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Adam Curry
Come on, kids, let's do a show.
John C. Dvorak
Adam Curry, Chauncey dvorak. It's Thursday, May 22, 2025. This is your award winning give on Asian Media Assassination Episode 1766. This is no Agenda. Making Africa news great again. And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas hill country here in FEMA region number six in the morning, everybody.
Adam Curry
I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley where we're waiting for an ambush, I'm John C. Dvorak.
John C. Dvorak
It's Crackpot and Buzz in the morning. It's always so disappointing when, when a producer sends us the same clip and then I'm like, oh, John didn't reply to him. Maybe he didn't see it. I got it, I got it, I got it. It's my clip. I got it. And then you send bonus clips.
Adam Curry
You talk about the ambush.
John C. Dvorak
Of course I'm talking about the ambush. It's beautiful.
Adam Curry
Whoever made that, we're going to, we're going to talk about this. What we're going to talk about is the meeting between Trump and the Prime Minister of South Africa and the media's jumping all over Trump. The CBS clips I think are worse. It's as if there is whatever the president, our President of our United States does is no good.
John C. Dvorak
Nope.
Adam Curry
And everybody else is better. Well, first of all, I don't know what the media wonders why it keeps losing credibility. It doesn't even support its own own. The country that is, that it's in, it hates America.
John C. Dvorak
I just love that we have actual Africa news that people are interested in. We've been pushing for this for years.
Adam Curry
We have.
John C. Dvorak
Fine, okay. South Africa, all right. It's not, who cares? It's not the jungle.
Adam Curry
But talking about this white, you know, whether it's a genocide or not. But the white, the movement against the white farmers. And I have clips here that are six years old from a report done by trt, the Turkish Service. This is not new.
John C. Dvorak
Let me kick this off with a BBC report and then you can take it from there. Why has this issue of alleged violence against the Afrikaner community in South Africa become such a central theme for President Trump? He was talking about this in his first term and looking at the possibility of giving refugee status to Afrikaners. But it's only now that we're seeing that he's really going for it. I don't think it's a coincidence that his close friend and close ally Elon Musk was in the Oval Office. Elon Musk is born in South Africa he has pushed these unsubstantiated claims of a white genocide. And Donald Trump, I think, will have.
Adam Curry
Been massively influenced by him.
John C. Dvorak
It's all because of Elon. That's why the Trump is dumb. He doesn't look at anything himself.
Adam Curry
This is a self contradictory report, which is something you can expect. She says he tried to do this in the first term. Elon wasn't around.
John C. Dvorak
No. It's great.
Adam Curry
So if Elon wasn't around during the first term, what makes it any different?
John C. Dvorak
Nothing. Nothing. They're beside themselves. I'll do one more. This is scn.
Adam Curry
Do as many as you want. There's a lot of good. There's a lot of good material here that people need to hear.
John C. Dvorak
Well, this kind of kicks off the supercut. This is Anderson the Pooper 360 with Cornell Brooks. Professor Brooks, I mean, what message. I'm sorry? Professor Brooks, Professor Brooks, I mean, what message do you think it sends to.
Adam Curry
America and the world when the white US President lectures the black South African president.
John C. Dvorak
White, white, black, black, white, white.
Adam Curry
And on television about a genocide of which which is not happening.
John C. Dvorak
It's not happening.
Adam Curry
Not happening.
John C. Dvorak
Not happening, I said.
Adam Curry
So it sends a message that the.
John C. Dvorak
President is continuing to rewrite history and in so doing, also dramatically and disastrously impact the President. So in other words, what we had in the White House today was a cinematic ambush, if you will, and a cinema. Did he say cinematic ambush? That's a show title. What we had in the White House today was a cinematic ambush, if you.
Adam Curry
Will, and in anything but diplomatic attack.
John C. Dvorak
And this is reminiscent, if you will, of 110 years ago when the president, Woodrow Wilson showed a film called the Birth of a Nation, which was a.
Adam Curry
Film that glorified the Klan. Oh, is the Birth of the Nation about Africa?
John C. Dvorak
No, this is. It's synonymous, you see, because President Trump is racist. President Woodrow Wilson showed a film called the Birth of a Nation, which was a film that glorified the Klan. So here we have this film today.
Adam Curry
Which is an attempt to rewrite history.
John C. Dvorak
And adversely impact the present. And so the country should be horrified because President Trump is literally using both racism, anti black racism and xenophobia, anti immigrant, anti refugee hate, to not only.
Adam Curry
Divide the country, but divide the globe. And what has been made bad and.
John C. Dvorak
Terrible in this country, he's globalizing and exporting in ways that are detrimental to the interests of the United States. Wow, that's. That's a professor right there. And he introduced the term. It was my first. My first taste of the ambush that we play. The supercut.
Adam Curry
Yeah, there's a supercut floating around of all these different. Mostly on CNN and MSNBC of course, but every other networks too, including abc.
John C. Dvorak
BBC as well. I didn't clip it, but I saw BBC do it. Yep, it's worldwide, baby. The dramatic scene in the Oval Office today, the tense confrontation. President Trump ambushing the President of South Africa. Next, another Oval Office meltdown. President Trump ambushing the President of Africa. President Trump is being accused of conducting.
Adam Curry
Something of a diplomatic ambush of South Africa's president in the Oval Office.
John C. Dvorak
To be with you, I'm Katie Turner. President Trump orchestrated another Oval Office ambush today. Today, Donald Trump meeting with the President of South Africa and attempting to ambush.
Adam Curry
And Humil leader Zelensky territory where essentially.
John C. Dvorak
He was a bit ambushed inside the Oval Office.
Adam Curry
Felt like an ambush in there.
John C. Dvorak
Kind of like the President Zelensky meeting in the Oval Office. This was an ambush. It was orchestrated. Darrel Ramaphosa brought his best diplomatic self to this meeting, but nothing could have prepared him for this multimedia ambush. What started as to some degree an ambush. Well, Katie, I mean it was an ambush.
Adam Curry
Ambush. Ambushed.
John C. Dvorak
Ambushed. Ambush. Ambushing. Ambush. Ambushed inside the Oval Office. It was an ambush, I tell you. An ambush. My goodness, I wish I had this one when I was talking to the kids about propaganda. This would have been a good one.
Adam Curry
Ambush.
John C. Dvorak
Why don't you roll out your CBS.
Adam Curry
Clips that you got a couple of CBS clips here. This is the. I didn't. The whole. They did a whole first of the show. Well, of course, but I just only have three short clips from the beginning just to emphasize some of the use of loaded terms. Very unjournalistic professionally, I think very loaded wordage put out in such a way that is slanted anti Trump, which is. Seems to me to be a very sketchy thing to do right now since CBS is still under duress over the lawsuit. Over 60 minute lawsuit which is hurting their. You know, they're getting bought out, but they don't care. Let's hear what we got to say here.
John C. Dvorak
For more than a century, the Oval Office has been the scene of dignified diplomatic exchanges. At what point did you not know President Trump was in the Oval Office? And things have changed between the President of the United States and other world leaders. But President Trump has turned the Oval into a ring for sparring with them, including the President of Ukraine, the Prime Minister of Canada and now the President of South Africa. Mr. Trump sprung a video on an unsuspecting Cyril Mama Posa designed to back Mr. Trump's unsubstantiated. Unsubstantiated. Unsubstantiated claims that there's a genocide underway in South Africa targeting white farmers. In recent days, the President has welcomed white refugees from South Africa to the United States, just weeks after signing an executive order suspending America's refugee admission program. Deborah Pata is in South Africa and is South African. We will hear from her in a moment. But we begin with Weijia Jiang at the White House. Weijia, good evening. For months, President Trump has accused South Africa of condoning genocide, even cutting off all US Assistance to the country back in March. Today, the South African president was hoping to reset the relationship. But Trump had a different plan. Yeah, he was ready for an ambush. He was hiding out. Ready to go. Ready to do it. Ready, ready, ready, ready. Teddy, he's ready. He don't care because he's making a mockery of. He's turning the Oval into a ring. Yes.
Adam Curry
Nobody. These networks do not see any humor in any of this. Of course.
John C. Dvorak
I love the whole. Turn the lights down.
Adam Curry
Yeah.
John C. Dvorak
Gonna play you a video. How old is that video, actually?
Adam Curry
Well, the one he showed a bunch of videos, and they don't really discuss the videos. They just kind of say they were bull crap.
John C. Dvorak
Oh, yeah, sure.
Adam Curry
But they. They don't play any of the. Of Malema, which is the main guy we're talking about here. Yeah, no, no, he's an eff guy.
John C. Dvorak
Oh, okay.
Adam Curry
He's the economic freedom fighters. He is the third most popular or fourth, depending on what numbers you look at. Most popular party in the. In the country. Julius. Julius. I think Julius.
John C. Dvorak
Not to be confused with Electronic Frontier foundation.
Adam Curry
But it could easily be.
John C. Dvorak
Easily.
Adam Curry
But they. This guy is a genocidal maniac, and I have clips from him from various years, and he was singing this. Kill the boar, kill the farmer. Kill the boar, kill the farmer. Which is one of the videos they showed. And CBS didn't even mention or play any of that, of course, because it would take away from the slant that they have. And we'll have some more evidence of that in the next clip.
John C. Dvorak
Ramaphosa acknowledged a law that allows his government to expropriate land for public use with compensation. But he insisted white farmers are not being targeted.
Adam Curry
Do allow them to take.
John C. Dvorak
Nobody can.
Adam Curry
When they take the land, they kill the white farmer. And when they kill the white farmer.
John C. Dvorak
Nothing happens to them. No, there is. Nothing happens. There is criminality in our country.
Adam Curry
So he says. This guy, the Prime Minister says There's a lot of criminality, but it's not like, directed necessarily just at whites. There was something that she said. I tried to make some comment on this way. Cut it. Play. Play the next clip.
John C. Dvorak
The meeting started with a friendly jab from President Trump.
Adam Curry
He is a man who is certainly.
John C. Dvorak
In some circles really respected. Other circles a little bit less respected, like all. But when South African President Cyril Ramaphosa denied Trump's accusations his administration is allowing genocide, Trump was prepared to push back. Turn the lights down and just put this on.
Adam Curry
It's right behind you.
John C. Dvorak
On a television brought into the Oval Office for this very moment, the president showed videos peddling, peddling, peddling. Unsubstantiated, Unsubstantiated, Unsubstantiated claims of genocide against white South African farmers. Those people in many cases are being executed. They're being executed. Yeah, I have a boots on the ground. I don't know if you want it yet or if you want to play some of your other clips first.
Adam Curry
Well, I. We can go with boots. I have a boots on the ground too. Which one's yours?
John C. Dvorak
From jb?
Adam Curry
Mine's from md.
John C. Dvorak
You, you play. Read yours. Just let me remind everybody, unlike other podcasts where there's a bunch of dudes sitting around with the headphones on shooting the shooting debris.
Adam Curry
Hands on their head.
John C. Dvorak
Hands on their heads. Unlike the the mainstream media who just have a mission and a narrative, we have producers who are all around the world, which we affectionately call Gitmo Nation. And I did a call out and I said, varsaimo South Africaners. And we both independently apparently got boots on the ground. Report John Cdvorak, your report go.
Adam Curry
Yes, from Matthew. About eight years ago, I did accounting for a publicly traded company growing tea in South Africa. I learned from their CEO that if a black person goes into a white person's home and stays there for a day or two, the white owner, while the white owner is away, the house belongs to the black person.
John C. Dvorak
Yay.
Adam Curry
If it then takes, then it takes thousands and thousands of dollars of legal expenses to remove them. South Africa is way ahead of California in squatting laws. They told me a story of a huge black woman who moved into a guest house on the tea farm and would. Would not leave her. Only English phrase was dis my house. At the time, I thought this was h. The company had to leave South Africa because they had to hire a quota of black workers and the laws kept getting worse for the white owners. Also, I recall the ownership of the business had to be Partially owned by a black person. It was kind of like China, actually.
John C. Dvorak
Very much like China.
Adam Curry
There's a black South African group that got ownership rights and was paid to do nothing. It's always about the money in the end. A South African story has legs.
John C. Dvorak
Ah, okay, so I have a little more expanded story, but along the similar lines. This is from JB who says and you'll recall the clip when his opening starts with being a white neo Nazi adjacent South African. Of course we had the clip of that professor. Cute. Yeah, I thought it may be best place to provide a boots on the ground of the current situation in South Africa. The famous saying goes, the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. This very much applies. The ANC government is no longer the Soviet trained freedom fighters the world remembers them as. There's absolutely nothing they have not stolen or broken in their 30 years in power. They have now finally run out of other people's money and are now selling themselves and the country to the highest bidder. The consensus, while not proven, is that in order to stay solvent they are accepting large sums of money from Iran in return for nuclear technology and political favors such as taking Israel to the International Court of Justice. This of course makes them a direct enemy of the United States. It is my opinion that the refugee status offered to Afrikaners is actually a political message to let the ANC government know the US are not effing around. Should the Afrikaners all leave, the economy will be completely destroyed. Not because they own all the land, which is complete disinformation, but rather because 30 years of terrible state education has left a large majority of the black population unemployable and completely unequipped to build an economy. You'll remember the Afrikaners left Europe a long time ago because they are incredibly self sufficient people who will not be walked over. It is also largely consensus in the country there is no white genocide happening. We have one of the highest murder rates as well as one of the highest unemployment rates in the world. This has caused a massive violent crime problem fueled by the resentment of massive inequality. Sound familiar? The police force is completely unable to stop any crime due to large scale state corruption. As an example, our air force has only three working planes. Due to the complete failures of the state, civil organizations like Afriforum have had to step in and fill the gaps where the state cannot provide. To round this off, racism is always the go to for both MSNBC and the Ancient. It allows them to paint Afriforum as the enemy and to justify absolutely insane laws which make it borderline illegal for me to have a job under the banner of transformation and equality. What we are watching is the end of an incredibly racist, corrupt, useless and now bankrupt regime. Our president even hides his US Dollars in his couch. I feel very important to add one additional note after our very own Zelensky moment in the White House. Yes, our government is exactly that stup. They honestly thought they were going to talk about trade and had no idea they were walking into such a lovely humiliation. The rest of us back home expected exactly this and are very chuffed. We already owe a debt of gratitude to this administration. JB White, neo Nazi adjacent South Africaner. That sounds true to me. Remember how weird that was that they took Israel to the icc?
Adam Curry
Yes. And in fact, I don't have a clip of this. I've got enough clips. I don't need this one of MacGregor, the guy, Douglas McGregor, the colonel, whatever. Yeah, that guy who's all over the place, kind of the Scott Ritter type of guy. He says that the only reason that Trump did all this is because South Africa went after Israel in the criminal court and he's doing it to punish them.
John C. Dvorak
Well, it's definitely part of it.
Adam Curry
Well, there's an element.
John C. Dvorak
But the Iran thing is interesting, is that if they're taking money from Iran, then, yeah, they are a huge problem. And that sounds completely believable.
Adam Curry
Yeah, it does. It does.
John C. Dvorak
So thank you, Gitmo Nation producers. All right, what else you got here?
Adam Curry
So we have a bunch of clips. I have a series of South African clips. There's the Trump versus South Africa, the NPR kind of an overview. We can play that. President Trump's face to face with his guest today.
John C. Dvorak
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa took a widely unexpected turn today in the Oval Office.
Adam Curry
NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben explains.
John C. Dvorak
While the Oval Office meeting began cordially, it grew hostile when Trump repeated false, false fans, false, false claims of white genocide. At one point, Trump paused the meeting to show the room a four and a half minute video promoting the idea that white South African farmers are being targeted.
Adam Curry
I must tell you, Mr. President, we have had a tremendous number of people, especially since they've seen this.
John C. Dvorak
Generally they're white farmers and they're fleeing South Africa. And it's, you know, it's a very sad thing to see. South African President Ramaphosa pushed back against Trump's claims, also stressing that he wanted to, quote, reset the relationship between, between the United States and South Africa. It wasn't the only topic that angered the president. Trump also repeatedly insulted a reporter from NBC when he asked the president about his administration's accepting a luxury airplane as a gift from Cotter. Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News. I have that clip. Can I play the clip?
Adam Curry
Yeah, the guy, what's his name? Peter. Peter Alexander, who's no slouch of a personality. He's been around forever. But I know a clip you're going to play, but I don't know if you have the follow up clip where later, later he says out of the blue, Trump says, yeah, unlike this idiot.
John C. Dvorak
Over here from NBC, I don't have that one.
Adam Curry
Here's that was the funnier one. Here we go. Yes, please.
John C. Dvorak
Mr. President, the Pentagon announced they would be accepting a Qatari jet to be.
Adam Curry
Used as Air Force One. What are you talking about? You know, you to get out of here.
John C. Dvorak
What does this have do with the Qatari jet? They're giving the United States Air Force a jet. Okay.
Adam Curry
And it's a great thing.
John C. Dvorak
We're talking about a lot of other things. This NBC. Trying to get off the subject of what you just saw. You are a real, you know, you're a terrible reporter, number one. You don't have what it takes to be a reporter. You're not smart enough. But for you to go onto a.
Adam Curry
Subject about a jet that was given.
John C. Dvorak
To the United States Air Force, which.
Adam Curry
Is a very nice thing, they also gave $5.1 billion trillion dollars worth of investment in addition to the jet. Go back.
John C. Dvorak
You ought to go back to your studio at NBC because Brian Roberts and the people that run that place, they ought to be investigated. They are so terrible the way you run that network. And you're a disgrace.
Adam Curry
No more questions from you. Go ahead.
John C. Dvorak
Go ahead, talk about that. His name is Peter something. He's a terrible reporter. Quiet, quiet. Qu? Yeah, or something. So I don't have the clip. But at one point President Trump said to the South African president, it'd be nice to get a jet from you. And the guy goes, I don't have a jet to give. I'm sorry. It would have been nice, but I have a jet. This is an awesome show.
Adam Curry
So he calls out Brian Roberts, the CEO of Comcast that had to send a shill down his.
John C. Dvorak
Well, if you take into account where is it here that this just happened. Tonight, CBS is waving SOS as President Trump takes on the news operation. Its CEO, Wendy McMahon says that she is stepping down as the network's parent company. Paramount considers settling a lawsuit with Trump.
Adam Curry
Over what he claims is a deceptively.
John C. Dvorak
Edited 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris. McMahon's exit is fueling fear and speculation that a settlement is imminent, something that senators are now warning amounts to bribery.
Adam Curry
They say, in part, if Paramount officials.
John C. Dvorak
Make these concessions in a quid pro quo arrangement to influence President Trump or.
Adam Curry
Other administration officials, they may be breaking the law.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. All right. There you go. Yeah.
Adam Curry
Wow. I didn't hear that.
John C. Dvorak
It's good. It's good, it's good, it's good.
Adam Curry
So there's an old TRT, the Turkish operation did a 2019 report on. On the farmers getting killed. And I want to play a clip of this. Is this. This clip is the. So African woman farmer.
John C. Dvorak
Got it. I can. I can still at times hear their voices. I can. I can see them. I can see David. They separated us and they fought with David until he had nothing left in him.
Adam Curry
He couldn't fight anymore.
John C. Dvorak
And then he just shot him. Was David killed because he was white? The things that they said when I was with him, you being. The word white being thrown around quite a bit. The word black been thrown around a bit.
Adam Curry
Yes. I think it was more because he was white.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah.
Adam Curry
So this is not a new thing.
John C. Dvorak
New at all.
Adam Curry
No, it's not even close to being new. So here is the. This guy Malima is the real troublemaker down there. And he is. He was a part. He was in parliament for a while, and he runs the eff, which is. And people should look him up. Julius Molina on Wikipedia. His story is. It's unbelievable. Ex ANC guy, African National Congress.
John C. Dvorak
He looks like a guardian angel.
Adam Curry
He's always wearing a red hat and his whole group's always dressed in red. They're communists and they're avowed Marxists. Yes. And they're partly part of this. The system that's down there that they've established. And I've got a few clips from him. I've got him from 2022 on the radio. I got him. Recent clip. This is short, kind of short clip. It's hard to understand him on this one, but he's talking about the farmers moving to the ones that have. The Afrikaners that have come to the usa. This is Bulima on the farmers coming to the usa.
John C. Dvorak
If he wants them to start treating him differently and he's going to beg them to attend the G20, he's going to have to compromise some of the fundamental policies.
Adam Curry
Okay, stop, stop. I got to set it up better. This is a He is commenting on the, on the President of South Africa being in the White House now and going there to do the deals. And he's condemning him for doing it because you shouldn't leave the country at all and blah, blah, blah. And then he brings out this part, some part of some discussion of the farmers.
John C. Dvorak
I'll start it over. If he wants them to start treating him differently and is going to beg them to attend the G20, he's going to have to compromise some of the fundamental policies of this country which were not prepared. If he does that, he must not come back. He must stay there with those 49 Africaners already. He must also stay there because he can't compromise our sovereignty for political expediency. We've got positions on Palestine, we've got position on the embassy of Israel. We have a resolution of parliament that said that embassy must leave South Africa. It's majority in parliament took that decision. So you cannot go alone as an executive overrule the position of parliament. If he does that, it will be illegal and we're going to fight it. There are no Africaners who have been killed here in South Africa. It's not true. And There are no 49 Africaners who left South Africa. You all know that. It's a fiction. It's drama. You know, America with drama is number one. That thing is Muvang. I don't know what is muvango in Africa. It's just a drama. I, I believe they landed and then they waited for cameras, took them pictures the next flight back to South Africa. If those people are farmers, it means there are 49 farms available. Why are we not expropriating them? Because they've abandoned them. That's great. Hey, if they left, how come we haven't grabbed their stuff yet?
Adam Curry
Yeah.
John C. Dvorak
It kind of says it all, doesn't it? Kind of says it all, yeah.
Adam Curry
Well, here he is on the radio being called out because of his racism. This is Malema 2022 on the radio.
John C. Dvorak
Now the way a sentence is structured, you say we are not calling for the slaughter of white people, at least for now. That means at some future date we may call for the slaughter of white people. Is that correct? Let's deal with that. At that future date. I don't know what's going to happen. So you're saying you are not ruling out that in the future you may very well call for the slaughter of white people. It may not be me. Could it be you? It could be me, yes. But it may not be me. Yes. So it could be you. You could at some future date call for the slaughter of white people. What will necessitate that? You tell me. I don't know. Why would you. Why would I do that? You said you could do it in the future. Is that correct? I can't guarantee that I can't do it or I won't do it. So I'm not ruling out that possibility. If I asked you to put pledge to say I will never call for the slaughter of white people, would you make that pledge? I will do it with ease. Make that pledge. Why would I do that? I'm asking you to make that pledge. That's what I will do. I won't do it. Make the pledge. I won't do it. You won't do it.
Adam Curry
Yes, I understand.
John C. Dvorak
That's a bad look.
Adam Curry
Wow.
John C. Dvorak
Wow.
Adam Curry
Yeah. Well, here he. Here he is. Go back to 2019. And here is Malima making some other comments that are worth noting. And it sounds like, oh, well, that. Oh, that's what's going on. And considering he's a Marxist and the other clips that we played earlier indicate that the South Africans are just selling what they can, taking what they can. It's like the socialist thing where you just keep. You break everybody. Okay, we're out of money now. Listen to this.
John C. Dvorak
I've never called for their slaughter. I've never called for their killing. At least for now. I can't guarantee the future.
Adam Curry
Yeah, but I mean, you'd understand somebody.
John C. Dvorak
Watching that, they freak out. It sounds like a genocidal crybabies. Crybabies. I'm not calling for the slaughter of white people. At least for now. I'm saying to you, not under my leadership will we call for the slaughter of white people. I don't know who's coming after me. I will not speak. They are alarmists. They are crybabies. They are attention seekers. No one is going to slaughter them. The farm attacks is just an act of crime. It's not a genocide on white people. We are concerned. Even in the farms there, black workers are killed. Should we now be alarmists and say there's genocide of black farm workers? No, it's a crime. Expropriation of land without compensation. Tell me what it means to you because it means lots of things to lots of people. No, no, it means it's very simple. The state owns the land and then it gives it to you on a long lease. In that way, everyone else will have access to the land. Wow. Well, there's your Marxism, socialism, communism right there.
Adam Curry
The kicker Right. There was the state. Now all of a sudden, when did that happen? The state owns the land, which is a very communist thing. I remember when I went to the Soviet Union around the time you did, I think. And I had warmed up to one of the principals of the government and he made the point, and I think this is still in play in China, which is why they have so much trouble with intellectual property. He says. He told me. He says, well, the way we see it, intellectual property belongs to the people.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah.
Adam Curry
And so, yeah, okay, so we copied something, but it's because it's for the good of the people, and that's the way they see it. And that would mean the same thing with land ownership. So all of a sudden, South Africa's become. You don't. There's no property rights. You only get to borrow it. Now, that's kind of the case in Hawaii to a large extent, too, for some reason.
John C. Dvorak
This is the United States Democrat Party's dream. Yeah, no wonder the news media is. It's eminent domain. We've got eminent domain. Yeah, but that. You're supposed to get a domain different. Yeah, you're supposed to get money to get money for it.
Adam Curry
Yeah, it's also. Eminent domain is different. Yes, there's compensation for eminent domain in South Africa, too. They make that point. Oh, yeah. No, they get. They get money for this and that. They don't get money for the confiscated farms. That's different than eminent domain. This is just a government owns everything. The government owns all the property. Well, I thought that was kind of interesting. But that could be just this EFF guy, this economic freedom fighter, Malema. But no, in the documentary that the Turks did, I have one last clip. And this is a clip from a guy from the anc, the ruling party, being confronted by the journalist from Turkey in his house discussing the same thing. And he puts it in a different way, but it's pretty much the same deal. This is the South African Africa ANC leader on property rights.
John C. Dvorak
The minority is now in my imposition of the majority of the land, almost 85%. It is tied to the social stability and the economic stability of the country. I've got a population in urban cities which needs a settlement. To some people, expropriation without compensation means stealing, without giving you anything for stealing your stuff. So tell me why I'm wrong. No, you are wrong because, I mean, it is not stealing when it is done orderly. It is done by the constitution, is done properly, and you are given reasons why government must take the property throughout the World government use expropriation powers for various purposes. For example, to build roads, to build heritage facilities. There is an expropriation clause in the Constitution of any country. Any country. No.
Adam Curry
Well, according to him. But the basis for everything going on is largely confiscation. They've decided that you don't own. You don't own the property that you have title to.
John C. Dvorak
You will own nothing and you will be happy.
Adam Curry
Yes, it's exactly the same.
John C. Dvorak
It's exactly what it is. Well, this is a good model to look towards and say, no, we probably don't want that. It's probably not a good idea.
Adam Curry
We don't want that.
John C. Dvorak
Don't want that. Don't want that. All right, well, we'll keep our eye on it. Thank you very much, President Trump for making Africa news great. Again. We're very, we're very pleased with that. We have to talk about Biden. This book, of course, the news broke during the last show, but something else happened, which I know you have clips on, so I'm not sure exactly what's in there, but I'll just play the 27 seconds of the announcement by Scott Adams. Some of you have already guessed, so this won't surprise you at all, but I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has, so I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones, but I've had it longer than he's had it. Well, longer than he's admitted having it. So my life expectancy is maybe this summer. I expect to be checking out from this domain sometime this summer. Okay. So first of all, I'm like, wow, that's very shocking and that's very sad. I have to be honest to you, John, My second thought was, is this another one of his hypno tricks that he's trying to prove a point? I hate that I thought that. I immediately thought he's, why now? Why is he saying this? What is the point? He always does strange things with announcements and then says, oh, I got you all to think this, or I got you all to think that. Did you have that thought at all or is that just me?
Adam Curry
No, because I didn't hear a sped up clip like that. You just played. I've been listening to him live and he sounds like he's on his deathbed, to be honest about it.
John C. Dvorak
Oh, I don't think, I don't think that was sped up.
Adam Curry
I, I'm telling you, it's not this.
John C. Dvorak
Okay, well, I didn't, I didn't speed it up anyway.
Adam Curry
But he Is. And I, I'm in contact with him and he is. No, he's. There's no way. I, I never thought that either. I, I thought that he might be kind of. He. He kind of hints something the. What clips I have aren't about him. His announcements about some hints he makes which, Which I thought were the most interesting thing because I suspect now Scott, Scott, you know, had a bit back and forth with a lot of different people at the vax. He was a pro vaxxer, big time.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah.
Adam Curry
And he kind of is in somewhat denial about it. But I know exactly when it happened. When he, when his.
John C. Dvorak
When he realized that he had made a mistake.
Adam Curry
No, no, I, I don't know if he ever realized he fully made a mistake. But I remember when he switched. When his brain was pushed in the direction of. Of allowing himself to un. What's. I'm looking for a word to not be. To. To naively take the vaccine. Because you think. Because the government recommended was. It predates the vaccine by a lot. It's from the early days of the COVID I would watch his show and I always thought it was very odd that he came to a screwball conclusion. He liked to use a whiteboard and on the whiteboard he put about the origins of the virus. This is right at the beginning. And he says, well, here's the possibilities. He says it talks about the wet market. Bull crap. He says there's a wet market in. Wet Market there in Wuhan, where it came from. And then there's a. There's a. And people are discussing the, the Wuhan virology lab that, that works. Researches coronaviruses. And he puts them both up on the board and he says you have to go with the simple answer yes, it's obviously the wet market.
John C. Dvorak
Wow.
Adam Curry
And when he did that, that put his brain into a track that led to getting vaxxed. Because that was illogical. In fact, Jon Stewart went on the Colbert show at least twice.
John C. Dvorak
I remember. I think we probably have that clip actually.
Adam Curry
Yeah. And he made a. Just a big fuss about this saying, what do you guys think? There's a place that researches is a lot. A lab that's known for its lousy security. It's right there. Why aren't you calling this out? Stewart was beside himself about white people aren't noticing the obvious. Which continued till like a couple of years. And it's only recently that he finally said, okay, okay, okay. It was the lab.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah. I have, I have a 40 second, 42 second clip. What do you Mean by that? Do you mean, like, perhaps there was a chance that this was created in a lab. There's an investigation, a chance, there's evidence. I'd love to hear. There's a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking Wuhan China. What do we do? Oh, you know who we could ask?
Adam Curry
The Wuhan Novel Respiratory Coronavirus Lab. The disease is the same name as the lab.
John C. Dvorak
That's just.
Adam Curry
That's just a little too weird. Don't anything.
John C. Dvorak
And then they ask those scientists, they're like, how did this. So wait a minute. You work at the Wuhan Respiratory coronavirus Lab. How did this happen? And they're like a pangolin kiss the turtle. Yeah.
Adam Curry
And Colbert was in the same kind of boat of Scott. Oh, yeah. No, this can't be.
John C. Dvorak
What evidence you have. Remember he had the dancing. The dancing. Dancing hypodermic needles during COVID promoting the vax.
Adam Curry
Yeah, yeah, I forgot about the dancing. Hypodermic needles. So Scott had a couple of comments that I thought were. One was a teaser and then one was a tell. And it has to do with the possibility that this is not your typical prostate cancer. Because I knew Bill Ziff had prostate cancer when I first met him. And he went. He must have had it for 20 years. And he finally, finally succumbed to it. But it took him forever and it didn't seem to affect him. He didn't have the slurring or anything that's going on with Scott. And he. I don't know how he actually finally died when he died, but I thought that this was revealing and may indicate there's something more going on than just simple prostate cancer. This plays Scott Adams teaser Doctors who.
John C. Dvorak
Have appeared on social media and on the tv. I don't think they're right either.
Adam Curry
Okay, so the doctors all came. All of a sudden we had a deluge, a deluge of doctors coming on saying, well, Biden had this forever. He probably had it for his entire presidency. And they were going on and on. And they got it to point where they predated it, pre COVID vaccine. Because we know Biden got a couple of shots.
John C. Dvorak
A couple.
Adam Curry
Four or five, I don't.
John C. Dvorak
Know, a lot, I think.
Adam Curry
But by saying that he probably had it when he got elected in 2020, you know, probably before that. Because it takes forever to get to this point of bone affection affecting the bones. It takes six, seven, eight, nine years. And Scott, which predates the shot.
John C. Dvorak
Yes.
Adam Curry
Scott teases that he thinks that the doctors aren't right. Why would he say that? Because I. I You can play some clips of Scott currently and then you can play him from two years ago. And I don't think he had anything wrong with him two years ago. If you listen to him, he was just too, too spry, too. I mean, he's still funny. I think he's one of the. I think Scott Adams. I told him this too.
John C. Dvorak
I said, did you talk to him recently? Is that.
Adam Curry
I exchanged a couple of notes. I've never told him this in person, but I believe him to be on the same league as Mark Twain and Will Rogers as a contemporary humorist. And he did appreciate that comment, but I believe it to be true. There's not that many people that come around.
John C. Dvorak
Let me ask you this. Why would a guy like Scott Adams, who has a lot of. He's always been. Always looking at medical stuff and always worried about his health. I mean, was there nothing to be done for him? Did he just give up? Did he. Did he just say, okay, I'm going to live with this? I mean, that's. It seems so unsched.
Adam Curry
I think this is what tells me with that tease that this came on faster than imaginable.
John C. Dvorak
Like turbo fast.
Adam Curry
Yes. So listen to the tell. This is Scott Adams tell.
John C. Dvorak
But the big question is, how long does it take to go from a clean bill of health to stage four prostate cancer? So I heard some. One doctor say it would take seven to ten years or something like that. I don't think that's right. I think there's actually a tremendous variability of how long it takes to go from localized in the prostate and your PSA spikes to. Oh, it is spread to your bones. Sounds like he's on Percocet, actually, something like that.
Adam Curry
His description of the pain is like he's had to be on a morphine.
John C. Dvorak
Oh, morphine, yeah. Oh, man, I feel so bad. That's. That sucks.
Adam Curry
Well, yeah, because he is a good observer. You get material from material ideas at least, and we don't.
John C. Dvorak
We had a fight with him. Now I feel bad about the fight.
Adam Curry
You should.
John C. Dvorak
Don't do that to me. Don't. Don't do that to me. No, I will pray for.
Adam Curry
But I. I think I don't. You know, I'm not going to even discuss it with him, which is the vax issue that this came on. Most people, you get prostate cancer, the rule is that nothing you can do about it, really. You can have your prostate removed that, you know, you can do that, but it doesn't make any difference. It turns out if you have it Removed or not, because it's such a slow moving process that by the time you're eight, in your 80s, you are going to die of something else. Anyway. It's just the way it is. And for this to happen at this rapid pace, which Scott indicates, as far as I can tell, because he has the tell and he has the foreboding. And then he says, those doctors are full of shit about Biden. You don't say that from a perspective unless you know something.
John C. Dvorak
Well, I hope that he speaks his mind in his final days. It would be very good for humanity.
Adam Curry
Yeah, I think he will.
John C. Dvorak
I sure hope he will.
Adam Curry
I don't know how long he can continue doing it, but he can do it probably for a while.
John C. Dvorak
Gosh. In light of the Michael Yadin clips we played on the last show. It's just horrible. It's just horrible.
Adam Curry
Yeah, I think those clips are applicable. But this is. This. But the idea of prostate. There was some commentary about the spike protein headed toward reproductive organs.
John C. Dvorak
Well, for sure, for sure.
Adam Curry
So there's some of that kind of thing. But the. But if this is going to show up as a turbo prostate cancer, that's going to. At some point they're going to have to say something. Somebody has to say something.
John C. Dvorak
No. Well, Scott may say something. Everyone else.
Adam Curry
No, he won't. He won't. I don't believe he will.
John C. Dvorak
It's the plastics you're drinking. It's something. It's environmental, it's. It's all kinds of. We don't know. We don't know. We can't think of a single thing that changed. That's what your medical community is saying. Which is.
Adam Curry
Well, Ron Johnson just came out with a report about.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, the report, I. It just, it just dropped in my inbox, like, whoa.
Adam Curry
Yeah, the report just came out and he says, and this is. They have to change the recommendation for this vaccine.
John C. Dvorak
Yes. Like, no. Change the recommendation. Yeah. Well, that's what they're discussing. Right. There was a big brouha about it. Say, well, it should only be for old people who are on death's door.
Adam Curry
Yeah. Pretty much push them over the cliff. Yeah. Yeah, we'll see. But anyway, it's a depressing situation.
John C. Dvorak
That is depressing. Yeah. But to lighten it, you could ask him if he has anal leakage. He might get a kick out of it.
Adam Curry
I'm not gonna try to do material with it. Try to do material.
John C. Dvorak
The dying man. Okay. I'm just thinking, like, I want to cheer the guy up.
Adam Curry
I. I know it. There's some stuff I know he think is funny, but I'm not, I'm enough an anyway overdo it.
John C. Dvorak
Well, I, I, I still pray for Scott Adams that things can turn around.
Adam Curry
Anything is possible, you know, anything possible. But I think it is possible.
John C. Dvorak
I really think it's possible. Just along the lines of COVID our new NIH director, Jay Bhattachari. Bhattachary gave a speech in front of some staff like, I don't know, an auditorium full of staff. And when he said this, people stood up and walked out of the auditorium. It's possible. There's a lot of, a lot of controversy over this. I'm sure there's folks in the room who disagree with me. But it's possible that the pandemic was caused by research conducted by human beings. And it's also possible that the NIH partly sponsored that research. And if that's true, it's nice to have free speech. Welcome, you guys. There they go. All walking out.
Adam Curry
Yeah, they're walking out to go to get to their lawyer's office.
John C. Dvorak
That we sponsored research. If it's true that we sponsored research that caused a pandemic. And if you look at polls of the American people, that's what most people believe.
Adam Curry
And I've looked at the scientific evidence, I believe it. What we have to do is make.
John C. Dvorak
Sure that we do not engage in research that's any risk of opposing any risk to human populations. That's a very good standard. I do.
Adam Curry
Heaven forbid we do that.
John C. Dvorak
I have a couple of clips about the limitation of the COVID vaccine. Vaccine booster from the man who would know all about it.
Adam Curry
Fauci. Oh, wait. Botap. How is the approval process changing and.
John C. Dvorak
Who will be affected the most? Well, the first part, Pam, is not.
Adam Curry
Much of a change because it reduces hospitalizations and deaths. The recommendation is to annual provide annual immunizations to those over the age of 65 of those.
John C. Dvorak
Sure.
Adam Curry
That is Hotep.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, that is hotep.
Adam Curry
And he. I didn't realize until I just, I mean, I recognize his voice, but I didn't realize. He does sound a little bit like a. Just a pubescent teen. He sounds like a boy. Just without looking at him, he does not sound like a mature male.
John C. Dvorak
No. Well, he's definitely got something wrong with him.
Adam Curry
Utilizations and deaths. The recommendation is to annual provide annual immunizations to those over the age of 65 and those with or those with underlying risk factors. And in a guidance document they published.
John C. Dvorak
In the New England Journal of Medicine.
Adam Curry
They listed what those risk factors are.
John C. Dvorak
So no problem there.
Adam Curry
The part that I disagree with is they've stopped recommending universal vaccinations for those individuals under the age of 65. And the reason I think that's a mistake is because they're not really considering the impact of long Covid. There's now evidence to suggest that if you vaccinate, keep up with your immunization.
John C. Dvorak
What is evidence to suggest? Is that evidence? If there's evidence to suggest, it doesn't mean anything. Doesn't mean there's evidence. He said there's some stuff to suggest, but it's not evidence that suggests.
Adam Curry
As they're not really considering the impact of long Covid. There's now evidence to suggest that if you vaccinate, keep up with your immunizations, you're much less likely to experience long Covid.
John C. Dvorak
And I think there's a lot of.
Adam Curry
People concerned about long Covid and potentially they're not eligible. I think another reason is there is some impact on reducing virus transmission if you're vaccinated.
John C. Dvorak
So I'm starting to get emails and.
Adam Curry
Direct messages on Blue sky and Blue.
John C. Dvorak
Sky from people in their 40s and.
Adam Curry
50S who are taking care of aging parents. And they're worried about giving Covid to their parents. So I think that's another reason to vaccinate. So I think in my view this should be a decision made between individuals and their physicians if you're under the age of 65 and basically the federal government has taken that decision away, away, away from us. And I'm puzzled by that, given the fact that this administration, at least Department.
John C. Dvorak
Of Health and Human Services keeps on.
Adam Curry
Beating the drum about health freedom, medical freedom. This seems to be the opposite of that.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, because they won't pay for it. You can take the vax if you want. You should have seen the FDA page or I don't know if it was the FDA page about this, this new recommendation. I don't think it was a forbotan thing.
Adam Curry
No, it wasn't. That's not. He's full of shit, that guy.
John C. Dvorak
There were 5,000, oops, 5,000 comments of people saying like that, but I want it, I want it. What if I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it. It's like, wow, okay.
Adam Curry
Yeah. Well, there are people that want it and you know, they can do what they want.
John C. Dvorak
Well, here's his follow up. It's interesting, Doctor, that this change brings the U.S. u.S. Approval process in line with other countries like the UK, Canada and Australia. The FDA hopes this change might help restore public confidence in vaccine safety. Does this change help achieve that goal?
Adam Curry
You know, I don't think so. I think what's. What undermines public confidence in vaccine safety is all of the anti vaccine activism and rhetoric, rhetoric that you're hearing on and other cable news channels and some of the conspiracy podcasts.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, we got to mention, we got to mention conspiracy podcasts.
Adam Curry
And that's, that's what's going to help restore vaccine confidence. If anything, I get rid of those.
John C. Dvorak
What? What did you say? What's going to restore vaccine confidence? Getting rid of those conspiracy podcasts. The conspiracy.
Adam Curry
Yeah, I'll do it.
John C. Dvorak
Let me go back it up a second. What do you say here that you're.
Adam Curry
Hearing on other cable news channels and some of the conspiracy podcasts and that's, that's what's going to help restore vaccine confidence?
John C. Dvorak
I want to hear what.
Adam Curry
In other words, get rid of this.
John C. Dvorak
Let me hear it again. Let me hear it again.
Adam Curry
You know, I don't think so. I think what undermines public confidence in vaccine safety is all of the anti vaccine activism and rhetoric that you're hearing on other cable news channels and some of the conspiracy podcasts. And that's what's going to help restore vaccine confidence, if anything.
John C. Dvorak
That's very interesting. Interesting. He says the confidence is. Well, so the question's about the confidence. Says, well, I think it's because of the rhetoric, anti vaccine rhetoric and the conspiracy podcast that's going to restore confidence. What he left out was we're going after him. It's like he forgot to say something in there. You know what I mean?
Adam Curry
No, I don't know what you mean. I've listened to the clips.
John C. Dvorak
Listen to the clip again. It's interesting, Dr. That this change brings the Union US approval process in line with other countries like the UK, Canada and Australia. The FDA hopes this change might help restore public confidence in vaccine safety. Does this change help achieve that goal? Okay. Does this change help achieve that goal?
Adam Curry
You know, I don't think so. I think what undermines public confidence in vaccine safety is all of the Anti Vaccine act activism and rhetoric that you're hearing on other cable news channels and some of the conspiracy podcasts. Okay, no, here's what I, here's what he said. They said, you think that these new policies will change the anti or the vaccine, the public perception. And he says, no, that won't. Because the real problem is other networks, Fox and Oan and these other, you know, fringe channels and the anti vaxxers on these conspiracy podcasts. That's what the problem is, is what he said.
John C. Dvorak
Okay, let's just listen to the last 16 seconds and then we'll decide after that. Does this change help achieve that goal?
Adam Curry
You know, I don't think so. I think what undermines public confidence in vaccine safety is all of the anti vaccine activism and rhetoric that you're hearing on other cable news channels and some of the conspiracy podcasts, and that's, that's what's going to help restore vaccine confidence. If anything, I think this now kind of takes decisions away from individuals making health decisions in collaboration with their physician. It takes away that option. And I don't think that's the way we should go in the United States.
John C. Dvorak
I know it sounded strange to me. I don't know.
Adam Curry
Oh, I know. I know exactly what you're thinking now because he, he, you're right. You're right. What he said.
John C. Dvorak
What? Say it.
Adam Curry
Right.
John C. Dvorak
I didn't hear you.
Adam Curry
He said, he talked about the podcast and he says that's what will restore.
John C. Dvorak
Yes.
Adam Curry
And what he left out was getting rid of this disinformation is what will restore.
John C. Dvorak
No, no, he didn't say getting rid of disinfection.
Adam Curry
No, that's what he didn't say. That's what you were missing. Yes, he meant to say that.
John C. Dvorak
Yes, what he meant to say is getting rid of podcasts. Podcast. Podcast. It's podcast. He's against the podcast. Yes, he left that out, but that's what he meant. Anyway, final bit here.
Adam Curry
He was thinking it, but he didn't say it.
John C. Dvorak
Here's. This is the final clip where he introduces a term that is worth discussing in making this decision. FDA officials said there is not enough evidence that healthy children and adults get.
Adam Curry
Clinically meaningful benefits from regular COVID 19 shots.
John C. Dvorak
They want to see more placebo controlled trials, particularly in adults 50 to 64, before recommending the shots for other groups. So what's wrong with that?
Adam Curry
Well, there's a couple of things.
John C. Dvorak
One, they, they only consider the acute.
Adam Curry
Manifestations of COVID in terms of case fatality rates and hospitalizations. And while that's certainly important, they're not factoring in the chronic sequelae, such as.
John C. Dvorak
Long Covid, such as chronic sequelae. Chronic sequelae. And now all of a sudden, long Covid is a thing. Sequelae is a condition resulting from a disease, injury, therapy or other trauma. Atypical sequelae is a chronic complication of an acute condition, a long term effect of a temporary disease or injury. So now long Covid is a sequela.
Adam Curry
Certainly important. They're not factoring in the chronic sequelae, such as long Covid, such downstream heart disease. Remember, this is a thromboembolic virus, is the virus that causes strokes and heart attacks. They're not looking at the chronic implications of COVID and I think that's a mistake.
John C. Dvorak
And then the other is the idea.
Adam Curry
That they'll allow universal vaccination provided the.
John C. Dvorak
Pharma companies now conduct a brand new.
Adam Curry
Round of clinical trials for each updated variant. It's not realistic because it can take.
John C. Dvorak
Months and months to do the enrollment.
Adam Curry
The expense of doing a trial to. Especially now when everyone's been either previously infected or infected and vaccinated. Or vaccinated.
John C. Dvorak
Infected. It would be a massive, massive study that would be prohibitively expensive. It basically means pharma companies are probably.
Adam Curry
Not likely to pursue that. So it's really a way of denying vaccine access for those who want it. And it goes against what Mr. Kennedy recently said. He made the point of saying he'll never deny any American access to any vaccine. And clearly that's not the case. He's. He's, he's changed his mind, apparently.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah. My doctor has told me, get the COVID booster shot. You might still wind up getting Covid, but it'll be a much milder case than if you hadn't. Wow. Wow, bro.
Adam Curry
Booster shot.
John C. Dvorak
Dr. Peter Hotez, thanks as usual for joining us. We always appreciate your expertise. Yeah. So Brolf, got a phone. Thank. Thank you, Brolf. Good one. You helped us. Thank you very much. Thanks for saying that. Thanks for promoting it at the end of that confusing conversation. We appreciate, Appreciate that. So back to President Biden now. My first thought there was, they're finally going to kill him if he's not dead already. And all of a sudden.
Adam Curry
Yes, I, you know, it's the meme that there's one of the memes in the newsletter that kind of have that in mind.
John C. Dvorak
Morbidity.
Adam Curry
I think that. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. You're going to do one. The guys. Guys decided to go back out on the speaking tour and they don't want that. Nobody wants that. He doesn't listen to anyone. So they're going to kill him, you know.
John C. Dvorak
So now we have this expose. Wait, before we get to the expose, a little reminder, a little mini cut of the M5M calling President Biden's stuttering and unintelligible language cheap fakes. Do we remember this period of time?
Adam Curry
Yeah, who can forget?
John C. Dvorak
It's cheap fakes. Everybody, this version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't say it. Look, I'll do what he's unable to do. I'll lead an effective strategy to mobilize true international pressure. Isolate and punish China. Thanks to all the members of Congress and Homeland Security Secretary, I'm not sure.
Adam Curry
Going to do so.
John C. Dvorak
We were hearing about so called cheap fakes. It's playing out on right wing media, Fox, New York Post and so on. And, and all of this is to try to make the case that Biden is slipping, he's confused and so on. She knows so long as he was denied, our freedom can never be secured. We'll teach Donald Trump a valuable lesson. Go mess with the men in America.
Adam Curry
Unless you wanted to get the benefit.
John C. Dvorak
There are a lot of videos going around about President Biden on social media. Which ones are real, which ones are deceptively edited. Now being called cheap fakes. A lot of memes and what the White House is calling cheap fakes. Cheap fakes are a little bit simpler. They're cheap, they're just distorted, out of context. Videos chopped up in certain ways, constructed in certain ways. That's what we're seeing. That's what the Biden administration, the Biden campaign, is so worried about right now. How do you lead the world with having that business structure? How do you lead the world without having the best healthcare in the world? How do you lead the world without having the best education system? How do you lead the world when.
Adam Curry
You don't have that done?
John C. Dvorak
We hold these truths to be self evident. All men and women created by Go. You know the, you know the thing? No, man. Now, of course we knew what was going on. We talked about it. Now, so Jake Tapper and this Alex Thompson from Axios, they wrote a book, book, which to me, I mean, and this even comes up in some of the CBS stuff, seemed like, wow, okay, so you get away with covering up and then you get to write a book and get to say, oh no, we did some investigative journalism, that's great. But no one has answered yet and no one has asked what was up with Daddy Long Legs. Don't pussyfoot around. Who was that guy?
Adam Curry
Point.
John C. Dvorak
Who was that guy? Is he dead? Did you kill him? Because obviously you can't have a perfectly good Biden walking around with legs that are too long. So that question never came up. However, I have decided that we need to cover more of the podcast media because it is media that people are listening to. One of the most popular would be.
Adam Curry
I feel the same way. And I have some clips later for the. Later in the show that got to do with this. But the same thing. You got to go to the podcast.
John C. Dvorak
Got to go to the podcast. And. And the job for the no Agenda producers is of course to send us podcasts with time codes because it's important.
Adam Curry
That we get this from the outside because there's too damn many podcasts.
John C. Dvorak
I know, it's crazy.
Adam Curry
There's over 4.4 million podcasts that I know of that you've. Because you keep track of the number and I always grill you about it.
John C. Dvorak
Well, let me give you the current number because the number that counts is the number of active podcasts in the last 90 days, which means they have updated with an episode in the last 90 days. That number is 488,484 as of today.
Adam Curry
Still too many.
John C. Dvorak
It's too many podcasts. That is a lot of podcasts. Yeah, that's global now. That's global.
Adam Curry
So that's more than one out of every thousand people you run into this.
John C. Dvorak
Someone's doing a podcast. One of us podcaster. That's a horrible statistic. So you need to help us with time codes. We. We both listen to podcasts, but it's impossible to listen to everything. However, Megan Kelly.
Adam Curry
And they're also lengthy.
John C. Dvorak
Well, but that's. That's the beauty of the podcast, man.
Adam Curry
No, that's the great part about a podcast. If you have. If you're a customer of the podcast, you like listening to somebody yak away for a while. But in terms of us collecting clips, it makes it very difficult, said the.
John C. Dvorak
Man who does a three and a half hour podcast twice a week. So please help us with that. It is very important. And Megan Kelly, absolutely one of the top podcasters, she just started a new feature which is the AM Update. I really appreciate what she's doing here. It's about 15 to 18 minutes long. Is this something I can listen to on a daily basis? Most of it's like, okay. But she had Tapper and Thompson on and her interview was a lot better than anything else. So.
Adam Curry
Yes, I just wanted to say I watched this too. The guy Tapper took all the flak. This other guy was. He must have been just wiping his brow on and off because she never grilled him.
John C. Dvorak
Well, she, you know, she didn't grill him. She only asked him a question. I think the deal here, this guy had a. He had a book deal to do a book about Biden before the election. So I think he's the. He's the. The deal guy. He really has the book. And Tapper is there to.
Adam Curry
Yeah, he's slap his name on it.
John C. Dvorak
The lightning rod. He's supposed to take all the heat. And he deserves it. He deserves it. It could only ever work. Work if you allowed it, if the press allowed it. Some of us tried not to and some of us were complicit. The Biden White House did not like me. Okay? This is. I do not have great connections with the Biden White House. Says the guy who was at the birthday party of the deputy CIA director hanging out, hobnobbing with everybody. Okay, well, clearly, sources say you Talked to over 200 sources for this book. Worked. No, that's the point is that they were not being honest. That's the point. Get it? In June of 2024. And Jake Tapper and CNN couldn't find sources for this story. Then before he dropped out, Annie Linsky and Siobhan Hughes did an amazing job in their reporting. They didn't get the book deal, though. Nana. Nana. And. And they should be heralded. And I heralded them. I had them on my show right after the debate to talk about the great report reporting.
Adam Curry
But anyone.
John C. Dvorak
But you did not put them on when they published that story, which was before the debate, correct? If we're going to do this, let's just stick to the facts here, okay? Oh, what a douche. If we're going to do. If we're going to do this, let's just stick to the facts, okay? Megan was before the debate, correct. If we're going to do this, let's just stick to the facts here, okay? When there is a damaging report. That's what I've been doing all along.
Adam Curry
I'm talking about you.
John C. Dvorak
Just the biggest story of the century when it comes to presidential politics, and one of us did. All right, then we get into a very interesting angle where instead of saying the podcasts were right, oh, no, it was conservative media. And Alex and I are here to say that conservative media was right and conservative media was correct and that there should be a lot of soul searching, not just among me, but among the legacy media, to begin with. All soul searching, John, we, you and I should do some soul searching of our own. Like, why are we doing this? But among the legacy media. Legacy media, that's you, it's yourself. Begin with all of us for how this was covered or not covered sufficiently. 100%. Oh, whenever someone says 100% from now on, you might as well say bull crap.
Adam Curry
You know what I mean?
John C. Dvorak
It's almost like 5% my bad.
Adam Curry
That's another one. Boy, when they say my bad or we bad or are bad, it's just sickening.
John C. Dvorak
That's.
Adam Curry
And by the way, check the calendar on that one, people.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, that's on me. That's another one. That's on me. That's on me.
Adam Curry
Me. That's another one. Yeah, that's on me.
John C. Dvorak
For how this was covered or not covered sufficiently 100%. So, I mean, I'm not here to defend coverage that I've already acknowledged. I wish I could do differently. No, you don't. But then this was the eye opener to me is that this is what actually happened during that fateful debate when he and I think Dana Bash were. Were hosting, posting it. This is something like if. If you're doing this during a debate and you. And you make. Take this, make this conclusion, you should have been on the air the next hour talking about it. So we have iPads because you can't communicate, obviously talking to your control room during a debate. We have iPads. I wrote holy smokes. Now what I was thinking was, holy. Dana writes to me on a piece of paper. He just lost the election. And it was just. I mean, it is. I don't think this is hyperbole at all. The worst debate in the history of presidential debates going back to 1960. I just can't think of anything even remotely close to it. Who cares about your stats about 1960? And then you saw him immediately after you write in the book, and he seemed like unaware that something. Did I just see that? Was that. Did I just witness this 90 minute of. Yeah, so, okay, so he's full of crap. But then she does the one question here from Alex Thompson. A lot of names we'd already guessed because we surmise as well, someone else is running the show. It's not President Biden. The people that we're naming would be Mike Donilon, Steve Richetti. Mike Donil's his top political advisor. Steve Richetti is his top legislative advisor. Ron Klain, when he was chief of staff. Staff Bruce Reed, his basically longtime policy advisor. You can. Those are sort of the four. They were known as a politburo, gray hairs, poobahs. And they were with him the most of anybody. Now if you were to ask them, and I still think even if you put them on truth serum today, they would say he was fine. Then there's this other sort of group that aren't the politburo, but are just as powerful. And they were the ones that kept the schedule, affected personnel and really built the bubble. And that would be Annie Thomasini, who was Deputy Chief of Staff and previously Oval Office operations. And then Anthony Bernal, who was the top aideenforcer for First Lady Jill Biden and had incredible influence. The point that even people in the Biden White House would refer to her as one of the most powerful first ladies in history.
Adam Curry
Oh, I have a couple of clips that follow this now because he left one person out which will be in the clips.
John C. Dvorak
Which, which clip is it, John?
Adam Curry
These are the Lindy Lee clips.
John C. Dvorak
Oh, Lindy Lee. Oh, yeah.
Adam Curry
This is the, the, the, the. She was a fundraiser big time and she's always in the White House and she's spending a lot of time.
John C. Dvorak
She's all, she's, she's all over the place. She's been on every podcast about Kamala Harris and the money and all this. Cause she was a fundraiser and she is mad, hopping mad.
Adam Curry
She basically is hopping mad. Yes, you're right. Jill desperately wanted to. Basically she's turned on Biden.
John C. Dvorak
These are what she's done. She is profiling herself. She is not a whistleblower. She is not a turn coach. She is profiling herself for whatever reason season. She is hyping up Lindy Lee.
Adam Curry
I'm not sure what she's up to, but her information is quite entertaining, let's put it that way. Here we go. Jill desperately wanted him to stay. And please bear in mind that during.
John C. Dvorak
This time, Biden had Covid and Hunter was basically sitting in on White House meetings, high level meetings that require security clearances. This guy is, honestly, I'm not even entirely sure if he's a recovering drug addict. And it's undeniable that he peddled his influence to enrich himself. The Big Guy, quote, unquote.
Adam Curry
So this is a guy sitting in the Oval Office listening in on top.
John C. Dvorak
Level White House meetings throughout this time.
Adam Curry
Throughout the month of July. And I know because my friends are senior aides like Steve Ruschetti and Nina Dunn. So Biden was like incapacitated this entire.
John C. Dvorak
Time because he was really sick. And remember that a few days before.
Adam Curry
Trump suffered the assassination attempt.
John C. Dvorak
So people were freaking out.
Adam Curry
They, they rightly thought that the election was over. How do you beat a guy like that?
John C. Dvorak
And the way that he handled that.
Adam Curry
With such self possession, I would have been freaking out.
John C. Dvorak
I would have been hysterical. No, no, it was. No, no. It was incredible watching him that moment of composure and everything else. Yeah, right. I mentioned that because Democrats were in.
Adam Curry
In complete disarray would be putting it mildly. And this is the thing that people.
John C. Dvorak
Don'T understand or they don't even know.
Adam Curry
And it hasn't been reported. There was no money coming in other than the monthly recurring ActBlue donations that.
John C. Dvorak
They trick you into giving, obviously. But this is not an exaggeration.
Adam Curry
There was no money coming in after the debate. Like, I mean, zero.
John C. Dvorak
What podcast is this from?
Adam Curry
Okay, this is Dave Rubin.
John C. Dvorak
Oh, okay. Dave Rubin.
Adam Curry
And you wouldn't know it because the way this was edited by me.
John C. Dvorak
You edited out Dave Rubin because he's a little long winded.
Adam Curry
And unless annoying, he's not only long winded, you don't realize until you have to sit there and edit him and you think to yourself, I could be doing 10 clips instead of this, which.
John C. Dvorak
Means podcasts could be 10% the length of what they really are.
Adam Curry
He'll ask a question three or four different ways before he lets the other person talk.
John C. Dvorak
He did not go to the school of podcasting by Dave Jackson.
Adam Curry
He yak, yak, yak and yaks and then doubles down and kind of reiterates and does it again and again and again. I cut all of it out and including the back of. There's a number of back and forth.
John C. Dvorak
Megan Kelly does that too, by the way. She does.
Adam Curry
She has a bit of that, yes. I've tried to clip her up, too. She's. She also is too talkative. And so this. So these clips are tight compared to. I mean, if it even does.
John C. Dvorak
Maybe. Maybe we have to just do an interview show, John. Maybe that's just. We have to go show these kids how it's done, son. No, maybe not. That sounds like a pain in the butt.
Adam Curry
Maybe not. Let's go with Clay. No, I think what we've got is the best formula for a show is that we move along here.
John C. Dvorak
Staffers who I would just be, like, shooting shit with on the sofa because.
Adam Curry
They had nothing to do.
John C. Dvorak
And we would just be commiserating because everybody lost faith.
Adam Curry
So Biden kind of markets his decision as an act of patriotism. It wasn't. There was no money coming in, so there was no way he would have continued.
John C. Dvorak
There's just no way. Way.
Adam Curry
But putting the money part aside, do.
John C. Dvorak
You have any insider info as to.
Adam Curry
What the day or two before he.
John C. Dvorak
Stepped down was like? Yeah, and I want to say I first hinted at this on the Shawn Ryan show, and then suddenly that new book that's Coming out fight. I hate mentioning. I don't want to give them the free advertising, but they were repeating something that I already said two months ago.
Adam Curry
Like it's some new intel.
John C. Dvorak
The role of Congressman James Clyburn has been seriously underestimated in the public sphere.
Adam Curry
He played such a huge role in so many instances of Biden's recent life.
John C. Dvorak
Starting with his 2020 campaign.
Adam Curry
If it hadn't been James Clyburn, there would have been no Biden presidency.
John C. Dvorak
I want to be extremely clear about.
Adam Curry
That because he came in fifth in New Hampshire.
John C. Dvorak
He was done.
Adam Curry
And he bombed in Iowa too.
John C. Dvorak
Dave, do you remember this?
Adam Curry
James Clyburn saved his butt by endorsing.
John C. Dvorak
Him and allowing him to win the South Carolina primary.
Adam Curry
If it hadn't been his intervention, Biden would have been done.
John C. Dvorak
And that was the point.
Adam Curry
I which Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg and everyone Theodore o' Rourke or rally around him.
John C. Dvorak
That was Clyburn.
Adam Curry
Clyburn is also the person that made him appoint Kentanji Brown Jackson. The woman. The woman who can't say what. Who a woman is.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, yeah, right. Hired because she. Or nominated because she was a woman. Just doesn't know what a woman is.
Adam Curry
Exactly.
John C. Dvorak
And let's just be very clear, all.
Adam Curry
These people are DEI candidates. Oh, I forgot to mention. Mentioned that Kamala Harris is picked also.
John C. Dvorak
Largely because of James Clyburn. Mm.
Adam Curry
Yeah, that little tidbit.
John C. Dvorak
That's interesting. Yeah, that is good, because we.
Adam Curry
We had other thoughts on that. But she does say in another part of this interview that the three people that ran the show were. Anita Dunn was number one.
John C. Dvorak
Interesting.
Adam Curry
Which was not mentioned on the other clip that you had.
John C. Dvorak
No, no.
Adam Curry
Anita Dunn, who's just a horrible looking person. Anita Dunn, Rashad Shetty and Donnelly. Who is brother of the CEO of BlackRock.
John C. Dvorak
Anita Dunn looks like. What's that? Admiral. Who was the admiral?
Adam Curry
She just looked like Rachel Levine.
John C. Dvorak
Rachel Levine. She does look like Rachel Levine. Wow.
Adam Curry
So Doniland, who's the other guy, who is the brother of the guy who runs BlackRock, is largely responsible for passing BlackRock as the one who pushed the DEI agenda on the corporate world. Which reminds me of my recent experience with the Lexus dealer, which I'll complain about that on another show. Very disappointed in how Lexus is. It's turned into.
John C. Dvorak
Well, I want to stick a pin in that one because I'm interested in hearing that comer.
Adam Curry
That little story. But those are the three she claims are really the ones who ran the show. And here's the last clip. Biden's original intention was to not endorse.
John C. Dvorak
Kamala that day at all. And he would just roll it out at his own leisurely pace.
Adam Curry
He wanted this stage to himself, to make base, basically make a victory lap and, you know, luxuriate in all the love and admiration that he thought he deserved. But James Clyburn insisted, actually, he wanted Biden to endorse him in the first tweet. There were two tweets separated by half an hour. But the fact that Biden endorsed her.
John C. Dvorak
So quickly after afterwards was because of.
Adam Curry
James, and he kind of flies under the radar. But Clyburn is at every major fundraiser.
John C. Dvorak
I always seem at VIP events. He has his youngest looking wife.
Adam Curry
I forget her name.
John C. Dvorak
And the two of them would just.
Adam Curry
Be there, like meandering the crowd. They're always there. I hosted Biden Harris here in Philadelphia in February 2023.
John C. Dvorak
Clyburn was there.
Adam Curry
I raised half a million for them, them in September right after the debate.
John C. Dvorak
In D.C. and Clyburn is there. He's there everywhere, just exerting a quiet influence. And I'm just, I'm genuinely shocked that.
Adam Curry
The public hasn't caught on.
John C. Dvorak
Wow. She's. She's vying for a gig somewhere else, that's for sure.
Adam Curry
Yeah.
John C. Dvorak
How many bridges can you burn?
Adam Curry
Self and her ability.
John C. Dvorak
Burning the bridges. So Dunn is married to Robert Bowman, former partner at Perkins Coey and former personal counsel to President Obama and the White House counsel. They are the power couple of Washington D.C. well, that makes sense. With a face like that, you better have some power. Sorry to say it. I hate being the superficial.
Adam Curry
Yeah, I hate when you do that because heaven forbid, I would never.
John C. Dvorak
You would never say that.
Adam Curry
I would never comment on somebody's homely look.
John C. Dvorak
No, no, no. Well, I think that for a moment here, we should just take a little breather and we should listen to what the ladies from the View had to say about this book. Original scene. At the tone, a clip from the View will be played.
Adam Curry
Shelter in place should anonymous sources who.
John C. Dvorak
Talked to Tapper have spoken up about their concerns while he was in office.
Adam Curry
While he was still in office.
John C. Dvorak
And my other question is, why is this important to know now? Yeah, well, that's a country, it seems to me. Yeah. You know, we got a lot of.
Adam Curry
Stuff to be concerned about at the moment.
John C. Dvorak
Yes, please. Here's the Trump's atrocities. I'm going to list them for you. Cutting Medicaid. Yeah, well, this is what we're concerned about now. Oh, I got you.
Adam Curry
Okay. Cutting Medicaid, slashing funding for cancer research.
John C. Dvorak
Rising prices because of tariffs. Dismantling usaid, which helps children and people who are poor around the world. Fears of recession, destroying due process, ending birthright citizenship. Dismantling the Department of Education, Rolling back.
Adam Curry
Regulations on air and water quality, destroying our relationships with allies like Canada and.
John C. Dvorak
The UK and targeting his political opponents. Preach. And not only that, but he also said that Joe Biden has stage nine cancer. Oh, really? Where did you up with that? When is Jake Tapper gonna write a book about the cognitive decline of the person who is in charge right now? Preach, girl. Preach, girl. Preach. Yeah, you just need to write a book about that meanwhile. And I'll get back to Tapper in a moment. President Trump spoke at the Kennedy dinner last night, was last night, the night before last night. And I don't. Did you see any video of this?
Adam Curry
No, I saw none of it.
John C. Dvorak
He had an electric turn or more like a stand for his speech notes and like a golden eagle is holding, is holding up the speed. But it's not just the golden eagle. Looks like the golden eagle is made of gold. Clearly has a head like a plated.
Adam Curry
Probably not made of gold.
John C. Dvorak
It has a head like one of those cartoon eagles, like Captain America cartoon eagles.
Adam Curry
Oh, that's funny.
John C. Dvorak
It's very leaderistic, let me put it that way. And he says, hey, whatever you say. You know, we were numb nuts before I came along. As they said, the king of Saudi Arabia said, your place, your country is a whole different image now. We were a laughingstock, an absolute laughingstock. But we're not a laughingstock any longer.
Adam Curry
And you know, I was talking to.
John C. Dvorak
As I said, said President Putin for two and a half hours that was being very seriously listened to. We don't like what's happening. We don't like that we should have ever been involved. Would have never happened. But we're respected again as a country. You know, one thing that I tell you that I think is amazing, if you remember about eight months ago, the big story was that nobody wants to join our military. We couldn't have any. People weren't joining and they weren't proud of our country. They weren't joining police forces all over the country. Houston, Dallas, all over the country, New York. And now we have record setting enlistment in the military. Think of that record setting.
Adam Curry
The most in 38 years.
John C. Dvorak
But it's probably more than that. They started taking the numbers, Susie, 38 years ago. Right. But the most in 30 years, probably the most ever. I don't Know, but we have record setting young people that want to join the military. And that's incredible to have that is just absolutely incredible. And to think that eight months ago we were all listening to the fact that this was before the election. Eight months ago we were listening to the fact that we wouldn't have any, you know, we wouldn't have anybody in our. I mean, nobody. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Space Force. I'm so proud of Space Force because we got that going. We started Space Force and they wanted to terminate it and the military backed up and they said, you're not going to do that.
Adam Curry
We were third in space and now.
John C. Dvorak
We'Re number one in space by a lot. They've done a great job. They had some great commanders in space for us. But, you know, ultimately it's going to.
Adam Curry
Be one of the most important things.
John C. Dvorak
We'Ve ever done because it's all heading to space. And I'm not talking about just experimental things that we do because we don't understand that. We can understand that, but we where in terms of defense and offense of our country. Yeah, we're number one. I just want to play a few of these. CBS this Morning with cbs, Gail and the Gang with Tapper and Thompson. Tapper and Thompson. You don't need the intro. Okay, so they are blaming all of this on the administration, on the aides, on the White House who was running the White House. It's all their fault. Did you guys think the aides were being deceitful or did you think that.
Adam Curry
They really believed that he was going to be okay, Alex, and he would be able to do the job?
John C. Dvorak
I think some of the early steps were done with innocent enough reasons. You want your principal to look good. But as his diminishment increased, some of those actions became increasingly deceitful. Because the fact is that the Biden that we saw on the debate stage last June, he had other moments like that behind the scenes and increasingly so. And they started structuring his schedule, his public schedule, to make sure that the public didn't see it. And even some people inside their own administration, their own White House, their own cabinet, did not see this. Yeah, no one saw it. No one saw it. Remember how deceitful they were with the sharp as attack.
Adam Curry
The what?
John C. Dvorak
Sharp as attack. He's sharp as attack.
Adam Curry
Oh, sharp as attack. Yes.
John C. Dvorak
Sharp as a tack.
Adam Curry
Yeah. He runs circles around you.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah. Sharp as attack, everybody.
Adam Curry
Sharp as attack.
John C. Dvorak
Speaking of circles, as we all know, there's a difference between the outer rung and then your inner Circle. And when it comes to proximity, the former first lady Joe Biden is the closest to him. Yeah. Do you believe that she was complicit in this cover up? I think the main people complicit in hiding the non functioning Biden were President Biden, First Lady Biden, Hunter Biden and then his immediate circle of AIDS that other people in the White House called the Politburo, Mike Donilon, Steve Rachetti and some others. They were the ones others who afraid. Afraid to mention Anita Dunn pussy. He's afraid. He's afraid. He knows, you know, I better not mention Dunn. Donilon and Bruschetti are being roasted for this.
Adam Curry
Donilan Rachetti are getting the brunt of it. Yeah, I agree.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah. And Steve Rachetti and some others, they were the ones, some others who saw President Biden every day, day, up close and personal. And whether they were lying to themselves and everybody else or just everybody else. And that is a big question. Right, I agree, it is a big question. It was no cover up. So one of those aides, Rashetti referred us to the Biden team statement which is there's nothing in this book that shows Joe Biden failed to do his job. Nor did they prove their allegation that there was a cover up or conspiracy. Nowhere do they show that our national security was threatened or President Biden wasn't otherwise engaged in the important matters of the presidency. But I actually feel you do show. I think we do. I don't think he's read the book. If he's not meeting with cabinet members, if they don't have direct access to him, if he sometimes lights out at 5:15 or dinner at 4:30, as you reported, even during the administration. I do genuinely wonder if something had occurred of national concern who was making the decisions at that, that point. Well, I'll just say, you know, we didn't make this up. The fact is that people inside the administration told us this, that they did not. We had multiple cabinet members that said if there had been a crisis, especially in 2024, late in the middle of the night, they did not have confidence that Joe Biden would necessarily be up to that task. And as a result you sort of have the institutional aspects of the presidency that would have probably, you know, tried to take hold. So I mean you mentioned the other the other day that the 25th Amendment is no good good. Should people like this, who, who are very aware of it, shouldn't they be held? I mean can you just call them traitors? Can you can they be held accountable to any standard for not disclosing what was really going on?
Adam Curry
I think you can call them what you want, but there's nothing you can do about it. I think it's a, you know, they can publicly humiliate them as far as it's going to get. Because the rest of it, you could say, make the comment. In fact, you would. I would use that as a defense. Hey, there's the 25th amendment that we could have done, and we didn't do it for, you know, but would you. So we could have gotten rid of him if we thought it was that bad. So we were very pretty sincere. And if it was that bad, Congress could have done it. Because if the 25th amendment also allows Congress.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah.
Adam Curry
To bypass the. The way it's supposed to be done. The first round is the vice president goes to the. To the board of directors, over which is the administration, the secretary, the departments, the various. The department secretary, secretary, state secretary.
John C. Dvorak
Hey, this guy's toast.
Adam Curry
We got to get rid of this guy.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah.
Adam Curry
And then they all vote okay. And they kick him out. It's his 25th amendment. But if they. But the vice president doesn't do that. The Congress or the House of Representatives can do it in a. Some way or other. But they still have to get. I think they still have to get the secretaries to agree. I'm not sure. Sure. I had to look it over again. But the point is, is that I think you can use that as a defense.
John C. Dvorak
So this is. I think this is season of reveal for the American public If. If they care to pay attention. Because it's exactly. That's exactly it. It's like there's no accountability. You don't know. Well, now we know who was running the show. We were lied to as the American public. The news media did not do their job, no matter how.
Adam Curry
How tapping the news media is the number one responsible force here. Absolutely. They're screwed up. The people do not trust these guys anymore. They listen to podcasts for their news.
John C. Dvorak
Yes.
Adam Curry
You have enough people that tell us, oh, you know, I don't even listen. This is the podcast.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah.
Adam Curry
Why is that?
John C. Dvorak
Because of our dark, soothing voices. I'm convinced we can talk. That's right, everybody. So of course it would not be CBS if we didn't somehow turn this around and make it about Trump. So you mentioned President Trump. You know, after writing a book like this, I would assume it gives you a keen eye when it comes to the cognitive and physical declination of our political. Now all of a sudden, I got a keen eye. Now I know what to look for. You know, like the guy who's a foot taller running towards the helicopter. Well, leaders and you guys are well sourced, as Gil mentioned. What are you hearing? What are you hearing? When hearing comes to our current president, is he losing his mind? Is he out of control? What do you know, Jake, you're the expert. Trump, I don't think we don't see any effort, any evidence, sort of deterioration cognitively. I think the questions about Trump that have always been raised have to do with his personality, which is something that is very out and in the open to the voters. But to pick up on Alex's point, whether you're talking about President Biden, President Trump or President Gayle King, I think that. Choose another name. Transparency. Transparency is so important. It is not required. Presidents do not have to give their health records to the American people. And that needs to change. That's. That is. It's unacceptable after this, there's no way that the American people should tolerate this ever again. There needs to be a law on the books requiring full health declaration disclosures. Full health under oath. As Alex said, let's hope the doctors tell the truth. Seems to. Well, that's why. That's why it has to be a license. Yeah. Because the doctors are not always fully. No, like during COVID Exactly. So no one can trust nobody. That's the bottom line.
Adam Curry
No one can trust nobody.
John C. Dvorak
That's right. Of course.
Adam Curry
By the way, I want to. You have to bring it. The idea. The daddy long legs thing is still pissing me off. She brought it up.
John C. Dvorak
It's making me mad.
Adam Curry
I think you have to bring it into the conversation more.
John C. Dvorak
Yes.
Adam Curry
Because it is the thing. What? Yeah, they're making all this, you know, mayor couples, and they're going into this and that and. Oh, we missed this. We missed that. Or we could have cut. And no one has brought that up.
John C. Dvorak
Who was that guy?
Adam Curry
It's one of the more obvious things because we had this tall, skinny guy with the, you know, wandering around.
John C. Dvorak
Who was that guy? Was it a mask? These are my questions. Who was that guy? Was there a mask?
Adam Curry
There was no discussion of that, of the, of that technology.
John C. Dvorak
The CIA mask, which we know is very advanced. Who was.
Adam Curry
He was advanced in the 60s.
John C. Dvorak
That's right. Who was he? Was it a mask? And did you kill him? Or is he available for parties, bar mitzvahs and weddings? Because he's awesome. He was pretty good. He did a good job. He should receive an academy Award. This guy should be. Screw Zelensky. This guy should be on. Yeah. I played Joe Biden for the entire world. World. Oh, yeah, you were awesome. You were awesome, man. You really had us fooled. Except when you were running towards the helicopter at 8ft tall. So President Trump, of course, takes advantage of this to put the fear of God into certain people. Do you want to respond to President Biden being diagnosed with cancer? Are you going to call your processor? I think it's very sad, actually. I think that. That if you take a look, it's the same doctor that said that Joe was cognitively fine. There was nothing wrong with him. Well, he said if it's the same.
Adam Curry
Doctor, he said there was nothing wrong there.
John C. Dvorak
And that's being proven to be a sad situation. And the auto pen is becoming a very big deal. You know, the auto pen is becoming a big deal because it seems like that maybe was the president who ever operated the auto pen. But when they say that that was not good, they also, you know, you have to look and you have to say that the test was not so good either.
Adam Curry
In other words, there are things going on that the public wasn't informed.
John C. Dvorak
And I think somebody's going to have to speak to his doctor if it's the same or even if it's two separate doctors. Yeah. Now that's going to put the fear into some people who got pardons. Oh, oh. It was Anita Dunn who was controlling the pen. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, boy. I'm in trouble now. He's not going to do anything, but.
Adam Curry
I think nothing's going to happen.
John C. Dvorak
No, of course not. But I think it's fun that he's putting.
Adam Curry
But it will scare people. People are easily freaked out.
John C. Dvorak
Then this morning, it happened. BBB used to be built back better now at the big beautiful bill. On this vote, The A's are 215, the nays are 214, with one answering present. The bill is passed.
Adam Curry
Yeah.
John C. Dvorak
No tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime, no tax on nothing.
Adam Curry
I'd like to know how the salt thing was resolved because one of the guys was made a big fuss about. I do have some clips.
John C. Dvorak
Well, hold on a second. I want to play this short clip because this wasn't going to happen until President Trump went into the meeting. He had a meeting with the Republicans of the House. House. And just so you know, it was a meeting of love. I think it was a really great. That was a meeting of love, let me tell you.
Adam Curry
That was love in that room.
John C. Dvorak
There Was no shouting. There was. I think it was a meeting of love. There were a couple of things that.
Adam Curry
We talked about, specifically where some people felt a little bit one way or the other.
John C. Dvorak
Not a big deal. Yeah, it was a great meeting. The. The party is unified. The House Republican Conference is excited. Multiple standing ovations. They love this president. The people back home love what he's doing. It's historic. And everybody understands the scope and the meaning of this. If we do not accomplish this mission, every one of you, all the American people are going to have the highest tax increase that you've ever had. I think it was a great, great talk. It wasn't a speech.
Adam Curry
We talked about things. Who do you work for?
John C. Dvorak
Nervous.
Adam Curry
Who?
John C. Dvorak
Nervous. I don't even know what the hell that is.
Adam Curry
Get yourself.
John C. Dvorak
Where are you, nurse? Where are you from? Like, get yourself a real job anyway. Yes. A meeting of love. Here's how I think the meeting went. Hey, look at this picture. What is that in your mouth? That was an obvious. You know, Trump does that. He went. Where'd he go? When he showed a picture of the guy's house? Remember that? Yeah.
Adam Curry
It was the Taliban guy.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah. He said, hey, look at this. What's. This is a picture of your house. House. So I think that just. He had a little stack of pictures, like, look at this, look at this, look at this. The way politics has always done.
Adam Curry
If he did that to the Taliban guy, he probably. You're right. That's probably his mo. Of course, certain people.
John C. Dvorak
Not everybody's happy. Massie, of course, is very unhappy about this.
Adam Curry
Massie's always unhappy.
John C. Dvorak
Well, I mean, what he's unhappy about is the $4 trillion increase in the. In the debt show.
Adam Curry
Should be.
John C. Dvorak
Yes. By the way, I heard you and Horowitz talking about this on the show.
Adam Curry
Oh, you actually listened?
John C. Dvorak
Yes. And I have. I have something to say. Horowitz. Keep my wife's name out of your mouth. Be very. Stop making me laugh. Be very, very careful. Horowitz. I'm not digging that. Who do you think you are? He's like, oh, I'm gonna. I'm hitting on Tina. What? What? You're. As my mom would say, you're skating on thin ice, Florida man. All right. Yes.
Adam Curry
Well, I'm the one, of course, who.
John C. Dvorak
You're stok. You're stoking this. Of course you are. You love it. You got nothing better to do.
Adam Curry
Terrible person. That's why I always say, don't want me working in an office, please.
John C. Dvorak
I know I had you in My office. You're Switzerland between two shows. You're getting away.
Adam Curry
Yeah, I'm neutral.
John C. Dvorak
Woe is the day that Horowitz and I make up and team up against you. By the way, I always love, like, when bitcoin goes down, you guys, like, it's supposed to be a hedge. What is this stupid bitcoin? And now it's like 112. Wow. That's going quite well.
Adam Curry
Looking good, looking good, looking good, looking good.
John C. Dvorak
Oh, no, it's because of Coinbase there in the S and P. Oh, cool. Coinbase Police, you guys.
Adam Curry
That was a good. I liked it. I liked that analysis when he said that.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, Please be considered. It's the $4 trillion. That's what's doing it. Oh, printing more money. Hello. That's what's. Gus was going on there. I digress.
Adam Curry
So I want to get this out of the way because this is important. This is part of the. You know, they always say that the rich are somehow benefiting from Trump. Tax cuts for the rich is bull crap. And they had nothing but trouble getting the salt stuff through that. Salt is state and local taxes. In other words, I'm in Calif. You pay 13%. I think I have to pay 13% to the state of California, and I don't get to deduct that from the federal.
John C. Dvorak
Now, can I ask you a question? Does SALT also include your mortgage deduction, your interest. Mortgage interest deduction, or does that.
Adam Curry
I don't think so. That's another issue. Because they put a cap on that. But they raised the cap on that. Thank you.
John C. Dvorak
They raised it on that, too.
Adam Curry
No, they raised it on. That was always going to get raised to 40. 40,000 from 10. Wow.
John C. Dvorak
Well, I had time to.
Adam Curry
Well, if you own some properties, you end up. You know, I know it could add up.
John C. Dvorak
I know. Time to get a bigger house.
Adam Curry
Yes, that's my motto. So let's just get a little background on this, because it's kind of interesting. I thought it may be beside the point at this point, but let's play salt support npr.
John C. Dvorak
Last week on this program, we heard from Representative Mike Lawlor of New York State, one of the Republicans who want to restore a federal tax ded for state and local taxes.
Adam Curry
Here's what he said then.
John C. Dvorak
As I've said for over two years.
Adam Curry
Since coming to Congress, if there was.
John C. Dvorak
Not a fix for salt, I would.
Adam Curry
Not support any tax bill that came before me.
John C. Dvorak
I've been loud and clear about that. Yesterday, President Trump addressed this issue.
Adam Curry
He said he doesn't like the salt.
John C. Dvorak
Tax deduction, as it's called, because he said it would benefit, quote, democrat state states. Representative Lawler is back on the line from New York. Representative, good morning. Good morning, Steve. Thanks for having me. Thanks for joining us again. The president doesn't sound like he's interested at all in your priority anymore. What does that mean for your vote? Well, I think the president obviously is anxious to get a bill passed. We are in the final stages of negotiating that through the House and then as your report just mentioned, it goes to the Senate. So. So the president wants us to come to a afternoon into the evening meeting with the speaker and coming to terms on an agreement. But we're still working through some of the finer points and I suspect today we'll be in a much stronger position. Do you mean to say that you think you're going to get the salt tax deduction or some variant of it or some portion of portion of it? Oh, we are. So just so I understand, I live in a state where there's no state income tax. We do have rather high sales tax and real estate tax, which pays for beautiful roads. You got big, beautiful roads. Everything's good, everything's fine. Everything functions. We have chemtrails. Abbott, that something has got to change. So what's happening here is when you get to deduct your 13%, that comes out of my pocket, does it not?
Adam Curry
Oh, yeah, it comes right out of your pocket indirectly. We're coming in there, we're looking for you and we're going to hit you over the head with us.
John C. Dvorak
Oh, spoken like a true Cali commie. Come on now. It's the truth. If you get to deduct it, then that's coming out.
Adam Curry
Why should I be double taxed is the question. Do you think it's fair?
John C. Dvorak
No, I don't.
Adam Curry
I'm getting. I got a, I get a dollar and I get taxed like 13 cents for the dollar and have to pay taxes another 30%.
John C. Dvorak
I understand your issue and you are correct, sir. However, your state should not be levying tax against you. Instead, you're going to deduct it from the money you pay into the big pot that I pay into as well. I do have a small issue with that because you should move out of California.
Adam Curry
Why?
John C. Dvorak
Because of the 13% tax.
Adam Curry
I'd like the weather.
John C. Dvorak
You'd love Texas.
Adam Curry
I don't like it that hot. I do like Texas weather. I have no complaints about it. But they're also, they still have tornadoes and other issues.
John C. Dvorak
You're just Making it climate change now whereas I have a point, it's okay. But that means we are picking up the slack for states like California who are out of control.
Adam Curry
You have, you know, you can deduct your, your property tax and you can deduct your sales tax. Some people do that. I don't know what I know does but I know people that can do it and have done it.
John C. Dvorak
Turbo remember TurboTax has like some formula where they just say yeah you probably paid this much, we'll deduct it.
Adam Curry
Yeah.
John C. Dvorak
Which is great. Turbotax.
Adam Curry
Yeah that's generally acceptable. I mean they, these formulas are accepted by the irs are pretty liberal about it and you get to deduct that too.
John C. Dvorak
I'm just, look I don't have a problem with it.
Adam Curry
Sales taxes and what yours is is less. And also we property taxes are reasonable because we have Prop 13 which keeps people from having their property taxes jacked up every year by some maniac which happens in Washington state and elsewhere. We don't have that in California, luckily.
John C. Dvorak
Well how groovy it is.
Adam Curry
Groovy. So on Onward with clip. Now you have to remember the NPR this guy's reasonable. This, this Dem, this Republican from New York and he and NPR has to get some digs in on, on Trump and he backs him off pretty well. It's pretty, this is a pretty good back back and forth.
John C. Dvorak
But this part, New York's tax burden.
Adam Curry
Is the highest in the country.
John C. Dvorak
The governor just increased state spending by double digit billion dollars, up 100 billion in a decade. These are unsustainable levels and that's what the President was referencing. Let me ask about, forgive me, I just want to get one more thing in here. We heard earlier today from Greg Cassar.
Adam Curry
One of your Democratic colleagues.
John C. Dvorak
He's from Texas. Yeah. Boston loser. And he's talking about this budget bill, talking about the Medicaid cuts or savings and he asserts that the cuts will affect health care for real people, including in a red state like his.
Adam Curry
Let's listen.
John C. Dvorak
What they're talking about is closing rural hospitals, closing addiction treatment centers, leaving 4.
Adam Curry
Million school age kids without food assistance. It's horrible but we can still stop it.
John C. Dvorak
When he says rural hospitals, I immediately think of one that I know about in upstate New York that's forever in danger of closing. This is a constant problem across the United States. How would you protect rural hospitals as you cut back, scale back Medicaid, which many of them depend on. Greg Cassar by the way, is a massive, massive communist. He was.
Adam Curry
Yeah, he Was obviously a communist. Communist. And I like the way the NPR guy, the guy is talking about Hochul jacking up the revenues for New York by $100 billion and he cuts him off to throw in the communist guy who sounds like a woman by the way in terms of his pitch and probably had a vasectomy.
John C. Dvorak
He led the Workers Defense Project. The certified communist. This guy that was so awes he was on the Austin City Council. Worst guy ever.
Adam Curry
So he brings all this stuff in because it's got a lot of anti Trump messaging. And the New York guy bounced it off pretty nicely.
John C. Dvorak
He did, he did. Well, here he comes.
Adam Curry
Here's where he really does it.
John C. Dvorak
The focus with of the reforms in the bill is to slow the rate of growth and make sure that those who are not eligible do not receive benefits that is illegal. And immigrants, people who are no longer.
Adam Curry
Eligible should not remain on the program for up to a year, which is.
John C. Dvorak
What the Biden administration allowed as well as work requirements for able bodied adults.
Adam Curry
When it comes to food assistance, it's a cost share.
John C. Dvorak
It is having the states have some.
Adam Curry
Skin in the game starting with a 5% share.
John C. Dvorak
Right now they pay 0% share for the cost.
Adam Curry
So this is about slowing the rate, rate of growth.
John C. Dvorak
Medicaid is going to expand by 24% over the 10 year window of this bill. So it is not a major cut.
Adam Curry
But in fact slowing the rate of growth. Congressman Mike Lawler, Republican of New York.
John C. Dvorak
Always a pleasure talking with you.
Adam Curry
Thank you so much.
John C. Dvorak
Thank you. Yeah, that's, that's the lie about the. Oh, they're going to cut your Medicare, you're going to cut this cut. That, that's not true. They're going to make you actually go look for a job.
Adam Curry
Well, not only that, but they're not cutting it, they're cutting the growth.
John C. Dvorak
Yes. Which has been grow, it's grown 100% in like five years.
Adam Curry
I think it's because of fraud. If they put some police on the job. In other words, you put an enforcement agency together.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah.
Adam Curry
And then tack it onto the operation and have with some teeth billy clubs.
John C. Dvorak
Go in there and wrap some knuckles, knock on some doors. Hey, hey, walk across the room, you got no problem. You can walk on those stumps.
Adam Curry
And, and if you do some enforcement, you would have less fraud and then you would save a lot of money. But yeah, the fraud is like a pain in the ass to put together an agency or enforcement division.
John C. Dvorak
And you know, maybe they should get rid of those ads for those phony baloney Phones that you know. Oh, it will cost you nothing. Where you have anonymous Indian transcribing the call in the background.
Adam Curry
Yeah, those phones.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, those phones. All that. Get rid of all that nonsense. The back braces, all these things. Oh, it'll cost you nothing.
Adam Curry
All I get calls every so often from one of these operations. You can get a free this or a free that. Just sign up.
John C. Dvorak
Free watch, walking stick, a freeze, a free shillelagh. A shillelagh.
Adam Curry
You know what a shillelagh is?
John C. Dvorak
No. What's a shillelaging? Maybe I do. What's a. I've heard the word. What's a shillelagh?
Adam Curry
It's like a big stick that the Irish walk around.
John C. Dvorak
Ah, shillelagh. Ay, clay basket. The shillelagh. If you get one of those, you could get one of those scooters. One of those.
Adam Curry
Yeah.
John C. Dvorak
Drive around a Walmart.
Adam Curry
I'm on a hill. That'd be really funny to watch.
John C. Dvorak
Next time you're in Walmart, just get on one of those and take a picture. That'd be hilarious. One of those electric scooters. What are they called?
Adam Curry
I don't know. They're called electric scooters. I got Medicaid. Talk about Medicaid cuts. I got Medicaid cuts.
John C. Dvorak
They'd be like, you don't need Medicaid. You're a podcaster. What's your problem?
Adam Curry
Two. Two. Two clips.
John C. Dvorak
Oh. Oh, hold on a second. Medicaid. Medicaid.
Adam Curry
Medicaid cuts. Mm.
John C. Dvorak
I'm looking under M. Medicaid cuts. I'm looking, I'm looking. I'm looking under M. I don't see anything with Medicaid.
Adam Curry
You should. There's, like, Medicaid 2. There's Medicaid cuts, NTD, and there's medical.
John C. Dvorak
John, I'm telling you, I do not have these. What is going on?
Adam Curry
There's M's. There's M's.
John C. Dvorak
No, I'm looking at the M's. Were these your bonus clips that I put them in the wrong?
Adam Curry
No, these are the.
John C. Dvorak
Okay, I have Magna Carta. Magna Carta tail, Malema, Malema. Malema, Qatar. I don't have Medicare under the M. I don't.
Adam Curry
Well, then it got disorganized because it was sent with the rest of them. It wasn't sent separately.
John C. Dvorak
I'm just telling you.
Adam Curry
You have Nintendo gripe.
John C. Dvorak
Nope. Did you. Did you send one batch or two batches?
Adam Curry
Oh, wait, let me. Hold on.
John C. Dvorak
Oh. Oh, okay. I love it how you blame. Blame me.
Adam Curry
I blame you. It's your fault.
John C. Dvorak
Blame it on the podcaster. No, I don't have these.
Adam Curry
You'd have to. You'd have to go to the. Never mind, never mind.
John C. Dvorak
Well, you want to send them to me real quick? I'll be happy to add them in.
Adam Curry
No, forget. I got better, better material with the Doge attack.
John C. Dvorak
Okay, well, first let me talk about a different attack, because this was completely predictable. Knew it was going to happen. No surprise, the Jew hate has reached its episode. Epic.
Adam Curry
Oh, yeah, it's a good story.
John C. Dvorak
Well, it's not a good story. It's a very bad story. Overnight, Police in Washington D.C. investigating the deadly shooting of two Israeli embassy staff members. Authorities say the man and woman were shot at close range as they were leaving the Capitol Jewish Museum. Prior to the shooting, the suspect was observed pacing back and forth outside of the museum. He approached a group of four people, produced a hand gun and opened fire, striking both of our decedents. After the shooting, the suspect then entered the museum and was detained by event security. After the shooting, a man in custody inside the museum was heard chanting support of Palestinians, Free, free Palestine. He implied that he committed the offense. The suspect chanted, Free, free Palestine. While in custody.
Adam Curry
One witness says she gave the man.
John C. Dvorak
Water, unaware of what had unfolded. We offered him water and he was like, yeah, that'll be great. Actually, that's when he reaches into his backpack and pulls out a keffiyeh and says, I did it. I did this for Gaza. The shooting Suspect identified as 30 year old Elias Rodriguez of Chicago. Police say they had no prior interactions with him. The American Jewish Committee was hosting an event at the museum celebrating Jewish Jewish heritage at the time of the shooting. Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying this was a brazen act of cowardly anti Semitic violence. Israel's ambassador to the UN calling it, quote, a depraved act of anti Semitic terrorism, saying the young embassy staffers killed were a couple who were planning to get married. There you go. Yeah, completely.
Adam Curry
What brought that on, you think? Media pushing the Palestine protest.
John C. Dvorak
Yep.
Adam Curry
Colleges pushing Palestine, Palestine, Palestine, South Africa.
John C. Dvorak
Yep. But, you know, next time it'll be a right winger. It's just going to keep on happening. And I know, I know a lot of Jewish people, they're very worried. They're like, oh, this is no good.
Adam Curry
It is no good. Can't go shooting people like that just because of some political purpose or political purposes. Because an American living in Chicago wanted free Palestine.
John C. Dvorak
What do you got? Ideological at this point?
Adam Curry
It's not ideological.
John C. Dvorak
It's ideological.
Adam Curry
Yeah.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah. So. All right, well, there you go. That's not good news. I don't know why you said it was good. A good story.
Adam Curry
It's a good story.
John C. Dvorak
It's not a good story. It's a horrible story.
Adam Curry
It's not good news. But that does bring us to ideologies. I did pick up, I did listen to a Financial Times podcast that had Steve Bannon.
John C. Dvorak
Bannon back on the bench beat. Do you have. Do I have this clip?
Adam Curry
Yeah, it's called Bannon. It's one of the bonus clips.
John C. Dvorak
Yes, yes, I have Bannon. I have Bannon. You ready?
Adam Curry
This is interesting. This is about the Pope.
John C. Dvorak
I recommended. I'm sorry, was that a cue?
Adam Curry
I'm sorry. Just play. I'm sorry. I recommended.
John C. Dvorak
By the way, just so you know, there are already trolls who are saying was fake, wasn't a fake, was a fake shooting. Wasn't real. Wasn't real.
Adam Curry
Yeah, the trolls are trolls. Yeah, I recommended he come back strong in that.
John C. Dvorak
And Bergoglia the entire time has been very anti Trump. But that's not the.
Adam Curry
It's not anti maga.
John C. Dvorak
Stop it.
Adam Curry
Keeps referring to the previous Pope Francis, as Bergoglia, which is his real name.
John C. Dvorak
I recommend.
Adam Curry
And he also refers to the new Pope by his former name, too. Okay, Lou, I recommended he come back strong in that.
John C. Dvorak
And Bergoglia the entire time has been very anti Trump. And. But that's not the. It's not just being anti maga, anti Trump. That's the politics of it. Right.
Adam Curry
And Prevost is a continuation, but it is for the traditional Catholics in the.
John C. Dvorak
Crowd, the Latin Mass Catholics, the pre Vatican II Catholics.
Adam Curry
We're close to a schism in the.
John C. Dvorak
Church between Bergoglia in this kind of radical way, he's taken it. And Prevost, what my research found, we have lots of contacts in the Curia. We have have lots of contacts in the Vatican.
Adam Curry
You know, I've spent a lot of time in Italy.
John C. Dvorak
We had a, we had a monastery that we actually owned before the government took it away from us to be kind of a counter to what was going on the Vatican. So we have a broad network of the traditionalists and Prevost, and I'm saying this, the Conclave for the Pope was more rigged than the 2020 election. Now why I say, let me back.
Adam Curry
It up, some facts on Piers Morgan show.
John C. Dvorak
Ten days before the Conclave started, I called, I said, Prevost is the dark horse.
Adam Curry
He wasn't in any betting pool.
John C. Dvorak
If you look at Italian TV nowhere. The reason is, is not only is the. Okay, I just got to stop for a second. He didn't call it. He mentioned a couple of names and he said there were several dark horses. He did not call it. I'm just saying that because I got it wrong, but I got it right once before. He didn't call anything I say, let me back it up, some facts on.
Adam Curry
Piers Morgan's show 10 before the conclave.
John C. Dvorak
Started, I called, I said prevost is the dark horse. He wasn't in any betting pool. If you look at Italian TV nowhere. The reason is not only is the he's only been a cardinal less than two years.
Adam Curry
He was the perfect acolyte for Begolia to continue his thing on the front.
John C. Dvorak
Page of the New York Times says that today. If you read the whole huge front page story, more importantly, because of our.
Adam Curry
Efforts and other because the traditional church.
John C. Dvorak
In America is on fire, we with.
Adam Curry
Vocations and young people and vibrancy and.
John C. Dvorak
Urgency that we help cut off the.
Adam Curry
Money going to the Vatican. And so the Vatican.
John C. Dvorak
The Wall Street Journal had a huge article this week that showed the Vatican has tons of assets, but they're illiquid.
Adam Curry
They need the American cash. They would never put a traditional American.
John C. Dvorak
In that role because they think the American church has too much power. Prevost, what is going to be the contact for the big American donors? No, I think he's right. I think he nails the it with that. I don't know how a private election can be rigged. I don't know about that, but.
Adam Curry
Well, I like the way he put it.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah. Well, speaking of rigged elections, let's go check out Romania. Having conceded defeat on Sunday night, George Simeon, following pressure from his supporters on TikTok, will now sue to get the presidential election results cancelled, citing interference by France.
Adam Curry
International observers saw interference not only from.
John C. Dvorak
The Republic of Moldova, but also from the French state. Social media was manipulated and algorithms were used to influence Romanian citizens. The pro Russia candidate was relaying accusations by Pavel Duration Duroff, co founder of Telegram, who has said he's willing to testify. Duroff took to the social media platform X on Sunday to directly accuse French intelligence services. This spring, at the Salon des Bataille in the Hotel de Crillon, Nicolas Lerner, head of French intelligence, asked me to ban conservative voices in Romania ahead of elections. I refuse. We didn't block protesters in Russia, Belarus or Iran. We won't start doing it in Europe. Allegations which French intelligence, which has admitted meeting Duroff on several occasions, took the unusual step of denying. The Directorate General for External Security strongly refutes allegations that it made any requests for accounts in relation to any electoral process to be banned. I totally believe they did that.
Adam Curry
Unbelievable.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah. Well, that guy even said before, he said, France is meddling here. He said it the first three times they voted.
Adam Curry
France keep voting and keep voting until they get the right guy in. Worse than the eu.
John C. Dvorak
Well, it's pretty much the same. The same people. Same people running the show. Yeah. That's great. It's great. Look at the world around you, man. It's great. We're podcasting. Everybody's happy. Except Joe with that daddy long long legs. He's hiding out somewhere.
Adam Curry
Daddy long legs thing, since you brought it up, has just been bugging me now.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, it's very annoying because they have these.
Adam Curry
These two jokers that especially Tapper, has been on show after show after show after show.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah.
Adam Curry
And not one reporter has. Has even broached the topic of a fake.
John C. Dvorak
Because if they broach that topic and the mask story comes out, well, then no one will believe any. Anything again. Everybody will be a dude.
Adam Curry
What you're saying is a gentleman's agreement with intelligence agencies, I think.
John C. Dvorak
Well, we know that.
Adam Curry
Shut up.
John C. Dvorak
We know that Tapper was at the birthday parties we had. One of our producers catered the deputy CIA Director's birthday party, and Tapper was there hanging out, not reporting. Oh, I think. Yeah, gentleman's agreement, which is like, hey, Jake, look at the. This picture in your mouth. And with that, I want to thank you for your courage. Say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in the Cali Commie. Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only, Mr. John C. Devor.
Adam Curry
Good morning, you, Mr. Adam Curry, in the morning. All the ships of seaboots on the ground feeding the air, subs in the water, and all the names and knights out there in the morning for the.
John C. Dvorak
Trolls at the troll room, when we count you. Here we go. Counting. You know, 1874, that's not too bad. It's a Memorial Day weekend, right? Isn't this the long weekend?
Adam Curry
Today's Thursday.
John C. Dvorak
That's what I mean. Everyone's taking the Thursday and Friday off. They're already on vacation. No one's working.
Adam Curry
Smart money.
John C. Dvorak
Smart money. Not podcasters. No, no, no, no. Those trolls are in the troll room. You can find them@trollroom IO. And many of them may be listening to the live stream on a modern podcast app, which you definitely want to try by going to podcast appsapps.com because you'll never find a show being deplatformed from there because it is all connected to the podcast index, which I personally make sure does not deplatform or remove anybody or anything. And just to prove my point, Brennan sent me an email Monday. He says, Pandora disappointed me this morning. I went like I do every Monday to listen to Sunday's show and none of the shows are on there at all. I'm not sure if they cut the cord, but I figured you should know. Like Brennan, how many times do I have to tell you? Get a modern podcast that Pandora. Pandora.
Adam Curry
Are they still in business?
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, I think they're of part public, public company. So no. Get a modern podcast app. Support independent developers. Don't kowtow to big tech.
Adam Curry
Don't kowtow to big tech. That should be the motto of the show.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, yeah, I, I, yeah, I don't.
Adam Curry
I don't use a phone.
John C. Dvorak
You don't even have a, you don't even. But if you had one, it'd be one of those nice Samsung flip phones. We all know that.
Adam Curry
Those Samsung flip phones are unbelievable.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, they are. Stop. Stop texting me, people. Texting me on my light phone. Yes. So that's the trolls. And then of course, we want to make note of the fact that when we do this show, you notice no commercials. Did you notice that? No commercials, no pre rolls. No, we don't all, we're talking about something and talking about the Pope and then all of a sudden, gold. Yeah, you can get gold for your ira. Get these gold coins. Coins. These gold coins. It's, you're only going to pay 50 above spot price of gold. But hey, they're limited edition. Get them now while stocks last. We'll help you roll over your ira. Old person.
Adam Curry
You know, I've, I've been wanting to put a series of clips together of the segues that these, like Mark Levan, for example, he'll be talking about something very serious and segue right into a gold plug.
John C. Dvorak
Bill O'Reilly, O'Reilly is the worst. So he has the Bill O'Reilly Morning Update. And so he has another guy. So he says the Bill O'Reilly update for Monday. Here's Chip. And Chip will tell you what's going on. So Bill O'Reilly's not there. Chip does the news. And now an important and, and now we'll be right back after Bill talks to you. And then O'Reilly comes in and says troubling times right now we know what's going to happen with the tariffs, with the economy. That's why I trust gold. And he does it like a news story. It's like a news story. It's like a native ad and just slips it right in. And what happens is you wind up buying specialty gold coins, which are limited by the people selling you the gold coins, because they mint them now, they do that through Australia so they don't get in trouble for this. Obvious. I'm just going to call it a scam. I mean, I'm not an expert, but that's my opinion. And so you're paying, you know, 25% above the price of the actual gold contained in the coin. And I think the podcaster gets, you know, 5% or something. It's like there's so much money going around.
Adam Curry
There's got to be good money.
John C. Dvorak
We are stupid.
Adam Curry
Well, we're not stupid. We're.
John C. Dvorak
Well, no, we're not.
Adam Curry
We're honest. I, for example, when I was in high school, known as Honest John. Exactly.
John C. Dvorak
And why was that in high school? Specifically?
Adam Curry
Because that's where I can start to remember things.
John C. Dvorak
Okay. It was pretty funny. No, so we don't do that. There's no levels, no hoops to jump through. We just give, you know, if you want to buy.
Adam Curry
If you want to buy premium gold.
John C. Dvorak
Yes.
Adam Curry
Collect classic Americana gold, real liberty coins, the ones America minted back in the 1800s. They're around. And find a reputable dealer who'll sell them to you at the market price of what these collectible coins are worth. You have the gold, and you have a collectible item that's not going to.
John C. Dvorak
But because it's collectible, you're paying above the actual price.
Adam Curry
No, you are. But if you're going to pay. I'm just saying, if you're going to pay above.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, but.
Adam Curry
But gold price.
John C. Dvorak
But this is being sold.
Adam Curry
You can just buy gold. If you want to buy a bar.
John C. Dvorak
Buy a bar of gold. Exactly. But this is being sold to people who have no idea value.
Adam Curry
I'm not recommending people buy a bar of gold because the only guy I know that ever bought a bar of gold ended up losing in some divorce element.
John C. Dvorak
And I bought it at the time, $750 an ounce. It's tripled. More than. Than that. It's quadrupled.
Adam Curry
Yeah.
John C. Dvorak
Oh, man. Don't worry. The person who got it squandered it right away. So, anyway, one of the. One of the many ways that you can support us for the work that we do is, well, there's three ways actually. Time, talent and treasure. And we always love the treasure. We do need the treasure. However, however, doing stuff for the show is also important. So when someone does a, you know, does a. Boots on the ground, hitting people in the mouth, calling out people as douchebags for not donating, all these things are of high importance. But we also have the artists and the artists sometimes prompt jockeys. But again, I've made, I've made it. I have a statement about A.I. uh. Oh yeah, I have a statement about it because I, you know.
Adam Curry
Statement you did. Is it something you read? Is it on a piece of paper?
John C. Dvorak
No, it's not on a piece of paper. I've been vibe coding and I finally got my promise project done. Spent about 250 hours. Any competent coder could have done this in 10. And it's true. And the worst is like the AI will take you down a rabbit hole and just. And, and will not. It doesn't remember, it has no common sense. It makes mistakes that if you don't catch them, if you're not reading, what if you're just like, fix this, fix this, fix this. It winds up ruining it. Everything. You better have backup copies, otherwise you have to go say no, this, this worked.
Adam Curry
And that's interesting.
John C. Dvorak
And now you broke it. So you need AI to use AI in order to use artificial intelligence, you need almighty intelligence. That is my statement. And if you got that like digital 212-21-12 man, then you can come up with something decent. But it's not just going to do it by itself for yourself. Not a single AI will create an image or code or marketing document or, or resume or anything. If you don't know what you're doing, it's not going to do a good job.
Adam Curry
That's what everyone says.
John C. Dvorak
And it will be immediately.
Adam Curry
That's why the artists that do the best AI art are artists, are artists.
John C. Dvorak
Exactly like Darren o' Neill, the true artist. True artist. He's been using his easel and oil ever since he was a child. Digital 2112 man brought us the artwork for episode 1765. We titled that Pro Mortalist. And this is Adam and John at the climate desk. And we look very happy about it.
Adam Curry
Yes we do.
John C. Dvorak
Which I wasn't crazy about it. I mean, considering.
Adam Curry
No, you didn't like the piece.
John C. Dvorak
Really?
Adam Curry
I'm the one who put. I would take full credit for promoting this piece. And the reason I use the rationale is what we were sick of Darren winning all the time is One it's.
John C. Dvorak
Like, as long as it's not Darren. That was. You did say that. I think I actually heard, by the way.
Adam Curry
Still is on the all time leaderboard. He still is moving up, but he's not quite there.
John C. Dvorak
He's crazy.
Adam Curry
I will. I just like the composition of the piece. I thought it was pretty. It was joyful. It had a. Which is important. Yes, it was. It just was cute. It was a cute piece. I really like this piece.
John C. Dvorak
I personally like the beach walk, which was no agenda in shells on the beach. And of course, that. That totally was a call back to Comey, Comey, Comey. And you said it was too small and. And didn't.
Adam Curry
Well, that's because. Here's why I saw that piece. I thought, oh, that's kind of a cute piece. I didn't notice it was shells, which. Because it wasn't obvious because you had to blow it up to see. Oh, shit, shells. Oh, I get. I didn't get the joke until you actually explained it. Because it was too small. The shells are too small. The joke is lost because of the sizing thing.
John C. Dvorak
The good news is because of this discussion, I can play the donation bonus clip. How about that?
Adam Curry
I'm all in.
John C. Dvorak
This is Comey on the. With Colbert on the. What is the show? The Colbert show. The. The Colbert Colbert this evening. Something show to him. Running Colbert running cover for Comey. This is so. This is no. Colbert's pathetic 56 seconds of lies. What happened? You walking on the beach and you saw this on the beach? Yeah, My wife and I, Patrice were walking on the beach and saw those numbers in shells on the beach. You didn't do this. Somebody else did this. Yeah, somebody else did it. We were on a walk preparing for this week the roll out of my book. She looked at it and said, why'd someone put their address in the sand? All right. We stood at it trying to figure. Looked at it, trying to figure out what it was. And she'd long been a server in restaurants. And she said, you know what I think it is? Yeah. I think it's a reference to restaurants. When you would 86 something in a restaurant, right. It's off the menu. Yeah. I said, no. I remember as a kid, you'd say 86 to get out of a place. This place stinks. Let's 86. I was a bartender. You would 86 a customer if they were getting drunk. Like, let's 86 them. Give them a low proof alcohol or something like that. Yeah. And so I said, I think it's a clever political message. And she said, you should take a picture of it. I said, sure. And then she said, you should Instagram that.
Adam Curry
And boom.
John C. Dvorak
Well, and boom. I'm on all the shows to promote my stupid book.
Adam Curry
He always gets the book mentioned in early. But the thing is, some I forget one of the shows I heard this, that they researched his wife and she's never worked in a restaurant, so bull crap.
John C. Dvorak
Well, he blamed his wife, which is low. Oh, my wife told me to do it.
Adam Curry
Yeah, my wife told me like low. I agree with that. Blame your wife.
John C. Dvorak
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Adam Curry
It's a thousand.
John C. Dvorak
I know, but it's nice to note and I have no note.
Adam Curry
It's probably a thousand US because this.
John C. Dvorak
Came through stripe and I have no note. Do you have a note? I have no note.
Adam Curry
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John C. Dvorak
It'S even on no agenda donations.com I think it spells it out quite clearly how you should do that. So please send that to notes@noagendashow.net until that time you get a double up karma.
Adam Curry
You've got double up karma. Curiously, Andrew Gibbon From Darlington University UK sent in $420 also via Stripe and he sent no note in either. So he owes us a note and or a double up. Karma.
John C. Dvorak
That's right. Here you go, you've got karma. Then we have Paul Iken from sort Atkinson, Wisconsin and he did send in a note with his $333.33. A handwritten note, he says, john and Adam, first time donor. Please deduce. All right, happy to.
Adam Curry
You've been de douched.
John C. Dvorak
Love the show. Please wish my beautiful wife Danielle, not Danielle, but Danielle a happy anniversary and thank you. And he wants a jobs Karma. And he has a P.S. here. I heard Adam say on a recent podcast that food items from non commercial entities are discarded. I didn't say exactly that. I said I don't eat brownies that people, people send me. Let me know if you want. I will send you some salsa from my garden. Hardball at aol. Hey, Hardball. So I try some salsa from his garden. Would you try the salsa from his garden?
Adam Curry
You can't grow salsa.
John C. Dvorak
Well, it's from his. Here's your jobs. Karma.
Adam Curry
Jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs.
John C. Dvorak
I'm sure he grows the ingredients in his garden and that's what he's referring to.
Adam Curry
Sir Jan or Sir Jan, what would it be in Amsterdam? Sir Jan. Sir Jan. Sir jan in Amsterdam, Holland.333.33 Keep up with the good work. He writes. Love from Sir Jan, the innkeeper of Amsterdam. I want to get us a free room.
John C. Dvorak
He actually, he has offered me that. He has offered me a free room, sir. Several times. Right.
Adam Curry
What does he own a hotel or a big house or bread and bacon?
John C. Dvorak
Small hotel.
Adam Curry
Small hotel. That's perfect.
John C. Dvorak
Boutique hotel in the center of Amsterdam.
Adam Curry
Over by the old town.
John C. Dvorak
Literally in the center where the dam is. So in the center. I think that's who it is. I'm pretty sure. And 3,000. What? Yeah.
Adam Curry
I now have his email.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, you do. 333 from J. Lo from Encino, California. Happy 33rd birthday to Kaya. I know it's going to be a magical year for you. Less than taken, less than symbol 3, which is a heart. XOXO JLo.
Adam Curry
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John C. Dvorak
Executive Producer ship for Ryan nadeau from Bozeman, Montana. 221.21 hey guys. With this donation, I've made it to knighthood. John, sports ball sweatshirts are another form of shitcoin. You should be asking for bitcoin merch from the upcoming conference in Vegas. Now, next week. Please knight me. Sir. Sir Pliny. Sir Pliny. Sir Pliny.
Adam Curry
Pliny, sir.
John C. Dvorak
Why is it Pliny goes back to.
Adam Curry
Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger.
John C. Dvorak
Sir Pliny the Hodler. Nothing for me at the round table so Adam can save money to stack more SATs. That's right. I've been stacking since it was under 3,500. I'm stacking away.
Adam Curry
Ah, Eli the coffee guy Bensonville, Illinois Favorite 2 hours, 5 minutes and 22nd in the morning, he writes. This week has certainly been jam packed with news. Joe Biden's turbo cancer, the Congressional report on the dangers of the COVID vaccine, and a lovely sit down with Trump and the South African President. Plus so much more. Thank you John and Adam for providing excellent deconstruction of it all. Jobs Karma to everyone out in Gitmo Nation that are working hard. For producers who want a great cup of coffee, though at a great price, visit Gigawatt Coffee Roasters.com and use the code ITM20 for 20% off your order. Thank you for your encourage and stay caffeinated, says Eli the coffee guy. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma.
John C. Dvorak
Well, I have all the luck with the notes today. Circumcision from Blaine Washington sends us $200 Associate Executive Producer and he has a very long note which I'm going to have to edit on the fly, but he says ITM Gents John, you mentioned the Kilpatrick's Bread bakery in San Francisco and your Bill Maher segment a few shows ago about how fast food corporations don't change their winning recipes. Recipes. You made a couple of comments, first dismissing mars inept observation that recipes don't change. Then a seg into the early air bread craze of the 60s and how the McDonald's buns made at the Kilpatrick Bakery would get score marks to make them look risen. Your trip down memory lane in the Kilpatrick Bread bakery jarred some ancient memory in my head. It's a long memory. At the risk of sounding like a boomer, you're there. This is a boomer note. I had indeed toured the Kilpatrick's factory with my folks as some sort of get the kids out of the house and try to make it educational day. Probably 70 or 71. I distinctly remember getting the paper Kilpatrick bakery hat like the workers wore at the end of the tour and a loaf of magical Kilpatrick airbread, puffy and vaccus as God intended. It is said the Kilpatrick aficionados would deride Wonder Bread as inedible brushing and it off as an inferior product. And then he talks about how he was slipping back in time. You could smell it. He was. Anyway, he says thank you for taking me back to those halcyon days of the late 60s, early 70s of the SF Bay Area. It's a crap hole. Nothing like it used to be then. What a wonderful time to be live in the Bay long before Big Tech took any shred of character left from my beloved boyhood home. Well, here's your well deserved San Francisco Kilpatrick Bread Bakery Shout Out Donation. Thank you for your courage and the memory circumcision of the 10% off night of the fourth corner in Blaine, Washington. Yeah, it's a very that's a nice note. I like that he traveled back in time. That's what the power of the podcast is if you're not watching some dudes on YouTube by a Tina said that the other night she couldn't sleep. She was on the couch. She's like, I'm listening to some scripture. And she made the mistake of listening to it on YouTube. It was like Mark 4 or something. All of a sudden, gold, gold. You need to buy some gold. Right in the middle of it. Right in the middle. You made a mistake. You made a mistake doing that.
Adam Curry
By the way, in the business it was called balloon bread.
John C. Dvorak
Balloon bread.
Adam Curry
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John C. Dvorak
And then we have. Is this our final associate executive producer? Yes, it is. Joseph Dorfal, Smyrna, Tennessee. Ah, we know Joseph Dorfel from the Dorfals. A very famous family, Adam and John. Thank you for your courage. I've been an avid listener of the show for the last two years, slovenly absorbing the exquisite decadence known as your premium content. The last three shows have pushed me over the mountain of douchebaggery, and I've started my journey towards knighthood. As a seasoned veteran of the Amazon slave gang. I've seen firsthand the infiltration of DEI and the tightening noose of the economy as my generation falls ever deeper into the abyss of sheepdom. Alas, I've been slowly and steadily hitting others like me in the mouth, striving to grow the movement to end the sad puppy. Adam, I listen to Curry and the Keeper and hate to correct you, but I am in fact one of the Dorfal band members. I knew that. I humbly request baby making Karma F35 scream. And he also wants some chemtrails for his jingles. Second, I've been trying to avoid the chemtrails because they've been bad here the past past few weeks. So we will give all of that to you here in this, in this little compilation.
Adam Curry
You've got.
John C. Dvorak
Karma. Thank you, Joe. That's it. Our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1766. These are official credits you can use anywhere. Hollywood CR credits are recognized and honored, such as IMDb.com you'll go there and you'll see that a lot of producers have put their names up there along with some big show business heavyweights. And you're no slouch if you're an executive or an associate executive producer of the no Agenda show. We'll be thanking the rest of our supporters. $50 and above in our second segment. You can always support us with any amount, any number, whenever you want to. There's no, there's no prerequisite. Just do whatever you want@noagendadonations.com you can even set up a recurring page donation. Any amount, any frequency. No agenda. Donations.com. thanks for supporting us for this episode. My formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Adam Curry
I said, what in the world of this? There you go talking about the idea of. Let me show you a picture.
John C. Dvorak
No, look at this picture. Yes, look at this picture.
Adam Curry
Look at this picture.
John C. Dvorak
Look at this picture.
Adam Curry
I want to play Dan Bongino in 2022.
John C. Dvorak
Dan Bongino, 2022. Do you need a harp to go back in time? Or you could do that. I think the harp would actually be a nice, a nice touch. Here we go. Going back in time. Dan Bongino, 2020 22. Listen, that Jeffrey Epstein story is a big deal. Please do not let that story go. Keep your eye on this.
Adam Curry
Katherine Rumler, I want you.
John C. Dvorak
We need to keep the heat on this case, folks. There are a lot of people who are knee deep in the Washington swamp who are not telling you the truth about serious allegations out there that Epstein may have had video and audio of people out there doing things they shouldn't have been doing. And you should be asking yourself the question, how is it that all these people, the CIA director, the, the Obama fixer, Bill Clinton all intersected past with Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein isn't with us anymore. And nobody seems to want to talk about it outside of a few entrepreneurial media outlets saying, hey, this is a big deal. Yeah. We come back. Wow, Dan Bongino, pretty hot there about the. Who killed Epstein? We had songs, we had jokes, we had T shirts. Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself. Everybody was saying it.
Adam Curry
Now here's Dan Bongino. Last week.
John C. Dvorak
He killed himself again. You want me to.
Adam Curry
I've.
John C. Dvorak
I've. I've seen the whole file. He killed himself. What's interesting about this is this is such a distraction. Who cares? Show me the tapes. Show me what happened. Show me the client list. Show me anything. Now everyone's running around like, oh, can't trust him. Oh, shills. Everything's a shill. Probably Trump Trump's. Show me the Daddy Long Legs with the mask. It's all fake. What do the kids say? Fake and gay. G, E, A, G E Y H. Fake and gay. Yeah.
Adam Curry
So NPR did a thing. They attacked Doge.
John C. Dvorak
Oh, no. A Doge attack. Doge attack.
Adam Curry
I got a two parter.
John C. Dvorak
Okay, I guess the first parter is Fox Attack. What? The first. The first part of the two parter is Faux Attack.
Adam Curry
I thought I had corrected that before I shipped it in.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, you sent it with those. With those other clips. You have two shipments, man. I don't know who got the other one, but it wouldn't me. We report on the broad reach of a government effort set up by Elon Musk.
Adam Curry
The Ad hoc Department of Government Efficiency keeps finding new parts of the federal government to try to shrink.
John C. Dvorak
Hold on. Ad hoc is a lie. It's a digital Services department, isn't it? It's not ad hoc.
Adam Curry
I think pretty much, yeah.
John C. Dvorak
That's. That's a lie.
Adam Curry
No, ad hoc makes it. You. You made it up. As you're going. Oh, let's just put a. Come on, kids, let's do a show.
John C. Dvorak
We report on the broad reach of a government effort set up by Elon Musk.
Adam Curry
The ad hoc Department of Government Efficiency keeps finding new parts of the federal government to try to shrink. A new analysis by NPR found at least 40 agencies and groups that Doge has tried to cut in recent weeks.
John C. Dvorak
Npr. Stephen Fowler is covering all of this and is online. Hi there, Stephen. Good morning. So who's getting a knock on the door here? Well, the knock is often an email from one of a few Doge staffers based in the General Services Administration. They're seeking to learn more about operations and to embed a team within the organization. Now, some of them have already been effectively dismantled by doge, like the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Some of them have been targeted for elimination by the president in his proposal for next year's budget. Like AmeriCorps, the outreach has been to this constellation of commissions, boards and entities that are all small and independent. Well, how have some of these dozens of entities responded after the email? In many of these places, DOGE has moved quickly. At the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, for example, in less than one week, an email led to a video call, led to an in person meeting, and now a Doge team is being onboarded. On April 17 alone, DOGE staffers scheduled meetings with officials from the Truman Scholarship foundation, the Denali Commission, the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation, and the US Access Board. And that's according to two sources not authorized to speak about Doge's operations. I guess we should mention different laws.
Adam Curry
Apply to different organizations which themselves are organized differently.
John C. Dvorak
Could they just say no thanks to Doge's requests? Some of them already have. Because these Doge folks have also tried to reach out to organizations that aren't government agencies at all, like the private nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice, the independent nonprofit Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the Government Accountability Office, which is part of the Legislative branch. What did I learn here?
Adam Curry
You learned that they don't care. It's like what you learned is nobody cares that they're mocking this. Basically nobody wants to do anything about all this government waste, but they bitch and moan about the ridiculous deficit that we have. Yes, yes, but okay, let's play part two.
John C. Dvorak
How legal is any of this? There are more than a dozen lawsuits that have been filed related to DOGE efforts at these small organizations that say it's not legal. By and large, these are places that have been created by Congress, many of them nonprofits. And nearly all of them do have their funding and functions spelled out by law. And some of those cases explicitly limiting the president's power to interact with them. That means President Trump can't always go in and fire people and make changes on his own. In the last week, a judge ordered a halt to DOGE related shutdowns at the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and the Minority Business Development Agency. And this week, a different federal judge found Doge's takeover of the US Institute of Peace was illegal. Stephen, what does all of this add to your understanding of what DOGE is doing? Well, President Trump has a very Clear mission of what a government remade in his image. Looks like it's smaller. There's less bureaucracy. And those people and institutions who are left answer directly to him and his viewpoints. Calling him God there with a made in his image.
Adam Curry
Yeah, this was the point. Oh, they want to make it in his image and they want loyalists. I mean, it's like you're the president, you've been elected thus, and then you expect what? And you expect people to pay any attention. You want people that go along with your program. No, we don't want that. We want independence. We want to do what we want to do. We don't. The president doesn't matter.
John C. Dvorak
No, no, this is.
Adam Curry
This is ridiculous. They don't support any of it.
John C. Dvorak
Let's do a little technique.
Adam Curry
The media does not support anything positive.
John C. Dvorak
No, well, we're not supporting them. We're moving to podcasts. Let me see. Sam Altman, OpenAI, has bought Johnny I. AI company.
Adam Curry
Yeah, I saw that.
John C. Dvorak
For $6.5 billion. Nice work if you can get it. That's pretty nice. My favorite artificial intelligence story. Well, I have two, actually. My favorite was the AI Generated Summer reading list. Did you catch this story?
Adam Curry
No, I didn't, but it already sounds good.
John C. Dvorak
Some newspapers around the country, including Chicago Sun, Thomas Times, and at least one edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer, have published a syndicated summer book reading list that includes made up books by famous authors.
Adam Curry
That's the great thing about AI Yeah. If it can do art, it's making stuff up. It's making it up.
John C. Dvorak
The list has no byline, but writer Marco Bascaglia has claimed responsibility for it. Says it was partially generated by artificial intelligence. An email to NPR bus Scaglia writes, huge mistake on my part has nothing to. My bad. Huge mistake on my part. Has nothing to do with the Sun Times. They trust that the content they purchase is accurate, and I betrayed that trust. It's on me. 100%. There it is. There it is. We just talked about it. When you say 100%, bull crap. Unbelievable. Let's see. With any. Do we have any of these fun books that they had? Let me see.
Adam Curry
Yeah, you have to have the list.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, I have the list here. Let me see. But these are authors I don't know.
Adam Curry
Yeah, well, because probably half of them are made up.
John C. Dvorak
No. Well, Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury. Is that a real book?
Adam Curry
I don't know.
John C. Dvorak
Well, I know Ray Bradbury.
Adam Curry
Yeah, he's real.
John C. Dvorak
He's real.
Adam Curry
Dead, unfortunately. Well, he has a new bookfish with him. Once with Ray Bradbury.
John C. Dvorak
Wasn't he a science fiction guy?
Adam Curry
Wasn't he a. Yeah, he's a great guy. He gave a speech in Napa at some event I was attending and he's a great public speaker and he has a certain kind of style that is very easy to take and it's easy to copy. And I breakfast with him the next day. Yacked about what I yak about it. And he's just a charming guy. Guy. Nice guy.
John C. Dvorak
Oh nice.
Adam Curry
And he gave me a book, autographed it up.
John C. Dvorak
I have a. I have a tip for DH Unplugged which you can hear on Tuesdays, live on Tuesdays and listen to the podcast on Wednesday.
Adam Curry
Yeah, 6 o' clock Eastern.
John C. Dvorak
Yes, that's. No, no, no. 8 o' clock, 8 o' clock Eastern. Isn't it 6?
Adam Curry
No, I think it's 9 o' clock Eastern. 9 o' clock, 6 o' clock Pacific.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah. With that horrible Horowitz guy.
Adam Curry
Yeah. There. You guys hitting on your wife?
John C. Dvorak
My wife. Here's, here's my tip. I would say a long term short on Alphabet. They have finally done the worst thing they could possibly do to their core business business now with Charles Grant. He is starting with Google, making some big announcements at its development developers conference on Tuesday. This is especially, isn't it Charles with regards to artificial intelligence. That's right. Since Chad come onto the scene in 2022, there's been a mad scramble in Silicon Valley to try and integrate AI powered chat bots in many features and there have been concerns that Google was lagging behind. Well, the tech giant clearly tried to alleviate those fears on Tuesday by saying they are rolling out a new search feature for US users called AI Mode. It's basically a new tab within Google search engine that users can activate and which answers questions in the conversational style of an AI chatbot and does not include a list of blue links like we've been accustomed to for so long. The new feature will be powered by the AI model that Google has developed itself called Gemini. Take a listen to Google CEO Sundar Pichai. It's a total reimagining of search. With more advanced reasoning you can ask AI Mode longer and more complex queries like this. In fact, users have been asking much longer queries two to three times the length of traditional searches and you can go further with follow up questions. All of this is available today as a new tab right in the search. This is the dumbest thing they could do.
Adam Curry
We don't make stock tips that that was a Not a real tip that you gave.
John C. Dvorak
No, that was just me just joking around. Yeah, I'm just joking around. Don't.
Adam Curry
And by the way, most people are buying heavily into Google for some reason.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, well, I just.
Adam Curry
So you probably eat it if you.
John C. Dvorak
Follow your advice knowing that. No, I'm just looking at what it costs. I mean it's seven times the cost to perform an AI search. There's no links. So they, they ruin the whole concept of SEO.
Adam Curry
No, they're, they're, I don't know what.
John C. Dvorak
To make their sense to me. Unless, unless they start charging for it.
Adam Curry
They're, you're going to have to dream up some way of making money off this thing. I don't know how they're going to do it. Well, right now. And of course some of this obviousity of his commentary which included, oh, they're asking really long structured questions. Yes. If you're asking, if you're working with AI, you ask, ask long structured questions.
John C. Dvorak
Yes.
Adam Curry
Because that's what the AI is expected to hear. And the funny thing is during the very early days of Google, before they got their act together in, in the, in the 90s, late 90s when I had Sergey Brin used to come on.
John C. Dvorak
Was that the late 90s when they got their act together? Feels like.
Adam Curry
Yeah, I think.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, okay.
Adam Curry
It was the late 90s, they got their act together and their people were still using Yahoo until about, for most of the 90s. And because I always asked everybody about it, they said, why don't you use in Google? Sergey Brin used to say you should write a complicated question that as your search criteria.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah. Yeah, well try that. I think it's dumb. I think it's dumb. You're going to get a lot of stories. Google told me to do this. Google did this, Google did that. It's a PR nightmare, I tell you.
Adam Curry
Well, it's going to be for them because they always have inferior technology at some level when it comes to AI. You can tell by their AI art where they turn the American revolutionists all blacks.
John C. Dvorak
Blacks, yeah. Did you see the videos from that producer who sent it to us about the guy? I think he's in Canada and he has the free zero point energy machine made of mine magnets. No, I didn't. So he shows this machine and he has like.
Adam Curry
Did we talk about this in the last show? Zero Point Energy game?
John C. Dvorak
Yeah. Someone donated and told us to look out for this. So the guy has this machine, there's two gears on one side and he has a piece of wood stuck. And he pulls the wood out and the thing just starts going and going and going. He puts the wood back in, it stops. And then he dismantles the machine on video right before you to show there's no wires, there's no wires. It's all just magnetic, magnetic, magnetic energy. It's really fast. I love this stuff. It's very fascinating. And then by coincidence, if there's such a thing, this video, this news story pops up. I think that they're trying to get rid of magnets altogether. New at 10. Despite more safety rules, kids around the world continue swallowing magnets. And the United States tops the list for the most incidents. A new study was published yesterday in the medical journal BN Injury Prevention. It found the US reported between 522 and 2000 magnet ingestion cases each year since 2016. We've been warning you about this for.
Adam Curry
A long time now.
John C. Dvorak
In 2016, a ban on high powered magnet sets was overTurned. But in 2022, the consumer product Safety Commission set strict rules on the size and strength of loose magnets that could fit in a child's airway. Excellent. Experts say the new studies suggest the safer, safer regulations may not go far enough. Here's a tip. Kids, stop eating magnets. That's a tip. All right, five minute warning. John, you're, you're up. You can play your last clips.
Adam Curry
What was my last clip?
John C. Dvorak
I don't know. What do you got? I'm sure.
Adam Curry
Well, I can play the dumb clips. This is a, this is a clip which just encourages archivists and hoarders to be on the lookout. And this also tells me that Harvard is either the luckiest group or they, or they're dumb because it took him this long to figure out what was going on. This is the Magna Carta clips.
John C. Dvorak
Oh, yeah, this was an interesting, interesting story. In 1946, Harvard University purchased what it thought was just a very old copy of the Magna Carta from a bookseller in London for $27.50. Now, 80 years later, that document has been identified as the real deal, issued by king Edward the First in the year 1300. NPR's Scott Newman has the story. The first version of the Magna Carta was produced in 1215. It outlined the rights of free men and the limits of the English monarchy. The Royal Charter of Liberties went through several iterations throughout the 13th century, the last in the year 1300. Although few originals exist today, it's considered one of the most important legal documents in history. Centuries later, that legacy resurfaced. When David Carpenter was searching through the Harvard Law School Library's online archives, the professor of Medieval history at King's College London saw an item listed as a copy of the Magna Carta from 1327. So he clicked, and there behold, what do I see before my eyes. But what for all the world seemed to me an original of the 1300 Magna Carta. But he needed to be sure. So he enlisted Nicholas Vincent, a fellow professor of Medieval history at the University of East Anglia, to help. The two approached Harvard with their hunch and requested an ultraviolet scan to get a better look. This is an odd story. I don't. I don't know. I saw it too. I didn't.
Adam Curry
Yeah, I just thought it was kind of fascinating. But it encourages people to be on the lookout. Go to more flea markets. Jonathan. Here we.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, here we go.
Adam Curry
Jonathan Zittran is a Harvard professor who.
John C. Dvorak
Heads the law library there. When he got the request from Karpen Vincent, he was intrigued but cautious.
Adam Curry
You've got to tie together a number.
John C. Dvorak
Of threads to figure out the authenticity of something. And it's not always that. There's a eureka moment where it's like, ah, yes. Zitterin says that without help from the.
Adam Curry
UK scholars, Harvard may never have known.
John C. Dvorak
What a great deal they struck all those years ago to own a treasure of world history. And of course, it makes you wonder, gosh, what else do we have between the couch cushions? No one knows exactly what Harvard's Magna Carta is worth, but in 2007, one authentic document fetched $21.3 million at auction. Scott Newman, NPR News. Yes, this is indeed spurs on the archivist like yourself. Which leads me to the question, have you ever come across a gem of a find in your collection days? Yeah. Like what?
Adam Curry
Well, I was at an auction and I saw and there was a. They had some. Was auctioning off what I looked at and saw, oh, this is a daguerreotype. I should bid on it. And nobody's bidding on it. I got it for a dollar. What's a Garre type daguerreotype? It's a type of early photo.
John C. Dvorak
Oh.
Adam Curry
But it wasn't a daguerreotype at all. It was an Edward Curtis original photograph on a gold photograph on glass.
John C. Dvorak
Edward Curtis would be.
Adam Curry
He's an old photographer from the 1800s. And this piece is worth. It probably was worth $10,000.
John C. Dvorak
Whoa, whoa. $1 into $10,000.
Adam Curry
Yeah.
John C. Dvorak
You know what that is? That's better than bitcoin.
Adam Curry
Well, that's the only real deal I'VE been holding on to this thing. I can't gotten 10,000 out of this month.
John C. Dvorak
I'm sorry. I just drowned you out. Didn't mean to.
Adam Curry
Yeah, I just said I did. I haven't sold it so I still worth 10,000 supposedly. I mean I might get this might be only get five, but whatever it was I only paid a dollar which is the point.
John C. Dvorak
That's. That's groovy man. I'm very happy for you. Now where you. Where would you go to sell that? Another flea market?
Adam Curry
No, no, it would go to an auction house. It'd go to Christie's.
John C. Dvorak
Christie. They're probably calling you right now. Hey, he's got an orig original.
Adam Curry
You have to get it into one of the. I've auctioned stuff off and to do auctions right you have to find a thematic auction.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, yeah.
Adam Curry
So you have like in other words if a big Edward. Edward Curtis auction place where he had a lot of his stuff. It attracts all these collectors. That's when you get the money. Otherwise you could get ripped off, chipped.
John C. Dvorak
I don't want that.
Adam Curry
But I haven't cashed in.
John C. Dvorak
We have some beautiful end of show mixes on the way for you. John's tip of the day. We have some dynamite meetup reports. But first John is going to thank our donors $50 and above. Who he didn't mention earlier.
Adam Curry
Yes, yes. Robert G. MacArthur starts us off. He's in Monmouth, Oregon. 150 he says. He says something he falls asleep to the podcast it sounds like anyway. Nathan Cochran in Franklin, Tennessee. A famous place.
John C. Dvorak
That's one of our Mercy Me boys.
Adam Curry
He's a Mercy me guy.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah.
Adam Curry
1, 2, 3, 4, 5. And a good supporter by the way.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, he is good guys.
Adam Curry
Whatever happened to our guys from Weezer?
John C. Dvorak
I don't know. You know one of the band members wife was arrested during a shooting.
Adam Curry
Yes I. Sausage.
John C. Dvorak
Well not that she had anything to.
Adam Curry
Do with it but no, she went.
John C. Dvorak
Out or she went out with a gun. She went out with a gun.
Adam Curry
That was a gun. Hey, what are you guys doing in the yard?
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, I don't know. I. I haven't heard much from. From our. The drummer. Drummer?
Adam Curry
Yeah. He's a drummer.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah. I don't know what happened.
Adam Curry
Thomas Koenig in Sdorf Deutschland 11111 Nice. Doug Andrews in Sykesville, Maryland. 10101 Timothy Bjork in Rollins, Wyoming. 100 Ian Field Parts Unknown 100 Sir Hold My Beer in Austin, Texas. You probably know him. 100 Gabriel I. Shelton in Pensacola, Florida, 100, sir. Darth Penguin. It was a great little good name. I like that name. Darth Penguin in Streamwood, Illinois. 8438. It's a boob donation, actually. The switcheroo for my good friend Chaitown Spook.
John C. Dvorak
Who perhaps, when not in conus, doing spook things.
Adam Curry
No, Chitown Spook.
John C. Dvorak
Whatever. He's. He's probably.
Adam Curry
We have a lot of people that are probably in that category.
John C. Dvorak
Category? Spooks. All spooks, man. Spook.
Adam Curry
Spook. Spook. Kevin McLaughlin. Carker, North Carolina. There is the king of the boobs.
John C. Dvorak
He is.
Adam Curry
He's also a Archduke of Luna. 8008. Nicholas Leary, 7272. Dame Becky. Dame Becky in Arlington, Washington. 6996. Maria Mar. Maria. Maria. Maria Woolver.
John C. Dvorak
One way to pronounce it, Mario. I just met a girl named Maria. Maria. Yes.
Adam Curry
7 68. 51 from her. She wants some jobs. Karma. We can do that at the end, I think, if you remember. Write it down.
John C. Dvorak
Oh, also, the Walnut Grove cast gave no agenda a shout out last week. That's the. That's the Little House on the Prairie podcast.
Adam Curry
Is that right?
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, because I. I listened to it. We've talked about it. The Little House on the Prairie podcast.
Adam Curry
You did mention it, but what do they talk about?
John C. Dvorak
The show Little House on the Prairie and Laura Ingalls and the books and everything. Yeah, The Walnut grovecast. Give it a listen, people. It's nostalgic.
Adam Curry
It's called log rolling Pod.
John C. Dvorak
Rolling Pod Rolling.
Adam Curry
Jan Yan Morris is in calm, Calm.
John C. Dvorak
Calm, which means calm wood. Calm wood Cookies.
Adam Curry
In Belgium, though.
John C. Dvorak
Calm wood.
Adam Curry
He wants a de douching. You've been de douched. He got a call out to his homies Gil and Dave boy.
John C. Dvorak
Hey, hey. And Dave boy. We're all from Belgium, so we're screwed, but we know it. Okay, Young.
Adam Curry
You got it. Get the name right. Lauren in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 6,000, 161. This is an Aunt Gigi donation.
John C. Dvorak
I'll just have an apple in my room, sir. Sure. What happened to Rebecca? What happened to Rebecca? Rebecca.
Adam Curry
Rebecca's here. She's in. She's Rebecca Hopper Hooper. Hooper in Pinehurst, North Carolina. 6,600 small boobs. And she says, love you guys, sir. Shellwood, shelfwood. Shelf wood. Huh? 5,000, 809. Michael Wideinger. Win Whitinger in Sumperk.
John C. Dvorak
Czechoslovakia.
Adam Curry
Is Czechoslovakia or Czech Republic? One of the two? 5798.
John C. Dvorak
Probably Czech Republic. Republic, yes.
Adam Curry
Tony Almond in Greenville, South Carolina. 57 98, 73 KF4MSJ or I, no J73s.
John C. Dvorak
Kilo 5 Alpha, Charlie Charlie.
Adam Curry
Kyle Frederickson in Sarasota, Florida. 5626. I keep seeing 33s everywhere. There you go. Daryl K. And D. Oh, wait, he.
John C. Dvorak
Says first time donation. Please deduce me.
Adam Curry
You'Ve been de douched.
John C. Dvorak
And call out Joey P. As a giant douchebag.
Adam Curry
Joey P. Daryl k. In Dubuque, Iowa, 5568. What does he say here? Anything? Nope. A Gidry. Gidri is Ponchatoula, Louisiana. 50. Gidry is a. Is a name from that area. 55 60. Please de douche me you've been de douched. Shout out to Mary Moon. Andy meyer in Leavenworth, Washington. 5550. Maria. What crazy names today. Self, I guess. Or maybe. Maybe it's Maria. S self does this. S, S, E, L, F in rancho Cordova, Cordova, California. 5271. Bob Newell in Penfield, Pennsylvania. 5250. Baron Henry of Outpost west in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
John C. Dvorak
50.
Adam Curry
Curtis Cool in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. 5229. A happy 16 16th anniversary to my wife. Also, real men don't run out of gas. That's a comment about something, Adam.
John C. Dvorak
He's aiming to finish his knighthood on show 1776. Now. Thank you for reminding us. That's going to be a big show.
Adam Curry
Number 76. Big ma. Massive show.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah.
Adam Curry
Spencer nay in Weaverville, North Carolina. 5150. And see what he says there as I go on to Thomas hurtado in Fontana, California. $51. And he wants some girlfriend karma at the end. Forest Martin, 5005. And Andrew Benz in Imperial, Missouri, 5005. And now we get to the 50s, starting with Andrew Goosek in Greensboro, North, North Carolina. A lot of North Carolinians in here today. Donald Richards in Franklin, Virginia. Greg Marshall in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Michael Socorro in New Richmond, Wisconsin. Bold City Virtual Tours in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Dame Rita. Oh, there she is in Sparks, Nevada. Thank you for your courage. Renee Barnhart. Something.
John C. Dvorak
Bernhardt's Grutter.
Adam Curry
And she's in Switzerland.
John C. Dvorak
Switzerland.
Adam Curry
Bernhardt St. Gallen. Oh, we need more Swiss listeners.
John C. Dvorak
Maybe that's just her way of doing a Bernhardt donation. Because it's kind of Swiss for a Bernhardt greeting. Bernhard's Grutter. I'm just thinking.
Adam Curry
Yeah, it's probably what it is. Exactly. Leanne Shipley in Covington, Washington. Sir Jerry Warren Wingenroth in Saugus, California. And last on our list is Sir Greg in Newport, South Carolina. I want to thank all these people for making show 1766 the reality that it became.
John C. Dvorak
Yes, we appreciate you very much. Everyone under $50 as well, although we will not read those names for reasons of anonymity because people do like that. Also, we have our sustaining donations. You can go to noagendadonations.com you can give us any amount, any frequency, once a day, once a show, once a week, once a month, whatever you want to do. It's all up to you. People do eventually become knights with this stuff, so it is well worth your time and trouble. And of course, you support the best podcast in the universe. Thank you all very much. Jobs, karma, as requested.
Adam Curry
Jobs, jobs, jobs.
John C. Dvorak
And jobs.
Adam Curry
Let's vote for jobs.
John C. Dvorak
Once again. Noagendadonations.com and here's our list. Greg, which is Brianna belated happy birthday. She turned 35 on May 18th. Brian, happy birthday to brother Craig in kalispell. He turns 50 something tomorrow. JLo. Happy birthday to Kaya turning 33. And Bruce Bear, which is Marcia Jones from Jonestown, Pennsylvania. A happy birthday. And we do the same. Happy birthday for everybody here. The best podcast in the universe. And we have that one night who needed no special attention at the Round Table, had no jingles, any of that. So we'll just get him up here and bring out the One Night Blade.
Adam Curry
There you go. The One Night beautiful blade.
John C. Dvorak
All right, Ryan Nado. You have reached the pinnacle, sir. You are now a welcome up on the podium podium here to join the roundtable of the no agenda dames and knights. And I am very proud to pronounce Kate B. As Sir Pliny the Hodler. Sounds like a bitcoiner to me. For you, sir. We've got hookers and blow rent boys and chardonnay cookies and vodka, warm beer and cold women, Polish potato vodka. We've got beer and blunts, cowgirls and coffee varnish, coffin varnish. Reuben has room in rose geishas and sake vodka, vanilla bong hits and bourbon sparks, ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk and pablum. Or as always here at the Round Table, a nice hefty piece of mutton with a nice glass of mead. And you can go to noagendarings.com and we'll have your signet ring ready for you. All you have to do is give us your ring size. There's a handy ring sizing guide@noagendarings.com and it comes with a Certificate of authenticity. And because it is a signet ring, we'll give you a couple sticks. Sticks of wax so you can steal. Seal your. You can steal too. You can seal your important correspondence. And thank you so much for supporting no Agenda. Welcome to the roundtable of the no Agenda Knights and dames. Like a party. They always are like a party. I witness it myself. We have last Friday we had a no Agenda meet up here in Fredericksburg, right outside. Outside town actually, in Luckenbach at 1776 Bar that is Jenny, the J6ers bar. It was a great time and Fredericksburg. Matt had organized that with his lovely wife Gail. And here is their meetup report. It's nice to be out here with everybody. Thanks for having us. Wonderful barbecue and in the morning, everybody. Well, that was Lori and I'd like to thank her for 17 years of courage. Hey, this is Sir Ducifer. Just want to give a shout out to to all the the no Agenda beat up heads out there. It's been a really great time. Hi, this is Rob, your constitutional lawyer. I just want to be loved first, but certainly not last. The first meetup. It's really been great and met a lot of nice people. Too bad you're not here. John in the morning. Citizens and slaves. This is Sir Chris Baron in North Austin having a great meetup out here in Fredericksburg. Some good barbecue and good new friends.
Adam Curry
Hi, this is Trinidad. I'm here at the meetup at at.
John C. Dvorak
Fredericksburg and we're having a great time. Cheers. Hey, it's Paige at the meetup having a great time. Fantastic barbecue.
Adam Curry
Hey everybody, this is Sir Brian with the knives again.
John C. Dvorak
I'm here with my smoking hot self, Sir Dirty Jersey John. Work on your Texas accent in the morning. Jenny, your baby goats are amazing. Yep, from Chicago now in Texas. This looking good so far. Hello, this is Jenny. Excited to have y' all back out in October. Hey, this is Sean. I'm still a douchebag, but everybody treats to be very nice. Awesome barbecue in the morning. This is Brendan from Local 512 saying in the morning.
Adam Curry
Hi, it's Gail. Second meetup in Fredericksburg, Texas. A great success in the morning.
John C. Dvorak
All right. This is Terry Shore from Mount Point barbecue.
Adam Curry
We had a great time out here with Matt Long and got to meet Adam Curry.
John C. Dvorak
That was awesome. Best no agenda meetup in a long, long time. Lots of human, human resources, good food, good people. And we got the constitutional lawyer. What else do you need? There you go. That was a good time that we had. Patrick Coble, Sir Patrick Coble was in the Netherlands for a recent meetup. Because he travels. He's bad. He's international baron Rob from another meetup in Lighter with us, very special guest, Sir Patrick. Thank you. In the morning, learning about very interesting.
Adam Curry
Ways to steal a car.
John C. Dvorak
Good morning. This is Roland again, Sir Sebastian, Knight of the Spirit Ground, saying hello. And in the morning with these great folks here in Leiden. In the morning, it's Duke of the South. Howdy. Howdy. Nice to meet the Duke of the south here in Al Bas. Adam and John, thanks for everything. Hey, could you maybe give the rainstick a wiggle? Because it hasn't rained here for at least two and a half months. In the morning, this is Pedro. Nice to meet these guys in Leiden again. Why are. Why I am in Leiden again? I don't know. It's a nice evening. These people are weird. Hey, John, that's the first time in a long time we've had a range stick request and I think we should do one because I'd like to bounce it off Greenland and hit the Netherlands. You want to give it a shot?
Adam Curry
No, but I will.
John C. Dvorak
Okay, two shakes of the stick. These are official rainsticks, everybody. So it will rain. We are professionals. Do not try this at home. Ready? One, two, three, go. Shake one and shake two. You're afraid it's going to rain there? Is that the problem?
Adam Curry
No, we can use some rain.
John C. Dvorak
Okay. It's good. All right. The Netherlands. Let me know how that works out. Meetups coming up on Saturday, Quad Cities Area Extravaganza, 7 o' clock at Wise Guys Pizza and Pub in Davenport, Iowa. Next Thursday, because no one's doing a meetup on Sunday. Sunday, the Lazarusvart Picnic, Culenborg, noon at Cafe de Haffenmaister in Culenborg, Gelderland, the Netherlands. Also next Thursday, North Idaho Sanity Brigade May meetup kicks off at 5 o' clock at Trails End Brewery and Brick Oven Pizza. That's in Curd Lane, Idaho. And finally, the North Georgia Monthly Meetup, 6 o' clock at Cherry Street Brewing in Alpharetta, Georgia. I got a request from Paul, who was organizing. I think this may be the first no agenda meetup in Copenhagen. Have you ever had one in Copenhagen before?
Adam Curry
I don't recall one in Copenhagen. That'd be a good place to have one.
John C. Dvorak
It is the meetup at the Boghaven. That means the Backyard Bauheuen. It's a microbrewery. I suggest you go to noagendameetups.com it's Friday the 13th of June in Cope Mikkelsberghaven op refen. There you go. You'll find this in many more meetups listed@noagendameetups.com these are producer organized, which means these are people that you will want to reach out to. They are your first responders in an emergency. And when you go to one of these, you get connection that always gives you protection. Noagendameetups.com if you can't find one near you, start one yourself. With all the nights and days you want to be where you won't be triggered on hell, you want to be.
Adam Curry
Where everybody feels the same.
John C. Dvorak
It's like a party. It's like a party. Wow. I had one ISO and it's. Is this not working? Is this ISO not working? Hmm, that's interesting. Like, 10 people sent me this ISO and I don't know if it doesn't seem to want to load in my player, so I'll just see if it plays. If it doesn't, then the joke's on me. You ready?
Adam Curry
Yeah. You know I don't like dicks.
John C. Dvorak
There you go.
Adam Curry
You know I don't like dicks. Yes, that was taken from.
John C. Dvorak
The H Unplug show. Yes, I thought it was.
Adam Curry
And then we're talking about dick sporting's goods.
John C. Dvorak
Yes, yes. I thought it was a fine end of show ISO. I don't think you agree with me.
Adam Curry
Well, it doesn't really apply to the show and it's like, you know, kind of a. It's somewhat profane the way it's clipped.
John C. Dvorak
Somewhat. Yes. All right, so let's hear what you've got.
Adam Curry
I have four, but actually one of them does isn't a clip at all. It's just. I thought I'd play it just because it's a experiment. This is three. Back to back to back. Because I'm just to let you know, I'm still working, working on it. This is what I'm working on, and this is how far I've gotten.
John C. Dvorak
Yo, yo, yo, what up? Yo, yo, yo, what up? Yo, yo, yo, what up? No, none of them are even close.
Adam Curry
I'm getting there.
John C. Dvorak
It's, it's, it's yo, yo, yo, what up, yo? You got to have a yo at the end, don't you?
Adam Curry
Oh, okay, I'll work. I forgot about it. All right, so I got a. I got a slew here. I got ice. I got a wake.
John C. Dvorak
The podcast is over. Wake up. Okay. I like that one.
Adam Curry
Tina would like that one.
John C. Dvorak
Yeah, she would. Gold.
Adam Curry
Yeah, it's gold. Boys.
John C. Dvorak
These boys have done another fine job. Okay. Yeah.
Adam Curry
And then we have goof.
John C. Dvorak
Good.
Adam Curry
Good. Actually, why can't everyone do a podcast this good?
John C. Dvorak
No, I think the podcast is over. Wake up. I think that that's the one for me. There's nothing quite like that. Good job, everybody. And now it is time for the coveted John. John C. Dvorak's tip of the day.
Adam Curry
And sometimes Adam.
John C. Dvorak
Yo, yo, yo.
Adam Curry
So this is something people don't realize. They. It's something you'll use a lot of, but you don't know you need it.
John C. Dvorak
Oh, one of those. One of those deals. Okay.
Adam Curry
Yeah, you get one. This is for. This is for lifting things an inch or two off the ground with the. With no work. And it's not like a cabinet jack. These are cheap. They usually come in pairs. And they are. They're air power. You squeeze. Got a bulb, you squeeze.
John C. Dvorak
This is a cabinet jack.
Adam Curry
No, I said this is not a cabinet jack.
John C. Dvorak
This is not a cabinet jack. Okay.
Adam Curry
Cabinet jacks can be pretty expensive.
John C. Dvorak
Yes.
Adam Curry
This is called an air shim.
John C. Dvorak
Airshim.
Adam Curry
An air shim. And you would. The search you want to do to get the best, better ones is AirShim Pro XL. AirShim Pro XL. And Mimi uses these all the time to, like, she. We had a. We have a piano up at the. In the Port Angeles house, and. And one of the casters broke, and you put the air shim under the piano and you can pump it up and it lifts the piano about 2 inches off the ground in the corner. And then you could put the new caster on and lower it back down. Now you can move the piano. Piano around. That's one example. You can use it to lift up appliances, and it's just one of those screwball products that nobody even knows they need.
John C. Dvorak
Does anyone up there play the piano?
Adam Curry
Jay can play the piano.
John C. Dvorak
Jay can play the piano.
Adam Curry
Yeah.
John C. Dvorak
Oh, is she good at it?
Adam Curry
No.
John C. Dvorak
All right, everybody, there it is. You can read all these tips@tipoftheday.net thank you. Great advice for you and me. Just the tip with JCD and sometimes Adam, created by Dana Burnetti. Well, that was honest. John strikes again. All right, everybody, that is it. For our broadcast day this Sunday, we have a special edition of the no Agenda show. It will be the best of the clip. Clip of the day. This is a dynamite show because all these clips were good because they were bestowed with clip of the day we don't have.
Adam Curry
And the thing is, it's only about once every third show that we have a Clip of the day.
John C. Dvorak
And thanks to Sir Deanonymous for making Bingit IO available to us because that's how these special shows are put together. So enjoy that on your Memorial Day weekend. And of course, we'll be we'll be checking in on you during that show so it'll be fun to listen to. Coming up next on the no Agenda stream and your modern podcast apps that Larry show number 488, that's Larry with a deep voice coming to you. Oh, wait. End of show. Hugh Allison, James Bosworth, David Kekta, and I am coming to you from the heart of the Texas hill country right here in picture Fredericksburg in the morning, everybody.
Adam Curry
I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley, where I remain, I'm John C. Dvorak.
John C. Dvorak
We'll see you on Sunday with the best of the clip of the day. Until then, adios mo fosa, hooey, hooey and such.
Adam Curry
Well, we got some global warming in Texas. Texans are definitely not strangers to heat. That's not what humidity does. If it's real humidity.
John C. Dvorak
No, it makes sense.
Adam Curry
You're in forgetting. Go to the Midwest. Go up to Chicago. Chicago, it's 90 with high humidity. It feels like it's 200 degrees. It's terrible. I've been in New York once where.
John C. Dvorak
It was so humid you want to puke. You walk outside that.
Adam Curry
I had to change my clothes twice in one day.
John C. Dvorak
It's going to feel like right. 105, 106.
Adam Curry
And experts say heat this early in the year can be especially risky.
John C. Dvorak
And it's not just Texas.
Adam Curry
This is increasingly a problem across the United States.
John C. Dvorak
What are we, reptiles? What is climatized body? We live in air conditioning, lady.
Adam Curry
Here's the funny thing about it. What difference does it make when the temperature goes from whatever it is to hot?
John C. Dvorak
I'm not climatized yet. Are you climatized yet? No one believes in climate change. No one believes in it. I want to be at the no agenda climate test. So you have to think that some of that sweet, sweet climate change money is going to outfits like npr.
Adam Curry
Today many people around the world are marking Internet International day against Homophobia, Biphobia, Biphobia, Biphobia and Transphobia Day dedicated to raising awareness of rights. When did biphobia show up?
John C. Dvorak
The buyers were like, hey, hey, hey. I want some phobia.
Adam Curry
I want some phobia.
John C. Dvorak
I want some biphobia. Biphobia, biphobia. Hey, hey, hey. Biphobia. It's a bunch of, of balls. Bunch of balls. Fabulous blue balls, red balls, silver balls. It's a bunch of balls. Bunch of balls. Fabulous balls.
Adam Curry
Some gays and Adam the buys were.
John C. Dvorak
Like some gays and Adam. Fabulous. It's a bunch of balls. Bunch of, bunch of bunch of balls. Fabulous. Blue balls, red balls, silver ball. A lot of balls. Fabulous.
Adam Curry
I want some phobia I want some.
John C. Dvorak
Phobia I want some biphobia Biphobia biphobia.
Adam Curry
Biphobia I want some phobia I want.
John C. Dvorak
Some biphobia Biphobia hey, hey, hey Biphobia hey, hey, hey Biphobia, biphobia Turn the lights down. That's why I and so damn many other people I grew up have cancer.
Adam Curry
Arrest that man.
John C. Dvorak
Cancer. Cancer.
Adam Curry
Kid all kill the white farmers. Kill cancer.
John C. Dvorak
Kill cancer. Turn the lights down.
Adam Curry
Arrest that man.
John C. Dvorak
Turn the lights down. Arrest that man.
Adam Curry
Dead white people. Dead white people. Dead white farmers. They just want to get out with their life. The best podcast in the universe.
John C. Dvorak
Dvorak.org NA the podcast is over. Wake up.
Podcast Summary: No Agenda Show - Episode 1766 "Cinematic Ambush"
Release Date: May 22, 2025
Hosts: Adam Curry & John C. Dvorak
In Episode 1766 titled "Cinematic Ambush," hosts Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak delve deep into the recent Oval Office meeting between former President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. The discussion centers around Trump's claims of genocide against white South African farmers, the media's portrayal of these events, and broader implications for media credibility and political discourse.
[00:30 - 01:38]
The episode opens with Curry and Dvorak setting the stage from their respective locations—Northern Silicon Valley and the Texas hill country. They express disappointment over repetitive media clips sent by producers and highlight their unique perspective on the unfolding events.
[01:23 - 05:00]
Dvorak introduces a BBC report questioning why President Trump has resurfaced with allegations of violence against the Afrikaner community in South Africa. He attributes Trump's renewed focus to the influence of Elon Musk, a close ally and South African native, suggesting Musk has pushed unsubstantiated claims of "white genocide." Dvorak criticizes Trump for relying heavily on Musk's views rather than independent judgment.
Notable Quote:
John C. Dvorak [03:14]: "It's synonymous, you see, because President Trump is racist."
[05:00 - 06:56]
Curry and Dvorak draw parallels between Trump's actions and historical events, notably President Woodrow Wilson's screening of "The Birth of a Nation," a film that glorified the Ku Klux Klan. They argue that Trump's alleged racism and xenophobia are attempts to rewrite history and divide both the nation and the globe.
Notable Quote:
John C. Dvorak [04:27]: "President Trump is literally using both racism, anti-black racism and xenophobia, anti-immigrant, anti-refugee hate."
[05:45 - 10:22]
The hosts discuss how various media outlets, including CNN, MSNBC, ABC, and the BBC, have created supercuts that portray Trump as aggressive and confrontational. They criticize these portrayals as biased and lacking journalistic integrity, emphasizing that mainstream media consistently depict Trump negatively regardless of his actions.
Notable Quote:
John C. Dvorak [06:14]: "The dramatic scene in the Oval Office today... President Trump is being accused of conducting something of a diplomatic ambush."
[10:01 - 11:27]
They further critique CBS for selectively editing clips to slant the narrative against Trump, omitting context that might mitigate his portrayed aggressiveness. The discussion underscores the hosts' belief that mainstream media are losing credibility due to consistent bias.
[11:27 - 25:33]
Dvorak provides an in-depth analysis of South Africa's political situation, focusing on the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) led by Julius Malema. He outlines how the EFF's aggressive land expropriation policies without compensation are destabilizing the South African economy. Dvorak argues that these policies lead to increased violent crime, high unemployment rates, and economic collapse, positing that offering refugee status to Afrikaners is a strategic move to undermine the ANC government.
Notable Quote:
John C. Dvorak [24:23]: "This is the end of an incredibly racist, corrupt, useless and now bankrupt regime."
[25:33 - 37:00]
The conversation shifts to the broader implications of socialism and state-controlled land policies, drawing comparisons to communist principles. The hosts argue that the lack of property rights and forced land redistribution are detrimental to both South Africa and the United States, warning against exporting such policies globally.
[37:00 - 46:07]
Curry and Dvorak transition to discussing President Joe Biden's health, referencing comments made by Scott Adams about Biden's prostate cancer. They express skepticism about the transparency of Biden’s health disclosures and speculate about potential underlying issues affecting his cognitive and physical capabilities. The hosts highlight the importance of full health disclosures for presidential candidates to maintain public trust.
Notable Quote:
John C. Dvorak [44:11]: "There needs to be a law on the books requiring full health declaration disclosures. Full health under oath."
[46:07 - 60:06]
Further discussions focus on the COVID-19 vaccine policies, the shifting recommendations for booster shots, and the perceived inadequacies in addressing long-term effects of the virus. The hosts criticize the government's handling of vaccine mandates and express concerns over public health strategies, emphasizing personal choice in collaboration with healthcare providers.
[60:06 - 75:44]
The hosts criticize mainstream media for their handling of political narratives, including the dismissal of opposition and the promotion of biased agendas. They discuss the prevalence of manipulated content, such as "cheap fakes," and the challenges of discerning truth in an era dominated by conspiracy theories and biased reporting. Curry and Dvorak emphasize the importance of independent media sources like podcasts in providing unfiltered information.
Notable Quote:
John C. Dvorak [74:05]: "While everyone's been either previously infected or infected and vaccinated. Or vaccinated... it's really a way of denying vaccine access for those who want it."
[75:27 - 91:00]
The conversation briefly touches on artificial intelligence's role in content creation, including AI-generated art and misinformation. The hosts caution against overreliance on AI, pointing out its limitations in common sense and accuracy, and advocate for human oversight in media production to maintain authenticity and reliability.
Notable Quote:
John C. Dvorak [125:08]: "We have to make sure that we do not engage in research that's any risk of opposing any risk to human populations."
[91:00 - End]
Curry and Dvorak wrap up the episode by reiterating their distrust of mainstream media and emphasizing the need for independent journalism. They encourage listeners to support their podcast as a reliable source of information amidst widespread media bias and manipulation. The hosts also highlight upcoming meetups and express gratitude to their supporters, reinforcing the show's commitment to providing unfiltered political analysis.
Notable Quote:
John C. Dvorak [92:30]: "We dissect, we analyze, and we report without the constraints that bind traditional media."
Trump's Allegations Against South Africa: The show scrutinizes Trump's claims of genocide against white South African farmers, attributing his focus to Elon Musk's influence and drawing historical parallels to lignifying media narratives.
Media Bias and Credibility: Curry and Dvorak vehemently criticize mainstream media for biased reporting, creating supercuts that unfairly portray Trump, and complicating public trust in journalistic integrity.
South Africa’s Economic Struggles: An analysis of South Africa’s EFF policies reveals concerns about land expropriation without compensation leading to economic instability and increased crime rates.
Biden’s Health Concerns: The hosts raise critical questions about President Biden’s health transparency, advocating for mandatory health disclosures for political leaders to ensure informed voter decisions.
AI in Media: A cautious perspective on the integration of AI in content creation, underscoring the need for human oversight to prevent misinformation and maintain authenticity.
Advocacy for Independent Media: Emphasis on the importance of supporting independent podcasts and alternative media outlets to counteract the prevailing bias and manipulation in mainstream news channels.
Episode 1766 "Cinematic Ambush" of the No Agenda Show offers a critical examination of recent political events involving Donald Trump and South Africa, the pervasive bias in mainstream media, and concerns about political transparency and health disclosures. Through detailed analysis and pointed criticism, hosts Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak advocate for independent media as a counterbalance to the perceived failures of traditional news outlets.
For those seeking an unfiltered perspective on current events and media deconstruction, this episode provides comprehensive insights and thought-provoking discussions.