:21,210 story, because you know, that they're gonna go after that bad 774 00:46:21,210 --> 00:46:25,770 ride is because the media, I mean, I mean, writers very 775 00:46:25,770 --> 00:46:29,550 rarely attack each other in that, and I've done it, and I 776 00:46:29,550 --> 00:46:32,430 always know and people that attacked me, you always know the 777 00:46:32,430 --> 00:46:34,980 same thing, which is you're gonna get attacked back. Yeah. 778 00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,080 Yeah. You know, and it's and it's a balancing thing. So 779 00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:39,270 somebody says, you know, something, you know, and then 780 00:46:39,270 --> 00:46:42,570 you do your weight and use lie and wait, usually don't do it 781 00:46:42,570 --> 00:46:46,050 right away. And then you just do it. And then you as a writer, 782 00:46:46,050 --> 00:46:48,240 you're always waiting for that this happened to me, because I 783 00:46:48,270 --> 00:46:52,020 had, they tried to do a hit piece on me and wired some years 784 00:46:52,020 --> 00:46:52,350 ago. 785 00:46:52,710 --> 00:46:55,920 And I thought, wait a minute, I hit piece on John C. Dvorak. 786 00:46:56,490 --> 00:47:00,570 And when I actually was pulling a bore Sook wrote it and she and 787 00:47:00,570 --> 00:47:05,040 I had, you know, they had what they had to profile me, they're 788 00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:08,640 going to be profile. So I, I always was waiting for a hit 789 00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:11,970 piece because I had written this extremely scathing article about 790 00:47:11,970 --> 00:47:16,170 how I thought Nicholas Negroponte was a big phony. And 791 00:47:18,270 --> 00:47:21,540 it was an obscure publication, but I figured one of these days, 792 00:47:21,540 --> 00:47:25,650 you know, something was going to crop up, and also seem to have 793 00:47:25,650 --> 00:47:30,600 extended the publishers on wired at some point. They're one of 794 00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:33,120 the original one. So it's a she comes out and you know, she's 795 00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:36,090 got it. And I am. So to be honest about it. Anybody out 796 00:47:36,090 --> 00:47:38,820 there has tried to do this. In fact, I was almost profiled in 797 00:47:38,820 --> 00:47:41,730 Playboy, not a hit piece, but a regular profile. But to be 798 00:47:41,730 --> 00:47:45,000 honest about and it turns out, and, you know, this is, well, it 799 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:47,940 was anyone, I'm actually fairly dull person. 800 00:47:50,610 --> 00:47:53,760 I was just gonna say, why would they even bother with a profile 801 00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:59,640 on joy? He's a dusty old writer, dude. I mean, who likes food and 802 00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:01,680 wine? I mean, what's your what do you want? 803 00:48:02,190 --> 00:48:09,630 There's nothing going on. And so that's funny. So, anyway, so I 804 00:48:09,630 --> 00:48:13,140 have, so they did the best they could, but I asked her point 805 00:48:13,140 --> 00:48:16,080 blank. And, you know, I did my due diligence on her because I 806 00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:20,070 never met her before. And I see her once in a while, say hi. But 807 00:48:20,070 --> 00:48:22,080 you know, you always do your due diligence on the writer. So I 808 00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:24,060 did as much research as I could. And I found out she was like a 809 00:48:24,060 --> 00:48:26,700 vegetarian or vegan or something like that. So I insisted that we 810 00:48:26,700 --> 00:48:30,360 go to dinner, and have our one of our meetings over dinner at 811 00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:33,690 greens, which is a spectacular vegetarian restaurant, San 812 00:48:33,690 --> 00:48:37,410 Francisco, which has this just a terrific food and, uh, you know, 813 00:48:37,410 --> 00:48:40,470 that tends to be I always like to put people into a environment 814 00:48:40,470 --> 00:48:44,520 where their food is distracting them from dealing with me. And I 815 00:48:44,550 --> 00:48:46,830 usually I do it with press people, because I don't really 816 00:48:46,830 --> 00:48:49,470 want to listen to their pitches for about their company. I'd 817 00:48:49,470 --> 00:48:53,400 rather you know, have a good meal. And so she told me out she 818 00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:56,160 said, yeah, yeah, it's just gonna it's it was designed to be 819 00:48:56,160 --> 00:49:00,870 a hit piece told me that was just told me interested. So. So, 820 00:49:01,020 --> 00:49:03,480 you know, they did what they could that they got one person 821 00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:06,750 to say something bad about me. And they put that in there. So 822 00:49:06,750 --> 00:49:10,320 you know, some PR woman said I was a jerk. And but that was 823 00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:13,620 about it. And then somebody else defended me which of course, the 824 00:49:13,650 --> 00:49:16,740 person who defended me got quoted, and gee, guess who gets 825 00:49:16,740 --> 00:49:20,130 a little extra credit nowadays? I'm thinking like, I'm looking 826 00:49:20,130 --> 00:49:22,950 at this as though there's a PR woman. One of them just says I'm 827 00:49:22,950 --> 00:49:25,980 a jerk. And of course, they leave her name out. And the 828 00:49:25,980 --> 00:49:30,120 other one says I'm a really okay guy. Which of these which one is 829 00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:34,470 really the PR woman here? Yeah, you know, obviously, the smart 830 00:49:34,470 --> 00:49:37,770 one, you know, whether I'm a good guy or not, she has to now 831 00:49:37,770 --> 00:49:42,330 I have to always go out to take her call. And, and the other one 832 00:49:42,330 --> 00:49:45,660 is obviously a moron. And I've run into effect. I ran into one 833 00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:51,000 PR woman once I was because I do a lot of online research. And so 834 00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:54,150 I run into this woman slamming me on some website about 835 00:49:54,150 --> 00:49:57,510 something I don't know why. And I looked into it, she's a PR 836 00:49:57,510 --> 00:50:01,260 woman. And she works for were three companies. Yes. 837 00:50:01,260 --> 00:50:06,600 Smart. That's an let me write them out. Let me write about 838 00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:09,810 that product. AD is, what an 839 00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:10,890 idiot. Well, so 840 00:50:10,890 --> 00:50:14,340 here's who owns the blue owns Bloomberg. Now, John, is that 841 00:50:15,060 --> 00:50:16,320 Murdoch by that as well? 842 00:50:17,070 --> 00:50:18,720 I don't know. I didn't know that Thunberg 843 00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:22,800 sold I thought I guess sold. Maybe I don't use? I don't know. 844 00:50:22,830 --> 00:50:25,080 Well, they came well, so I'm hoping we can still believe 845 00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:29,040 believe what they write. But this, this is very Oh current 846 00:50:30,210 --> 00:50:35,460 and caught my eye. Apparently, there's been mis measurements of 847 00:50:35,460 --> 00:50:42,750 the Arctic sea ice due to faulty sensors. And the extent of the 848 00:50:42,750 --> 00:50:45,330 Arctic sea ice, which of course has been claimed to have been 849 00:50:45,330 --> 00:50:49,710 reducing severely. Well, it seems like they were off by 850 00:50:49,740 --> 00:50:54,450 500,000 square kilometers. Because they have all these 851 00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:59,880 faulty sensors. So is it melting or not? 852 00:51:00,629 --> 00:51:04,979 Well, yeah, no, it's definitely melting. And I mean, we're all 853 00:51:04,979 --> 00:51:07,979 in a globe with this as the global warming era. Yeah, we're 854 00:51:07,979 --> 00:51:14,369 all going to die. Nor ignore that data in judiciary data. 855 00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:21,330 Nah, man. You're crapping out. Don't don't know. Tell me to 856 00:51:21,330 --> 00:51:22,470 stop downloading porn. 857 00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:29,610 Nobody's up. And Bloomberg is a public company. It looks like is 858 00:51:29,610 --> 00:51:33,060 that right? I think it's public. Yeah. Yeah. Bloomberg himself is 859 00:51:33,060 --> 00:51:39,540 going to buy it back. Yeah, we'll make sense. Okay, it's 860 00:51:39,540 --> 00:51:39,690 kind 861 00:51:39,690 --> 00:51:43,680 of fun to see that Obama. You know, we had the governor's over 862 00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:47,640 at the White House. Yeah. Guess what the entertainment was for 863 00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:54,180 the dinner. John Legend will know, it's so incredibly unhip, 864 00:51:54,210 --> 00:51:55,530 Earth Wind and Fire. 865 00:51:55,860 --> 00:51:57,210 Oh my God. You're kidding. 866 00:51:57,990 --> 00:52:00,000 I don't think I don't I don't think Philip Bailey who was the 867 00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:02,220 original lead singer, I don't think he's even with the group 868 00:52:02,220 --> 00:52:06,330 anymore. That's like getting the Four Tops. We get one top. Three 869 00:52:06,330 --> 00:52:14,460 other guys. Are a pip. High with the pips. Earth Wind and Fire. 870 00:52:14,460 --> 00:52:17,550 That's not That's not the epitome of cool. 871 00:52:19,290 --> 00:52:21,330 No, not at all. I want to book that act. 872 00:52:22,260 --> 00:52:26,190 No, who will? Probably the same person who publicize it, which 873 00:52:26,190 --> 00:52:31,410 was probably the one that was calling you out. Stupid idiots. 874 00:52:35,310 --> 00:52:39,630 So a big news today is that I'm I'm not sure how the numbers 875 00:52:39,630 --> 00:52:43,680 work. But the President says that he is going within four 876 00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:50,700 years he will bring the national deficit down by half to a little 877 00:52:50,700 --> 00:52:51,810 over $500 billion. 878 00:52:53,460 --> 00:52:56,430 And I'm saying that national deficit is not not a trillion. 879 00:52:56,430 --> 00:52:57,750 It's more than that is no, no. Well, 880 00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:01,110 of course that's a that's a whole trick. That's the annual 881 00:53:01,230 --> 00:53:05,070 national deficit. The annual national deficit deficit was 882 00:53:05,070 --> 00:53:09,120 like a trillion. Of course, now it's, you know, the I don't know 883 00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:13,770 what what do we spend last year, like, Easy A trillion just on 884 00:53:14,190 --> 00:53:19,500 bailout stuff? So yeah, the total numbers into the 10s of 885 00:53:19,500 --> 00:53:24,090 trillions. But now, it just seems like what you know, and 886 00:53:24,090 --> 00:53:26,610 he's gonna He's gonna have a plan on Tuesday how he's, you 887 00:53:26,610 --> 00:53:30,690 know, I don't understand it doesn't mean you have to either 888 00:53:30,690 --> 00:53:34,320 raise taxes and cut government spending in order to do that. 889 00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:38,850 You have to do something. Yeah. So he's gonna tell us on 890 00:53:38,850 --> 00:53:44,580 Tuesday, we can talk about on Thursday. You know, the problem 891 00:53:44,580 --> 00:53:46,800 is everybody in this die of Horowitz talks about this and he 892 00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:50,400 has some charts, I just need to repost them on my blog. Every 893 00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:53,190 time one of these boneheads goes up and gives a speech like this 894 00:53:53,190 --> 00:53:54,900 the market tanks the next day. 895 00:53:55,260 --> 00:53:59,040 Incredible. Well, they should just shut up. Well, the DOD, 896 00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:02,160 could you I mean, they somewhat I mean, dad's head has got to 897 00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:04,770 get handed to him because of course, the whole and by the 898 00:54:04,770 --> 00:54:09,690 way, I did call it only six days late, the market went below my 899 00:54:09,690 --> 00:54:15,210 number of 7286. Below gold almost hit its all time high of 900 00:54:15,210 --> 00:54:20,460 1003. I do want to say I call this in November, maybe even 901 00:54:20,460 --> 00:54:25,140 October, but certainly November. And this is not a nananana 902 00:54:25,140 --> 00:54:27,600 event. But it's very important because then, you know, there's 903 00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:30,300 like some extra credibility that comes along with today. You 904 00:54:30,300 --> 00:54:32,880 know, all right, he was right about that. So then I can be a 905 00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:36,060 little more crack potty about some of the other stuff. Good. 906 00:54:36,570 --> 00:54:42,390 Yeah. But it was Senator, the senator. 907 00:54:42,660 --> 00:54:44,910 I think what it does is Yes, Senator, Senator is not it 908 00:54:44,910 --> 00:54:46,890 doesn't go to 6000. I'll be okay. 909 00:54:46,950 --> 00:54:51,750 It's gonna go to 6000 and s&p 600. Watch for that. That's the 910 00:54:51,750 --> 00:54:55,620 real that's the real hard one that's gonna hit s&p 600 market. 911 00:54:55,620 --> 00:54:59,280 I don't have a date for you. But yeah, I totally believe s&p 600 912 00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:02,670 So already freaked out that it's under 800. You know that? 913 00:55:02,970 --> 00:55:09,300 Yeah. Oh, no, I totally. I mean, just find this. So the market 914 00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:12,750 tanked after and this was what was interesting after 915 00:55:12,750 --> 00:55:17,280 Christopher Dodd, who is also in charge of the Senate Banking 916 00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:23,640 Committee, I believe. He comes out and he says, Yeah, well, we 917 00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:26,010 might have to nationalize the banks. Yeah, it could just be a 918 00:55:26,010 --> 00:55:29,400 brief period of time. But we might have to nationalize the 919 00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:32,280 banks. And so that's on Bloomberg, Bloomberg and start 920 00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:34,650 spinning it as we've got this exclusive. And they play the 921 00:55:34,650 --> 00:55:38,190 soundbite. And the market goes, the bottom just fell out 922 00:55:38,220 --> 00:55:42,570 momentarily. And yeah, and then and then they rush back. And 923 00:55:43,980 --> 00:55:46,680 these guys are clueless about this. They must 924 00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:49,950 be clueless. They must be clueless. I mean, 925 00:55:49,980 --> 00:55:57,000 nobody wants to hear from them. Shut up and get to work. Yeah. 926 00:55:59,310 --> 00:56:08,580 No. So we want to talk about we store it, you know, another 900 927 00:56:09,240 --> 00:56:13,050 subscribers to the podcast. I'm going to keep doing this every 928 00:56:13,050 --> 00:56:15,930 week until we get to a actually, at some point, when we get to a 929 00:56:15,930 --> 00:56:17,610 certain number. We're going to do three a week. 930 00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:21,030 Of course we are. My goal is eventually we'll we'll be doing 931 00:56:21,030 --> 00:56:25,170 this. You're right. Yeah, we'll be careful. But you're right. 932 00:56:25,170 --> 00:56:27,810 When we get to the right number, we'll have to go to three. And 933 00:56:27,810 --> 00:56:30,660 also, because there's just too much to cover. There's too much 934 00:56:30,660 --> 00:56:31,530 to talk about. 935 00:56:32,100 --> 00:56:35,220 Right? There is I mean, we could go on, especially if your now 936 00:56:35,220 --> 00:56:41,010 that you've decided to actually do research. Well, this show 937 00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:44,160 what it's killing the show, man, at least it would it would it 938 00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:46,830 kill you to do a little bit of research with to do something 939 00:56:46,830 --> 00:56:47,340 here. 940 00:56:48,870 --> 00:56:50,700 The way this show is for people that have heard just started 941 00:56:50,700 --> 00:56:53,520 listening. So hold on a second, let me get this thing back on my 942 00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:57,630 ear. The people just started listening to realize that when 943 00:56:57,630 --> 00:56:59,880 we started doing this show, it was a casual conversation 944 00:56:59,880 --> 00:57:03,360 between two guys, and we had a lot of stuff to catch up on. And 945 00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:06,540 it was once a week. Yeah. And it was like, you know, we chat 946 00:57:06,540 --> 00:57:09,000 about this. And then we get we realized that we knew something 947 00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:10,950 about somebody get on a jam, you know, it'd be very interesting, 948 00:57:10,950 --> 00:57:15,120 but if the show would would roam aimlessly. It'd be mostly though 949 00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:18,000 about international stuff. And actually, we need to get back to 950 00:57:18,030 --> 00:57:20,970 doing a little more of that. I'm ready to just, I'm ready. But 951 00:57:20,970 --> 00:57:23,700 but the point anyway, was, we managed to get through an hour 952 00:57:23,700 --> 00:57:26,940 and a half a week of just chatting. And we it was 953 00:57:26,940 --> 00:57:31,530 interesting, it was an ebb and flow to the show. But then we 954 00:57:31,530 --> 00:57:33,540 went to the twice and then you started taking it more 955 00:57:34,500 --> 00:57:38,220 seriously. So then I started taking some of those lists, but 956 00:57:38,370 --> 00:57:43,170 at least I'm trying and and so the show is now getting more 957 00:57:43,230 --> 00:57:46,260 packed with more information. But I'm not going to complain 958 00:57:46,260 --> 00:57:48,210 about because it's stuff that you're digging up about 959 00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:50,580 especially about these these, which I realize that you've 960 00:57:50,580 --> 00:57:54,780 stumbled on to an interesting idea, which is just pick anybody 961 00:57:54,780 --> 00:57:59,280 out of this Obama group and Twitter and look at him and see 962 00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:01,500 what the heck they're doing what they you know what they're up 963 00:58:01,500 --> 00:58:04,080 to, and you've got a you've got a good 10 minutes of material. 964 00:58:04,470 --> 00:58:08,430 So but the point is that people out there need to subscribe, and 965 00:58:08,430 --> 00:58:10,410 this to the voluntary thing we've got you know, it's like 966 00:58:10,410 --> 00:58:15,000 shareware subscribe to the show to go to divorce.org/in A, I'll 967 00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:15,810 have the 968 00:58:16,500 --> 00:58:20,400 subscribe. That's donate. That's donate. That's the the curry 969 00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:22,290 Divorce Act library project. 970 00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:24,630 org slash Subscribe 971 00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:27,960 divorce.org/n A 972 00:58:29,070 --> 00:58:34,410 divorce.org/n. A and donate a $2 a month to listen to us. And 973 00:58:34,470 --> 00:58:38,460 that won't change even though we may increase the frequency. And 974 00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:41,790 I'll have the buttons up later this before the Thursday show 975 00:58:41,790 --> 00:58:46,710 for a once a year donation and a open donation if somebody wants 976 00:58:46,710 --> 00:58:49,770 to throw a bunch of money at us. When I think that I'm thinking 977 00:58:49,770 --> 00:58:53,040 of Dubai, I think by some somebody in Dubai, 978 00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:58,320 just throw a throw sort of dollars. Yeah, exactly. So what 979 00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:00,870 someone who's hurting into Oh, I spoke to my buddy, by the way. 980 00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:06,270 And and he suggested there's a periodical which is believe it 981 00:59:06,270 --> 00:59:10,950 or not petroleum journal monthly. And he suggest 982 00:59:10,950 --> 00:59:14,310 subscribing to that it's a physical magazine. And he 983 00:59:14,310 --> 00:59:21,000 confirmed he said the actual cost for the Saudis is $30 per 984 00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:28,290 barrel of oil. And they've invested at over $100 barrel oil 985 00:59:28,290 --> 00:59:31,350 in their infrastructure and their pleasure playground. And 986 00:59:31,350 --> 00:59:35,040 he confirmed the 1000s of cars at Dubai airport. And of course, 987 00:59:35,040 --> 00:59:38,010 what's happening now is everyone's pulling out all the 988 00:59:38,010 --> 00:59:41,400 companies are moving down to South America. You know, there's 989 00:59:41,430 --> 00:59:45,330 of course the whole East Timor, Indonesia thing, you know, 990 00:59:45,330 --> 00:59:48,720 that's been going on for 1000s you hunt for 100 years. You 991 00:59:48,720 --> 00:59:51,480 know, there's oil everywhere, and they're just moving out. 992 00:59:51,510 --> 00:59:55,410 They're just saying goodbye. The Arabs are just being completely 993 00:59:55,410 --> 00:59:57,240 obliterated. obliterated, 994 00:59:57,240 --> 01:00:00,180 I tell you, I gotta get some documentation for that. This 995 01:00:00,180 --> 01:00:01,110 assertion he was 996 01:00:01,110 --> 01:00:05,070 going to give me the the issue where that was laid out pretty 997 01:00:05,070 --> 01:00:07,440 clearly. And you know, he says, Look, I gotta lay off people 998 01:00:07,440 --> 01:00:10,830 because it's a contractor business. And what's happening 999 01:00:10,830 --> 01:00:13,740 is that because they're a, he works at a or oil services 1000 01:00:13,740 --> 01:00:19,020 company. And so basically setting up the infrastructure 1001 01:00:19,020 --> 01:00:23,010 in, you know, subcontract attracted through the big oil 1002 01:00:23,010 --> 01:00:26,670 companies. And, you know, so they'll give him a price on 1003 01:00:26,670 --> 01:00:29,370 something. And you know, instead of bickering over the price, 1004 01:00:29,370 --> 01:00:31,470 what the oil companies are doing is saying, Yeah, that's great. 1005 01:00:31,470 --> 01:00:33,900 That's interesting price. We'll call you again in six months. So 1006 01:00:33,900 --> 01:00:37,320 everything's being pushed off. Basically, nothing you know, 1007 01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:40,110 there's they're stagnating, there's no no investment nothing 1008 01:00:40,110 --> 01:00:42,330 going on. Because everyone's waiting for the price to go up. 1009 01:00:42,660 --> 01:00:43,260 It's just wonder 1010 01:00:43,260 --> 01:00:45,090 what they're gonna do with those. You got all these 1011 01:00:45,090 --> 01:00:48,210 buildings that they've thrown up and do by me. It's like, it's 1012 01:00:48,210 --> 01:00:49,050 almost like a 1013 01:00:49,530 --> 01:00:53,040 it's a it's a ghost town. Not everyone's gotta go. You gotta 1014 01:00:53,040 --> 01:00:57,450 find some way to go. Up seriously, we don't gotta go. 1015 01:00:57,450 --> 01:01:00,210 No, I disagree. There's no reason to go to Dubai. I've been 1016 01:01:00,900 --> 01:01:02,100 there's no reason to go. 1017 01:01:04,020 --> 01:01:05,280 been putting a Bali 1018 01:01:06,510 --> 01:01:09,870 crab man, you crab, tallest building? Don't talk. So maybe 1019 01:01:09,870 --> 01:01:12,150 it's when you talk about that? It happens back off. 1020 01:01:12,450 --> 01:01:16,380 Well, okay. So is that better? Do they sound better? Sound 1021 01:01:16,380 --> 01:01:25,200 little more detail the more FM radio. So so so do Emirates 1022 01:01:25,260 --> 01:01:28,320 Airlines. Let me Oh, I'm coming in clear Emirates Emirates 1023 01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:32,130 Emirates. Yes, we got you. Emirates now has had a direct 1024 01:01:32,130 --> 01:01:40,140 flight to San Francisco on a long haul 777 to Dubai. So I 1025 01:01:40,140 --> 01:01:43,710 figured we should probably find some way to get a comp flight. 1026 01:01:44,670 --> 01:01:45,570 Round Trip. 1027 01:01:45,810 --> 01:01:50,010 No. No. Why don't you go get that calm flight. All right. Why 1028 01:01:50,010 --> 01:01:53,370 don't you go sit in Dubai on Thursday. And then give me a 1029 01:01:53,370 --> 01:01:59,250 call. Because it's boring in Dubai. It's frickin boring. It's 1030 01:01:59,250 --> 01:02:03,570 boring. It's boring. I was there for a week. I wanted to shoot 1031 01:02:03,570 --> 01:02:05,130 myself after three days. 1032 01:02:06,030 --> 01:02:08,520 Well, it's it couldn't be more interesting. I mean, there's a 1033 01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:09,510 lot of shopping. 1034 01:02:09,570 --> 01:02:12,810 There's no hookers. There's no booze. There's no it's boring. 1035 01:02:14,880 --> 01:02:17,220 There's no cars anymore. But you're probably right. Compared 1036 01:02:17,220 --> 01:02:19,380 to I priced the flight just to see what the you know, thinking 1037 01:02:19,380 --> 01:02:22,620 well, I'm just looking, pricing the flight. 1038 01:02:23,670 --> 01:02:27,180 Let me go through some real important news here. You and 1039 01:02:27,180 --> 01:02:29,850 your Dubai I don't want I don't even tell you what the price. I 1040 01:02:29,850 --> 01:02:33,060 don't want to go to Dubai. I don't care. I want to sit in the 1041 01:02:33,060 --> 01:02:37,950 command center all day. Preparing for the show. 1042 01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:45,660 $10,000 seems a little high. What's $10,000? 1043 01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:50,820 The flight to Dubai $10,000. What was that first class? No, 1044 01:02:50,820 --> 01:02:55,260 it's business. Cheese. That's outrageous. 1045 01:02:55,770 --> 01:02:59,430 I think they're just living in a dream world if you think 1046 01:03:00,870 --> 01:03:04,830 all right, I'm gonna run through this, John. Just stop me stop me 1047 01:03:04,830 --> 01:03:07,920 when you want to Gordon Brown visiting Washington on March 3, 1048 01:03:07,950 --> 01:03:12,090 that will be underreported in the United States. So keep an 1049 01:03:12,090 --> 01:03:14,940 eye on it. See if if anything interesting shows up. Because of 1050 01:03:14,940 --> 01:03:20,340 course Gordon Brown is now on his trip. His new world order 1051 01:03:20,340 --> 01:03:31,740 trip as in head trip. He's at the G 20. Here we go. In Berlin. 1052 01:03:34,320 --> 01:03:37,860 Gordon Brown appeared upbeat about the success of the 1053 01:03:37,860 --> 01:03:42,420 Conference of European leaders. And here's a quote from him. We 1054 01:03:42,420 --> 01:03:45,000 will have a global system where we can identify and have 1055 01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:47,790 transparency and disclosure from all financial institutions, 1056 01:03:47,790 --> 01:03:52,530 including, of course, hedge funds. So that's the World Bank 1057 01:03:52,530 --> 01:04:00,210 that he's announcing there, essentially. This is, oh, this 1058 01:04:00,210 --> 01:04:03,480 will please you. This came in when real quick so it'll never 1059 01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:07,050 hit the headlines. The Army times which I do read. 1060 01:04:07,650 --> 01:04:09,780 You're good man. It's a good it's an excellent publication. 1061 01:04:09,780 --> 01:04:10,140 It's a great 1062 01:04:10,140 --> 01:04:13,560 publication. I had announced that the National Guard was 1063 01:04:13,560 --> 01:04:23,070 going to do what they call it a gun deployment while they were 1064 01:04:23,070 --> 01:04:28,290 they were going to do deployment Yes, in in a town in in Iowa are 1065 01:04:28,290 --> 01:04:33,120 Katie Iowa population 443. The guard had planned a four day 1066 01:04:33,120 --> 01:04:37,050 urban military operation of sending troops to take over the 1067 01:04:37,050 --> 01:04:40,770 town and searched door to door for suspected weapons dealers. 1068 01:04:42,600 --> 01:04:47,700 And so this got a lot of quick online press and now they've 1069 01:04:47,700 --> 01:04:48,330 scrapped it. 1070 01:04:51,270 --> 01:04:56,220 Wow. Well, that doesn't mean it's really scrapped. Well, 1071 01:04:56,250 --> 01:04:59,250 this is the thing they've underestimated the internet. 1072 01:04:59,280 --> 01:05:01,740 They thought that they You could fool us with the with their own 1073 01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:04,980 weather with the old Wag the Dog television tactics, but it's 1074 01:05:04,980 --> 01:05:07,350 just it's just not working anymore. You know, people are so 1075 01:05:07,350 --> 01:05:12,210 jaded. And of course, there's a lot of people actually bringing 1076 01:05:12,210 --> 01:05:15,750 us news online. It's like, Oh, I've been tracing back the 1077 01:05:15,750 --> 01:05:24,150 origins of Sir. Stanford. How that got broken. Apparently, it 1078 01:05:24,150 --> 01:05:32,010 was a Venezuelan trader. Who, who started? I think he wrote a 1079 01:05:32,010 --> 01:05:38,640 blog post about it. This is how hypothetic our SEC is. You wrote 1080 01:05:38,640 --> 01:05:41,490 a blog posts and blog. Well, yeah, exactly. Well, that's a 1081 01:05:41,490 --> 01:05:44,400 beautiful thing. You know, he said, Hey, man, this is this 1082 01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:48,720 shit is off. And that's apparently how it started to 1083 01:05:48,780 --> 01:05:52,830 spin out but I sent you that thing which it's, it's, it's 1084 01:05:52,830 --> 01:05:55,410 even too freaky a thing for us to talk about just because it's 1085 01:05:55,410 --> 01:05:58,800 so deep and detailed, and there's a lot of anti semitic 1086 01:05:58,860 --> 01:06:01,410 overtures in it, which I really don't like I don't know how to 1087 01:06:01,410 --> 01:06:01,950 get around. 1088 01:06:02,820 --> 01:06:04,800 You know, that's the thing we know you can do. I mean, 1089 01:06:04,800 --> 01:06:08,700 typically these to these people, it's always amazing to me, where 1090 01:06:08,700 --> 01:06:11,340 you have a person that seems to be outlining a very interesting 1091 01:06:11,340 --> 01:06:16,170 situation, then they fall off the boat. Like their brain can 1092 01:06:16,200 --> 01:06:20,040 maintain that the normal part of it and they go crazy with this, 1093 01:06:20,070 --> 01:06:23,520 you know, people think that we're kind of, you know, bring 1094 01:06:23,520 --> 01:06:26,910 out some of this conspiratorial stuff to to some extent you 1095 01:06:26,910 --> 01:06:30,360 mainly, but it's nothing like this stuff that we don't talk 1096 01:06:30,360 --> 01:06:33,750 about. Holy crap. Totally insane. Well, this 1097 01:06:33,750 --> 01:06:36,270 is the who's behind made off thing did you did you actually 1098 01:06:36,270 --> 01:06:37,350 have a chance to read that? 1099 01:06:37,380 --> 01:06:40,680 Yeah, I read that it's ridiculous. You know, gets 1100 01:06:40,680 --> 01:06:44,610 Israeli intelligence and this and that and the other thing and 1101 01:06:44,640 --> 01:06:46,620 doesn't really make a lot of sense well, I'm 1102 01:06:46,680 --> 01:06:49,140 I'm gonna put the link in the show notes so that you know, 1103 01:06:49,140 --> 01:06:51,840 someone out there might might trigger something and they might 1104 01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:53,670 think about something else because it is really just 1105 01:06:53,670 --> 01:06:57,960 connecting the dots you know that that's all we're doing. UK 1106 01:06:57,960 --> 01:07:01,920 loses highly sensitive Iraq War papers is another 1107 01:07:01,950 --> 01:07:04,860 How did these people are losing stuff constantly. 1108 01:07:06,990 --> 01:07:09,720 British Ministry of Defence documents on the Iraq war have 1109 01:07:09,750 --> 01:07:13,740 been reportedly stolen from a lawyer for a private law firm on 1110 01:07:13,740 --> 01:07:16,500 a train to London, these guys, you know, what happens is they 1111 01:07:16,500 --> 01:07:19,260 get on the train, even though Boris Johnson outlawed it, they 1112 01:07:19,260 --> 01:07:22,050 get on the train and they start drinking. And you know, you're 1113 01:07:22,050 --> 01:07:25,200 on the train for at least half an hour and then maybe an hour 1114 01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:27,840 and a half. Some people go on down south to the to the 1115 01:07:27,870 --> 01:07:31,980 southern counties, and the drunk that just the hammer the tire, 1116 01:07:31,980 --> 01:07:35,010 the train is kind of wobbly, you know, you're drinking a brewski. 1117 01:07:35,010 --> 01:07:38,130 And like, and then you leave it with your paper or whatever, you 1118 01:07:38,130 --> 01:07:39,510 know, you just leave it on the train. 1119 01:07:39,750 --> 01:07:42,210 That's why you lose it. And but then you blame it on it being 1120 01:07:42,210 --> 01:07:42,930 stolen. 1121 01:07:43,950 --> 01:07:44,850 Exactly. It's, 1122 01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:47,130 I mean, you can't what else you gonna say, Okay, let's take a 1123 01:07:47,130 --> 01:07:50,550 look. I'm a bureaucrat, I brought my shit on the train, 1124 01:07:50,550 --> 01:07:53,580 because I'm stupid. And it's not encrypted, because I don't 1125 01:07:53,580 --> 01:07:57,210 really know how to do that I'm too busy getting sloshed. And so 1126 01:07:57,210 --> 01:08:00,360 I get on the train, I go right to the bar, it's the first thing 1127 01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:03,300 I do. And then I started drinking. And you know, now have 1128 01:08:03,300 --> 01:08:05,640 another one. And you know, I've another one, you know, it's 1129 01:08:05,640 --> 01:08:08,460 always gonna be like Scotch or something to not, not not 1130 01:08:08,460 --> 01:08:12,570 Chardonnay, that's for sure. And, and it's a long way and you 1131 01:08:12,570 --> 01:08:17,310 don't want to deal with your you get wasted. I was on a plane 1132 01:08:17,310 --> 01:08:20,490 once with a guy who was a publisher of, let's say, a 1133 01:08:20,490 --> 01:08:23,940 magazine that I used to work for it was actually a PC World 1134 01:08:23,970 --> 01:08:28,980 publisher. And this guy was so he gots and I accidentally said, 1135 01:08:29,040 --> 01:08:32,460 our just by coincidence sat next to him. And he was a guy. And 1136 01:08:32,550 --> 01:08:34,950 this was years ago, so nobody could figure out who it is. But 1137 01:08:35,100 --> 01:08:38,220 he got hammered on the plane from New York to San Francisco. 1138 01:08:38,220 --> 01:08:42,480 I mean, I'm talking about hammered. And one of the reasons 1139 01:08:42,480 --> 01:08:45,090 for that is because the plane was delayed, and this is during 1140 01:08:45,090 --> 01:08:48,240 the era where if your plane was delayed by any amount of time 1141 01:08:48,240 --> 01:08:52,440 they would offer you, they'd open the bar up. And I don't 1142 01:08:52,440 --> 01:08:54,510 think I was in business, they might have been whatever the 1143 01:08:54,510 --> 01:08:57,420 case was, the bar was open one way or the other. And so this 1144 01:08:57,420 --> 01:09:02,220 guy kept having to vodkas, override to vote because I 1145 01:09:02,220 --> 01:09:06,060 turned to vodkas. And he couldn't drink very well, it 1146 01:09:06,060 --> 01:09:11,040 seemed to me and it but he had about maybe, I'd say 14 of those 1147 01:09:11,040 --> 01:09:16,080 little bottles of vodka. And so he was like really shot. And 1148 01:09:16,080 --> 01:09:20,100 then he I was concerned about it. So I you know, kept stayed 1149 01:09:20,100 --> 01:09:21,540 with him. And 1150 01:09:21,630 --> 01:09:24,090 by the way, you're you're like the girlfriend that holds holds 1151 01:09:24,090 --> 01:09:27,210 your hair back as you're puking. That's, that's your essential 1152 01:09:27,210 --> 01:09:27,720 role. 1153 01:09:28,380 --> 01:09:31,440 So I'm like hanging and making sure that guys don't get mugged 1154 01:09:31,440 --> 01:09:34,140 or something. So I you know, you wanted to go to his car and he's 1155 01:09:34,140 --> 01:09:37,470 like him comes off the plane, I'm gonna drive home. And I 1156 01:09:37,470 --> 01:09:39,570 said, I don't know if you shouldn't and he's fumbling 1157 01:09:39,570 --> 01:09:42,870 around for his keys. And he, you know, it's like the video, you 1158 01:09:42,870 --> 01:09:45,420 know, drops his keys and and falls down trying to pick them 1159 01:09:45,420 --> 01:09:48,930 up. And so I said, Hey, you know, I think I'll drop you off. 1160 01:09:48,960 --> 01:09:52,680 You know, maybe you can come back at the car later. So he 1161 01:09:52,680 --> 01:09:55,620 says yes, and so I hopefully doesn't throw up in my car. He 1162 01:09:55,620 --> 01:09:58,680 doesn't. And I dropped him off and it's like, you know, he has 1163 01:09:58,680 --> 01:10:01,230 some place in the city and what walked him up to his door where 1164 01:10:01,230 --> 01:10:05,040 he, I think he basically fell asleep on the on the stoop. And 1165 01:10:05,040 --> 01:10:10,170 I left I figured I did my job, I'm close enough. And then he 1166 01:10:10,170 --> 01:10:12,720 was fired some months later because apparently he was a 1167 01:10:12,720 --> 01:10:22,050 drunk. So guys, you know, in this horrible government job, 1168 01:10:22,350 --> 01:10:25,500 and they just leave the computer behind because they walk off and 1169 01:10:25,500 --> 01:10:28,170 leave it on the train and boom, there it goes. Yeah. And they 1170 01:10:28,170 --> 01:10:30,300 never see it again, somebody will pick it up and you know, 1171 01:10:30,300 --> 01:10:32,430 use it as their computer, they probably don't ever go to the 1172 01:10:32,430 --> 01:10:34,470 data files. And if they did, they wouldn't know what to do 1173 01:10:34,470 --> 01:10:36,810 with them. But no, it was stolen. 1174 01:10:36,930 --> 01:10:40,080 It is interesting, because the UK has been pretty good. And 1175 01:10:40,080 --> 01:10:42,540 this is a big flap over here. And I'm sure you're not hearing 1176 01:10:42,540 --> 01:10:48,840 about it at all in the US. That essentially, the British justice 1177 01:10:48,840 --> 01:10:55,050 department kept all these all the secrets about essentially 1178 01:10:55,080 --> 01:10:58,920 the the Bush White House, saying okay, you know, we're going to 1179 01:10:58,920 --> 01:11:02,940 be moving people around for secret interrogations and jails 1180 01:11:02,940 --> 01:11:06,150 all over the place, you're going to cooperate and shut up. And 1181 01:11:06,150 --> 01:11:11,580 then there's a there's the case of this one British man who's 1182 01:11:11,580 --> 01:11:17,220 been who was in Gitmo for four or five years tortured. And so 1183 01:11:17,220 --> 01:11:21,660 now it's all kind of coming out that mi six I guess, or maybe 1184 01:11:21,660 --> 01:11:25,020 even Ministry of Defense, that they knew about this, and they 1185 01:11:25,020 --> 01:11:27,300 actually participated in torture. And there's pictures of 1186 01:11:27,300 --> 01:11:30,420 the guys fingernails are torn out. And, you know, this is the 1187 01:11:30,420 --> 01:11:34,050 so called special relationship that America and Britain have 1188 01:11:34,050 --> 01:11:38,520 together. It's just disgusting. It's just it's really it's it's 1189 01:11:38,520 --> 01:11:41,880 vile Heschel relations today, listen to it, they'll keep 1190 01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:44,910 saying that special relationship. Here's a funny 1191 01:11:44,910 --> 01:11:48,630 one. Police officers were rushed to a hospital in the United 1192 01:11:48,630 --> 01:11:52,710 Kingdom after a suspicious substance was thrown through a 1193 01:11:52,710 --> 01:11:58,290 car window. So the Metropolitan Police responded to these 1194 01:11:58,470 --> 01:12:01,950 reports of an unusual smell coming from a car with smashed 1195 01:12:01,950 --> 01:12:05,820 windows in Enfield, North London. They saw an unknown 1196 01:12:05,820 --> 01:12:09,390 brown substance inside and those who came in to contact with it 1197 01:12:09,390 --> 01:12:14,370 were rushed to the hospital. It turns out it was HP sauce the 1198 01:12:14,370 --> 01:12:20,460 brown sauce I just love Oh, it's brown stuff. We're gonna die 1199 01:12:20,460 --> 01:12:23,580 it's gonna explode it's the brown stuff and it was that 1200 01:12:23,580 --> 01:12:25,050 horrible brown sauce. 1201 01:12:25,350 --> 01:12:31,170 Yeah HB a one sauce of England. Yeah, only 1202 01:12:31,170 --> 01:12:34,560 once only Don't Don't be confused. Made ain't no a one. 1203 01:12:34,830 --> 01:12:39,060 You know what I'll tell you the at the sauces that by the way, I 1204 01:12:39,060 --> 01:12:42,120 did a thing once where I went, I was traveling enough around the 1205 01:12:42,120 --> 01:12:48,720 world that I would buy hp, hp sauce, a one sauce and 1206 01:12:48,720 --> 01:12:51,660 Worcestershire sauce in different parts of the world. 1207 01:12:52,080 --> 01:12:56,550 And it's amazing how different the formulations are from place 1208 01:12:56,550 --> 01:13:00,060 to place it's not even you think as well as the same right? No, 1209 01:13:00,150 --> 01:13:04,830 no, no, no, no. Alien. And the one that if you anyone who wants 1210 01:13:04,830 --> 01:13:08,910 to try this in, get some really interesting products the I don't 1211 01:13:08,910 --> 01:13:12,270 recommend the HP in a once experiment anymore because for 1212 01:13:12,270 --> 01:13:14,280 one thing you can't use either one of those things if things 1213 01:13:14,280 --> 01:13:17,880 are almost all high fructose corn syrup, because I won't use 1214 01:13:17,880 --> 01:13:21,180 sugar which is the stuff that will kill you. It's up to you 1215 01:13:21,180 --> 01:13:23,940 know well now you're gonna get a letter. But step I think 1216 01:13:23,940 --> 01:13:26,970 Canada's only blessed hold up for using a lot of sugar and 1217 01:13:26,970 --> 01:13:32,160 stuff. And you know, cane sugar and but anyway the worst your 1218 01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:34,410 share sauce is the one that's the most extreme and it's 1219 01:13:34,410 --> 01:13:36,780 differences it's very interesting. Lee and parent 1220 01:13:36,780 --> 01:13:41,520 exact same brand tasty. Tastes radically different from country 1221 01:13:41,520 --> 01:13:42,300 to country. You know, what's 1222 01:13:42,300 --> 01:13:46,530 an interesting sauce? There was a guy who was on Dragon's Den, 1223 01:13:46,830 --> 01:13:49,980 which is kind of a reality show here in the United Kingdom. Is 1224 01:13:49,980 --> 01:13:53,070 it on the stage now? Dragon's Den? It must be on BBC America 1225 01:13:53,070 --> 01:13:53,880 or South America I 1226 01:13:53,880 --> 01:13:55,380 think I may have seen it Yeah, 1227 01:13:55,710 --> 01:13:59,100 I there's no US version yet. I know because they asked me for 1228 01:13:59,100 --> 01:14:04,440 it but the show never took off and never got greenlit and they 1229 01:14:04,440 --> 01:14:08,610 had a guy on who would who had was making the sauce in his in 1230 01:14:08,610 --> 01:14:12,480 his kitchen at home. And it was a Rasta guy right and he walks 1231 01:14:12,480 --> 01:14:15,870 in he has a cool song like reggae reggae sauce and he's 1232 01:14:15,870 --> 01:14:19,140 doing this whole roster thing and they taste the sauce and 1233 01:14:19,140 --> 01:14:20,970 they're like wow, this is good. You know we're gonna give you 1234 01:14:20,970 --> 01:14:23,610 whatever he was asking for 50,000 pounds or whatever to get 1235 01:14:23,610 --> 01:14:27,330 the business going. And now it's it's available and widely it was 1236 01:14:27,330 --> 01:14:30,900 a shit is really good. It's fantastic. It's the reggae 1237 01:14:30,900 --> 01:14:36,240 reggae sauce. It's kind of the jerk chicken like a jerk sauce 1238 01:14:36,300 --> 01:14:39,900 in a way. It has a it has kind of a nice little stinky bite 1239 01:14:39,900 --> 01:14:42,930 that's that lingers on. It's phenomenal. It's really really 1240 01:14:42,930 --> 01:14:45,960 good. So I will bring one over next time I come you'll like the 1241 01:14:46,470 --> 01:14:51,450 reggae reggae sauce. George Soros said on Friday. The this 1242 01:14:51,450 --> 01:14:55,110 is just to make you feel good. The world financial system has 1243 01:14:55,110 --> 01:14:58,800 effectively disintegrated, adding that there is yet no 1244 01:14:58,800 --> 01:15:02,610 prospect of a near term. On resolution to the crisis Sora 1245 01:15:02,610 --> 01:15:05,580 said the turbulence is actually more severe than during the 1246 01:15:05,580 --> 01:15:08,940 Great Depression, comparing the current situation to the demise 1247 01:15:08,970 --> 01:15:12,240 of the Soviet Union, he said the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 1248 01:15:12,240 --> 01:15:14,910 September marked a turning point in the functioning of the 1249 01:15:14,910 --> 01:15:17,160 market, we witnessed the collapse of the financial 1250 01:15:17,160 --> 01:15:20,550 system. So take that and stick it in your head. 1251 01:15:21,630 --> 01:15:23,070 Well, hopefully he's wrong. 1252 01:15:23,940 --> 01:15:26,280 He's been pretty right about a lot of things. Of course, if 1253 01:15:26,280 --> 01:15:29,430 you're actually in control of some of it, then it's easy to be 1254 01:15:29,430 --> 01:15:30,000 right. 1255 01:15:31,800 --> 01:15:34,680 He also may be saying that because it might be a buying 1256 01:15:34,680 --> 01:15:35,520 opportunity. 1257 01:15:36,420 --> 01:15:40,530 Hey, John, why don't you take that $80 that we've been donated 1258 01:15:40,530 --> 01:15:44,280 so far to the curry Dvorak library and invest it wisely. 1259 01:15:45,360 --> 01:15:47,520 You think we've hit the bottom? My friend? Is that what you're 1260 01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:47,880 saying? 1261 01:15:48,960 --> 01:15:51,600 Well, I mean, it seems to me one of the things you want to do is 1262 01:15:51,600 --> 01:15:54,420 if you have a lot of money, and you're running a hedge fund type 1263 01:15:54,420 --> 01:15:58,620 operations, you want to key if you if the market is depressed, 1264 01:16:01,050 --> 01:16:04,650 you know, or oversold, that you'd want to make, push it down 1265 01:16:04,650 --> 01:16:08,160 to, as hard as you can. Because if you if you move the product 1266 01:16:08,160 --> 01:16:11,790 markets, typically as if you have a lot of money, you move 1267 01:16:11,790 --> 01:16:15,600 the market just by buying in. And it which is not good, 1268 01:16:15,600 --> 01:16:18,030 because you want to really you know, you want to have something 1269 01:16:18,030 --> 01:16:22,890 where where it can soak it up like a sponge, as opposed to you 1270 01:16:22,890 --> 01:16:26,040 know, that I was people. This is what happens in Horowitz and I 1271 01:16:26,040 --> 01:16:28,530 were talking about this. This is what happens when people play 1272 01:16:28,590 --> 01:16:31,050 paper trading, you know, they just want to practice. 1273 01:16:31,320 --> 01:16:35,160 I heard this discussion. It was very funny about the pink slips. 1274 01:16:35,430 --> 01:16:38,400 Were piano trading penny stocks. Yeah, of course. But that's the 1275 01:16:38,400 --> 01:16:41,520 way it's all set up is you you you practice, you practice you 1276 01:16:41,520 --> 01:16:44,040 trade. You're like, oh, man, I'm doing so great. I'm making 1277 01:16:44,040 --> 01:16:47,760 6070 $100,000. And then you do it for real money and you lose 1278 01:16:47,760 --> 01:16:48,270 your shirt. 1279 01:16:48,930 --> 01:16:52,140 Yeah. Just sweat. It's the way 1280 01:16:52,140 --> 01:16:55,530 it is. Yeah, we've all done it. We've all been there. We've all 1281 01:16:55,530 --> 01:16:58,740 done the backtrader. That's another one. Yeah, test your 1282 01:16:58,740 --> 01:17:01,500 strategies with back trades. So you can actually see how much 1283 01:17:01,500 --> 01:17:04,260 money you would have made if you had implemented your strategy. 1284 01:17:04,260 --> 01:17:05,160 That's my favorite. 1285 01:17:05,550 --> 01:17:09,360 Yeah, it's a classic. So anyway, the so guy like Soros, you know, 1286 01:17:09,360 --> 01:17:12,300 to get to do anything he has to have, you know, it has to be 1287 01:17:12,300 --> 01:17:14,880 this sponge condition where it's just can soak it up. And then 1288 01:17:14,910 --> 01:17:18,030 once it's stabilized, and it starts going up, you that's 1289 01:17:18,030 --> 01:17:20,400 where you make all your, you know, make serious money. But, 1290 01:17:20,820 --> 01:17:23,070 you know, so I don't know. Yeah, I don't know if you can trust 1291 01:17:23,070 --> 01:17:26,070 him. You know, that's the problem. I mean, I admired him, 1292 01:17:26,100 --> 01:17:29,460 he's the one who, who brought in Greenberger to talk about the 1293 01:17:29,460 --> 01:17:33,660 oil prices in front of Congress, which, which kicked off the 1294 01:17:33,840 --> 01:17:36,540 collapse of the price of oil, because once the scam was 1295 01:17:36,750 --> 01:17:39,390 realized, the next thing you know, which, by the way, still 1296 01:17:39,390 --> 01:17:41,610 people still say what was shortage, you know, in their 1297 01:17:41,640 --> 01:17:45,780 peak oil, you know, that all that bullshit was like revealed 1298 01:17:45,780 --> 01:17:48,300 to be a fraud. And of course, people still don't know that. I 1299 01:17:48,300 --> 01:17:51,150 don't know what why the media doesn't get around to telling 1300 01:17:51,150 --> 01:17:55,290 them but so he I mean, he's been in the in the game here, and 1301 01:17:55,290 --> 01:17:58,170 they're trying to do what he can. But you know, I don't 1302 01:17:58,680 --> 01:18:01,200 believe this is true what he says because it just doesn't 1303 01:18:01,200 --> 01:18:05,160 make because it's not true. I mean, it's not. It's not I mean, 1304 01:18:05,160 --> 01:18:07,620 it's not in good shape, but it's not collapsed. 1305 01:18:08,760 --> 01:18:14,580 Well, I tend to agree with the distinguished gentleman. Mr. 1306 01:18:14,580 --> 01:18:19,440 Soros, I think he's just he's playing a sucker's game. Okay, 1307 01:18:20,100 --> 01:18:22,980 I'm still predicting 600 s&p and 6000 down. 1308 01:18:23,460 --> 01:18:26,280 Okay, predict what you want. Um, this time, I'm not agreeing with 1309 01:18:26,280 --> 01:18:30,180 you, like I did with a $200 oil that's thrown back in my face 1310 01:18:30,180 --> 01:18:33,060 now. That's okay. No, just casually said, Yeah, I guess it 1311 01:18:33,060 --> 01:18:34,170 could happen. Okay. 1312 01:18:36,750 --> 01:18:43,440 Berkshire Hathaway has just as a data point there, has dropped to 1313 01:18:43,440 --> 01:18:46,080 almost 50% in the past year, this is 1314 01:18:47,010 --> 01:18:49,410 the world's greatest investor and world's greatest investor. 1315 01:18:51,150 --> 01:18:55,410 We talked briefly and this is I realized that that you know, I 1316 01:18:55,410 --> 01:18:58,230 kind of glossed over this myself, and how outraged you 1317 01:18:58,230 --> 01:19:04,530 were about it, when we spoke about it last, the idea that the 1318 01:19:04,530 --> 01:19:07,590 government was going to start taxing us by the mile using a 1319 01:19:07,590 --> 01:19:11,370 black box with a GPS and instead of gasoline tax, you would pay 1320 01:19:11,370 --> 01:19:16,470 your taxes, of course, your carbon taxes, etc. per mile that 1321 01:19:16,470 --> 01:19:19,980 you drove, and you really went off on it. You're like, oh, 1322 01:19:20,280 --> 01:19:22,830 that's never gonna happen. It's crazy. It's outrageous and ice. 1323 01:19:22,830 --> 01:19:25,500 And I told you that this is being implemented in several 1324 01:19:25,500 --> 01:19:31,320 countries. And I realized that, you know, living in the UK and 1325 01:19:31,320 --> 01:19:36,330 having lived in the Netherlands, it was so easy for me to accept 1326 01:19:36,330 --> 01:19:40,080 the idea that no matter how outrageous, I've already been 1327 01:19:40,080 --> 01:19:42,540 conditioned, because I remember hearing the story and I was 1328 01:19:42,540 --> 01:19:45,270 like, No, that's crazy man. That's like such an invasion of 1329 01:19:45,270 --> 01:19:50,040 privacy, etc, etc. But I really wasn't outraged because everyone 1330 01:19:50,040 --> 01:19:52,170 over here is conditioned. I think we're five years ahead of 1331 01:19:52,170 --> 01:19:54,300 the US. Everyone's just conditioned like, okay, yeah, 1332 01:19:54,300 --> 01:19:57,060 they'll probably do that. They'll probably implement that 1333 01:19:57,060 --> 01:19:59,640 and they will then it will happen the United States even 1334 01:19:59,640 --> 01:20:04,470 though course that story has been denied by Robert Gibbs once 1335 01:20:04,470 --> 01:20:10,110 again. Because that was Rayleigh hoods suggestion. And he did say 1336 01:20:10,110 --> 01:20:13,440 it to the press. And so now it's, it's been pulled off the 1337 01:20:13,440 --> 01:20:15,690 table, but I think these are all just little trial balloons. 1338 01:20:15,690 --> 01:20:18,600 They're going to do that. That's for real. And let me mention one 1339 01:20:18,600 --> 01:20:21,930 more thing while I'm on the tracking shit. So I had 1340 01:20:21,930 --> 01:20:24,960 installed Google Maps. Now I have how's your battery doing on 1341 01:20:24,960 --> 01:20:29,880 your E? 71? We got them. You got yours? Maybe three months after 1342 01:20:29,880 --> 01:20:34,500 me? Yeah. Okay. How's the battery life doing? Fine. I 1343 01:20:34,500 --> 01:20:39,060 mean, what's the two days for four days? So I've got this e 1344 01:20:39,060 --> 01:20:43,470 71. I've had it longer than you have. I've called very little on 1345 01:20:43,470 --> 01:20:46,650 it since we moved to this house for two reasons. One, because it 1346 01:20:46,650 --> 01:20:48,810 doesn't really have T Mobile doesn't have really great 1347 01:20:48,810 --> 01:20:53,310 reception down in the basement where I am. So I have to put it 1348 01:20:53,310 --> 01:20:55,680 near the window. And so you can't walk around that kind of 1349 01:20:55,680 --> 01:20:58,830 defeats the purpose. So yeah, and I usually use Skype and I 1350 01:20:58,830 --> 01:21:01,200 have it rigged up through the system like I do now. So I can 1351 01:21:01,200 --> 01:21:04,290 have people on the speakers and you know, I can I can play sound 1352 01:21:04,290 --> 01:21:07,350 effects whenever I want to. It's much more fun. So I don't use it 1353 01:21:07,350 --> 01:21:07,950 a lot. I 1354 01:21:08,250 --> 01:21:10,770 use sound effects in your regular normal phone calls. 1355 01:21:10,890 --> 01:21:14,370 Oh, man on the conference calls. Are you kidding me? We have the 1356 01:21:14,370 --> 01:21:15,570 video conference calls. 1357 01:21:19,950 --> 01:21:21,270 Okay, all right. All right. 1358 01:21:22,170 --> 01:21:26,460 So I've got the use of that one. Yeah, that's I don't use that 1359 01:21:26,460 --> 01:21:31,290 one. Yeah, actually, I use. I use this one. There are white 1360 01:21:31,290 --> 01:21:33,270 folks. And then there are ignorant motherfuckers. Like 1361 01:21:33,270 --> 01:21:33,540 you? 1362 01:21:34,200 --> 01:21:35,370 Yeah, well, that's a good one. Yeah. 1363 01:21:35,970 --> 01:21:42,270 So I had installed Google Maps with the latitude. functionality 1364 01:21:42,300 --> 01:21:45,330 when I went to see the Queen, right, a couple days before, and 1365 01:21:45,330 --> 01:21:49,380 I had installed this and, and I learned that it was pretty easy 1366 01:21:49,380 --> 01:21:52,170 to quit the application, but it was actually still running 1367 01:21:52,170 --> 01:21:57,120 because it asks you it does ask you Do you know? And oftentimes, 1368 01:21:57,120 --> 01:21:58,710 you'll be it'll be like, yes, you know, because you think it's 1369 01:21:58,710 --> 01:22:01,050 saying Do you want to quit? Do you really want to quit? Because 1370 01:22:01,050 --> 01:22:03,690 that's kind of the last message you get. But this message says, 1371 01:22:03,720 --> 01:22:08,580 Do you want to keep sharing your location? So I had I had been 1372 01:22:08,580 --> 01:22:14,580 trapped by that once before. But then I got, I didn't like that. 1373 01:22:14,580 --> 01:22:17,670 And I'm like, I'm just going to uninstall this thing, because 1374 01:22:17,670 --> 01:22:21,000 it's bugging me that, that I actually flipped through that. 1375 01:22:21,000 --> 01:22:26,070 And again, who knows, ever since I've uninstalled it, my battery 1376 01:22:26,100 --> 01:22:31,860 runs out very quickly. So I bought a new battery, just to 1377 01:22:31,860 --> 01:22:32,130 prove, 1378 01:22:33,210 --> 01:22:35,190 right? That is something going on. And I 1379 01:22:35,190 --> 01:22:39,840 believe that it is making connections. It's PI's a 1380 01:22:39,840 --> 01:22:44,040 possibility that it's making connections. And doing something 1381 01:22:44,040 --> 01:22:47,820 because something has changed. Because the battery is literally 1382 01:22:47,820 --> 01:22:51,720 running out overnight is next to my bed. It's you know, it's 1383 01:22:51,720 --> 01:22:55,470 always been full bars in the morning. And I wake up and it's 1384 01:22:55,470 --> 01:22:58,920 either almost empty, or it's giving me a low battery warning. 1385 01:22:58,950 --> 01:23:01,890 And it's a brand new battery that I put in just just to prove 1386 01:23:01,890 --> 01:23:04,170 that you know that something was going on that is not the 1387 01:23:04,170 --> 01:23:04,680 battery. 1388 01:23:05,070 --> 01:23:08,070 Well, how about this for an idea? I think you're probably 1389 01:23:08,070 --> 01:23:10,830 right. Anyway, I'm reminded so you tell the story course of 1390 01:23:10,830 --> 01:23:14,250 like bit torrents. You know how these people get burned, because 1391 01:23:14,250 --> 01:23:16,260 they have a bit torrent going. They don't know that there's 1392 01:23:16,260 --> 01:23:19,260 doing file sharing, you know, because you know BitTorrent is 1393 01:23:19,470 --> 01:23:22,350 you download something, but you're uploading tonight, 1394 01:23:22,350 --> 01:23:24,930 whether you know it or not, or those old music sharing sites, 1395 01:23:24,960 --> 01:23:27,330 you know, where you had, you know, you're basically always 1396 01:23:27,330 --> 01:23:30,150 online, you didn't know it, you know, you were 1397 01:23:30,389 --> 01:23:33,449 sure? Oh, yeah, sure, the System Tray stuff, all kinds of there's 1398 01:23:33,449 --> 01:23:36,779 all kinds of particularly on Windows and you get any, almost 1399 01:23:36,779 --> 01:23:40,199 any bit torrent client and if you quit the client, but it 1400 01:23:40,199 --> 01:23:40,919 keeps sharing, 1401 01:23:41,429 --> 01:23:43,439 right, and your next thing you know, the feds are knocking on 1402 01:23:43,439 --> 01:23:44,729 the door, you know, exactly. 1403 01:23:46,560 --> 01:23:48,750 So very well here, you got some gold in there. 1404 01:23:49,679 --> 01:23:55,739 So, son, so you're gonna, what you have to do obviously, is you 1405 01:23:55,739 --> 01:24:01,019 have to pull your memory little memory card out. And just 1406 01:24:01,019 --> 01:24:03,779 forget, put it in like one of those little holders, they 1407 01:24:03,779 --> 01:24:06,059 there's little micro SD cards, you stick the little bitty card 1408 01:24:06,059 --> 01:24:08,279 into a bigger card that you put in your computer, just erase the 1409 01:24:08,279 --> 01:24:10,979 damn thing. Now there was all your applications have got to 1410 01:24:10,979 --> 01:24:15,689 go. I mean, make backups of your address book, and then probably 1411 01:24:15,689 --> 01:24:20,189 do the same thing to your SIM card. And once the SIM card in 1412 01:24:20,189 --> 01:24:22,169 that little card erase, I'll bet you the problem goes away 1413 01:24:22,199 --> 01:24:24,179 because it can't there's nothing in terms of the phone that I 1414 01:24:24,179 --> 01:24:27,629 know of that would that would that would unless it's got some 1415 01:24:27,629 --> 01:24:31,199 sort of I can't think of anything. 1416 01:24:31,350 --> 01:24:35,160 And I'll tell you that I think I think there was one point during 1417 01:24:35,160 --> 01:24:39,060 the day where I looked at my phone, and I saw the 3g, I saw 1418 01:24:39,060 --> 01:24:41,160 that there was a network connection and I went What the 1419 01:24:41,160 --> 01:24:45,450 hell is that? That I'm and I'm switching around, I had no apps 1420 01:24:45,450 --> 01:24:50,340 open. I went to No, I had Google Maps was D installed by them and 1421 01:24:50,340 --> 01:24:51,780 I have no idea what was connecting. 1422 01:24:52,260 --> 01:24:56,790 Okay, I have one other possibility your phone's been 1423 01:24:56,790 --> 01:24:59,760 compromised and it's basically on listening to you all the time 1424 01:24:59,760 --> 01:25:01,950 and it's relaying the information to someone that's 1425 01:25:01,950 --> 01:25:06,870 possible. Looks like it can happen. Yeah. Okay, I know what 1426 01:25:06,870 --> 01:25:10,290 I know it would defeat that immediately. What's that? Turn 1427 01:25:10,290 --> 01:25:11,880 the phone off and turn the phone off? 1428 01:25:11,909 --> 01:25:14,969 Yeah. I tend to actually take the battery out. I think we have 1429 01:25:14,969 --> 01:25:17,339 to take the battery out to be 100%. Sure. 1430 01:25:17,939 --> 01:25:20,309 Yeah, I guess if it was done right, you could you could turn 1431 01:25:20,309 --> 01:25:21,659 the phone off, I would still be let me 1432 01:25:21,660 --> 01:25:26,160 let me just, Hey, guys, it's okay. I'm harmless. Just talk to 1433 01:25:26,160 --> 01:25:29,040 him. Okay, that's true. We got a couple we got a couple more 1434 01:25:29,040 --> 01:25:31,680 stories, John, just just maybe even stuff we'll talk about on 1435 01:25:31,680 --> 01:25:37,290 Thursday. Euro just, which is the EU's judicial Cooperation 1436 01:25:37,320 --> 01:25:42,600 Agency is taking the lead in finding ways to help police and 1437 01:25:42,600 --> 01:25:47,850 prosecutors across Europe to wiretap Skype calls. Because 1438 01:25:47,850 --> 01:25:51,960 they're, they're apparently upset that they can't listen to 1439 01:25:51,960 --> 01:25:55,170 us on Skype. And I just tuned into the stream, it's a lot 1440 01:25:55,170 --> 01:25:55,590 easier. 1441 01:25:57,270 --> 01:25:59,940 Right. And, by the way, if you're listening at your 1442 01:25:59,940 --> 01:26:05,670 intelligence agency, please dvorak.org/n A, we could use the 1443 01:26:05,760 --> 01:26:11,700 donations for the curry divorce library. Because I have the 1444 01:26:11,700 --> 01:26:17,820 album art for it. We've got to mention the wacky ass blue 1445 01:26:17,820 --> 01:26:21,150 Mustang at Denver International Airport as another piece of the 1446 01:26:21,150 --> 01:26:25,740 puzzle of the weird art. Of course, a part of this thing 1447 01:26:25,740 --> 01:26:28,950 fell on its creator and killed him. Just to make it an even 1448 01:26:28,950 --> 01:26:29,790 better story. 1449 01:26:30,120 --> 01:26:31,020 Supposedly. 1450 01:26:32,400 --> 01:26:35,580 Supposedly, what do you think is like, like a Trojan horse and 1451 01:26:35,580 --> 01:26:38,130 the belly opens up and all kinds of things pop out. 1452 01:26:38,730 --> 01:26:41,040 And it could be some insight that they didn't want anyone to 1453 01:26:41,040 --> 01:26:44,160 know about like a transmitter or some sort of a who knows what. 1454 01:26:44,610 --> 01:26:48,210 And you know, fractal antennas designed for something specific 1455 01:26:48,210 --> 01:26:51,480 and this guy was going to mention that in the interview 1456 01:26:51,480 --> 01:26:53,580 they were going to do with him after he finished the horse and 1457 01:26:53,580 --> 01:26:54,510 so they had to kill him. 1458 01:26:58,890 --> 01:27:02,280 We laugh but we're not really we're not really that happy 1459 01:27:02,280 --> 01:27:07,050 about it. And a piece for the just for fun because of course 1460 01:27:07,050 --> 01:27:11,460 tonight is the at first Annual Academy Awards, which will 1461 01:27:11,460 --> 01:27:13,860 probably right at low ratings, because again, 1462 01:27:14,820 --> 01:27:17,010 there's a theme, you know, for these awards called the year of 1463 01:27:17,010 --> 01:27:17,670 the dog. 1464 01:27:19,170 --> 01:27:21,180 Really, because of Slumdog 1465 01:27:22,320 --> 01:27:26,310 Yeah, that that's a pun, right? Because it's a and yeah, it's 1466 01:27:26,310 --> 01:27:29,610 also this is ridiculous. These movies are boring. 1467 01:27:29,760 --> 01:27:33,540 Well, this is the point. Every single year they do these really 1468 01:27:33,540 --> 01:27:36,330 artsy fartsy movies which by the way, some of them are really 1469 01:27:36,330 --> 01:27:39,210 good but they're not like the big blockbuster hits the 1470 01:27:39,210 --> 01:27:42,120 audience doesn't show up for the award show people it's like you 1471 01:27:42,120 --> 01:27:45,540 know, like, oh, well, the you know, I guess the numbers are 1472 01:27:45,540 --> 01:27:49,830 down again. Well, of course because boring. Anyways, leaked 1473 01:27:49,830 --> 01:27:53,640 out on the interwebs is the list of winners if you care to care 1474 01:27:53,640 --> 01:27:56,910 to hear who's going to win would like to Boiler Yeah, 1475 01:27:56,940 --> 01:28:00,090 wait a minute, maybe I thought that these things were sealed by 1476 01:28:00,120 --> 01:28:02,130 good housekeeping or somebody and the 1477 01:28:02,430 --> 01:28:04,140 Martha Stewart good house. Okay, 1478 01:28:04,140 --> 01:28:06,120 we'll check. Okay, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna 1479 01:28:06,120 --> 01:28:09,090 reveal. We're gonna check the bullshitter now. 1480 01:28:09,600 --> 01:28:12,210 Do you want do you want to take a quick wager? Hi, baby. 1481 01:28:12,420 --> 01:28:14,730 Welcome. Thank you, darling. 1482 01:28:15,090 --> 01:28:19,290 Yeah, I'm gonna wager that these I'll make a Five buck bet that 1483 01:28:19,290 --> 01:28:20,550 these are bogus. 1484 01:28:20,610 --> 01:28:24,450 Okay. All right. So let's just do the big ones. Actor in a 1485 01:28:24,450 --> 01:28:25,920 Leading Role Who do you think's gonna win? 1486 01:28:28,680 --> 01:28:29,820 Who's nominated again? 1487 01:28:30,510 --> 01:28:34,110 I know. I don't give you that they just give you the names. 1488 01:28:34,140 --> 01:28:38,370 I'll tell you what is the wrestler Jimmy Rory McIlroy. 1489 01:28:38,370 --> 01:28:41,460 Mickey Rourke exactly. Okay, then you'll also know Actor in a 1490 01:28:41,460 --> 01:28:46,530 Supporting Role male I don't remember who of course, Heath 1491 01:28:46,530 --> 01:28:47,790 Ledger Of course, he's got to get it. 1492 01:28:48,629 --> 01:28:51,149 Right. Yeah, exactly. Because he's dead because he's dead 1493 01:28:51,420 --> 01:28:54,360 Actress in a Leading Role. You know who that's going to be? 1494 01:28:54,960 --> 01:28:59,700 Who? Kate Winslet Oh yeah. Right deboarding everything and then 1495 01:29:00,000 --> 01:29:02,550 and then it gets a little more esoteric so I'll just give you 1496 01:29:02,550 --> 01:29:06,150 Actress in a Supporting Role would be Amy Adams who I do not 1497 01:29:06,240 --> 01:29:12,600 know. Best Picture Slumdog Millionaire. What other Okay, 1498 01:29:12,600 --> 01:29:13,320 here's here's one of the 1499 01:29:13,740 --> 01:29:15,240 best director gives Best Dressed 1500 01:29:15,240 --> 01:29:16,770 director Hold on. 1501 01:29:19,140 --> 01:29:20,910 Interesting this could be go anywhere. 1502 01:29:20,940 --> 01:29:28,080 So cinematography, cause Well, it's interesting. 1503 01:29:28,560 --> 01:29:29,790 You don't have Best Director. 1504 01:29:30,180 --> 01:29:34,140 I'm looking how come I can't see it. This picture cinema? 1505 01:29:35,070 --> 01:29:38,220 Cinematography, is that following the cinematography? No 1506 01:29:38,220 --> 01:29:41,280 direct directing direct here it is Danny Boyle for Slumdog 1507 01:29:41,280 --> 01:29:45,090 Millionaire. How about this documentary feature? Okay, 1508 01:29:45,090 --> 01:29:47,910 that's one that if that's right then you know the list was good. 1509 01:29:47,910 --> 01:29:48,180 No, 1510 01:29:48,180 --> 01:29:50,910 it's not no because there's one guy that's so far out in front 1511 01:29:50,910 --> 01:29:53,340 on that one the one that did does that did a documentary 1512 01:29:53,340 --> 01:29:54,540 about Cambodia. 1513 01:29:54,690 --> 01:29:59,370 Oh, well, according to this it's man on a wire. Oh, okay. She's 1514 01:29:59,640 --> 01:30:02,370 might be Isn't that the about the French guy that walked 1515 01:30:02,370 --> 01:30:05,790 between the Twin Towers? I don't know. Yeah, I think so. Okay, so 1516 01:30:05,820 --> 01:30:08,400 man on a wire. If that if that wins, then we'll know that this 1517 01:30:08,400 --> 01:30:10,740 list was pretty good if all the other ones are correct, but we 1518 01:30:10,740 --> 01:30:11,070 have to 1519 01:30:11,250 --> 01:30:14,640 post the list on the notes. Yep. And then we can make the 1520 01:30:14,640 --> 01:30:17,880 comparison and see what what didn't work. So, you know, I 1521 01:30:17,880 --> 01:30:21,720 think a series of good guesses, you know, because there's been, 1522 01:30:21,840 --> 01:30:23,970 you know, they've had enough award shows already. And they 1523 01:30:23,970 --> 01:30:26,910 typically, you know, there's a percentage of these, you know, 1524 01:30:26,910 --> 01:30:30,810 there's very rarely a surprise that, you know, you wouldn't 1525 01:30:30,810 --> 01:30:34,830 have guessed. And this year, it looks like it's kind of rigged, 1526 01:30:34,890 --> 01:30:36,690 especially for the actors and actresses. 1527 01:30:37,770 --> 01:30:40,440 And then as we close down the show with one hour and 30 1528 01:30:40,440 --> 01:30:45,030 minutes, one final piece of news that just made me chuckle coming 1529 01:30:45,030 --> 01:30:49,170 in from the Netherlands. As you know, I'm I've been harping for 1530 01:30:49,170 --> 01:30:55,230 quite a while I'm against the vac the Gardasil HPV 1531 01:30:55,260 --> 01:30:59,490 vaccination, I feel that it's not proven, there's children who 1532 01:30:59,490 --> 01:31:03,090 have died from this, it's, I believe, it's the pharmaceutical 1533 01:31:03,090 --> 01:31:06,630 industry just trying to make tons of money with in cahoots 1534 01:31:06,630 --> 01:31:12,090 with the government. And so they you know, many nationalized or 1535 01:31:12,090 --> 01:31:16,320 social socialized healthcare systems are buying this from the 1536 01:31:16,320 --> 01:31:21,510 big pharmaceuticals, and then they give it free to citizens of 1537 01:31:21,510 --> 01:31:24,330 the country, which is this other scam has already done right. So 1538 01:31:24,330 --> 01:31:27,540 they they can, somehow they convinced the medical 1539 01:31:27,540 --> 01:31:29,910 authorities, this has to be in the package, because when it 1540 01:31:29,910 --> 01:31:34,680 goes save millions of girls from cervical cancer, and so the 1541 01:31:34,680 --> 01:31:38,610 government then buys it, they and this is a very expensive 1542 01:31:38,610 --> 01:31:41,310 process, it consists of three vaccinations, you have to come 1543 01:31:41,310 --> 01:31:45,300 back three times or come back twice. After the initial one. I 1544 01:31:45,300 --> 01:31:49,470 believe the total package is four or $500 per patient. So 1545 01:31:49,470 --> 01:31:52,470 this is a big ticket item. And well, it's quite, you know, the 1546 01:31:52,470 --> 01:31:56,610 side note is it's killing people. Thank you, darling. So 1547 01:31:56,610 --> 01:31:59,580 in the Netherlands now because of course there is a thank 1548 01:31:59,580 --> 01:32:03,420 goodness, there's there's a lot of a lot of people saying hey, 1549 01:32:03,450 --> 01:32:06,030 you know, the same such a certain date, and I hope I can 1550 01:32:06,030 --> 01:32:07,890 take some responsibility for that in the Netherlands 1551 01:32:07,890 --> 01:32:11,670 specifically, this is not a sure deal, right. And so people are 1552 01:32:11,670 --> 01:32:15,960 saying, Well, I'm not I'm not so positive. So what did the health 1553 01:32:15,960 --> 01:32:19,920 system come up with? Hey, if you come and you take your first 1554 01:32:19,920 --> 01:32:23,430 shot, and you come back for the other two, we'll give you a free 1555 01:32:23,430 --> 01:32:24,120 iPod. 1556 01:32:25,830 --> 01:32:28,020 Oh, that is so debt is sick. 1557 01:32:28,230 --> 01:32:34,080 How horrible is that? These are 13 to 16 year old girls. And and 1558 01:32:34,080 --> 01:32:39,570 they're sending them letters, letters with this offer. Ah, 1559 01:32:40,140 --> 01:32:48,450 heck get sick. So I'm the crackpot doo doo doo doo doo doo 1560 01:32:48,450 --> 01:32:48,630 doo 1561 01:32:48,630 --> 01:32:51,990 typically, is our example of consumer protections 1562 01:32:51,990 --> 01:32:54,270 kill? Yeah, of course. Exactly. wrap 1563 01:32:54,270 --> 01:32:55,710 it back around. Yeah, yeah, we 1564 01:32:55,710 --> 01:32:58,890 totally need it. All right. Well, so that's, that's what's 1565 01:32:58,890 --> 01:33:00,720 happening in the world. All right. 1566 01:33:00,720 --> 01:33:03,900 We'll be back on Thursday. Yeah, and you're going to be back in 1567 01:33:04,830 --> 01:33:07,650 I'll be back in the Bay Area and in the bay or Silicon Valley. 1568 01:33:07,980 --> 01:33:12,630 Otherwise known as get mo nation. north north Sun Thor 1569 01:33:12,630 --> 01:33:14,160 week west or north get 1570 01:33:14,790 --> 01:33:20,130 the get the gizmo nation. Hey, we had about double the normal 1571 01:33:20,130 --> 01:33:21,480 audience on the streams today. 1572 01:33:22,410 --> 01:33:26,070 I managed to Twitter at 10 You know, with the right address, I 1573 01:33:26,070 --> 01:33:26,730 think Oh, 1574 01:33:26,790 --> 01:33:28,800 you don't think it's just because the show was gathering 1575 01:33:28,800 --> 01:33:33,510 steam and we're just on fire right now. It's none of the Oh, 1576 01:33:33,510 --> 01:33:37,650 and Oh, I totally forgot I was gonna play my Obama song. Let me 1577 01:33:37,650 --> 01:33:38,190 save it. 1578 01:33:38,730 --> 01:33:40,740 Save it to Thursday. That's a teaser. 1579 01:33:41,490 --> 01:33:45,270 Well, it's not really an it's not a it's a it's a it's an old 1580 01:33:45,270 --> 01:33:45,780 song. 1581 01:33:46,170 --> 01:33:50,430 Well, don't blow it for us. We had everybody all the needle. 1582 01:33:50,670 --> 01:33:51,450 It's a good one. 1583 01:33:53,010 --> 01:33:56,850 Coming to you from Gitmo nation east in southwest London in the 1584 01:33:56,850 --> 01:33:59,310 crackpot command center. I'm out of time. 1585 01:33:59,700 --> 01:34:02,580 And I'm John C. Dvorak here in the Pacific Northwest, also 1586 01:34:02,580 --> 01:34:05,670 known as the get more nation Pacific Northwest. I'm John C. 1587 01:34:05,670 --> 01:34:07,350 Dvorak, as I said, we'll talk 1588 01:34:07,350 --> 01:34:09,840 to you again on Thursday right here on no agenda.