Systemic Rivals

00:00 George Soros, help us! Speak and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 6. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where we all said oh no when the Holland driver drove into a wall...I'm John C. Dvorak. Wait a minute! What happened? Who drove into a wall? Here's what I heard you say…when the Holland driver drove into the wall

00:42 That's exactly what I said. Explain! I'm watching the Indy 500 for the first time in 15 years. Oh, oh, mucks for stopper? No the VK guy or whatever his name is... Thank goodness it wasn't Max. No no Max is in Formula One-oh there's a Dutch guy in Indy?! Yeah, he's a top driver and he's doing better every year since third or fourth year in it No I'm driving an orange car with no jumpsuit. I have not followed him unfortunately first wreck of the race Is he okay? Yeah man you know the last Dutch guy who won I think two in a row was Adi Leyendeijk I was there When he went second famous yeah, he's really nice guy He lives in Arizona

01:27 In case you want to go check him out He's like he's always say hey if you're ever in Arizona look me up man Like I'm not going to Arizona for any reason. I just can't imagine that it's no there for spring training Yeah, yeah, that's right John you and me ski spring podcast training That's what we'll do so I was a little concerned last night as I was scouring the Twitter And I see you post a speed test result of your Comcast and you have some ridiculously low number throwback to cable modems like the early cable modems, maybe even ADSL barely. What happened? Well this has been going on since the show two Sundays ago Yeah and what's interesting is if you can finally get through customer service which is a nightmare

02:19 Hi, I see your motor's not running right now. We'll reset it and call you in... we'll send you a text message. We'll send ya bullet! We'll send a bullet down the line! We'll send you a text message in 10 minutes and uh... You can call us back And they say, and we're gonna send it to this. And then they give you the phone number from five years ago that doesn't work so you have to say no, no, I don't want you to send me a text message. They're not getting text messages but they won't pick it up. Okay, then we'll reset your modem. No, I don't want my modem reset. You know, it's a robot. And you can't get past this robot. The robot system is a piece of crap, you can't get... No we've got to reset your modem! Well that's not going to do any good I gotta talk to an agent, agent, agent, agent no-no you can't talk to an agent because we've gotta reset your modem and it will send you a text message when we do it This never ends, I have to hang up

03:10 Now did you do, did you get really angry because we've determined that some AI wants that? Yes. I got angry knowing that might kick in mm-hmm no doesn't kick in crap You get angry and you get this oh okay we will reset your motor Sounds like you're angry. We're going to read that's dystopian that could be right in a movie It is well, I'm gonna do it again cuz I know they're not gonna change that I'm gonna go record the whole thing Oh yeah And but also test the out the AI and the algo with you know like saying a couple cuss words You know switch that you have like frustrating and then what is its Xfinity?

03:51 Is that who you call now for Comcast Xfinity? I still use the old Comcast numbers. Very easy to remember, 1-800-COMCAST. Well hold on a second maybe that's your problem maybe there's a new path and... I got the new number too and i called it is exactly the same Well, this is the future of aviation as well. As we're at the end of the month and Memorial Day weekend three-and-a-half thousand flights cancelled KLM halting ticket sales! Holy mackerel they cancelled everything! Yeah in the... This is happening everywhere In The Netherlands you... KLM has halted ticket sales for Amsterdam flights

04:33 You can't even buy a ticket. In the UK, this was on the BBC, what is this? Because you know people are going on holiday travel disruption and these people were going to Turkey after hours of waiting he and his family finally boarded a plane only to be ushered back off at the last moment The pilot said they had run out of hours they were able to work so everybody had to disembark It's not like we didn't know this So I'm waiting for the old Obama throwback, the next-gen aviation system talk to come back. It's almost perfect for those jamokes! Let's just automate everything it'll be great! No one wants to fly on an automated plane... Oh you know there are enough people who trust Elon Musk enough to let their Tesla kill them

05:25 Yeah, well that's what you know. I mean like... Well since you're before i can finish my story about Comcast. I'm sorry! I didn't know there was more to it? I'm all ears. Oh yeah no! Let's go! But since you brought up travel I have an Ask Adam. Oh goodness, I was not expecting that okay um you know i should have now there's two you see you see ask adam answer you don't want to play that you want to play ask adam open okay now this this is in advance of listeners A country is now going to allow people in and I want you to guess which country it is. Play the clip preparing to welcome back tourists after more than two years of coronavirus restrictions starting June 10th, visitors from select countries with low infection rates including the US will be allowed in but they are not free to roam. Visitors must sign up for a guided package tour that includes transportation and accommodation.

06:23 Okay, the question is which country is doing this after two years? Hmm. It's going to surprise me no doubt I mean my inclination is to say Afghanistan just to throw something off the wall But maybe Germany you can go to Germany Kenya I don't know. I haven't checked, I have no reason to go. You might not know because this is a screw... When i heard this and said what? And you can play the answer because the answers at the beginning here we go Japan is preparing to welcome back tourists after... You know and I thought it was Japan because Tina and I had this big trip planned but I thought that they were kind of

07:05 You know, like just never ever going to open back up. That's amazing! Let me hear the whole thing... Japan is preparing to welcome back tourists after more than two years of coronavirus restrictions starting June 10th visitors from select countries with low infection rates including the US will be allowed in but they are not free to roam Visitors must sign up for a guided package tour that includes transportation and accommodation And at the end you wake up in the bathtub with your kidneys cut out Yeah What kind of a deal is this? Who wants to go anywhere where you're required to go some packaged tour. Do you remember that the Japanese government before COVID and their lockdown, they had invested or they were making a lot of money available to boost tourism. That's why Tina and I were like holy crap this is good! You know there are all kinds of deals they're subsidizing stuff so maybe they're bringing that in now taking that subsidy money then obviously putting it into hands

08:00 party loyalists who have their guided tours and they've just kind of made a little more interesting to them instead of here's a cool tour you can do. It's like, here's the tour you're doing. Yeah. That sucks. We're not going to go for that? No, course not! No way would know normal traveler would there some stooge buy into that? You wouldn't think so now I want to ask you a question because as I was mentioning the guy who wrecked in the Indy 500, so I'm watching the race And I was thinking about this, because they do what... Let me give you one thing. They have some guy with a cock in the accent announcing this American race. I don't get that but okay and the race goes like they always into the pits he's in the piss and now he's getting four new Firestone tires there it goes with his fire stone new Firestone tires oh here comes Billy Bob and he's in there guys getting Firestone tires New Firestone 10 there we go is he's got new Firestone tires

08:59 And then he says, here's the Firestone... They get some picture of the speedometer of their car. It says that Firestone gauges and fire... So I'm wondering if because you were in the advertising business doing sleazy stuff like this? I was waiting for it! Thank you What? You do think they... Now you mentioned before about, when you were working for MTV you had to say The Michael Jackson deal. Michael Jackson comma the king of pop You had to always say that. Well, no during a special weekend where they had made a deal to have Michael appear on the Video Music Awards That was part of the deal we had The Planetary premiere and for the whole three days Friday Saturday Sunday We had Michael Jackson packages and videos But we had to go back and re-record that whole weekend because the memo would not come down to the studio That every single time we said Michael Jackson it had to be Michael Jackson comma the king of pop

10:00 So yes, sleazy deals. Now the question in my mind is because I'm watching this and it's going on and on about the Firestone tires by the way And if they want to make these races more competitive have competitive tire brands not one brand of tire for the whole race which you do know that the race is pretty much about Tires right? Well, this race is about tires. This race has always been about tires but it was... Firestone tires? Yeah used to be competing tires and then they normalized it all Back to the question Okay Do you.. are there any deals with the more times you say the word you get paid for each time you say it Is there ever a deal like that in advertising I've never come across one I've never been offered one These are your well your two things

10:54 I think the pit stop would be a guaranteed mention. Of course, the gauge cam would be a guaranteed mention any driver that drives under the Firestone flag anything else would be gratuitous and is usually done to suck up to The corporation go ahead there are very Oh, kind of focused on saying Firestone tires. And if you watch NASCAR they never say it. They rarely say well... NASCAR is Goodyear isn't it? Goodyear yeah but they don't say Goodyear tires all the time this was said so many times that was annoying in fact to be honest about just for anyone out there listening

11:39 In my entire life from now on, I will never buy Firestone tires. I will never buy them! This in your face thing is beyond the pale. It's crazy! That makes you crazy! I'm not gonna buy Firestone tires ever but so...I'm thinking if it was paid by the number of mentions i thought that would be kind of cool So they keep saying and saying this so it becomes ludicrous which is what it was And then it's brought me back to think of Sean Hannity and some of these other people who always say, Mark Levin the great one. What is Mark Levin? Is he paying a fee for this? No no you know better than that that's sucking up as I said is just sucking up let me give you a few data points here actually have a question did at any point the camera cut to The Firestone calendar models

12:36 No, but that have been better. Well I would have changed my mind That's whatever wokeness we have in our television culture is destroyed the balance of these types of irritating things for you and for many other people in the in the Indy 500 audience too. I think there's a heavy emphasis on tires and by coincidence I saw a couple tire advertisements just randomly while some stuff I was watching during the week and I was looking around and The next climate change, what is the title this article here? The next car pollution disaster This is from the drive which is some yeah gearhead magazine. I guess it's going to be tires

13:24 And specifically it's the rubber that comes off the tires? Yeah. The amount of rubber that, it's not just the tires though. And I never got to... This is interesting you brought this up. I never got the name of the chemical but there's some chemical they've been using in tires to make them wear longer and because as the tires grind around they leave minus fuel particles and rubber all over it. Yeah, microplastics is what their talking about. But yeah, but there was one specific chemical. It wasn't just a microplastics They were talking about some and it's only been added like maybe five or six seven eight years ago atrazine Just guess turn in the frogs gay

14:14 I don't know. Yes, yes i saw that. So there may just be a heavy emphasis on tires in general uh...in the next period because you know this was kind of written as here comes the shit again you after diesel gate? Well the tire companies would love to get these stuff out of their tires and sure maybe it's to benefit them so wear your tires out faster Tires used to wear out 20,000 miles. Yeah let's do that exactly ooh more shrinkflation Yeah, it's a version. You have to sell twice as many tires to somebody for 40... I mean some tires are designed to go 80 thousand miles! I don't even know how you manage that? So with the pending...I guess we're gonna have a rubber crisis too aren't we with oil shortages there'll be shortage of rubber so we're gonna have to go to the old World War II staple which is wooden tires

15:10 What else you gonna do now imagine if all of a sudden there's a shortage in tires? What what a mess that would be and I think it's totally possible so back to my Comcast story, so I bitched and moan on Twitter It was always helpful makes you feel good. That's for sure So you have you got enough followers they okay And so they send you some private notes, and they're working on it, and then when I told the guy oh This morning I got the notices is my your speed any better no to make it. That's yeah What was what was your overall results two megabits per second? But here's what's interesting and that's what I wanted to point out more than anything else I could have the story can go on forever, but at 2 megabits per second

15:59 If you're surfing the web, but just going from page to doing stuff. It's really not as fast enough that you wouldn't notice it. Just for general surfing I agree, I agree You wouldn't notice it so if there is a problem because the one thing I got out of talking finally getting hold of some people who talked to me and upsold me they were even in service or sales. Upsoled me to 600 megabits per second new program, which is cheaper supposedly. But I only get two megabits out of it so what crap? What good is it right but both of them can say oh you should be getting some pretty good numbers now that they were in your neighborhood recently upgrading the service Now you know what happened! Your service was upgraded for your experience And it was upgraded about the time not this last Sunday show but or the two weeks ago Last Sunday Show yeah when we're having trouble remember

16:56 Yes, yes I remember. I remember well! I remember good. That was a... that I guess was in the range of when they upgraded around here some guys there was yeah truck roll. I love it when that happens and then for them to say man you must be digging it porn must be flying in old man And I'm glad they mentioned it because i told these other guys oh well and then when i told this one guy on the on the twitter guy who's compcast Xfinity he says I said, well what happens is that I got connections for about 10 minutes and it goes dead for a minute or two. Yeah, did you mention the best podcast in the universe while this happened? Well, I haven't pulled that out yet... I give you permission to play that card!

17:47 So, and then when I said that, I said it. And then I put some times because I kind of put some times up from last night when they go out back and if you try to watch TV go out be back as soon as they mentioned this outage he goes oh just hear it wasn't even talking to me but I could hear him go Oh great cause they know it's a wire Oh, it has to be physical. It has to be a little wind blowing or something and anything like that yeah Well that sucks but you know so I'm screwed for but I'm gonna go with g5 Yeah 5g yeah whatever I think I think you should just get a get a hotspot I mean I have all kinds of hot spots Just as backup and your right it the problem is not so much now the problem is not that I've teen in the house what does have to do with anything

18:40 Hot spots. Oh, very funny You're right that the speed is actually that's okay That speed that used to be a T1 line by the way we used to put my whole company on that speed The problem is you're paying was a hunt was very high 156 and are you running DNS locally because that will speed everything up You don't think that's going to do anything, do you? And I haven't got with the new modem. I got from my new 600 megabit service. Again, not doing any more. I can't do too many things at once because I know what the problem is this virus is what happened last time

19:21 It was a wire and at that time it was a squirrel. Yes, this is several years ago I recall this. In 2018? Yeah! Several years ago The point i'm making is that if its an area wide thing because of some guy bonehead came out here and upgraded things And people are just around here, let's say there is 25 Comcast users on my little route. And they're all just surfing the internet They're not going to notice that their speeds have gone down from 160 No of course not! They aren't podcast professionals hello? So it doesn't come... so they don't get complaints Squirrel

20:03 Anyway, that's all I have. Well, I'm sorry you had to go through that That's a time sink although somewhat entertaining five hours five hours yesterday didn't have to go down at the Comcast store To get some new gear It was of complete waste of a day Sorry, it's a nightmare yeah, I know it's horrible Well, luckily I didn't have those problems and as you rightly pointed out in the newsletter this is Memorial Day weekend here in the United States. I think it's also a holiday weekend for some reason other countries maybe in the EU have some holiday weekend and so there's really no serious media doing anything everyone's taken off everyone has a special edition welcome to this special edition which means which we recorded on Wednesday

20:50 Or maybe even last week, a special edition. Last year! It's the one from last year we're just put new wraparounds and not so with you with the best podcast in the universe We fight Xfinity, we slay Comcast just to bring you this show I just want to point out the value that we provide And...I was very happy to spend my last few days watching the wrap-up of The Elites in Davos, The Davos Douchebags at the World Economic Forum which was extremely enlightening. Yes, now you recall on the last episode of the Davos Douchebags we listened to Queen Ursula von der Leyen president of the... by the way you need to pop open a browser and search for the following person doesn't matter what search engine Nina Brink

21:49 And this is just to show you that I know this kind of woman and it is specific to be a woman. Oh, yeah Yeah, exactly the same woman yes She may even been in a brink. I don't know but it's exactly the same get as she's got a bigger smile Well, is that the one with school? No I say we're square smiling she smiles But now look for the picture where she has two thumbs up I got it. Okay, so she was on top of the world proud of her relationship with the Rothschilds and she created a number of companies successful companies but she created World Online and it was a big... By the way there are hundreds of pictures over two thumbs up that's all she does this is the reason for that is going to become apparent

22:35 Two thumbs up. She is in the top of the elites, not just you know but really in Brussels and she comes from an elite family exactly the same as Queen Ursula lived in Canada it's the whole thing it's so it's uncanny And she put together this huge roll-up of an internet service provider and she was going to float it on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. And when they went public, everyone invested because Queen Nina was the show business people, the captains of industry... there's a sure thing! So they go public and she got her thumbs up. It is a translation of Kop Stook I need the sentence

23:19 Is it KOP? World Online. K-O-P-T, K-O-P... S-T-U-K. Yeah means you are the face. The head piece. You're the leader so she was the rainmaker and she does these two thumbs up and maybe 30 minutes later people start to discover that she sold all of her shares pre IPO like a week before So the minute that happens, you're scamming the public and boom! The stock tanks. People lost all their almost all their money so that's why you see the two thumbs up thing is what she'll be remembered for-the douchebag who stole your money. With that in mind these people make mistakes and watching this Davos stuff in the World Economic Forum they are so

24:13 all in and so smoking their own dope. You know, they got Andrew Ross Sorkin doing a panel on the metaverse and people are oh yes no this of course this is going to be what it's obviously we'll have the whole workforces will be in virtual reality but will get augmented reality how long have we been hearing this? How long when did you win the computers for show up on the scene exactly I would say we've been hearing in some way, shape or form since the 70s. But they're all making this assertion that the technology is here or it's right around the corner and it's not about face bag and their metaverse It has now become an elitist concept that is going to solve everything just gonna solve the whole world's problems

25:01 And you know, Andrew Ross Sorkin is on CNBC. You know he co-created Billions. He's the golden child New York Times Everyone sucks him off and it was just I got no clips from that because it was so insulting and so stupid We wouldn't even laughed about it Now when it comes to this type of person there is one unique individual in the news, cable news arena who has the exact same upbringing as Queen Ursula and their fathers probably knew each other because Ursula's dad was ambassador you know politician lifelong politician they lived around the world at all kinds of cool posts she went to all the right schools I also went to Stanford. The whole deal

25:51 Who do you think that person is in the United States? I'll just give you a clue. It's not on Fox and it's not on CNN So who could be the perfect woman to interview Queen Ursula Joy Reid Exactly the same upbringing Mika Brzezinski, CNBC She's an MSNBC, isn't she? That's what I said. Oh did I say... You said CNBC. I'm sorry. MSNBC Well Joy Reid is on MSNBC not CNBC That's why you got me there it is true but Joy Reid funny anyway no matter where she works well obviously Mika I think Mika and Ursula probably know each other from growing up together maybe they went to the same school that's a excellent point because her husband dad mm-hmm the horrible man that he is What did you saying

26:43 Uh, yes. Yeah I'm sure they're pals well and i bet you Scarborough feels real out of place And this is my uh my spouse Chuck um yeah this guy This guy so they sit down and they're in Davos Mika's in Davos I think what's his name? What's her husband's name? And I forgot his name Brzezinski's husband's name Oh uh Scarborough Chuck! Chuck Scarborough No, not Chuck. What's his name? Joe Scarborough! He is in Florida I think he is in the studio. She was whispering over to Mika saying why is his mouth so small what's the deal with that? I don't know...I think Joe is in Florida in the studio. I don't think he's in Davos

27:38 So, the setting for them is what was it? The global citizens. Everyone has a house there you have like the Holland House and the EU House. What was once the Russian House now the Russian... Yes. What do they call it? War crimes house they did The global citizen house, you know global citizen. That's the douchebag outfit that does the big concert in Central Park every year We all we know who sponsors it all and it's Laureen Powell jobs and the whole Atlantic Magazine people and open society people in the banks so Mika of course is hanging out there with With Ursula now when they start talking about

28:22 Mika does something kind of weird and uncomfortable, it's not really great news value but Mika tries to throw out the hey wow you're such an awesome woman especially one who is older. Do like a woke thing you know it's like this is so good. You're so good and Ursula is taken back She's like bitch. I'm say how old I am kind of bitch. This what I was thinking Why would you do that if your guys are always told never to go there for some reason my bit is always? Oh, are you her sister miss my own?

28:59 So there's always everybody appreciate yeah, I'll bet I'll bet so and and Ursula comes back to it a couple times Did you ever imagine having your greatest impact at 63 in your 60s? And what is your advice? She's already like she's doing it. No hey III'm gonna argue with your premise here okay I think she's doing it on purpose. I think the two of them have some little fight going on here Oh, alright! I will listen with virgin ears Did you ever imagine having your greatest impact at... One third possibility? Mika is insanely jealous because this should've been her career Instead she got the dude with the small mouth How about that? Okay let's add that to the mix Did you ever imagine having your greatest impact at 63 in your 60s

29:54 And what is your advice to young women starting out? So, of course I did never imagine that. But what I always had were dreams and if I can... I see many many young people in this audience that's wonderful of course there are a few over 60 like me I guess but not so many. So I had dreams And if I can give you one advice from my experience, it is never ever let anybody make you a bad conscience about what you're doing. Never ever!

30:31 Stick to your dreams, go for it. Tell that to Hitler! Because only then it is possible to see that you're going much wider than you ever dreamt Go wider Mika And what the over 50s or 60 years old are concerned there's a very nice saying in Germany that says well the young ones are running faster but the older ones knows the shortcut so Wow one of those uh, one of those sayings from the old country. Oh yeah right there So what do you think after hearing the whole thing? Is it a Mika trying to be woke and it's failing is it B Mika doing this on purpose because she has some catfight with her or is it C Mika's own shortcomings and jealousy I think as a combination of B&C Okay

31:29 Yeah, I'll take it. I think the woke thing is you know she's maybe possible Definitely not I think it's D all of the above probably alright So now they have a sit-down and it's one of these where they're on the couch in what's clearly a hotel room That's you know The window right behind them and that you know how there then sits like side saddle looking at each other which is really It's a weird interview setting. I don't know why they do that, if that is because that is how women are supposed to interview them but it wasn't very emancipating, I would say and Mika dives right into the pre-screened questions you'll even hear her sometimes...I cut out most of her questions but in this case I think I left an intro in she not just leading the witness, the witness gave her question EU countries continue to purchase billions of dollars of Russian oil & gas

32:21 Doesn't that undermine the sanctions from the West and also fuel Putin's war machine? So this is the core thing that everyone's talking about. I have been talking about in the EU and in Davos, are the sanctions working but doesn't it actually kind of isn't failing because The price of petroleum products has gone up and the key phrase remember here It's fueling Putin's war chest so we can commit more war and the sanctions were always intended to stop Exactly that is this backfiring

32:58 We have issued now five packages of sanctions, the sixth one is on the table and these sanctions are hitting the Russian economy hard. And that's what they have to do but you're also right when this war, this invasion started Europe was heavily dependent on Russian oil gas and coal we got rid of the coal by now We are in the process of winding down the use of oil and we have just issued last week a big package. We call it Repower EU. Yeah, this is the big package! This is where were going to save our skins

33:41 and get off of all Russian petroleum products, refuel EU? What the hell did she call that? Yeah we'll back it up and play it again. Have just issued last week a big package, we call it Repower EU to get rid of the dependency of Russian gas. This is diversifying away from the Russian gas towards reliable suppliers like our friends in the United States, I have an agreement with President Biden on LNG gas for example that will... How about that? Maybe that's why we're funding the Ukraine stuff because someone is going to get LNG from us! Could this mean additional resources are necessary from the US

34:25 This is kind of a backhanded deal. It's kind of a back-handed deal there! Yeah, yes by the way in the process this is screw our own public Yes with the price! And give the EU our gas that we could be using to heat our place For anything for anything For anything we could return in the plastic. We can use it for anything All right, so we've that's part one like our friends in the United States I have an agreement with President Biden on that and G gas for example That will replace from next year on 1 3rd of the Russian supply So we're gonna we're gonna replace 1 third this seems like a lot That's a lot

35:08 I don't know that we have as many tankers as we need to get this stuff over there. This is impractical, it's not green by any means to take in and haul this natural gas instead of putting it a pipeline and distributing it into the Northeast, instead putting it in a tanker or liquefying it, putting it in a tanker, hauling all the way to Europe and then selling it to them... It's not green by any means. Okay, I agree. Let's continue. And to just say it is not good for the climate? It doesn't sound like a great idea we got it we got it could be good for some people here in America though Oh yeah if you need an empty wallet

35:51 You know, when you're running an oil company or you'd run some sort of gasification operation? Sure. All right here we go with this tank farm. In the United States I have an agreement with President Biden on that NG Gas for example that will replace... This is by stop! The more that i hear this it's a scandal Okay, I consider it a scandal With the shortage that we have and the price of gasoline here in this country to be doing that is scandalous. Yeah But this is this is natural gas that's been liquefied That's not the same as gas you put in your car No It's not but you can mix that gas and you could do a lot of stuff with it You can do

36:33 It's part of total energy. You could go into the power plants, we have power plants at ESA. Yeah yeah okay... You have to pay so much for electricity I had to pay more That's where it is a scandal! I agree. Okay. In the United States i have an agreement with President Biden on that NG gas for example that will replace from next year on one third of the Russian supply The second part is energy saving, but the third part is the most... Okay hold on a sec. I love that she just did that so she has three parts and the second one She says just what does she say here again? One-third of the Russian supply The second part is energy saving but the third part is... She just skips over energy savings you know what that means Means austerity

37:24 Energy savings means you're gonna have to turn off your gas supply. You're gonna have to use take shorter showers by law All kinds of things like useless electricity It's saving she skips over it because that's where the pain is By the way scandal and scam shouldn't be a scamdle a scam dill scandal just thinking about as a word Alright one third of the Russian supply The second part is energy saving, but the third part is the most important and this is accelerating the green transition. This is heavy investment in renewable energy wind sun hydropower hydrogen. Hydrogen baby!

38:11 got any hydrogen? well she got the hydrogen in there it's not hydrogen, its hydrogen! hydrogen hey gene! I'm wet! its a hydro-gene wind sun hydro power um hydrogene so this is the way to go therefore Or if there's anything President Putin has achieved, it is that he lost his best client. Europe will never come back and that he pushed us – and that's good – into the direction of renewable clean energy." Okay! So there is in a nutshell. He'll never get us back as a client? I mean, that seems pretty clear. There's no off-road…off ramp for Putin's efforts in Ukraine or whatever else he's doing. It's…

38:57 It's just end of story that she just said it. Yeah, but what she said is kind of dubious and I'll tell you why weren't they moving toward green energy at a rapid pace as fast as they could anyway? And so now what he's accelerated how can you go faster than fast well it has accelerated and Mika caught this too John. So Vladimir Putin has brought together NATO as never before has brought together the European Union as never before and Has inspired us never before the Green Revolution There it is. That was the whole plan right there Putin has inspired the Greek we should have a statue

39:42 Vladimir Putin inspired the Green Revolution like never before. Never before! Look at all the Ukraine flag emojis, people are ready for this. Fuck you Putin! Thanks for inspiring me to go green Have some pain it's gonna be good at the end Yes, and I must say his brutal Aggression must be a strategic failure is now this was weird for me. His brutal aggression must be a strategic failure I'm not quite sure what she means.

40:32 committed a strategic failure. Italy in particular has found ways to pay Russia for the gas they're getting. Well what we also always have to do is find the right balance between not hurting our economy too much because this is the strongest leverage we have against this Russian aggression, Putin's aggression. Putin's aggression! I take the example of oil where we have to be careful

41:15 that if we would completely cut immediately as of today off the oil, he might be able to take the oil that he does not sell for the European Union to the world market where the prices will increase and sell it for more. And that's fill his war chest so... We have to be very strategic in the way we approach that topic and therefore just also so important... Weaseling her way out. She's about to wrap this up and sell it for more and that's fill his watch so we have to be very

41:57 strategic in the way we approach that topic and therefore it is also so important that we convene the rest of the world to really make sure that we deplete his war chest. So a full embargo would really be years away? Over time what we do is get rid of the overall dependency on Russian fossil fuels, all three of them and never go back again This is Mika. She was orgasmic for her! Oh my goodness! Okay, so that could not be more clear and of course the next question to expect is well what will Russia do? What will Russia do when the European Union takes none of their products has anyone thought about this

42:56 I mean, isn't the answer kind of obvious? They link up with China and Iran and create their own front. Surely this cannot be a well thought out globalist position! Definitely not We'll finish it up here with Mika and Ursula So with that in mind what have we you learned about the Russian invasion What have we you learned And it's weaponization of its energy relationship with the EU. This is why I love this clip, so with all that... All this you know we're gonna cut them off We're not going to be their customer none of their products ever again Mika comes out and says So how do you feel about Russia weaponizing their energy? Excuse me!

43:41 You're weaponizing their energy. Am I Putin carrying water for Putin now? You've been carrying water for Putin...for months It's because of the hydrogen So with that in mind, what have we you learned about the Russian invasion and its weaponization of its energy relationship with the EU? And does it set off in any way alarm bells about the EU's economic relationship or dependency with China. So the fossil fuel dependency was Russia is a unique one if I may say so

44:21 And this is something where we are working hard now to get rid of it. I would take the bigger picture, I think for us in the democracies were standing up against the aggressor, the autocrat that was trying to wipe out Ukraine from the map And therefore, others are watching very closely whether we will win that struggle and battle. that we are successful and we are successful in making clear that this is not acceptable, this falling back into behavior of the last century. So is the China issue sort of a little bit down the road but more clear now? I mean what can and should the US and EU be doing together to more effectively manage

45:13 China's expansionist goals. Yeah, by giving them and making helping them make friends with Russia It seems like a great plan of economically and militarily I think it is very important that we show the resolve that we're showing right now towards the Russian aggression and invasion With China We have a threefold approach. We are very clear that we say there are some topics Well, we are negotiating partners for example fighting climate change. Yeah now about Uyghurs the same interest my children We are economic competitors But we are systemic rivals when it comes for example to human rights issues. Oh there it is so Stepped up by the way mm-hmm is a beauty systemic rival isn't that beautiful? Ah

46:03 It takes me back. It's just wow, but it's great phrase but its also its literally true they have different systems Well, yeah, I did is true But what you could phrase a lot of different ways? But that that little gem there is gonna hold up Systemic rivals will keep in it will keep it in in the ball even play Okay now because this is the no agenda show The next two clips are unique to what we do why are they unique because the content that's in them is, you know it takes a little bit to get out of it what was really there and the main reason is George Soros. Now Davos ends... The whole Davos experience isn't over until they've had the big George Soros I don't know if its the George Soros or Open Society or whatever it is It's a big dinner he gives his speech and then there are questions and answers

47:02 The question and answer video is in the show notes. It's well worth watching the whole thing, it's like 45 minutes. They have a name for it, it's called the George Soros Show. It's the George Soros Show everybody! It's the George Soros Show! And anybody who's, everybody who is anybody, anybody whose anybody is invited to this and it's fun to watch people asking questions because it's in a dinner setting. So George is up on stage with the guy who has a microphone In his hands he's kind of holding like a stick microphone you know like a singing microphone He's holding it sure actually he's holding in his hands really tight

47:42 And then he's sitting right next to Soros and when Soros doesn't understand something the guy goes into that mic. It's not amplified, you don't hear that it must be going into his ear and the guy is sitting there with a fucking honker of a mic. What? Yeah! And the guys on the phone next to him you know he's checking stuff and he's doing it he's whispering a little bit in his ear from time to time But also fun is when a woman stands up and you look at the other tables behind it, you see them and they're all decked out. These are the beautiful people these elites from news I'd say mainly a lot of news elite because a lot of journalists were not working there they were invited guests ala Bilderberg and now this types of clubs

48:31 And you can see the women looking at these other women eyeing them up and down, checking everything. It's really worth watching that! So judgmental some of those women... The men are just eating like pigs Not looking at anything. They're journalists. There's journalists at a table. They eat like pigs. You might as well put a trough. And then you get guys getting up and asking questions, which he has to ask your question and then he tells this whole life story and everything he thinks and what he believes in it is like 10 minutes of just postulizing to make himself look smart people are falling asleep with their face in their food and George I mean... It's amazing the guys alive

49:13 So, I got there were two main things that he wanted to make clear. And so I took the first one which is the long one and I cut out almost every single The only way in my blood is a very interesting subject and I think that... Just to set, he's talking about the oil embargo. Sorry it's hilarious already but can you think you can understand him because i mean uh yeah here's the type no but I have the feeling and I think you should let it go for a minute

50:14 That it's when I listen to this guy before and once you pick it up, it's like a cockney accent Yeah Once you pick up the what the hell he's trying to say. You can start to understand it So I think everyone will feel the same way just let it go All right so that but that's why I stopped it to set it up The question is about the oil embargo will at work? Is this the right way to go? is a very interesting subject and I think that Putin has been very clever in sort of blackmailing Europe, threatening to cut off the gas. But actually his case is much less strong than he pretends

51:09 because last year he didn't release gas but put it into the Russian reserves. Okay, so in case anyone is still getting into it he's saying hey this whole oil thing and this embargo then is really kind of This is crazy because Putin doesn't have a position as strong as everybody thinks and the main reason is, and he'll get the details, is because Putin has been putting the gas supply that he's not been sending over to Europe into the Russian reserves which I guess is big storage. And by doing that he extorted enormous

52:02 Let me tell you, it was a minute and half for him to say that sentence. But because since the embargo he's made a lot more money. This is exactly what Mika and Ursula were talking about Hey, isn't this backfiring? Isn't this filling his war chest then was impounded by the Very clever trick of the US to seize The dollar assets of

53:00 So he filled up the reservoirs that Russia has and they will be full in July. And if he doesn't release it somewhere, they'll overflow and because the equipment is so antiquated and badly preserved, he will have to start shutting down the oil fields in Siberia that are producing the gas.

53:45 Could you imagine this guy and Joe Biden having an argument? So, this is interesting information. He says the Russian reserve tanks will be full by July at the pace he's going and so he will have to start shutting down his what Soros calls antiquated production facilities and that has an interesting consequence. In Siberia that are producing the gas. And because of this old equipment, if you restart it you lose at least half their output and this is starting in July so he's actually in a crisis

54:32 and he has managed somehow to terrify Europe. He is basically bluffing, he's in a tight situation. He has to do something with that gas and the only place that can absorb it because the pipelines are in existence... ...is Europe So Europe has a much stronger position than it recognizes. And I have approached the authorities to point this out, sent it to Draghi because he is the man

55:24 who is most capable and in this, in championing this. The letter has been sent I sent it yesterday. So the word is out the letter has been sent. Wait wait He said some guy, he named somebody. Mario Draghi! He's the Prime Minister of Italy the very country that is continuing to buy Russian goods and what Soros is saying and the letter has been sent... He went on to say I haven't heard back or sent an email so I don't mind discussing it here. He said I hope that Draghi himself would come out and say that? So this was a little surprised

56:09 So he said that in this public setting because he didn't get a response right? Yes. Yes, so he's like I said this otherwise it's correct the dark That's correct. So this is new information yes and it's big deal because that what he's describing as the collapse of the gas or natural gas market that speculators should know about This is something that he would, this is the kind of- Something that he would be in on. This how he makes his money exactly! Yeah this what he does, he's a professional and so he didn't get the results you wanted in a normal fashion of sneaky. Sneaky, sneaky yep And so he says okay let's blow this information out and see what happens with it now everybody at this will take awhile before the investment community finds out about it I mean our shows little ahead of the game generally speaking as anyone who listens to it knows

56:59 And once they do, this is going to be a situation that's gonna occur. Now Russia could do a number of things. They could flare off gas if what he says is true which I don't fully believe... You do or you don't fully believe? I don't fully believe it What I don't believe is that to restart the wells, the gas wells in Siberia he's going to loot because of the equipment being junk. Well, I love Gitmo Nation because we'll get an answer from that before this show is over. We have people who know that stuff down they got that on cold so we'll find out well there's also there's also the possibility of replacing the junk equipment that is not impossible

57:47 There's plenty of fenders in the United States. I think it takes a while to spin that up though, but anyway yeah of course with all the money he could build new stuff now You don't need...I mean what's the rush? The way i see it if you have to shut down the wells bring in Chinese engineers bringing Indian engineers bringing our engineers bringing new people Now you say the market will collapse wouldn't that make the market go crazy No, if he shuts down the wells it would make him go crazy but if he doesn't shut down the wells and they have all this excess and they're still pumping. The market should collapse. Oh right okay so it could go you know yeah who knows what was interesting is to hear Soros talk about the pipelines and I believe that to be largely true knowing the pipelines of Europe not all of them of course there's a lot but having studied many of them since episode what 600 or something

58:42 I'm pretty sure he's right about the fact that the true way for him to get it out of his storage is through the pipeline network. It's not really something he's going to do Siberia and start some LNG there and ship it where, I don't know so that part I think is right I think so too. I think he's probably right 90, I think what he said is largely true about losing half of it is the question well I have issues with that now if we were engaged as the curry Dvorak consulting group here was here's the recommendation I would give to Putin ready turn your excess gas once your tanks are full in July into on-site containers of Bitcoin mining machines power that and

59:31 By gas. Yeah, and just mint the crap out of Bitcoin Just be mining all day long with that excess. Can you imagine? It was a different solution That's for sure no Hey, it's Curry DeVore our consulting group you want you want the regular fare go get McKinsey Well McKenzie's not gonna be much use either. No if you want, I mean either... If you want out of the box thinking... Sorry about the either! Well yeah, either. All right so- Any more? Yes i have one more clip and this is Maybe even more mind-blowing. This is George Soros this and he's 98 by the way So it's amazing the guy can talk at all really, you know considering how I still make more money than we can Considering he kind of always spoke like this it's not as natural isn't yo his native tongue. He's always done this Long winded crap which makes him that much more interesting Which is why it's unique to us too to really listen and hear what he's saying because other people heard it too

1:00:34 So now we have, this was mind boggling. This is one of those guys who was asking a question the whole set up, his whole life and he ends it with this bit before you know he goes into the actual question. Oh no actually...this is his fear what can we do? oh my god! The sky is falling George Soros help us!! I think your right that in the end Olaf Scholz and the Germans have always done the right thing but I think that The European project and the unity of the West is going to be tested in ways that it hasn't been tested for a long time in the months ahead. And I was wondering what you think we can do now during this period of time before 2024, to help Europe hang together and also to prepare for a world where... well, I hope it won't happen but where Trump returns to the White House?

1:01:35 He's deathly afraid of Trump returning to the White House. What do we do? Who was that guy? A German journalist who went on for 10 minutes... What is the problem with these people? Well, there's again this is Davos these people believe all the dope that they're handing out he believes the metaverse will save the world economy Well, it's not over. I mean that was just the question. Can you play that part again? Yeah sure. Do now during this period of time before 2024 to help Europe hang together and also to prepare for a world where well i hope it won't happen but where Trump returns to the White House He specifically says 2024. That is the date of the US general election so

1:02:29 The guy's he's truly freaked about it. I don't know what are we missing? Well, what you're missing is what George is about to say I have actually been very impressed by the unity and decisiveness and the willingness of to use this occasion to continue to develop a greater, more of a federation. So I'll kind of spoil that up front what he's saying is we're in such a unique position right now We are saving the world, we are saving Ukraine

1:03:17 We are the world, we are the children that we need to use this moment in time to strengthen the federation. The European Union Federation not just any federation, the financial federation. So this idea of the far short What he meant was, I had to listen to it three times. He meant financial federation but it came out as ff-rraa-chuh. More of a federation so this idea of the partial federal federation superseding confederation is a very important step forward and

1:04:07 I think what is more actually discussed, and that I didn't discuss in my paper, that Europe is an incomplete project. And it has a central bank but it doesn't have treasury Europe is incomplete because it has a central bank, but it doesn't have a treasury. And the needs... financial needs

1:04:50 that Europe has to face are so enormous. Green Deal? That you need to take that additional step and also benefit from the positive developments in Europe and allow the European Union to raise its own source of income so that it can borrow in the commercial markets. So we... Europe needs its own treasury, so it can raise its own social income not quite sure what that means in the commercial markets? That is a missing step

1:05:40 and there isn't yet a really determined policy on this. So to meet the tremendous needs, financial needs Europe must use its improved credibility I think this is big news. Because he kind of said that's in the works

1:06:34 You know if this guy lived long enough you'd hear the following The problem with the project is not complete We have our own central bank. We have our own Treasury, but we don't have our own military Well his son Alexander will carry a carry the flag no doubt So and then the Europeans will have completed a project of having their own being giant fourth Reich There it is and the UK out of it. Yeah, and then they'll be bombing the UK again to London Yep Although it'd be cyber bombs or something more sophisticated This is not the kinetic club this group is not kinetic although some other the old guys still like a blowing shit up

1:07:21 You gotta blow stuff up. But of course you spend a lot of money and then get more money to spend but this sets everything up This is a perfect setup because if you have us a treasury, then you also have centralized taxation I would think oh that would be the another one missing Yeah central yeah, of course you have to fund the Treasury which we're trying to do with the world taxes like It's like our version of the world government is going to be competing with their version of the world government at some point. We have to face that. Well, and you're right about the army because for the euro to become the default reserve currency which is obviously what found

1:08:03 the brains behind the European project have always wanted, you need to have in order for the euro to have the full faith and credit of the European Union. You gotta back it up with guns! That's how the big fiat reserve currency game is played and they're making their move well George is making a move. Well they are making their moves. I sent a letter... They are sidetracking themselves with this green new deal crap Well, no but this is all to fund the Green New Deal. Yeah I'm saying that but you can see the results there's they're freezing to death They already screwed up the deal with Russia where they had free cheap gas coming in like no tomorrow Couldn't figure out how to stop the Ukrainian thing which could have been done? I mean if

1:08:47 It's been mentioned a lot in the military, I don't want to call them the trades but like Defense One and some of these other newsletters. Biden coming out when everyone else say no, don't worry about it even in Ukraine No they're going to attack this week or next week or the week after And whose authority did that come? Who knew that? If you did know it which somebody apparently did because it happened much to the disagreement of everybody. If you knew that weeks in advance, why didn't you throw every diplomatic tool you had in the box at the situation before it happened and give Russia what it wanted? Which was who knows what now we can't tell

1:09:29 Instead of just letting it happen. So they screwed up every which way that this project to their stinks It is because we managed this is why I have more on this is why we have the great reset The resets like what you think? It is, I think it's not gonna happen either Um, I will say my feeling and all you know, I talk to people of course mainly in the Netherlands If you think the Europeans are going to protest energy prices and freezing to death in their homes, I think we know that's going to be short-lived. Look at the COVID lockdowns! People went out protesting got their heads cracked open...went back home

1:10:13 That was the whole precursor. Well, if the whole situation... then there's no reason for a great reset! You just got them. The game is over. It's a great currency reset and that's really what I think is gonna have to happen something with the currencies and this is why he's calling for Treasury maybe it's central bank digital currencies? I don't know. I think your tax thing was on the money Well that's always a plus. It's just a new way to gouge everyone out. But how about borrowing money from you know central banks that just print it up? I mean isn't that the dream, modern monetary theory let's build the European Union project on that yeah well then it brings in the argument at well if you can do that why tax anyone for anything what's the point of taxing if you can just print money control mechanism well then you don't need to print the money you just taxed people to death and by the way they all taxes will be in play

1:11:08 I mean it's like the VAT over there is ludicrous. You get paid, my money you pay taxes just to buy something is ridiculous. Yeah got a bonus clip 21 seconds from the dinner little bonus clip Ukraine today is rendering tremendous service to Europe and to the Western world to open society and our survival. Ukraine is rendering an enormous service to our Western world, Open Society... of course this is double entendre there. Did he say survival at the end?

1:11:53 That's a good... Yes, he did say survival at the end. It's existential man! Bullcrap Don't be flipping me on You know it is going to be a huge opportunity for all the big contractors that rebuild Ukraine from scratch keep bombing it. It'll be one of the most modern countries in the world Yeah Well there you go The hydrogen stuff I find still kind of fascinating There are lots of people sent me lots of information about hydrogen I saw the video where, I think it's Toyota is storing the hydrogen in these disks that then can be pulled out with a laser and you... People are going to see this actually. And you emailed me and said that's scamish!

1:12:44 So you think I don't know. I don't know it was on a car podcast, but you know on that website that the company or forget the name of them already should take some notes and where's the board directors who is the CEO? Who's there's no mention of any of these people. Well, there's one guy who is an inventor. He invented one thing which he thinks... But they showed videos! They showed videos like a industrial video of this stuff supposedly working with the laser beaming into the stored hydrogen on a disk I mean the dream is great and the guy even insinuates well you know this was kept under wraps during the Obama administration AND the Trump administration making it sound like it was a miracle

1:13:30 Well, a couple of... Okay I did little research because I'm fascinated by hydrogen technology. So what we're talking about is nothing more than magnesium hydride That's all it is. And magnesium hydride, which is the chemical on those disks has about 6.5 to 7.2% hydrogen I think you have about 6.8 that can be taken out and put back maybe 50-100 times depending on the technology the Japanese have been working on this for a lot of time, and the Chinese have been working on this for a long time. Long time! And this guy's, yes best price and this guy has been getting pretty much the same patent over and over again since about I think it's 2012 for sure but maybe as far back as 2008. It is essentially his way of taking that hydrogen out putting it back in taking that put it back and he the thing is with magnesium hydride which is what we're dealing with here

1:14:31 with 5 or 6 percent, let's say hydrogen that can be removed and replaced. It takes 300 degrees to get it out to break the magnesium hydride bonds and release the hydrogen which is what the laser is for. Release the hydrogen! Yeah, it's not a new technology and this idea of using recycled junk to get hydrogen from methane or methane mix or whatever comes off of garbage as it rots is supposedly one of these little gimmicks that makes it green, a very green technology. Yes! Green hydrogen. The problem even if you start reading between the lines on his own website this thing has...it's pretty much bigger than a giant battery It really too bulky

1:15:23 And the bulkiness, it doesn't show any of that. Of course in these displays you get this little disc like a little CD that's what you think. I actually have a PDF of the green hydrogen and i got a note from a producer which maybe should just share with me before we continue so...I don't know anything about this here the guy knows about this he says I've been hired to study the hydrogen economy and he attached a paper which he did not write but it's, it's a public paper so I put in the show notes. Here's the short of it. There is nothing better than 100 LL and Jet A1, that's never going to change. Hydrogen has a major infrastructure problem and will not be installed into existing pipelines. NIMBY! Not in my backyard. If hydrogen were to develop steam methane reforming will be how it will develop its proven technology and used every day to make fertilizer etc but it creates a lot of CO2 if

1:16:22 If clean hydrogen were to develop, it would be via the green-hydrogen model using electrolysis. A waste of time he says in Perens. It requires a ridiculous quantity of nearly perfect distilled water we cannot even make clean drinking water in California and the energy required would be higher than the energy we can get from the H2 itself." Yeah I believe that to be true. No, it is true! It takes too much energy to break it and then you don't get as much back when you burn it. So once again they're full of crap. They're smoking their own dope out there. They believe that's... But that's not the same as the magnesium hydroxide. No, I know but that was just a side thing and your debunking it so... It's good fuck those guys they are no good. The Magnesium Boys. The Magnesium Men get rid of them

1:17:08 It reminds me of Hyperloop. There's a guy in Colorado who I may have even chatted with him once, yes... You just remembered the chat all of sudden? That was weird like, Yes! Okay. Yes. Oh that was a good chat I guess. Because it was awhile ago and I can't remember if I just knew about him or yeah somebody introduced me to them. Anyway He has, and what he emphasizes is that he has all the patents that Elon Musk wants. The sealing patents, the vacuum patents... Oh really now? Well he's got everything! He's got patent after patent on this technology and he's got a test track somewhere I think it's up in Colorado or somewhere I think Elon has one too but Elon can't according to him can't get past these patents Why wouldn't Elon license them from him

1:18:10 You know, that's a question I didn't ask and I should have. But...I think it's- I think Elon doesn't like doing that I think Elon wants stuff. If you start licensing from someone, they keep patenting away like maniacs and you're kind of indebted to him. You might as well just give them the operation it depends and he may want too much money for his patents. Well... Elon may want a lot but not that much It's impractical in Silicon Valley. Apple pays all kinds of companies licensing fees for patents of their cell technology

1:18:48 a normal thing. Yeah, but it's a- yes but its a merry go round I'm using your patents you're using my patents Oh no its horrible My chips im using your patents I use the license for you and you give me a license and I give you a license so there is a wash They are patent swingers they are um okay Moving on to just a few actually that's the end of hydrogen for us. For now, for now well you know what I was doing some research and i did not know the following The Hindenburg, which famously exploded in or caught fire in New Jersey. Elmhurst? Yes, the Oh! The Humanity video who hasn't seen it... the supposed reason for the fire was a static spark and of the fact that the Hindenburg was filled with hydrogen

1:19:44 Now, what I learned is that the hand... Stop saying hydrogen because there's actually a trademark product called that. It's not hydrogen. Well maybe it should be... Can you make energy from it? I don't mind you making...I do that same thing but this one's annoying. Okay. God forbid I annoy you! Yeah yeah yeah no you don't want to annoy me So it was filled with hydrogen and that was and that was a and then to this day it's like oh hydrogen is very very bad where a lot of people have said there's a lot of good to hydrogen and does have some issues but what I learned is that this was not the first time the Hindenburg came over. We had an airship industry in the world in the 1800s, people were choosing this over ship travel across the ocean it was still faster, it was incredibly... We had USS Akron we had a bunch of these, we had that big giant hangar

1:20:41 in Moffett Field. Down here was the giant hangers for one of those things? It was incredible luxury, people really liked it you know there's like a luxury liner only in the sky, it was much smoother, you didn't get seasick, you can fly around the weather and oh yeah you're going 70 miles an hour but you did it in 10 days instead of 18 days but what's interesting is that Hindenburg had made the crossing 34 times on helium This was the first time the Hindenburg crossed on hydrogen. And the entire world's press was there waiting for the Hindenburg, why that was special – the 34th trip versus the first is baffling! There is also as far as I know in research I've done there's no actual video or film or photograph of the initial spark of when it happened It's only the flames and its coming down

1:21:42 So, you just got to wonder about that stuff. Is hydrogen... what is hydrogen? I mean can you see a good future for hydrogen in any form that makes sense for the energy mix or anything else getting high off of it? Can we breathe hydrogen and will that help? Do you have a nice squeaky voice? I thought that was helium. Same thing, they like gas. You can breathe in argon for example is good gas to breathe in and you get this huge deep voice. The problem with doing it with argon is you cant breathe it out because its heavy gas and lays on your lungs and drops dead Okay, let's not do that. That's off the checklist. So just for people out there who are leery of these things if you get I use argon a lot in steaming wine. For wine yeah and so and in fact rich vineyards is one of the few wineries that actually uses it instead of carbon dioxide or nitrogen when they cork their bottle mm-hmm And it's better because it sits on top of them so if you think you've breathed Or if you're gonna play around with that stupid idea of getting to deep voice

1:22:47 You have to lay down on a bed and get yourself kind of upside down. So it literally flows down? Yeah, I don't feel like that's the only way because some of it will get stuck in your lungs but that would because there is heavy gas you have to literally if you got one those things where you hang upside-down yeah and then boom come right out But then you lose the deep voice If you were upside down breathing in argon and then as it came out, and you were exhaling and talking in the deep voice. And also being oxygen depleted which is the same with helium by the way but it comes right out of ya. So far we have cheesy gimmicks and sealing wine any other uses for hydrogen you can think of? No this was argon I'm talking about okay back to hydrogen

1:23:43 Yes, it's the only clean fuel for jet engines if they're adapted for hydrogen. So they don't give out any… you should give vapor trails now! Wow I was just thinking about that. Yeah okay. Yeah it is a great fuel in fuel cells, its very old technology It's just the fuel cells are not efficient or why don't people use it? What is the main downside of storage and transport, is that correct? Storage of the fuel you have to have 10,000 pounds per square inch tanks that are made out of fiberglass because you had to really compress a lot of hydrogen to get into the tanks. And then you still only go 300 miles on the tank so its the same kind of problem with electric cars you can't get that far. Refilling though with hydrogen is really fast so thats something else. Yeah like pshh! You're done right

1:24:39 Well, it's just like I think it's a little faster than filling up the tank of gas. Okay we'll see but not hours on end well these are all good things to know and please for those of you who know much better than us its john at Dvorak org because everyone is going to email me. You know what he's talking about! I'm a hydrogen expert Two more quick things just in general because we've been talking about them as a part of what's going on with the economy certainly in the United States. The first thing is, we were looking for 70s fractal of price control which is what Nixon famously probeered – probeered? That was Dutch – tried or implemented I think 74 and it failed miserably

1:25:32 as they always do and that's what he was told. And he was a Republican, and there were the ones against the idea. Well so Senator Elizabeth Warren has put in a bill which is called The Price Gouging Prevention Act of 2022 It prohibits quote unconscionable excessive prices at any point in a supply chain or distribution network during an quote exceptional market shock triggered by a range of events including public health emergency. The law applies to any good or service offered in commerce and would authorize the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general to enforce the prohibition

1:26:18 Additionally, during exceptional market shocks the law requires public companies to disclose and explain changes in pricing and gross margins in quarterly SEC filings raising the specter of SEC enforcement with respect to those disclosures. Now so this can only happen I'm going to ask you about this in a moment that sounds like price controls to me would you agree? It's so convoluted I could agree or disagree, I don't know. What she is saying is in the certain circumstance with what the act says, in certain circumstances such as a public health emergency any other emergency like that could be war in Ukraine and that's an exceptional market shock all these things are defined an exceptional market shock um...in that case

1:27:05 If prices are going up, then the government can step in and say no no you can't raise your prices. Sounds like price control but it only happens under... Yeah I would say that's yes. It only happens during an exceptional market shock and it has to show that said companies have unfair leverage in order to take advantage. What is unfair leverage? And this is the last piece, and I'll just read the definition. Unfair leverage is earning $1 billion dollars in revenue in the last year discriminating between otherwise equal trading partners being a critical trading partner or having a characteristic described in any rule issued by the FTC further defining unfair leverage

1:27:53 Businesses earning less than $100 million in gross U.S. revenue during the preceding year can raise an affirmative defense by showing a preponderance of evidence the increase in price is directly attributable to additional costs outside of the business's control." Wow, let's just add more bureaucracy there's nothing... brother! And this will fail of course because we know they always fail as you just said they always fail No they do I'd learned something else about Elizabeth Warren, which is kind of relevant to the show. She's nuts! She's evil you'll recall that we found out from a producer that Bose specifically Bos had lobbied and spent a lot of money lobbying Elizabeth Warren to have the change in hearing aids made

1:28:43 where amplification devices could, which is what Silicon Valley has you know the hey you get these in the mail. You put them in and boop-boop-boop we shoot some tones into your ear. You got hearing aids it works perfectly! And I've been against this from the beginning saying... Yeah, yeah, you're on that warpath. Yes because it cheats people out of... Against Elizabeth Warren. Oh, no. Yeah, AdamMcCurry.com That's right baby! I'm on the warp. I'm hunting down Pocahontas and not letting up It's bad because you need an audiologist You and i know sound so when I hear sound like this is the sound I want People don't understand that who have never dealt with this they just hear shit And so when you do that...I've tried these products They're not great They're not good at all At all compared to the rather expensive high tech that is available in the market today

1:29:33 So, the whole idea was so that Bose could get into this market. They are known for audio products and she proposed a bill that would allow these devices to use the term hearing aids even though I disagree with the categorization And as a redefined and so to benefit some company that gave her a lot of money. So yes, exactly what happened and she did it the bill went through it happened and the whole world started delivering the promise of hearing aids that you can just get them at home your pop them in your configure yourself It's great. They were like this like the straightening your teeth operation Exactly like that um so last

1:30:19 Was it Friday, I think? Yeah. It was... maybe Thursday night after the Thursday Night Show. I'm going to bed and I go to take my hearing aids out and My hearing aids are behind the ear that's a little small device that contains each processor quad core massively cool technology A little wire and then what they call the transmitter which goes into your ear its really speaker but they call it the transmitter And on that transmitter is a rubber dome. And the rubber dome is to block, you know it's really make the transmitter sit comfortably in your ear canal otherwise not banging around the sides and also the shape and design of that dome is incredibly important and can be customized by professional to add outside sounds if appropriate for your situation So I take my hearing aids out, ploop! My hearing aid comes up but the dome is still stuck in my ear canal

1:31:16 And I panicked. It's a very weird feeling, like holy... This is in deep in your ear canal so you can't even really see it. Can't just stick your hand in there and pull it out? Well of course Tina was like hey let me get the tweezers! Flashlight and like hold on let me just do a little search here ah If this happens if the dome pops off one don't panic okay? I feel better to never yourself or let a family member or friend try to get it out go to an audiologist So I find one in Fredericksburg And I go there the next day, and this thing is in my ear and of course It's in my ear during they anyway But now I can see didn't happen on Saturday

1:31:56 I would have had to wait. Yes, and I was quite worried about that because it's blocking off the sound to my ear now. Actually this is my best year, my left one so it's kind of equal with right but now I'm pretty deaf and I can't just reinsert the hearing aid So I find the audiologist here in Fredericksburg, nice guy Brad. He gets the equivalent of what's a roach clip like a high-end medical roach clip with the tiniest little roach clip on the end like scissors and he puts on his headlight and then pulls it out And then we're talking because you know it was like oh are you looking to establish care? Yes! I live here of course You're my audiologist now I like you so we start chatting I talk about this scam that Elizabeth Warren set up

1:32:40 You know, on the boards. So I've got the right guy." He says you know on all the audiologist boards and the dark web where we talk about stuff Bose has already withdrawn all their products because they found out they can't get them to work properly and people are disappointed with their choice so there you go Elizabeth Warren Oh, complete fail. You know what she said to that when it happened? No sweat off my balls With that I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you the man who put the sea in The court argon ladies and gentlemen please put your hands together for mr.. John C Dvorak Mr.. Adam Curry also in the morning all ships at sea

1:33:29 Boots on the ground, feet in the air, substance in the water and all the dames and knights out there. You okay there chief? Everything good? You rockin' a rollin'? In the morning to the trolls in the troll room! I see you all trolls how are you doing today on this Memorial Day weekend nice to have you checking us out let's see how many people we got in the troll room...I mean sorry didn't mean to confuse you with human beings Trolls! Let's see how many we got in here And 1906 is our number for this Memorial Day weekend. 1,906 troll and listen to the live stream that is NoahJennerStream.com you can get into the troll room from there or TrollRoom.io And troll around, be a part of this program any of the streams. The No Agenda stream is the best podcast network in the universe They have many live shows which of course are recorded as podcasts and many podcasts which stream live and it's a great place to hang out with the community

1:34:23 Or follow us at noagendasocial.com which is our federated Mastodon instance, which means you can follow from anything that understands the ActivityPub protocol and there's a lot out there A lot of different systems You'll find it if you hunt around a little bit And follow John C. Dvorak at noagendasocial.com or Adam at noagendasocial.com Let's think our artists for episode 1400 and 1954 we titled that one green transition, which is exactly what the EU is going through and We want to thank a Darren O'Neill for his artwork Which was really kind of not about the the energy part when we always liked have the art in the end The title be about different topics. We try to but different topics discussed in the show This was about the speech being violence online and it was just a simple violence ommeter

1:35:23 which showed you a free speech on the green zone and violent speech in the red zone. And of course, no agenda is spiking all the way if the needle is stuck in the violent speeches own and this was our choice. Violent silence is violence because that doesn't make sense to me. So we had a lot of to choose from here. We did. And we argued about a bunch of it. Uh, I will say I don't want to and I'm not being offensive to Darren although I have to him you know, I don't see played a Iron Maiden song to finish his little segment this morning and Which is just an incredibly violent tune called that with our boots on. I think it's the name of it Yeah But he's playing this song and I just kid and is it's unlistenable song as terrible music but but its classic metal head banging

1:36:17 Horrible music and I just imagined Darren sitting there bouncing his head up and down like a maniac with his hair flying But you never had long hair, and then playing and playing air guitar to himself Through the whole song in that image. I couldn't get out of my head. I'm sorry to hear that So we settled on this art We did because there was there was a lot then we hadn't we didn't agree on much I guess Well, we have a couple things that what you liked I had issues with and which I like you had issues with what? I don't remember. What I like well, I remember what I liked the most which was the just ahead by capitalist agenda with the guy sitting on a cannon point in the wrong direction and The problem with that piece of art was one simple thing yes was media dissection instead of media media Dissection instead immediate deconstruction yep

1:37:15 But invalidated. And that would have, he would have won? He would've won yes if it had media deconstruction Yes The bazooka Joe one next to it I thought was very funny I like that you didn't have any... I thought it would just because its bazooka gum control It just felt a little too Yeah you didn't like it You know what should I tell you the reason why Its personal and triggering and its issue Oh well now we're all ears I went to the dentist. I knew what was coming, and I should have probably done this seven or eight years ago... When was this? Just recently went to the dentist for a cleaning. Oh okay. For a cleaning. Haven't been in a couple of years you know for a whole bunch of reasons

1:38:01 But I knew it was coming and they took one look and went, yeah off to the periodontist with you. No they do that all the time! No no my teeth this is hereditary partially it's the bone so most of my teeth are gonna have to come out and options are Gum control with the, you know false teeth or implants. Exactly! Dude I was telling a cowboy like Texas Slim about this and this guy who has broken 16 bones from rodeo riding went oh...

1:38:45 Exactly. So looking at that... Well, you didn't mention that No I didn't but it's been very triggering and actually Tuesday is my first visit where we start to schedule out this stuff. I think you've told us enough. Well excuse me for just denying my issue with the you told us enough! No i think you're telling us enough because making everyone cringe Okay That's why and so that's why And I didn't even realize it at the time but now I understand It was all me We could have chosen..I'm sorry Well, no it's not a great piece either. I mean the piece we chose is a good piece that works out but dude you had some other one you liked? Yeah the one i liked wasn't it The Sound of Davos

1:39:26 With the clothes that was ESG power to Davos with the spinning spinning beanie you did like that You said you'd like is cheaper by capital We both I liked it, but didn't think it was good enough for album art. It just wasn't sound of Davos Down below right? Oh okay here we go this would happen in first round yeah And you know why this one got rejected Because you said the sound of Davos, it's the wrong color. It's blue. It doesn't pop. It was blue on blue pretty much and I liked the original sound of Davo so then you pointed out hey that's AOC yes she has nothing to do with it

1:40:08 No, the first time yeah. The first time talking about the Sound of Davos AOC. Yeah that's what I'm saying! It says AOC that makes no sense. No i thought there was a second Sound Of Davos on here Yes the one down below which was Klaus Schwab That one made sense with it with the wrong color Noah Jenten and the long color title. Yeah. Yeah sound of davos if it wasn't black... If only we could get some professional artists to do this John every single time that people are making some basic basic mistakes Well Ness works as far as I can tell is a professional. I don't know what he was thinking to be honest about it, but of course we're nitpicking and it gets people mad at us No! This is... What do you mean it gets people mad at us? No it doesn't It makes people appre- Dame Kenny Band was mad at us and somebody in the chat room was so mad He said he'd stop sending in art Who's this somebody? I don't know that he ever sent in art in the first place But he stopped sending it in

1:41:03 Okay, well if you'd like us not to review it just say hey we have no reviewed. No what I'm hearing What I'm hearing was just look these are producers these not artists He's not listeners that philanthropists This is a value for value so if you don't find invaluable that we tell you why you weren't chosen Well just congratulate the winner and that'll be it and then we'll be like hey man hook buddy wait Well, we're not gonna tell you anymore We kind of missed this one. I'm looking The artwork Klaus by Steve8008 with the girl's butt in the Klaus Schwab face? Oh wait, where is this? I don't remember this. Oh no yeah his face is on the Mercedes! It's not a good piece of art! What's wrong with you man?!

1:41:50 Anyway, so then then we just looked at Darren's and we said this is clean. It's it's clear what it is It has a humorous aspect. I like his blocks around the letters that they would did as a style. Yeah that would be the speedometer blocks That's what Darren does! Yep, Darren does it. He takes least uh...the easiest route and cranks two or three pieces out effortlessly And he hits them every month, he gets one or two. While headbanging? It's unbelievable! And air guitar! Head going back and forth, air guitar...

1:42:29 You can see all of the... Where are the chicks, man? Where are the chicks?! You can see all of the art discussed if you use a podcast app from newpodcastapps.com It's Podcasting 2.0 We have uh... Dreb Scott puts all these images in their chapters so that you can easily go back and find a certain part of the show or search for transcripts And as of today I think it works maybe in CurioCaster and Podverse Actually we have the live streaming stuff set up where the app notifies you when your podcast goes live and you can listen to it live in those apps. And I actually have a little camera focused on the mixer so you can kind of see what's going on, and that's all to be found at NewPodcastApps.com It's the revolution! We're moving the revolution forward

1:43:21 Now let's thank our executive producers and associate executive producers. Please note these are producers, these are not listeners Someone berated me on Twitter actually And actually berated you with something like... Why do you have to yell at people? You know, they're just showing you gratitude. I just want to remind you no value it's not gratitude its value we provide value you send value back everybody is really happy Some people like to be yelled at Definitely! We are called producers not listeners not philanthropists

1:44:00 Not casual diners who tip. No, value for value and that's how it works and people are new though They'll get into it So is well some people are never gonna get into it the person who would write a tweet like that Is a loser Okay Now I have to go find out It was this morning and I actually replied like now I can tell you my reply hold on a second I think i do this by going to their tweets and replies. There we go, oh! I'm such so proficient on Twitter Okay here we are the tweet was from at partisan sensors I Identify her profile her I don't know if it's a hurt identify as vaccinated pronouns in your bio mean you won't be taken seriously

1:44:56 Okay, and her tweet is... And that's the truth. Because you're producers right? Yeah, producers have to take guff from the people putting movies together and they can deliver the guff too. Yes of course! Well of course we get lots of- It's a two way street! Yes we get lots of- Valor for value! Guff for guff? What is guff?! Can you give us grief? We're here! We're here for you! We're here for grief...

1:45:49 What is guff? What is the definition of guff? Grief. Is that literally the den... Give him grief, give him guff! Yes it's like talk back It's the same as giving someone grief I think its almost a synonym Well the definitions on reading here is nonsense humbug trivial worthless insolent talker ideas unacceptable behavior especially ludicrous false statements Buncombe, buncome. What's this? Bunkum too with an E at the end. That's how it's spelled you wouldn't know. Bunkome! That's bunkom. What is bunkom? Does debunking come from bunkom? It's like bonk because bullcrap. Bullcrap is another synonym same thing

1:46:37 The more you know, the more you learn. The more you know that in this case you don't learn anything Let's thank our very first executive producer for episode 1455 There he is ladies and gentlemen who doesn't know him He comes in once a month to save the day Sir Anonymous of Dogpatch and Lower Slobovia Who of course lives in Dogpatch in lower Slobovia 1574 oh my goodness he has it do you have his note in front of you by any chance? I do You want me to read it? I would love for you to read it. Okay, I've got it right. Thank you... Thanks thanks to all the producers for continuing support. Just thanking your producers and providing outstanding content. Thanking the producers again making this a valuable six or seven hours a week of easy listening. Easy! That's right no agenda easy listening WLTW where we bring you Davos in the key of D

1:47:36 Like John, I was an adult through the 70s and have a few thoughts that can share with less experienced producers worried about things. Whatever people suggest about the current market if we are replacing the 70's remember we can get worse and be bad for a long time. Yeah it was about a decade. This is the rainy day you were told to save for! What? You didn't listen?! Importantly, the world does not end. Good companies survive and we move forward." A modest comment on ESG! If you have holdings in large index funds especially BlackRock move them to an actively managed fund that share your values The so-called passive index funds have become leaders

1:48:29 Well, yeah. Index funds have become leaders is ESG. I don't know what you know. I think it's supposed to be in the end. Leaders in ESG as demonstrated by BlackRock index holdings influence on Exxon. The concern of passive managers becoming active shareholders was highlighted over a decade ago but ignored. Of course. So get out of those operations that are pushing this crap using algos Unfortunately, I am... that's me not him. Back to back to Animas. Unfortunately, I'm scarred by experiences in ESG and market volatility but know it is tough to stop a title surge and have already changed perspective to deal with the debris as it recedes no jingles no karma

1:49:21 Thank you very much, Mr. Animas of Dogpatch and Lower Slobovia Let me just add to the content of the donation segment with a quick little tie-in to that because we won't get to any other ESG stuff I think There was a story you may have read about women being sexually assaulted in The Metaverse So, you know this is people. You know it's this was kind of the whole point of second life is you'd lure some good pet girls on the ass Yeah And and then you throw down sex balls and other things that would then animate both both of the Of the avatars and doing some lewd act That was the whole point of it and usually that the hot chick avatar was a dude yeah Dude anyway or some kid? So there's this big news story about

1:50:08 I got this is all in the show notes. So, here it is New York Post women are being disturbing reports of sexual assault in the metaverse It's a free show and so there's this whole article but of course I read the article and one 21 year old woman says she was raped within one hour of being in the metaverse Let's just understand that this metaverse violence Is virtual So she was, I don't know how that works. Couldn't your avatar... Run away or you know teleport out anyway This is according to a new report from some of us. Is there an off switch the computer? Maybe that would it doesn't work when you get to rape It's just can't work when you're getting raped in the metaverse by the way, it's really offensive because rape is no laughing matter No, it's not really trivial and I agree but except for the fact that we're dealing with make-believe Bullcrap this is like listening to Amber Heard ha

1:51:10 I got it. You got it in, but this is interesting because they're normalizing this type of reporting and making it you know It's triggering. I think it's bad of the New York Post to report it, but the reason why they reported is because it comes from some of us, S-U-M O-F U-S a nonprofit advocacy organization and online community that campaigns to hold corporations accountable for a variety of alleged infractions So of course I look these people up

1:51:47 And the first thing I always do is go to the donation page, to see if there's anything fishy there. Are they... and their 401C 4141C4 corporation, so they're a lobbying organization and they do about 7 million dollars a year. Some of us...and here it is some of us exist to challenge corporate power and fight for people over profits so we can take a dime as though we can't take a dime in corporate or government money the vast majority comes from our funders and thousands of members across the globe Can you chip in? And help make sure we move fast to win the campaigns that matter to all of us

1:52:28 Does that stick out to you, John? Besides chip in. No of course! Chip in this is some political outfit that is exactly like the Democratic Party Yeah Now where do they get their money from? Some of us partners with a number foundations and non-governmental groups including Tides Foundation Open Society Foundation Packard foundation Sunrise Project Lefties lefties lefties Soros And then they have...and then I'm done Their annual report, which I downloaded and you also have in the show notes. A key aspect to achieving success is educating and activating investment firms and advisors to demand companies such as Facebook shift its toxic business model. To advance this goal we have produced a risk report for investors to examine the numerous concerns that Facebook's management and practices raised for their shareholders

1:53:23 particularly the environmental, social and governance funds. This is... they're bringing ESG into this phony baloney metaverse for more control and it's systemic! It's built into it! It's dynamite On to Breanne Beasley. Now I happen to have Breanne's note for some reason it also came in at an 88 level, um...I know the story behind this so i'm going to read her note she is Saddle Tramp and you recall Saddle Tramp was mentioned on the last show where you were moaning about casual listeners

1:54:03 Now I know Sad... I don't moan about casual listeners, was I? No no it was like casual listeners who don't donate. Whatever it was yes you were bitching about casual listeners. I should be apologizing for that. Because it was me that has to apologize! You did nothing wrong! I made a joke Because I know Saddle Tramp who makes leather products. She makes all kinds of stuff, and I'm afraid to say anything because she's on Instagram and she's always making her stuff you know? She's showing the product she makes and she has no agenda blaring in the background

1:54:41 The one of the most dedicated listeners so me me as ha ha hee-hee. Mr Funny DJ I said being an asshole your normal self exactly I get it and I said a minute wait when I get a wallet Continue continue, so you're talking about casual listeners? I think oh, I'll do a fun little name check say yeah like Saddle Tramp Well, she takes it a little more literally and she goes off the hook. And she starts a Damehood drive with her products by immediately slashing her prices and collecting $1,000 for an instant Damehood. And here is...and she's from Wyoming sharing them

1:55:29 Here's her note. In the morning, gentlemen. Saddle Tramp here to defend my honor loyalty and dedication to the no agenda cause after being referred to as a casual listener on episode 1453 Congratulations! You successfully goaded me from douchebag to damehood in one fell swoop Good work So I'd like to be... My name to be Dame Saddle Tramp of The Casual Listeners And I would like to quaff pints of Montucky cold snacks while feasting upon Spam Musubi at the round table. Thanks in advance, love what y'all do! I take every opportunity to tell anyone with ears the benefits of listening to no agenda. Keep up the good work goat karma for me and The Trampede pretty please Love & Lit from Saddle Tramp Of course we have just one question What is musubi?

1:56:20 I have no idea. M-M-U-S-U-B-I, Musubi and it's made from spam too Anyway i'm gonna give you a free deducing here You've been deduced And we look forward to seeing you on the podium Saddle Tramp! You got karma Alright onward with uh Sir Moses $348 parts unknown and he sent in a check Note that came with it. Mm-hmm from Sir Moses parts unknown 348 this donation amount is $2 for each episode since my last donation nice Requesting R 2d to karma, thank you You've got karma that's the way to roll

1:57:11 Sir Don Francis is next from Chandler, Arizona. And we're looking here at 333 dot 33 one of our by far one of our favorite donation numbers in the morning John and Adam this donation and executive producer credit is a switcheroo! In honor of my smoking hot wife's birthday on Sunday the 29th so please add Stephanie Francis to the birthday list and we're going to immediately switcheroo her from Sir Don Francis to Stephanie Francis. Okay, make sure the back office gets that note This donation also earns her a seat at the roundtable Oh my goodness So please add her to that list as well Dame Stephanie Francis until she comes up with something else okay? I have to add Dame now

1:58:05 I am totally and utterly blessed to have such an amazing woman as my partner in life, An Amygdala Shrinkage. She's a phenomenal mother and mentor, an intelligent and kick-ass businesswoman, And...my best friend! I love you Stephanie! Jingles! A biscuit on her birthday? Also wants a get vaccinated of course followed by a no, and some health karma for all. They always give me a biscuit on my birthday. Get vaccinated. No Thank you very much, Sir Don. You've got karma Sam Onen in Eden Prairie Minnesota 333 dot 33 and he has a nice note that says thanks once more Why don't you do the next one while you're at it? Lubor Benda in Prague Czechoslovakia or Czech Republic I think Czech Republic

1:59:01 There is no Czechoslovakia anymore, dummy. 3333 has no note that I can find! That means a double karma! You've got... pharma. It's a shorter version on turbo now Sir JD, Baron of Silicon Valley. 33325 from San Jose California. Dear Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning keep up the great work please accept these executive producer USDs as some value back for the excellent value you provide to the community Jingha requests original jobs and there it is again R2D2 karma for a new startup funding success

1:59:46 This producership is to mark my 51st trip around the sun and to commemorate 25 years of wedded bliss to my life. And they never had a fight! Please also mention the upcoming Saturday, June 4th at 4pm Cyber Meetup in San Francisco at Chesty's Bar & Lounge at The Marines Memorial Hotel near Union Square This is the weekend before the RSA security conference, so we expect to see dudes and dudettes. Knights, dames, spooks! I've heard a rumor JCD might even attend. Details on the meetup site? Thank you for your courage Sir JD, Baron of Silicon Valley What say you Mr Dvorak?" Well it's in a location that I wanted to visit, so it's distinct possibility

2:00:32 Ooh, we like that. I will make a final determination long before the date. Jobs jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs! karma. Thanks. Pierre in quotes. Pierre! So it's not just any Pierre, it's Pierre in quotes. It is Pierre you surely honor Pierre. He does the hair of the elite women. 333 in Farmington Connecticut I'm a knight! Woohoo! Yells

2:01:09 Three donations of $3.33, previously recurring payments at $35. A knight named Sir Pierre of the Farmington Valley Connecticut. I would like at the nighting Kara-Aji... Thanks for the pronunciation. Kara-Aji thanks for the pronunciation God! I would have said that wrong. And martinis. So Kara-Aji and martinis. Resist we much? He wants for jingles along with That's True and Hot Pockets I read in the style of Karen Jean-Pierre. Oh, he wants you to read... He wants you to read the last bit? Yeah, I know what he wants me to read! Okay. I can't do it either. I don't have her voice then. I haven't heard her enough. And by the way, it's Kareen Abdul Jean-Pierre. Yes.

2:01:55 I can do a voice, I'll do a voice. Just a random voice. Wait- Amador is like an Italian number guy from... No that's not gonna work this is supposed to be a complete woke I know it all much better than you. Okay well I can do this voice There ya go there you're close now go ATM? Look look! I'm obviously acutely aware that my presence at this juncture represents new a few firsts I'm white, straight American man of Quebecois descent. And first of all, those three more or less to hold this position that's the reason why I've got the job

2:02:38 Representation does matter and no one understands this better than Kraken Buzz, which is why this podcast is not only the most diverse in history it's filled with barrier-breaking women and men from the dudes named Ben to the Knights to the executive producers to the listeners throughout the podcast. I think this is a new voice for you Well, it's kind of an a feat some sort of a feet person. I'm kind of digging that. Not quite who what this guy represents but... Yeah but i like it! I give you an A- for that. We must and we will much about that be committed. That's true

2:03:22 Sir, sorted out is in Houston 333. He says sir sorted out reporting for support duty Good I'll take the next one to mother of dragons Please keep name and location anonymous and get back to work Okay, okay mother of dragons will do just that now that's what I consider a great note That's a good note yes, then we move down to associate executive producers with sir Alexander of middle Cascadia he's been around And he came in with 257 and he says, 257 AI ITM gentlemen since it has been established by the esteemed peerage committee that I have received black knight status. Is a title change or new knighting ceremony necessary to just assume the mantle? Many thanks in advance for the clarification you just assumed the mantle is that simple but does not need acknowledgement of that

2:04:19 Well, he just got it right here. You heard it! Okay But if you want to put him on the... If we have room today for the title change We'll give it to him in a title change So what is.. I'm sorry wasn't paying attention I wasn't listening to you What has he become today? Black Knight A black knight?! Yeah He did get... I don't know something happened Something went amiss You sir Alexander of Middle Cascadia. He wants to be known as Black Knight, Sir Alexander Okay So that's that's a title change and so we get some official yes you gets an official even you guess I guess yeah Come on. I've been doing this for a long time. No one talking about he was he was art way you writing that down Yeah, he went some are 2d2 health karma for all of Gitmo nation And he says keep doing what you do? You've got

2:05:18 Karma. Our next associate executive producer 23311 from Falmouth, Cornwall in Great Britannia Tristan Silva Hey Adam and John my smoking hot wife Francie Silva recently called me out for my laziness and douchebaggery on the previous show Thanks love you really are the best please de-douche me You've been de-douched I hope the shame washes off We love the show and keep up the fantastic work. Francie would love to hear the fractals jingle, and may we also request a sprinkling more karma for Jack and Kathy McCandless? They deserve all the good fortune they can get! Cheers from Tristan Silva." Well of course we can do that. Old Scott. It was a long time since I played it. Yeah, forever like it

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2:09:45 I presume you did you made some clips? I have a clip and a couple of these oddball. I got some oddball because this is just like it to me, who knew! This is from France 24 and this like...I'm telling you this is totally to me a who-knew. This is gender in Argentina. Did you know that in the world of transsexuals, the leading country, the country that's spearheaded most of it? I thought was Brazil. Argentina. Interesting Wait, they spearheaded it? Gender in Argentina explains it all. But we begin in the Latin American nation of Argentina which has become a pioneer for trans rights For some 10 years people have had the right to choose their gender and change their ID papers without needing to consult either a doctor or lawyer

2:10:39 But the trans community in Argentina still suffers from discrimination in education, health and work. With life expectancy just 40 years old compared to the national average of 77. This report from our team on the ground Juanita is seven years old and in her room are all the usual things you'd expect. Roller skates, flowers a dollhouse but she was born a boy even though she always knew she was supposed to be a girl Her mother Mariana little unsure at first followed the advice of a psychologist to better support her daughter in her transition We made the doll with a penis because we couldn't find one in Argentina it doesn't exist

2:11:22 We made it for her because the therapist told us it would be good for her. The family lives in Azul, a conservative town with a population of 70 thousand people some 300 kilometers away from the capital Buenos Aires Getting the community to accept Juanita's transition wasn't easy In some situations, like in hospital she would get called by her male name. She'd answer that's not my name it stressed her out a lot so we decided to look into changing her ID." They contacted a human rights lawyer to guide them through the bureaucratic steps needed to change the little girl legal gender. Facundo Achaga took on the case in 2020 when Juanita was five years old

2:12:06 I tried to get to know her a bit, to see if she saw herself as a girl without being too intrusive. I asked her to draw herself. She drew herself with long hair and a dress When the lawyer asked her to write down her name, she wrote Juanita. The name she'd chosen for herself. The procedure for changing her ID papers took just one month that's because since 2012 a gender identity law in Argentina enables citizens of any age to choose their gender and change it as they see fit So this is the long-term goal. It would be to have this situation globally, globally Mm-hmm and it's like so a five year old who doesn't know when I was five I identified as a dog at some point Hey my son buzzkill jr. Mm-hmm robot Robot exactly I Mean it's like

2:13:16 It was kind of heartbreaking on one side because these kids are just kids, let's face it. They don't know anything and when you're five years old and decide you want to be a girl and your boy You don't even know what a girl or boy is or what the function of this shouldn't really yeah But but okay, but not buddy if you gonna open it up and make us so okay? Well that's the system I mean that's that's there That there's our entire infrastructure and a whole mechanism, a whole machine which clearly is global to scoop these cases up and bring them in and transmortify. Part two

2:13:53 Argentina was the first country in the world to introduce such legislation, which even a decade later remains some of the most progressive in the world. It's not necessary to have an opinion from a psychiatrist or psychologist because with this law being transgender is no longer considered as mental illness and no surgery or medical treatment is required Over 9,000 people have officially changed their gender identity since the legislation came into force. Marcela Romero was one of the authors of the law. Ten years later she's out on the streets to demand that legislators go even further. Further legal measures to foster greater social inclusion will be debated in Congress

2:14:45 But although Argentina is a pioneer in trans rights, trans people still struggle to access steady work. The life expectancy of an Argentinian trans woman is just around 40 because of how excluded we are. We live outside the system without access to health care housing jobs and everything else that other people enjoy access too This discrimination can also escalate into hate crimes. In 2020, 129 people were killed because they were trans. Fiorella has had to deal with violence against trans people virtually her whole life. She says it's a part of society. I lived on the streets. I had to do sex work. I didn't finish my secondary education. I couldn't find a job

2:15:35 I've been hugely impacted by this. Fiorella's story is just one of many, in Argentina less than a quarter of trans people finish their secondary education and the vast majority are either unemployed or working on unstable short-term contracts most resort to prostitution to make ends meet. If this is, if this transitioning is encouraged and there's an entire support system for it how come these people often wind up in such horrible situations? And uh... I don't understand. Does not work out? Isn't that a wild story? Yeah! It's like this- This is all great we help the children trans- transition at five, six, seven but they grow up to be prostitutes. Which was what they wanted to do in Florida. But they grew up to be prostitutes yeah

2:16:30 That's not a happy story. I never said it was a happy story It's just an interesting story that we're totally unaware of this is what happens when you this is the idea Which is what they push? This is what happens when you're watching amber turd You miss real stories, you miss real stories. It's like you got This craziness going on and you know then again am I wrong for saying that when it's very libertarian is very Libertarian if five-year-old wants to become a girl, he's a boy Okay, interesting. You're saying that's a libertarian view of the world don't you think mmm? I don't know um I think so honestly I'm gonna take shit for this but I feel because people have said so many times to me Oh your libertarian right

2:17:18 No, I'm an affiliate. I don't identify with any party. I think it's many people who are conservative in thinking, they just don't want to take the shit of being a Republican so they say I'm a libertarian. It's kind of a cop-out that's my personal feeling it's my personal... I think you're right and we'll take shit from it no no yes this has been I don't think is as true today as it was ten years ago when everybody was a Libertarian that was a Republican because Republicans do have to take a lot of grief from the left But I don't think it's an un. I don't think that's a bad commentary It's just always in my feeling no you get no notes on it Okay, can I ask you something? We'll get a note about Because it kind of fits a little bit into the story there is a an economic law which I believe is codified In multiple places online You can look it up its called Dvorak's law and I'm actually going to do a search just to see if

2:18:24 If I am correct, I'm just typing in Dvorak's Law. And here it is, Dvorak's Law. Second hit on the search. Dvorak's law, the worse the economy not only do the hookers get better looking but they get cheaper Some postulate that additionally, hookers get more business during a worse economy. However, Dvorak himself attributes this to supply and demand which often leads to an increase in business i.e., tricks, which is driven by the need to compensate for loss of revenue caused by the same reduction in cost stated in Dvorak's law."

2:19:02 And this law... Holy moly, they've really taken this to an extreme. This law stems from the 2013 so you know this is something entire investment 401k strategies have been based upon Dvorak's Law So I would- You're the guy to ask This is the headline, tell me how it fits into our economic outlook based on your intimate knowledge and creation in fact of Dvorak's law. Headline stripper say a recession is guaranteed because the strip clubs are suddenly empty Yeah just the opposite of Dvorak's law and I have to relate that...I read this too And so I was thinking about there was an era that kind of I think its 70s but maybe 60s

2:19:49 But I think it's mostly 70s. And it started off with the one of the Condor in San Francisco where Carol Doda, who is a a go-go dancer, became a topless go-go dancer and it became a scandal. And some judge slammed the hammer down said no it's fine but women can walk around with no bra on in these clubs or bars for that matter and there became a huge... I should write this up myself. There was a huge boom

2:20:26 in topless bars, at least around here and I think in LA. The whole of California was all topless and so you could go, half the bars in the area were topless bars and I can't remember how long this lasted. It just disappeared overnight but those bars were doing a good business and it was during anything during the 70's is during a depression because the market collapsed in late 69 and when it started going downhill, and there was interest rates are going up. And we had the price fixing and all the rest of it having to going into play so I associate that era with any strip bars. And I'm thinking why are these strip bars not having a customer? That means is there gonna be boom in the economy or something else is going on that this girls were wrong

2:21:17 So, so I don't...I love the story. I don't quite understand what does this mean according to the strippers' uh story? I think the strippers are wrong! I think their economy is not going bad it's just the opposite You think the economy is going great?! I think the economy must be going great based on what's happening in the strip clubs yeah Girls good n- From Reseda here she is Raven Hey, you got your side hustle coming back then. Well, I think you misinterpreted it but yes. No! I interpreted it right. I just needed to play the jingle and come up with some idea to play the jingle. Itching... While we're in South America, I want to play this clip because there's a country down there that is going to take a turn for the worst because remember what happened in Venezuela? They elected Hugo Chavez some years back. Dynamite Choice

2:22:16 And he took the country right into the ground and then they knew guys taking it even further. They can't have real elections anymore, it's all fixed now, it's rigged like you know just have a lot of mail-in ballots and vote in whoever you want to have a mail order president. I like that! Mail order president? I hadn't actually heard... I got that from the woman in Australia Which one on Sky News who does the bumbling Biden bits Yeah I have her name on here somewhere, because i have a clip by her today. You put her to shame actually! I think your Biden clips are better than what she does and you're... Yeah she could do yeah.. You're funnier when you come out of them She's all snarky like she lives here. Oh yes she is. Rita Panahi the one who came up with mail-order president That's a good one, I like it So I stole it but I gave credit so that's all that counts Good now we can use it as a title great okay

2:23:13 Mail-order president. That's possible So here's what's going on in Colombia next almost 38 million Colombians are heading to the polls this Sunday for the presidential election And while there are six candidates on the ballot The race has come down two three men and the frontrunner is Gustavo Peral if elected He would become Columbia's first leftist head of state Solange Mujan has more If there's something that Colombians agree on, it is time for a change. A recent poll shows 75% of them feel Colombia is going in the wrong direction I hope for a change. It will be difficult to achieve, but it is absolutely necessary. Colombia needs empathy on political issues and in general because of corruption health issues and people's lack of means Since the 2016 peace deal with the FARC it is the economy that has become Colombians top priority 60% say that it's hard to get by financially

2:24:14 But that doesn't mean voters agree on who should win Sunday's first round among the trio of candidates that have a shot at becoming president. I believe that the main challenge for the next president should be to unite the country and not create so much polarization. I fear a populist government, they tell a lot of lies... The frontrunner for Sunday's vote is Gustavo Petro, the former governor of Bogota. He is a leftist and has promised to provide free university education and to combat wealth inequality. Behind him in the polls is Federico Guterres, a center-right former mayor who has the backing of Colombia's traditional parties And then there's business magnate Rodolfo Hernandez

2:24:57 Running as an independent on his own funds, his campaign has been hurt by accusations of graft. She denies either Hernandez or Gutierrez is expected to face off against Petro in a June 2nd round. Funny I didn't hear about that on Fox News? Yeah the communists are gonna become the president well socialist leftist I'm sorry there I mix up two three well at the Yes, he's gonna do what happened in Venezuela. You can see it right away is promising free this and free that for education free All right So do we immediately invest in coffee futures?

2:25:37 Well, that's an interesting... well you don't know because it might mean that coffee growing is the only substance work you can get to be growing more coffee. Will cocaine become cheaper? By the way also we mentioned this on the show one of the few things on our show you'd never heard anyplace else is they're making a big push in China Yes Tell me about the push in China To grow coffee! We've played clips on this Oh that's right So you can't, I don't think coffee futures are a good gamble. Let me jump in on China then and end a foreign piece of reporting which often is surprisingly good. Deutsche Welle, I take Deutsche Welle as a serious news organization. You?

2:26:22 I agree to a point, but they were so anti-Trump that it was pretty skewed. Pretty very skewed. Yeah this is a Deutsche Welle piece on China of course China Beijing is now partially in lockdown which is not really being reported but I think 11 million people in Beijing are in lockdown of course we still have what's the other city that's been in lockdown? Shanghai. This piece is on the system. The system, they call it... They don't say THE, it's called SYSTEM. System is what controls everybody in China! Listen to this! Oh I cut out all of the long music pieces where to dramatize the report.

2:27:10 Yeah, it's annoying when they do that. China has completely de-emphasized privacy and freedom of movement during the pandemic in the brain of Shanghai's Pudong district Every suspected covert 19 case is monitored We installed a network of sensors in front of apartments When the door sensor registers people leaving the apartment in violation of the rules were alerted district staff and the health department are then informed, and can respond quickly. What's technologically possible is carried out with little regard for people's privacy. Criticism or resistance among the population is virtually non-existent." We've mapped the residential buildings in the district which ones are occupied where there are vacancies

2:27:57 where elderly people are living alone, where care or help is needed. It's all stored in our system and can be called up in real time." Even those who do not dispose of their trash properly are recorded. Residents who aren't following the rules are captured on camera from three different angles. Their so-called brain acts swiftly Whether it's an illegally parked car or unsolicited advertising, offences can be handled by patrol officers who are connected to the control centre via a mobile app. As soon as the squads and volunteers in residential districts spot an issue they can report it and upload footage They take a photo, report the issue And then our system automatically decides which department to forward the matter to

2:28:55 There's your future right there, let's all hope Elon buys Twitter. All the sensors will be in place! It is going to be wonderful. That's a terrible clip... It is going to be wonderful. Wonderful I tell you! Let me see if I can top that? Nooo.... I do have this clip though since we mentioned Rita Panahi She has, she's now can't get enough Biden stuff. So she's going after Kamala. Ooh! It's really... I mean it's kind of cheap shots coming from Australia that says my only problem. The only cheap shots in America is they say mind your own business at the same time. Mind your... You know? I got a note from an Australian producer I just want to share for a second and went back and forth with Anthony

2:29:57 And here, then here's kind of where it came down to. Because this is about the Uvalde shooting or Uvaldi if you're from Hill Country. US gun culture is so easy to deconstruct! It's just big companies selling crappy products to consumers. They're using the exact same playbook as Big Pharma, playing on people's fears and insecurities And all the sheeples buy these things because they think it makes them into something or because all their friends have got one From the outside it is obvious that this whole thing is BS It's exactly like if you go to China, still everyone chain smokes. Even young people tell you it is good for your circulation and sex drive. They also tell you it's part of Chinese and national identity to smoke! They don't realize the rest of world moved on... ...and there are consumers spending money to buy products that kill them. No Anthony no If you had a constitution you'd understand this Wait before I put my foot in my mouth Does Australia have a constitution?

2:31:01 I don't think they have anything that compares to ours. Or they have some... Like a Magna Carta derivative or something? Again, I can do a quick lookup or you can just continue because i don't think it's important because our Constitution is very specific for us Yeah my point is this country was born with this culture so to say that this is just..I'll say one other thing Definitely a lot of people just buying it for what they hope will be home defense and you know, we'll see I don't think there's people Little chance of people going out on the streets with their guns yet Yet but the way that Yuval D cops operated and we may be getting pretty close to those guys You know, I talked to Mike my buddy who was He was law enforcement in Kerrville

2:31:55 And he has anger management issues, so he quit the force. But he's my buddy and you know this question is Mike what the hell went on there? He's gonna get more info for me but he's like this is training these guys had no training They were told completely the wrong things to do they even had level 4 vests and body armor They could have walked in and taken an AR shot not to the head obviously but near through their vest And, uh... He says it's just this complete failure. He says if any cop who has been trained properly knows what to do you go right in! Honestly, and we don't need to talk about it. This whole thing the timeline the calls that were made The things that happened the strangeness this stinks And I'm going and I'm like and I've been thinking it for a whole week, and I'm just gonna put it out there This feels like some kind of pedo thing is also involved in this. I don't know why I'm just putting it out There's something weird going on

2:32:54 with these kids. Why don't you work on it and give us a report however long it takes? Yeah of course I'm just telling you what it is all right move on to Rita Panahi yeah now here she goes after Kamala but if you're worried that the president is just too dazed and confused to be leading the free world then take comfort in the fact that his veep is ready and capable and he's already tackling the really big issues like school buses So I think about this subject of our yellow school buses in that regard. Because, think about it, yellow school buses are our nation's largest form of mass transit. How about that? Every day... so yes and let's applaud because it gets them where they need to go!

2:33:46 But despite the mad cackling there, there was actually a deeper point that Veep was trying to make. She seems to think the existence of these school buses threatens the health of children and the planet If your child rides the bus half an hour to school and half an hour back every day from the first day of kindergarten to high school graduation They will experience the equivalent of 90 full days of exposure to diesel exhaust. And these fumes do not just threaten the health of our children, they also threaten the future of our planet. Diesel exhaust is a greenhouse gas

2:34:36 So one minute she's laughing madly about school buses and literally the next minute she is telling her bewildered audience that the buses are killing the children and the earth. Well this is not, this is not fair it's out of context I'm not defending the Vice President but this was about electric school buses so But that she laughs, I mean she's saying oh one minute she was talking about great school buses then they're killing the earth. It was about electric school buses but she didn't disclose that in her little spiel here. Well the thing that is interesting to me is Kamala's assertion that kids have got 90 days of exposure to diesel exhaust.

2:35:21 shoving the exhaust pipe into the bus? They're not even- If you're in a bus and you get an exhaust pipe sending out whatever exhaust is coming out, it's not going into the bus. So they aren't exposed to anything this is bullcrap what she saying! They are exposed to pig urine Okay, yeah that's remember. That's ad blue. Oh, that's your blue got about that crap Yeah They put pit they spray pig urine onto the exhaust as it's going out the the bus won't drive without it It's just it's just excess pig urine from China if those buses are equipped with that system well I think most of these buses and I'm seeing most school buses are either

2:36:03 electric or I think there's some maybe be some hydrogen buses i'm thinking well I know there are some hybrid busses, yeah for sure that is what you're thinking. I have one other clip that I want to get out of the way which I think it's a funny clip another one from NPR where they're just giggling and this is tittering and this is a story that I am surprised got on NPR but its kind of a funny stories about their first ancient graffiti I guess Hadrian's Wall, the one that's up at the north part of England where the Romans took over and then they put a wall up to block out Scots or whoever they were worried about.

2:36:43 It had a bunch of graffiti on it and so they've decoded some of it, and now they're making into a funny story. This is ancient graffiti." Alright let's go to Northern England now where an amateur archaeologist discovered a rock graffiti'd with an ancient Roman message. Wait why doesn't she say graffiti? Because she said graffiti? ...geologist discovered a rock graffitied with an ancient Roman message that feels, well not so ancient. Inscription specialists identified the letters etched into the rock as Second Dynas Cacor which translates to second dynas the let's say the pooper and based on the time it would have taken to etch the letters into the rock and the accompanying phallus... Wait wait stop! Stop!

2:37:33 I didn't get the innuendo. What exactly does this thing... Is it the...? It's, uh, yes so the guy that was up there who was managing that area whose name is mentioned is a shithead Okay Oh, so its F the Shithead? Is that what it is? Something like that but they weren't gonna... They couldn't do that on NPR So they had to say pooper which translates to second Dynas the let's say the pooper and based on the time it would have taken to etch the letters into the rock and the accompanying phallus also engraved just beneath the letters experts

2:38:11 experts believe it was definitely meant as an insult. Oh yeah, this latest phallus is one of 13 carved into Hadrian's Wall in northern England! The wall was the northernmost boundary of the Roman Empire at one time so apparently modern-day middle schoolers and ancient Romans have more in common than you might think. Brother... So question why why is it so hard for them to just say penis? And why is it so hard to say anus or something? Why do they have to come up with... Or shit, whatever. Yeah well shit okay when you know whatever broadcast standards but it's just weird if you're gonna laugh anyway. They say that the modern school kids and ancient Romans had something in common no! You have something in common with the ancient Romans because yes just tittering. Well I mean

2:39:03 Imagine if two men did that story. NPR News, we've discovered some very interesting graffiti on this wall over there in the UK it's very famous my partner knows about it Oh really? Yes indeed and... Let's find out Well the guy who was in charge at the time his name was Skadidous well people didn't like him so they called him a well they had a depiction there of let's just call it a pooper! Oh my god Yes, and then the phalluses below them. I mean that kind of made it all clear and there's 13 phalluses apparently! Yes Wow John what a story! What a story it is! There you go now let's simply can we can package that up send it off to NPR to our audition tape. We'll get a job finally. Finally we'll get a real job

2:39:59 Before we take our second break, a quick one that we kind of missed on the last show but since a lot of people... I mean we didn't really miss it. But there was something said very specifically that people said, people would post you know typical. I can't believe he missed it! So let's find out it was the executive director of Oxfam International and talking about COVID and the pharmaceutical industry. Rising billionaires has been you know, unprecedented during the pandemic. And there's been several sectors where that has been mostly concentrated and one is in fact the pharma sector because COVID has been one of the most profitable products ever so... So that was the line that we didn't respond to. Um, COVID has been one of the most profitable products ever and I think it's right for people to call us out on that! That's a very interesting term, The Product COVID

2:40:57 I thought that was pretty good. Well, I'm glad they called us out. I don't know why they just didn't mention it but calling us out is fine. Well they call us because people truly cannot believe that we missed that which is flattering! If I am looking back on the history of this show and everything we cover and the way we cover it in the way we deconstruct things...I'm stunned that we can miss something like that. Agreed? Because we just don't miss stuff like they were the best I also take it as a compliment for that very reason It's like, I can't believe they missed it! COVID the product Of course yeah COVID the product but let's talk about COVID the product because I have a feeling

2:41:36 Pfizer is, they've taken their eye off the ball. Maybe it's because all of the 7 billion vaccines they can't sell that no country wants. We don't want that shit! So they're pumping the brakes on the... They're taking their foot off the gas on the marketing And they've just given up on variant names. We talked about this, I think yesterday doctor just an update on this contagious variants of COVID it seems with each new variant the contagiousness if that's a word continues to increase but maybe not the severity That's what we're seeing and i'm concerned about the new variant is the BA 2.1 2.1

2:42:19 Is it getting from a software company? Thank you for pointing out the obvious. That's exactly what it sounds like and you need to combat that version number with some programmable mRNAs. Let's do it again. So maybe not the severity... That's what we're seeing, and I'm concerned about- The new variant is the BA 2.12.1. .12.1 BA 12.12.1 lovely That's the doctor from Fox News by the way. I'll just let you hear what he says because of course they also have to adhere to the pharma overlords.

2:43:08 But it means we have to use more Paxlovid, more antivirals for people at high risk and make sure that people get boosted. Or getting over COVID recently does help decrease your risk of severity That's the key! We want to keep people out of the hospital and so far were succeeding at that And I think we will Oh please doctor you phony Phone that's the guy that Tucker would always bring on to show the stupid video tape of people rolling joints You're all you gonna die from smoking weed and there's your Fox News everybody not fence But what another one here? That's kind of interesting. Tell me if these things is a native ad, okay

2:43:50 Back to NPR. This is the Circus Is Back. The Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus Is Back though minus the elephants lions and tigers it seems. Oh my! Ringling says five years after shutting down its three-ring circus it plans a return next fall. Fulter Base Company says its new version of the circus will be interactive and feature audience engagement while also celebrating performers from around the world Okay what do you think that means because I do have a follow up to this? I think it means... yes? Go on, I don't have any thoughts. Well i was reading about the abatars Have you heard of the ABBA-tars? Abba like Abba? Yes! Abbatars You mean the Swedish singers?

2:44:37 So ABBA just launched a concert tour kicked off in the UK with lots of elites and royalty there. It's called ABBA Voyage now the ABBA people are deep in their 70s now although you can still see You know, both Agnetha and Annafrit there they're still beautiful women. They're just you know much much older as are Bjorn and Benny I know a lot about ABBA of course I grew up And I saw them win the Eurovision Song Contest And so what they've created is avatars which People are paying to go to a stadium big stadium Oh when they get to see a 3D image on this stage of them that's oh That's what it looks like

2:45:24 But I dove into it because that's why they say avatars. It looks like holograms on on stage and yeah, and it puck Well, it's much better than that. I mean its high resolution and I figured out why by reading the article but I think this is there's two ways to achieve kind of virtual reality or augmented reality. One is you put some glasses on and you got, well you got some retina stuff whatever it is Google Glasses or the stupid Oculus and maybe you can see through them you see the real world in this things that pop in there where maybe it's completely virtual with a big thing on your head that will make people nauseous Or You do what the ABBA people have done I'm gonna read this these two paragraphs

2:46:10 To create the spectacle, the band performed in motion capture suits for five weeks with 160 cameras scanning their body movements and facial expressions. Those became reference points for hundreds of animators and visual effects artists to create the avatars of the band in their heyday. And they look dynamite! I mean, women... Their legs are at least six inches longer than they were back in the day It's fantastic now The ABBA choreography has always been you know it just kind of hey So I can see where 70 year olds could do the choreography Affectionately known as avatars, the characters are not 3D holograms as everyone involved in the production is at pains to point out. Quote I don't think any hologram shows have been successful says producer Billy Walsh after five minutes they're just not that interesting. I agree

2:47:03 It's just like, okay it doesn't look real. It looks kind of green laser-ish and it's not a real convincing experience. Yeah, it's not up to par Instead the characters appear on a massive 65 million pixel screen with lights and other effects blurring the boundaries between the digital elements in the real world in the arena Amazingly, they've pulled it off. The images might be 2D but impressive lighting effects and back-propped projections provide a crucial depth of field creating the illusion the band are really in the room with you I believe this is a genius way to go because it's so much easier to convince yourself that you're watching something that is 3D and holographic because the edges have been obfuscated. Your brain fills in that stuff really quickly! I think this is smart, and Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus they don't eat any animals he just throws some smell of elephant shit in the room little bit hay

2:48:07 And you'll be looking at it as if I think this is the future of concerts. I really do! Well, this is an argument that I'm not going to make but I would like to know who produces this and if they're publicly traded? Hold on... That's a very good question. I want to look into it for you so I do know that Billy Walsh- There's kind of thing Live Nation should be doing And you're right, because the only thing that's been a problem with concerts compared to like the record and music industry is that you can scale. If you're a band and you produce records, you can send those records all over the place without you having to leave home. And it scales so you make millions of dollars just recording something. If you could do the same thing with your live performances, you could scale those like you can records

2:49:00 Well, pfft. Get in that business immediately. So the producer is Bailey Walsh who was a Who is a? Let me see It's on a lot of films a lot of production for films such as James Bond But also mute a lot of music video type stuff as well I have to look into who actually provide because it's more set design and and lighting than it obviously, you know creating the virtual characters a lot of work goes into that but But then to put it on the screen and to obfuscate everything, I mean... Once you do that once in the scales. You don't have to worry about it. It's crazy good right? Yeah! So great so what we can do is we can have two hot-looking curry Dvorak's That'd be good Right and well and finally and will just be voice they won't actually be I mean They'll be us right and we're doing the show

2:49:56 Only you'll see us on stage Interacting bouncing around and looking really hot and spry and cool. And then that could go on the road twice a week Imagine all the people who could do this And indeed we do have a few people to thank whether on the road or not, virtual or otherwise. Dodge Gaskill leads it off from Barton Vermont 12345 and he's going to be a baron today

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2:52:27 That's Sir Patrick Coble, he used to visit all the meetups. Now he is just creating them and he is just going around the country doing it. Save or create? Yes! Hopefully Chas Palminteri will be there. Sir Byers Grace in Neptune Beach Florida 5510 John Craddock in Stafford Virginia 5290 Jimmy Woo 5270 in Buffalo New York RekalcitrantcrazySteveII in Sonoma, Wino country as he puts it 5150. Andrea Nelson in Clovis California 5044 and the following people are $50 donors name and location if applicable. Chris Goodman in Leander, Leander Texas John Barrett in St. Petersburg Florida

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2:54:11 circling back to Dodge Gaskill. He's from Barton, Vermont 12345 he says this donation should take me to Baron instead for Memorial Day I would rather have my late father Admiral Richard T Gaskill knighted as Sir Dick of Marshall Texas Please bring cornbread and buttermilk to the roundtable a shot of karma will do so I did want to mention that his father was Admiral Richard T Gaskill, and he sent me. I know this Maybe two years ago maybe a year ago He sent me admiral Richard t gas skills Navigation slide rule as it is a nice little momento to keep and I'm very proud of it

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2:56:26 Here's our list for today. Sir Don Francis, happy birthday to his smoking hot wife Stephanie celebrating today. Kylie Thompson her smoking hot boyfriend sir Andy of the Tarago Beach turns 54 today Ben Smith will be 66 two day as well John Craddock has congratulates his smoking-hot wife Mary on her 56th today Natalie Brown happy birthday to Sean Allen Brown who turns 38 on the 31st We have M.E.K., 33 on the first, another great... love those numbers! Jimmy Woo, happy birthday to Wendy Woo turning 40 Andrea Nelson her smoking hot husband Charlie Bonetto is celebrating Sir J.D. Baron of Silicon Valley turns 51 Sir James Durante happy birthday to his douchebag coven Jeremy... cousin Jeremy Jardin and Eric DeShill and John C. Dvorak both congratulate Henry that's right Henry Dvorak

2:57:22 I'll just call him Dvorak to make it easy. 11 on June 1st! Happy birthday Henry from everybody here at the Best Podcast in... This is Mackie, Mackie, Mackie. I know he's a Mackie, I'm just calling him Dvorak to make it easy. Henry Mackie, eleven years old. Happy Birthday from Eric, from John and from the whole Gitmo Nation! It's your birthday yeah! Come gather round douchebag, producer and slave Now I literally thought I had written down

2:58:07 Who became a black knight here we go it is sir Alexander of Middle Cascadia Now officially Black Knight and well-deserved of course It was our mistake, and that's how you become a black knight or Dame one two three four. We've got Well, we've got some people ready to mount the podium here John so let's do a nice Blade right Memorial Day blade is very nice up on the podium Virtually or not, Stephanie Francis Saddle Tramp Pierre and in spirit Admiral Richard T. Gaskell Ladies and gentlemen you have all reached that status to sit here at the round table The No Agenda Knights & Dames You're a knight were you? I'm very proud to pronounce the K-V as Dame Stephanie Francis Dame Saddle Tramp of the casual listeners Sir Pierre of the Farmington Valley Connecticut

2:58:57 And Sir Dick of Marshall, Texas. For you we've got Hookers and Blow, Rennboys and Chardonnay also on deck. Karaage and martinis, cornbread and buttermilk, pints of Montauki cold snacks and Spam Musubi. And that will throw in some sparkling cider escorts, ginger ale and gerbils and well obviously the mutton and mead that is what everyone loves so while you're enjoying that just write this down noagenonation.com slash rings after your done gorging yourself Head over there and let us know where we can send your ring to and what ring size you need as well. And then a special health karma going out, and Godspeed to OG Godscaster Steve Webb! You've got karma... He's in the hospital, let me know. Alright off to the meetups! We had our inaugural Meetup in Turkey

2:59:53 Alex was there and he organized it, and he sent a video. The place looked dynamite with belly dancers and all kinds of cool stuff! Unfortunately no one showed but he's very enthusiastic about this being the perfect spot for a No Agenda Meetup And it will come back onto the calendar when he organizes the next one we appreciate his ultimate courage Now Scott Moskovitz gives us an update from the North Idaho Sanity Brigade meet up Scott the shapeshifting Jew here for ITN News bringing you the latest from Putin's meetup. In the morning John and Adam we got Jews and gypsies here hanging out, John read your email

3:00:33 The attendees stayed remarkably calm despite the white supremacists overrunning the streets. In the morning John and Adam, this is Mike. I'd like to call out my friend Tim Burtick for being a douchebag! This is Danica with the North Idaho Sanity Brigade Okay. Thank you for the meetup reports, appreciate it. If you hurry up you can just make the Kansas City Meet Up Northland Second Chance Barbecue Picnic three o'clock Central time actually you're late but I'm sure they'll go in there Kansas City Missouri at Chateau Greenway Park

3:01:34 Springfield, Missouri meetup is Tuesday at 630 central time Bears all-american sports and grill and next show day will be Thursday the Shawonguk I'm sure I'm saying that wrong Mountain Meet up number one first one six thirty Eastern the in at the Ridge in Wallkill New York We got a full calendar for June. I see June. I see July do everything on July 4th No nothing yet Let me see if there's any crazy countries that we have meetups. We got... Did I see Germany? Yes, Bayern Munchen in Germany and another foreign country. Montloreal Township New Jersey. Make sure you check all of those out! You can find out all about these meetups or if you're crazy enough you might even have to go start your own at noagendameetups.com Whatever you do give them a shot always guaranteed like a potty. Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days

3:02:36 You wanna be where he's triggered or held the blame Where everybody feels the same It's like a party Indeed. Like a big party. Let's see, I got some ISOs here let me see...I don't think i have anything uh well i have this one of course. Mmm. I've got Mika's orgasm and I have this one Oh my gosh how did you do that? Kind of like that one. Wow! That was pretty good

3:03:13 I got two. Okay, I got white and male White and male Mm-hmm fits yes And then we have was powerful trust was painful man It's power. I kind of like that which one it for me is between was powerful man and oh My gosh how did you do that? Oh, I like it though by boys powerful is good Because it was powerful. It was powerful, man! Man... Let me just jack up your audio here a little bit. Okay good got that nice and loud. Parting shots let me see is there something oh I did want to mention that my neighbor Laura Logan I guess she cut a deal with Mike Lindell

3:04:08 I'm very happy for her by the way, because this is what Laura does. Laura's not someone who builds a media company or property or...I don't think she can build a podcast, you know, build the community around it She's an investigative journalist and she knows how to put together great investigative journalist pieces And she has a documentary coming out on July 16th It's called Selection Code and it is about the rigged voting machines So, I betcha it's good too. You wanna hear the promo? The trailer? Local criminal investigations into Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters alleged voting machine security breaches continues about... If i asked you this question before the 2020 election are these voting machines secure? I would have said yes and after the election I would have said yes what changed

3:05:07 Tina Peters admits she brought in a consultant to make a forensic copy of the Dominion voting system in Mesa County. I continue to think that our voting machines are too vulnerable Voting machines in Georgia and Texas switch votes from one candidate to another Virtually every machine was broken into Ballot recording machines, voting machine Machines, machines, voting machines, machines, machines, machines, machines, which are vulnerable to being hacked There is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even rig America's elections. We've seen no evidence that any of our voting systems have been tampered with The November 3rd election was the most secure It was the most secure Most secure Most secure election in American history period

3:05:50 The process is very secretive. These machines are built by private companies, which we don't have a right to know what goes on inside those What did you see during the software update? We've uncovered something that they're afraid of. We didn't consider the machine The information found there is the Rosetta Stone They made a mistake and left the evidence in the machine And you can hide it as well It's only what the programmer tells us to say It's literally like the difference between going from pickpocketing to credit card fraud These people are being selected, not elected It's about who gets the countable

3:06:28 Right down my door terrorizing my family What do you remember just my mom being handcuffed by the chief of police this is not what we do in America You could make it all go away though, you just keep your mouth shut you can have your life back See what I've seen Bum-bum-bump-bump. Bum-ba-da-bum, bombastic! There's money there. There's monies on the screen. I like this selected not elected. That's why it's called selection code

3:07:05 Yeah, well the timing is good July 16th so by the time people have some attention and by the time people see it you know it'll be October surprise. She's already been pushed into the camp of oh your Republican goon So she might as well you know Well Mike Lindell's not a goon No I'm talking about the left looking at these people as not jobs. Well, or something un-American undemocratic trying to ruin the country. Lies! Lies! Well I got a fact check false clip here to finish it off. Okay let's see does it need a setup? I don't remember what it is

3:07:52 Okay, hey how come it didn't play? How come it's not playing. We have a day when 600 kids come in from diverse communities and all of them raise their hand and say we've never been here before and they're yelling and screaming And they're meeting people like Ed Wilburn who was the highest ranking African-American in GM who designed the Corvette Fact check false. Okay, so you're saying it was not an African-American who designed the Corvette? Well I don't know what they're talking about... Are they talking about the new C8 if that was the new c8 and the guy who designed that is let's see i have his name here as a matter of fact somewhere Is this named Darnell? Kirk Benion Oh no! The guy who did the uh C8 at least the outward design No this guy should been praised as a black man

3:08:42 massive top of the... of the heap manager who heads up the design department at General Motors, the international design department. He heads it up and has all these people doing designs. He was sure that he was the one who checked the box yeah this design is fine but which is even better than being a designer. But no I know he designed the Corvette No he didn't! And he didn't design the original Corvette because the guy's currently about 71 years old and they'd have to be two years old Not that it matters to me at all but you got to put this in the same bucket as a black American man created the light bulb, not Thomas Edison. You know it's like these types of things that are being thrown out there. It is similar except for one thing... What? This is on NPR the national treasure and they're pushing false narratives out of the speaker hole. What?! Out of the speaker hole! There's gambling going on in that speaker hole!? Yeah Well we look forward to coming back to you again on Thursday

3:09:49 with another deconstruction of everything that is your media, the world around you. Notice no Amber Heard? No useless talking about theories of shootings... I snuck in Amber Heard! You did, you did, you did. I snuck in a little bit about Uvaldi but you do know a little bit more about where the world is headed at least if you are Queen Ursula and Prince Klaus End of show mixes we got an extra-long Neil Jones Diddy which I think is quite nice and Tom Starkweather

3:10:25 And up next on the NO Agenda stream, Hog Story 5-Minute Limit. This is live with Carolyn Blaney John Fletcher and Ryan Bemrose. FLETCHER! Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region number 6 in the morning everybody I am Adam Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley where I'm John C. Dvorak with wires that aren't hooked up correctly in important places. I'm John C. Dvorak We return on Thursday right here on No Agenda Remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA and until then, adios mofos! And such...

3:11:18 You're the fake. We believe in what we are doing! You're the one that was paid for 30 pieces of silver, have you forgotten that? Well I haven't... You're the big hero who's supposed to jump off tall buildings and things. You sit there back at your brick cigars and think of deliberately killing an idea that has made millions of people a little bit happier An idea that's brought thousands of them here from all over the country by bus and by freight, in jalopies and on foot so they could pass on to each other their own simple little experience. Why look! I'm just a mug and i know it, but im beginning to understand alot of things. Why your types as old as history if you can't lay your dirty fingers on a decent idea and twist it and squeeze it and stuff into your own pocket you slam it down! Like dogs if ya cant eat something ya bury it! Why this is the one worthwhile thing that's come along people are finally finding out that the guy next door isn't a bad ape

3:12:20 A thing like that's got a chance of spreading till it touches every last doggone human being on the world and you talk about killing them. Or when this fire dies down, what's gonna be left? More misery! More hunger and more hate... And what to prevent that from starting all over again? Nobody knows the answer to that one and certainly not you with those slimy bollocked up theories you've got Sit back there on your fat pokes and tell me you'll kill it if you can't use it. Well, you go ahead and try! You couldn't do it in a million years with all your radio stations and all your power because its bigger than whether I'm a fake It's bigger than your ambitions And is bigger than all the bracelets and fur coats of the world. You better do! And that's exactly what I am going down there to tell those people. You know I'm a bad boy Don't let me start talking

3:13:19 I'm the lost! Hear me? Because, i will bring a light called truth. That will expose your skinny butts and your wickedness and your dark shadows. Hear me?! But that still ain't gonna stop me from getting ya. Coming for you now, Deluxe! Don't you ever forget it...

3:14:08 you But now we are taking our ambition yet to another level. Covid has been one of the most profitable products ever, so... The biggest question in maybe economics and politics of the coming decades will be what to do with all these useless people? This one is not super expensive compared to the benefit There's one person who was very deeply involved in Ukraine and that's Biden. Conspiracy people, so I think that behind us everything went okay and now I think we can move on. Individual carbon footprint tracker. Stay tuned we don't have it operational yet but this is something that were working strong game

3:15:01 What does that mean? Popular support for measures is whining. This is putting our whole international order into question. Ukraine today, is rendering tremendous service to Europe and to the Western world... But the product this time will not be textiles or machines of vehicles or even weapons The product this time will be humans themselves The best podcast in the universe! Adios, mofo. Dvorak dot org slash N-A. Twas painful man