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Forget about Proposition eight.
This is preparation ah

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broadcasting from Gitmo nation
East in the United Kingdom. I'm

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Adam curry.

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And I'm John C. Dvorak cup here
in Northern Silicon Valley.

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Hey, John, how you doing? Okay.
How was your Thanksgiving for

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your Thanksgiving? Good. Ken,
what do you do?

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Well, we had to unfortunately,
we're going to have Thanksgiving

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next weekend because it couldn't
get up to Washington. So we had

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separate Thanksgivings. The
price of the airline tickets and

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meanwhile, all the air, all the
news coverage was Oh, nobody

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went anywhere. Nobody went, you
know, the airports were emptying

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and they were there was like
nobody travelling and they were

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moaning and blaming on the
economy. I'll tell you what to

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blame it on. $500 airline fares
were that you were normally $65

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That's what the blame it on.
These guys are idiots.

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Oh, I love it when you're like
that. So wait a minute. So did

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you celebrate by yourself in in
the Bay Area and the family was

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up in Seattle? Yeah, basically.
Oh, did you have no one to

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celebrate with?

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No, actually, we one of the guys
that were sponsoring in law

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school, who my wife calls her or
fourth son moved moved down here

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and so I brought him over and
and fed him.

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Did you make turkey? No, no, I
had pheasant. Ah, oh, that's

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John. That's That's it. That's a
real bummer when you can hang

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out with me right now. I'm sure.
Except from the pheasants

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perspective, it

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actually forged my wife they
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meal. You know, I had to walk
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for the most part, she did it
she she nailed it. She did she

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finally discovered if you use a
thermometer on a turkey, you can

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probably get the temperature
right when cooked perfectly.

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Oh, I like those pop up. Warning
buttons. Yeah,

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yeah. Okay. So one of the things
that was floating around here

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though, which was I go to the
store to get the pheasant. I

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figured out the economic
collapse and I also have

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pheasant and what to make it
even more. Dagens

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cake. Truffles. Oh, nice. Yeah.
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there's a bunch of offseason
truffles that came in, and they

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were dirt cheap. I mean, and
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ones. And the woman that brought
them in or at the store at local

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store. They came from Honduras.
Now they've had truffles.

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Obviously, the best truffles
come from France and Italy. But

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then there's a lot of them
coming in from Oregon. But the

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Oregon ones are kind of mushy.
And they're in the you have to

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deal with him in all kinds of
weird ways to to make him

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acceptable. These are just like
a French truffle. And they were

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like, what,

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what is the the truffle market?
Or what was it before the the

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economic malaise because these
things were quite expensive. And

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they're basically what does it
it's like a root that's under

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the earth that has to be
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dog. Is that the basic idea?

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It's like, it's like a fungus.
And Santa Fe is a fungus. That's

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right. It's a ball. It's a
little ball. And it looked very

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distinctive looking. And they
get to any number of sizes. I

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remember going to Alan do cost
his restaurant in New York once

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when it was truffle week. And
they brought out these truffles

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in a big box. And they opened a
big vintage table individually

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and they opened the box and
showed you these three truffles

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that I swear each one of them
there were white truffles from

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Italy. Each one of them was the
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They are what they cost. What do
they cost or don't that's

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cost about $5,000 A piece. But
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fungus. It's very aromatic.
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but still five Gregory dance.

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Well, no, those are the big
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those. I've never seen truffles
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Why are they so expensive? Is
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isn't rarity? Or what is it?

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Yeah, they're hard to find. And
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grow under certain oak trees.
And once you dig one up, you

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can't you know, they don't
propagate. It's not like cork,

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you know, harvest.

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Boy, we learned so much on this
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So the No, I mean, typically a
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got one the size of a golf ball,
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you know, these other ones that
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restaurant were ludicrous. But
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golf ball, which would be a big
truffle, you you'd probably pay

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about. I'm guessing around 150
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that. Yeah, that's a lot. Now
these rooms were small. They

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were the size of very small. I
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bigger than then I would expect
for the price and you got two

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of them. They're more like test
testicle size is what I'm

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guessing Exactly.

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What depends on you know, if you
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like $9 Wow. So I bought a bunch
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is like ridiculous. I mean, I've
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even the ones from Oregon cause
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somebody found some truffles in
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here we go.

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And do you think There's a
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$5,000 softball truffle and the
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truffle.

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Yeah, yeah the $5,000 one is
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can we grow these I mean is that
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impossible to grow. So anyway
that wouldn't this place let's

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imagine that one of the bigger
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the bigger restaurants that
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the Ritz Carlton in San
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one corner of the restaurant and
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corner. When they when I was at
Allen do courses and they had

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this box of truffles. I was that
far away when the guy at some

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other table that far away open
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there. Wow. It was unbelievable.
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eggs in the morning and truffle.
basically putting truffle in the

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salad. I mean you name it.

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Cool. I got some some hemp seeds
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salads. Have you ever tried that
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Do you find them? You can

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you but you can also just get a
hard on it kind of hard. No, no,

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no, they actually you can eat
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in fact, and they're they're
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and actually not that hard at
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like you have a nice mouthful of
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it's also filling and and the
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because I believe it's healthy.

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But you believe a lot of stuff.
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sure. I'm kooky John, but I
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you can just sprinkle it on a
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sometimes I eat it quite
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Hmm Where do you get them?

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You bite in the supermarket
right? It's a Sainsbury's hemp

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seeds.

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Yeah, yeah. Well can you plant
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no well the D shelled soy or
whatever the whatever it is I

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should go get the it's it's
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go grab the container and read
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does state specifically
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was a tch Yeah, THC. Sorry THC.

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What does that Tetra HETRA
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something like that? And
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bhandara lower whatever the good
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doesn't contain any of the well
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must be some trendy thing that
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with it. You should

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you should you should try it
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will like the taste of it and I
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they don't sell those seeds or
their their data if there's no

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THC or anything else there.
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even suggest me they don't even
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they just like freaky?

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Or paper? Which of course it's
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Yeah, well, there's a lot of
uses. I mean, ham, be digging. I

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mean, this stuff that's low. It
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just as stringy stuff, you know,
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out of it's very valuable crop
and you know, they won't grow it

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because it's like, you know,
just propaganda talking about

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dropping property. Go ahead.

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Yeah. You think oh, man, let me
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So there was a thing on PBS.
This is one of the things I

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actually made a note on this
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and I'm just did just struck me
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on and this was part two Was
this the history of late night

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television was though, right?
It's actually quite entertaining

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because it's all about Steve
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Park came into the scene and how
Johnny Carson got the job and

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all this kind of thing. And mer
how MERV Gryphon was discovered

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himself and that kind of thing.
Oh, excellent, excellent. So

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they're showing this Steve
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Allen's the progenitor of all
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watching Steve Allen, when I was
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got to I got to watch this,
this, this show. But having also

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experienced the entire history
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because even when I was a little
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fanatic about watching comedies,
you know, I could watch, I could

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stay up until midnight wasn't a
big deal. And so, so I saw the

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shows, there's

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parents, that's what happens
when you let your kids stay up

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at it to enter any time of the
night. This is what they turn

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Right chatterboxes on podcasts,

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big winners in society.

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Anyway, so they're showing the
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things I remember distinctly
about Steve Allen, he had this

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thing called man on the street.
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it. It was basically it has some
questions. He asked these people

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and they were there but there
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he had the Stooges these
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it was Tom Poston always played
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Barney Fife. Don Knotts nervous

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wreck and he would just be
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on the camera was on immunity to
answering questions.

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And that was funny back in the
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it actually still funny. Oh,
really? She I mean this because

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he was so good at it. I mean, he
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toe and very unbelievable way.
And then he had Louie Nye, who

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always played some slickster,
who was like a New Yorker or

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something. And then the last guy
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would come on, and he would play
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Jose Jimenez. And again, Steven
always had to always do always,

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the gag always began with Steve
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know, it's always what's your,
what's your name, the guy would

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say, my nine. Jose Jimenez. And
you know what, there's my name,

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like you can make those kinds of
jokes today in our PC World.

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the some anti defamation group
found it very offensive to have

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build dangerous, saying my name,
even though you know, if you go

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see the movie Scarface, you
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my little friend, motherfucker.

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So anyway, so so they, they
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after he became a stand up comic
doing this character, and they,

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they, they hounded him out of
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he basically lost his living.
And that was the end of it. So

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I'm watching this special and
they, it to me, left him out of

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the story completely. trying to
you know, it was just obviously

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suppressed. I mean, even though
this is years and years ago, and

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this is a historic document now,
you know, this 15

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I'm Hold on a second. Hold on a
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please. I mean, you know, people
who make television shows and

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documentaries are often just
they have an opinion, they're

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just Boneheads. And in the
zeitgeist, you will remember

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problem is that they showed the
other characters in this in this

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in this, you know, so they

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had, they had to make it within
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crap in there that could have
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I'm debunking John C. Dvorak.
What is the world they come to?

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reminded reminds me of what you
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to do for the last five or six
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possible copy can find Amos and
Andy.

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That's right, because he wants
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reissue and do that again or
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he wants to destroy it he want
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should not be even viewed by
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turned it around you know if he
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but it's nuts that even in this
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think you can do that. But it's
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can't be done. No, of course
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thing but I was I was actually I
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was the name of the character. I
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building the comic I just it was
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they show I swear to god they
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around that show mentioned or
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he man his character was
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street sketch anyway, I just
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almost as galling as the
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know the airlines and they were
they were they have trouble

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making money. I have a sound
effect for us today. John. Oh,

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ready, you're ready you know
what this is? Sounds like the

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subway or a train or something
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that not Now listen again. You
gotta You gotta listen really

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carefully to it. That is the
sound of the printing press at

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the Federal Reserve John Chow is
voted full speed you better

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believe it man it's been so
fantastic to see all this all

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this stuff being created and
printed and thrown away and

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there's so much happening that
it you can't even track it all

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anymore. We're now at $7.4
trillion that has been pumped in

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in the past three or four months

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yeah, all the good is done me

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and I love it that the Fed still
won't tell it tell anyone what

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they what they've given this
money to or what they've

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received in exchange for it and
oh man Obama's financial team.

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Summers Geitner Volker guys to
do a lot of changes the whole

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change Yeah. ROBERT GATES
Defence Secretary left in place

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there's some change for you

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but I got the biggest kicking
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they they've been are debating
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since the frontman that since
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just the weirdest thing that
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sister. From both sides. The
I'll go on and on about how it

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would be really cool for Robert
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person that says this idea
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everybody, but the Democrats and
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conservatives and the most
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Robert Gates is the guy the go
to guy. But again, I would show

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that magnanimous you know, you
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the name, I'm putting
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in my cabinet, I'm doing the
right thing. And so I don't know

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he. Well, I think I got it
figured out. John, you want one?

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I mean, you just went off on
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there about

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Bill Dana and Jose Jimenez.

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Yeah. So of course, we've all
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degree the the attacks in, I
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but Okay, call it Mumbai, if you
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things that is really bugging me
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First of all, the immediacy,
they haven't even captured any

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guys, I think they killed the
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But you know, we have one
picture of a guy who's wearing a

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Versace sweatshirt. And now we
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they are Islamic, radical
Islamic terrorists. And I

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started to put all these things
together, you know, the, of

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course, Obama is saying, Hey,
I'm gonna pull all the troops

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out of Iraq. Of course, that
means I'm gonna send them to

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Afghanistan. So sending them to
Afghanistan. And then I'm

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thinking, Alright, so obviously,
you know what they're doing.

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Now, if you listen to the Prime
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and out, this is Pakistan. This
is Pakistan who's doing it. And

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now the move is towards
Pakistan. And if you look at the

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map, which you might want to do
it, and you do, John, but I'm

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just saying it to our listeners,
from time to time, just pull up

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Google Earth there and go look
at Pakistan. And you'll see that

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on one side it borders on
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side it it borders on Iran. So
if we got or Afghanistan that

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borders on both of those. So now
I've got all these guys in

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Afghanistan at right on the
border. In fact, with Pakistan.

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I think that the there's a poise
here, to take over Pakistan,

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which already politically, of
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It's a it's an nuclear country.
We're building up troops right

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on the border. I'm thinking that
this is this is and by the way,

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there have been in the past, you
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been an attack in India every
six months, with 60 or 80 people

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being killed. And and this just
speaks to me completely. I think

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it's a gear up for some kind of
assault on Pakistan.

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Well, it's not bad. It's not
like your usual material.

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Well, of course, the part that
the the usual material part

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would be that these obviously
are hired mercenaries who are

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trained has nothing to do with
terrorism because since when

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does al Qaeda all of a sudden
take hostages and and use AK 47?

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That's completely different from
any any type of al Qaeda linked

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terrorist attack. These guys
look pretty damn professional to

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me. And it looks like they you
know, they were hired, they went

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in, they just were in there to
kill and doesn't seem to me

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like, you know,

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no, I mean, I think that's
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I said it's not like usual
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going to summarise by saying the
CIA, or some hobby house thing

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and

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CIA, you've got to believe that
we're behind it. Israel's behind

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it. You know, there's a big
thing oh, now they've they have

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there's a Jewish house of
worship or whatever they're

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calling it, they're not calling
it to a synagogue. They're

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calling it something else. This
one, here's something that

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really bugged the hell out of
me, because, you know, there's,

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well, first of all, they're
saying, Oh, it seems like they

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were targeting Americans and
Britons although, you know,

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like, of the 130 people who've
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actually American or British.
But this is one guy,

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multimillionaire, Andreas
leovera. Us. And he was on the

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phone with the BBC. And right
after that, he got killed. And

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so I'm like, Wow, that's
fascinating. So I'm looking

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around for the, you know, for an
audio or something like that. I

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don't know if he actually was on
air, but I found a short

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transcript from the BBC website.
And here's what he said this was

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interesting. So he was in the
restaurant, about 1000 people in

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the restaurant. And hold on a
second. Where is it? He said

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that they were locked in. He
said there must be more than

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1000 people here there are
residents and tourists and

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locals we are not hiding. We are
locked in here. The doors are

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locked and we are inside. Now,
what kind of terrorists goes

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through, you know all of this,
you know locking people in a

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room containing them they cut
the television services. So no

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one could add, you know, the cut
the telephone connection to the

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outside. Yeah, this is this is a
major acid attack, John. I mean,

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this is a core ordinary military
effort. This doesn't seem like a

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bunch of a bunch of bozos and
boy, do you think they were

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armed? I mean, this is, to me,
this is very, very troubling,

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was on Fox or someplace else
pointed out that it was a very

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low tech thing, because it was
just basically armed men militia

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types that, you know, just took
over all these places that

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burned you know, the hotels and
did all the rest of it. You

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might you might be on to
something here because it does,

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it doesn't, because all the
things that dechaine has ever

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done is they, they've Yeah, they
would do a coordinating body

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bomb the facade of everything.

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There was side bomb. Yeah. And
the most people who were killed,

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and we're just talking about a
really easily it's horrible, of

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course, but the most people who
were killed were in the train

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station, which were mainly
Indians. Also, so there's a

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definite spin being put out
there. And that's the shit you

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got to watch for. There's a real
spin on that a it was linked to

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al Qaeda or other or now they
had the some Mujahideen group,

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which is by even the definition
of Mujahideen is, is not really

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something you can pinpoint.

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Right? Well, they also mentioned
that this drug car or the car

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mucha dienes, which is from an
region and area and we say it's

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somehow related to this other
one, really, because I listened

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to the analysis on Fox, and
they, you know, they was a

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stretch it was like, Well, you
know, first of all, they said,

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we don't even know who these
people are at the beginning.

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Remember when this thing first
broke? It was like, everyone was

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baffled by who these people
were. And then they announced

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you they weren't interested. Who
are they? We never heard of

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them. Which of course, then is a
bad reflection on the Indian.

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These blog people are reflecting
negative. Did you hear

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the audio? Did you hear the
audio of the Decca Mujahideen?

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They called into Sky News or
whatever, like Yeah, and they

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were speaking in the Indian. And
so there was translation, but it

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was like yes, we are the deco
Mohammed Mujahideen, we are

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responsible. And then the
reporter says, What are your

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What are your demands? And the
and the guy goes like, well, I

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demands Hey, what do I like?
Like he didn't know what the

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demands were? He had to ask some
guy so it's, you know, it's

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clearly either fake or you know,
on setup, or it's just not

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right. It's crap.

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Yeah, you know, I'm not gonna
budge until the reporting is

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finished with reporting by the
dream world org. Let me take

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some more drugs. Oh, all right.
Excellent. So it's like what

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reported me there's gonna be no
reporting. So we're never gonna

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find out is what I'm trying to
get at here. Obviously, because

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if it's what you think it might
be, which is a phoney baloney

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deal. And by the way, it is
interesting that it coincides

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with the IMF.

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I was looking for I was looking
for something will tell me about

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the IMF.

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They've done a deal with
Pakistan.

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Oh, this makes so much sense. So
we hit him. We hit him twice. We

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hit him in the financial nuts
and we and we we just take

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everything and everybody out and
move in. Yeah, now listen to

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this. Do major massive Gitmo
nation news. You will love this

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in the United Kingdom. So we
have a we have a shadow

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government here. So we have the
people running the country. And

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then right on the other side of
the House of Commons, you've got

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what they call the shadow
government. So you for the

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there's an immigration minister
in Parliament, and then there's

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the that will be a labour
immigration minister. And then

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on the other side, you have the
shadow Immigration Minister, in

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this case, it's Minister green.
And so over the past couple

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months, a number of stories
really whistleblower stories

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have broken in the newspapers in
the UK. One was that we talked

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about this that there were 1000s
of illegal immigrants who were

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who had been cleared to work in
sensitive jobs in the

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government, and that the Home
Secretary Jackie Smith knew this

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month before it ever came out.
There was another one about

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illegal Brazilian immigrant who
was working as a cleaner in

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Parliament. Let's see there was
what people would think about

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the 42 day incarceration there
were a number of stories that

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were getting leaked to the
press, which I consider to be

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you know, a look, it's the
government we deserve to know

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about this stuff. So what they
did is they they had suspicion

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that it was the conservatory
Minister green Damien green of

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immigration, who was leaking
this to the press. They took him

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out of his house last night,
arrested him, took him

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interrogated him for nine hours
while they searched His homes

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both in London and in Kent. I
mean, dude, does this remind you

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of anything? It's great. This is
This is outrageous. It's

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absolutely outrageous.

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They slapped him around a little
bit just a you know whether it's

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better to be you know, or
something where they do it

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a waterboarded. And that is just
outrageous that this is taking

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place. Let me tell you another
one because you'll get a kick

440
00:25:34,110 --> 00:25:37,500
out of this the British man, and
I've been talking I love the

441
00:25:37,500 --> 00:25:40,230
Brits. And I've been talking to
him about this. You know, they

442
00:25:40,230 --> 00:25:44,190
said, Why are you on your back
like, like, bitches letting the

443
00:25:44,190 --> 00:25:47,970
government piss on you all the
time. And which by the way, they

444
00:25:47,970 --> 00:25:52,200
have a term here, which is
called Bo heka.

445
00:25:53,010 --> 00:25:55,710
Oh, yeah. Bend over. Here it
comes.

446
00:25:56,130 --> 00:26:00,300
Here comes again. Yeah, it comes
again. Yeah. So so they had this

447
00:26:00,330 --> 00:26:03,750
this big blow up about these,
these to talk show hosts,

448
00:26:03,750 --> 00:26:06,360
Russell Brand. And Jonathan
Ross, we talked about that. And

449
00:26:06,360 --> 00:26:08,730
you know, these guys make a lot
of money. And they they said

450
00:26:08,730 --> 00:26:11,190
like, you know, they fuck
someone's granddaughter and was

451
00:26:11,190 --> 00:26:14,640
a big brouhaha and should they
be fired and one resigned and

452
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:19,080
the other was kicked off the air
for three months. But they have

453
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,690
Dancing with the Stars, which of
course originated here in the

454
00:26:21,690 --> 00:26:25,650
United Kingdom, which is called
Strictly Come Dancing in the

455
00:26:25,650 --> 00:26:31,290
official pronunciation. And
there was a guy on an actor,

456
00:26:31,290 --> 00:26:34,830
singer comedian, one of those
older guy, older gentleman named

457
00:26:34,830 --> 00:26:39,510
John Sargent. And the guy can't
dance. But the Audience Yeah,

458
00:26:39,510 --> 00:26:39,660
no,

459
00:26:39,660 --> 00:26:43,410
I actually was a guy. When I
went through Europe last week, I

460
00:26:43,410 --> 00:26:46,140
was reading all these papers and
you know, the cuz there's all

461
00:26:46,140 --> 00:26:48,120
the British papers. And I was
reading though there was like a

462
00:26:48,120 --> 00:26:51,090
big deal about John Sargent.
They had pictures of them,

463
00:26:51,330 --> 00:26:54,240
right? And they've been there
editorials all over the place

464
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,730
about how they can't dance. And
I'm the reason why did is wrong

465
00:26:56,730 --> 00:26:57,630
with these people.

466
00:26:57,750 --> 00:27:01,230
Well, so this is what's amazing
from a number of perspectives.

467
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:04,830
So the the judges were, you
know, a scale of one to 10, the

468
00:27:04,860 --> 00:27:09,240
judges kept giving him 123 I
mean, completely failing scores.

469
00:27:09,420 --> 00:27:12,900
But the audience who ultimately
decides who stays on kept voting

470
00:27:12,900 --> 00:27:14,700
for him because they loved it,
they were like, This is

471
00:27:14,700 --> 00:27:17,550
entertaining. It was funny to
watch him. And it was it really

472
00:27:17,550 --> 00:27:19,680
was funny, because, you know,
you dance with a real

473
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,290
professional, and she's
basically doing all the moves.

474
00:27:22,290 --> 00:27:24,630
And he's like, dragging her
across the floor. It's just it

475
00:27:24,630 --> 00:27:27,720
was funny, it really worked. And
then, you know, it was like this

476
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:31,110
big Oh, well, you know, this is
a discount B, this is a dancing

477
00:27:31,110 --> 00:27:35,490
competition. And, and then, you
know, so then John Sargent said

478
00:27:35,490 --> 00:27:37,830
that, oh, well, you know what,
I'm just gonna resign the show.

479
00:27:38,430 --> 00:27:41,820
And I'm thinking, this is the,
you know, the British public

480
00:27:41,820 --> 00:27:45,510
who's so outraged about paying
for these for these two

481
00:27:45,510 --> 00:27:49,140
comedians who just weren't funny
for once. And they're so

482
00:27:49,140 --> 00:27:54,210
outraged where this is a blatant
setup. Blatant, where they kick

483
00:27:54,210 --> 00:27:57,870
the guy off the show, someone's
lying somewhere, and they're

484
00:27:57,870 --> 00:28:00,780
just letting them go, you know,
it's like, I don't I don't get

485
00:28:00,780 --> 00:28:04,110
it and like, oh, okay, well, I
guess that'll make sense. And I

486
00:28:04,110 --> 00:28:07,980
know, Patricia has this fight on
on pop stars in Holland all the

487
00:28:07,980 --> 00:28:11,220
time. You know, because it's
like, well, this girl, you know,

488
00:28:11,610 --> 00:28:14,340
this is one contestant who's
who's really rockin right she's,

489
00:28:14,460 --> 00:28:17,310
she's a pretty she's above
average singer. But she weighs

490
00:28:17,310 --> 00:28:21,090
about 230 pounds and she wears
dumb dresses to go with it which

491
00:28:21,090 --> 00:28:24,750
are not flattering. And the
audience loves her because of

492
00:28:24,750 --> 00:28:28,350
course losers always win on
these shows. And they're like,

493
00:28:28,350 --> 00:28:30,750
well, we got to get to her other
other judges. Like we got to get

494
00:28:30,750 --> 00:28:33,570
her get her off the show. This
is ridiculous. You know, this is

495
00:28:33,570 --> 00:28:36,600
a serious competition. How can
she ever become a pop star? And

496
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:40,530
Patricia is like, if you do
people love her What do you

497
00:28:40,530 --> 00:28:42,690
want? Do you want and she
literally said to the other

498
00:28:42,690 --> 00:28:45,030
judges do you like that new
house she bought then you better

499
00:28:45,030 --> 00:28:50,010
keep this bench on the show is
that the audience wants and

500
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,650
that's that's what keeps the
ratings going and I'm just

501
00:28:52,770 --> 00:28:57,690
amazed by by the British public
taking that lying down.

502
00:28:59,610 --> 00:29:02,400
Unbelievable. Well there was
sure a lot of articles about it.

503
00:29:02,910 --> 00:29:05,880
And I wasn't I actually should
have asked you about it the last

504
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:11,100
time we spoke because I was
unaware of the backstory I just

505
00:29:11,130 --> 00:29:14,250
Just notice it was like a whole
bunch of attention. It was

506
00:29:14,250 --> 00:29:15,420
getting a lot of attention.

507
00:29:16,350 --> 00:29:19,770
Well honestly, it didn't really
hit me until I started thinking

508
00:29:19,770 --> 00:29:23,850
about it and I'm like, This is
crazy. This is just absolutely

509
00:29:23,850 --> 00:29:24,420
nuts.

510
00:29:27,119 --> 00:29:29,669
Things getting any better. And
I'm surprised you don't have

511
00:29:29,669 --> 00:29:32,789
more of that kind of thing going
on here. I you know, as much as

512
00:29:32,789 --> 00:29:37,199
there's a you know, fascist
state. A Bruin everywhere in the

513
00:29:37,199 --> 00:29:41,369
US. The Brits have got his beat
hands down if there was a

514
00:29:41,369 --> 00:29:45,089
competition I would state has
just gone completely. Well.

515
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,290
Let me give it to you man. So
Patricia call me. She was

516
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:53,310
travelling to work to to Holland
today and she's takes eating out

517
00:29:53,340 --> 00:29:56,880
she takes EasyJet she loves
EasyJet as she wants she'll take

518
00:29:56,910 --> 00:29:59,700
EasyJet over British Airways KLM
anything she'd love to think

519
00:29:59,700 --> 00:30:02,520
system was great and I agree
with her. And she so she calls

520
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,430
me says I'm finally at the gate.
So what happened? She said,

521
00:30:05,430 --> 00:30:07,770
Well, you won't believe it. Now,
John, you've never met my wife.

522
00:30:07,770 --> 00:30:08,880
Have you ever seen a picture of
her?

523
00:30:08,970 --> 00:30:11,100
Oh, yeah, you should have a
picture on your phone. And I've

524
00:30:11,100 --> 00:30:13,500
seen pictures of her on you.
Because when I have seen her in

525
00:30:13,500 --> 00:30:17,040
action on that show, because
link to it, yeah.

526
00:30:17,070 --> 00:30:21,990
Okay. So she's beautiful. And do
you think she looks like a

527
00:30:21,990 --> 00:30:28,770
potential terrorist? Just just
offhand question. Do you think

528
00:30:28,770 --> 00:30:30,960
that the she looks like a
potential terrorist? No,

529
00:30:31,050 --> 00:30:36,330
obviously not. So she rose up to
the to the X ray machine. And,

530
00:30:36,330 --> 00:30:38,190
you know, she's, she's, you
know, she's already because of

531
00:30:38,190 --> 00:30:40,710
the show was this evening, you
know, so she's already kind of

532
00:30:40,710 --> 00:30:43,440
pre prepped, and you know, she's
looking good. And she's, she

533
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:47,100
already has stuff on that she's
going to wear on the show. And,

534
00:30:48,300 --> 00:30:54,900
and she has a small tube of
toothpaste. And A is a miniature

535
00:30:54,900 --> 00:31:00,510
travel size bottle of Chanel.
That's my wife, Miss Chanel. And

536
00:31:00,510 --> 00:31:05,040
so it goes to the X ray machine,
and they say ripstop, okay. And

537
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,820
they say, Look, ma'am, this is
not in a plastic bag. And

538
00:31:08,820 --> 00:31:11,880
latricia. And by the way,
Patricia always laughs at them,

539
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:13,740
which is, you know, she just
smiles and is always happy,

540
00:31:13,740 --> 00:31:16,710
which makes them crazy. And I
mean, I immediately I would be,

541
00:31:16,740 --> 00:31:20,190
I would be calling you from jail
today if this happened to me. So

542
00:31:20,220 --> 00:31:23,160
she says, Oh, really? Well, do
you have a plastic bag? And

543
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,350
they're like, No, you gotta go
all the way back. So it's like a

544
00:31:25,350 --> 00:31:28,170
20 minute line, right? She said,
okay, so she went all the way

545
00:31:28,170 --> 00:31:31,470
back outside, she had to get a
plastic baggie, put her

546
00:31:31,470 --> 00:31:35,070
toothpaste and the Chanel in it,
then wait in line, 20 minutes to

547
00:31:35,070 --> 00:31:38,430
go all the way back through. And
then they and then this is the

548
00:31:38,430 --> 00:31:41,130
kicker. So they of course, it's
the same people and they

549
00:31:41,130 --> 00:31:43,290
recognise her and they say okay,
it's in the bag. And they say,

550
00:31:43,890 --> 00:31:48,780
we have to do a liquid test.
Watch, they literally tested the

551
00:31:48,780 --> 00:31:55,320
Chanel and the toothpaste. They
tested it, which consisted of

552
00:31:55,320 --> 00:32:00,030
spraying the Chanel Number Five
into the air and sniffing it.

553
00:32:01,619 --> 00:32:06,329
Unbelievable. Maybe one of the
people there wanted a dose of

554
00:32:06,329 --> 00:32:10,169
Chanel Number five, you know, so
they could go on a date later.

555
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:13,230
This is the this is the danger
in a fascist state where you

556
00:32:13,230 --> 00:32:18,360
have people who have a uniform
and they have a certain amount

557
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:23,310
of authority for a microsecond
of your lifetime. And, you know,

558
00:32:23,310 --> 00:32:26,400
if if they're having a bad day,
or whatever it is, they take

559
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,400
advantage of it. And they I mean
clearly this is this is

560
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,340
ridiculous and harrassment I
mean there's there's no doubt

561
00:32:32,460 --> 00:32:34,170
this is just bullshit.

562
00:32:35,070 --> 00:32:39,780
Yeah, yeah. Unquestionably. Yep.
Well, yeah, it was just leaving.

563
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,150
It was just going into the
airport in London or what we're

564
00:32:42,210 --> 00:32:42,420
in

565
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:46,650
South Korea, it was at Gatwick.
So it was this, this this

566
00:32:46,650 --> 00:32:52,770
afternoon? Test. It's not. And
it's just getting worse.

567
00:32:54,210 --> 00:32:57,390
Well, I mean, you know, there's
gonna be a something's bad's

568
00:32:57,390 --> 00:33:01,680
gonna happen. Whoa, okay. What
do you think I got a couple of

569
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,960
ideas. What do you say the
British public's? You know,

570
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:07,410
they're going to at some point I
mean, the British are you know,

571
00:33:07,410 --> 00:33:12,180
they there is a mean streak in
that culture that is going to

572
00:33:12,180 --> 00:33:13,050
come out and I think

573
00:33:13,470 --> 00:33:17,220
what I'm waiting for I want that
thin, wiry white English bloke

574
00:33:17,250 --> 00:33:22,530
on the street. burnin shit and
waving sticks that's that's

575
00:33:22,530 --> 00:33:24,600
that's what I always thought the
Brits were like,

576
00:33:24,750 --> 00:33:28,080
well, you know that movie
vendetta Did you see vivo? I

577
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,720
love of course, remember
remember the fifth of November

578
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:37,230
gunpowder treason and plot. I
love it. You bet I love a Guy

579
00:33:37,230 --> 00:33:38,220
Fawkes. Yeah, sure.

580
00:33:39,420 --> 00:33:42,840
Well, I suspect you something
like that, and just blow up

581
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,900
parliament. I mean, that's what
Guy Fawkes tried to do.

582
00:33:46,500 --> 00:33:49,560
And there's it's funny that they
still celebrate him. And they do

583
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,170
that by creating a bonfire and
getting hammered.

584
00:33:52,980 --> 00:33:56,580
Well, that's all say, celebrate
everything by getting hammered.

585
00:33:56,940 --> 00:33:57,180
Oh,

586
00:33:57,210 --> 00:34:00,960
excellent news for you, by the
way, a good buddy of mine. In

587
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:02,970
fact, a very good friend of
mine. We stayed at his house in

588
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:07,020
the south of France this summer.
He owns one of the largest

589
00:34:07,050 --> 00:34:12,240
nightclubs complexes I should
say in in Surrey. And he has a

590
00:34:12,270 --> 00:34:14,940
strip joint called the lion's
den which had never been to I've

591
00:34:14,940 --> 00:34:17,790
been to his clubs several times
and and, you know, we had

592
00:34:17,790 --> 00:34:21,900
Christina's birthday party at
his one of his clubs. And they

593
00:34:21,900 --> 00:34:25,140
said, Look, man, I'm up for the
licence for all the Playboy

594
00:34:25,170 --> 00:34:28,290
clubs in the United Kingdom,
which don't exist yet. And so

595
00:34:28,590 --> 00:34:30,990
I'm like, well, that's that's
cool. He said, I'm trying to get

596
00:34:30,990 --> 00:34:33,210
a cool crowd together because
these guys are coming by and

597
00:34:33,210 --> 00:34:36,090
they're going to come check the
place out. So like Yes, sure.

598
00:34:36,090 --> 00:34:40,020
I'll come in. I'll look I'll
look. Jet sentry and I'll talk

599
00:34:40,020 --> 00:34:43,440
about the storm and then no
problem. So I go over there last

600
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,230
night at 10 o'clock after I'm A
Celebrity Get Me Out of Here

601
00:34:46,260 --> 00:34:49,260
which I also should mention a
couple of things about in the

602
00:34:49,260 --> 00:34:53,010
moment. And to the place is
there any I was like I was

603
00:34:53,010 --> 00:34:55,710
hanging out and it's it's not
really crazy busy but it's

604
00:34:55,710 --> 00:34:59,220
perfect for for the setting to
impress these, these guys who

605
00:34:59,220 --> 00:35:01,950
are coming in And Michelle says
here man, you have a left

606
00:35:01,950 --> 00:35:07,290
downtown me with whatever one of
his his top performers. And I'm

607
00:35:07,290 --> 00:35:10,410
like, okay, you know, because
I'll go to the VIP area.

608
00:35:11,910 --> 00:35:15,420
Something I did not know John,
in the United Kingdom at lap

609
00:35:15,420 --> 00:35:21,900
dancing clubs, they take their
panties off as well. And, and

610
00:35:21,900 --> 00:35:24,810
you get a full on full blown
show.

611
00:35:26,100 --> 00:35:26,940
That's interesting.

612
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:33,210
I know that I actually I went,
Oh, my Oh, my. I was like, Oh,

613
00:35:33,210 --> 00:35:33,780
hi.

614
00:35:34,830 --> 00:35:37,680
Are you sure this wasn't just
for you? Know, no, because

615
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,560
in the recover, there were other
guys in the VIP area. And the

616
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,290
same thing was going on because
actually, when I walked in,

617
00:35:43,740 --> 00:35:46,020
there was there was a girl I
could see just from behind

618
00:35:46,050 --> 00:35:49,440
because he did I don't either
that's the invisible G string or

619
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:53,340
she doesn't have one on but I
didn't think much of it. And the

620
00:35:53,340 --> 00:35:56,040
show was very like it was a
coordinated show because I saw

621
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:58,350
these girls do the exact same
show. So it wasn't like a

622
00:35:58,350 --> 00:36:02,700
personalised anything. And it's
not like you know, you're you're

623
00:36:02,730 --> 00:36:07,860
you're up close, but you ain't
that close. But still Oh my QA.

624
00:36:08,310 --> 00:36:10,740
Yeah. So when you're coming

625
00:36:10,740 --> 00:36:14,550
back? I don't know. But we got a
visit that place. You'll love

626
00:36:14,550 --> 00:36:15,000
Michelle.

627
00:36:15,180 --> 00:36:19,530
You'll love him. He's a we're
flying tomorrow to tonight. I'm

628
00:36:19,530 --> 00:36:23,370
taking him to see Patricia
perform. She's doing a big

629
00:36:23,460 --> 00:36:28,110
benefit concert for starving
children. And she's going to

630
00:36:28,110 --> 00:36:31,950
perform three songs with a 65
piece orchestra. Her dad is

631
00:36:31,950 --> 00:36:36,780
accompanying her on with on
violin or 84 year old dad on

632
00:36:36,810 --> 00:36:40,680
she's doing a smile, I think
with him on the violin. So that

633
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,230
should be cool. But yeah, you'll
like Michelle, when he went over

634
00:36:43,230 --> 00:36:44,430
here next show.

635
00:36:45,630 --> 00:36:48,270
So that's why you we people
should know we're doing the show

636
00:36:48,270 --> 00:36:49,020
on Friday.

637
00:36:49,830 --> 00:36:52,050
Well, I was planning not
planning on telling anybody

638
00:36:52,050 --> 00:36:52,650
honestly.

639
00:36:52,830 --> 00:36:55,110
Well, I think they should know
because you know, I think it's I

640
00:36:55,110 --> 00:36:55,770
think it's full.

641
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:57,840
That's a good point. Yeah,
that's a good point. So

642
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,060
in case or something happens a
lot of these guys, they missed

643
00:37:00,060 --> 00:37:01,800
that whole story. So should we

644
00:37:01,890 --> 00:37:05,460
should we upload it today then
or on or on? Or on Saturday?

645
00:37:05,490 --> 00:37:09,060
I don't think we have a problem
uploading it today. Big. You

646
00:37:09,060 --> 00:37:10,860
know, I mean, this is the great
thing about

647
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:14,910
about not being in the fake
corporate media. Yeah. Yeah, we

648
00:37:14,910 --> 00:37:15,390
can do what we

649
00:37:15,390 --> 00:37:20,430
want. And so we can be off a day
or skip a week. I mean, that is

650
00:37:20,430 --> 00:37:22,410
the fact of the matter is
especially if people are doing

651
00:37:22,410 --> 00:37:24,270
this right, the people that
listen to this thing

652
00:37:24,330 --> 00:37:27,390
religiously. And by the way,
anyone out there listens to us.

653
00:37:27,660 --> 00:37:30,780
Tell a friend get a friend and
so we can get our numbers up to

654
00:37:30,780 --> 00:37:34,920
some point that we can
theoretically pay for this

655
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:39,030
thing. But anyways, got a couple
of lap dances out of it. Veteran

656
00:37:39,090 --> 00:37:40,710
poker night with a sharp stick

657
00:37:42,300 --> 00:37:44,070
it was it was pretty similar
actually.

658
00:37:45,510 --> 00:37:51,000
So people who do who do it right
would obviously have an RSS feed

659
00:37:51,060 --> 00:37:53,670
that they would get this thing
downloaded to their iPod

660
00:37:53,670 --> 00:37:56,310
automatically. Yeah. And and be
surprised.

661
00:37:57,060 --> 00:38:03,000
Look, oh, whoa, gee, that was a
concept. Yeah, but speaking of

662
00:38:03,030 --> 00:38:06,030
speaking of that, I was just
watching CNBC money honey, Erin

663
00:38:06,030 --> 00:38:08,820
was on. I thought she might be
off for the for the long

664
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:14,250
Thanksgiving weekend. And they
had a report on radio stocks.

665
00:38:16,110 --> 00:38:20,010
And except for CBS Radio, which
currently sticks around

666
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:26,880
cigarettes it's around $6 All
these other companies Ms. The

667
00:38:26,910 --> 00:38:31,950
15% of clear channel that is
actually still public. Serious

668
00:38:31,980 --> 00:38:34,980
every single one of them is
under a buck a share some of

669
00:38:34,980 --> 00:38:39,570
them 18 or 19 cents share radio
is effectively dead.

670
00:38:40,020 --> 00:38:41,760
Serious is a really amazing.

671
00:38:42,810 --> 00:38:46,890
Well, it's not they're losing
$750 million. Yeah, they know

672
00:38:46,890 --> 00:38:47,130
and there's

673
00:38:47,130 --> 00:38:49,620
no way they're turning this
around. I had predicted this by

674
00:38:49,620 --> 00:38:51,930
the way when they first formed
years and years and years ago.

675
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:55,560
Just how hard is that? Well, was
it by sure got a bunch of flack.

676
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:59,460
I can't be true. But meanwhile,
I had more people say to me,

677
00:38:59,610 --> 00:39:02,790
Fidel was with somebody the
other day says, you know, and

678
00:39:02,790 --> 00:39:05,670
the guy could afford it. He
drives around a Bentley. And he

679
00:39:05,670 --> 00:39:09,990
says, You know, I just gave up
on my Sirius and XM Radio

680
00:39:09,990 --> 00:39:13,800
subscriptions to the Bentley. I
just listened to podcasts.

681
00:39:14,430 --> 00:39:17,970
Exactly. Because these guys had
apparently the Bentley

682
00:39:17,970 --> 00:39:21,210
Continental has a clip and it
has a connector. Yeah, it has a

683
00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:24,750
connector that you can hook your
iPod right to it. And

684
00:39:26,190 --> 00:39:30,090
the whole the whole problem.
Well, first of all, it this

685
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:34,020
these companies were built
with.com money. That's when they

686
00:39:34,020 --> 00:39:38,250
got their first infusion of
cash. And, you know, they they

687
00:39:38,250 --> 00:39:41,610
have some beautiful facilities
just unfamiliar and

688
00:39:41,610 --> 00:39:46,560
yeah, I've seen pictures of the
I guess it didn't stick

689
00:39:47,130 --> 00:39:51,990
they got in New York series has
55 Studios. Yeah, you know, and

690
00:39:51,990 --> 00:39:55,860
that's excluding the palace
Howard Stern has right in the

691
00:39:55,860 --> 00:40:00,420
middle of reception there. But
of course the you know, They

692
00:40:00,420 --> 00:40:03,420
wanted to merge these two
companies and then the FCC and

693
00:40:03,420 --> 00:40:06,630
then whoever else and the SEC,
they, you know, they really let

694
00:40:06,630 --> 00:40:08,550
it linger and linger and linger
and they wouldn't give a

695
00:40:08,550 --> 00:40:11,580
decision and so the stocks just
kind of steadily declined. And

696
00:40:11,580 --> 00:40:14,850
now of course, you know, their
main source of distribution is

697
00:40:14,850 --> 00:40:18,060
not actually satellite, their
main source of distribution is

698
00:40:18,060 --> 00:40:23,130
vehicles. And so what these guys
do what norm now is on norm

699
00:40:23,130 --> 00:40:27,990
pads, who was running it, I
don't know, whatever. Guy from

700
00:40:27,990 --> 00:40:32,130
CBS I think anyway, what you
know, their their main gig is to

701
00:40:32,130 --> 00:40:37,950
get the big automakers to pre
instal Sirius and XM satellite

702
00:40:37,950 --> 00:40:41,400
receivers in their vehicles and
not happening

703
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:44,850
light well, like they did in the
90s there was everyone who was

704
00:40:44,850 --> 00:40:46,410
talked into installing

705
00:40:48,660 --> 00:40:52,590
a stereo Yeah, I remember that
stereo.

706
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:56,010
So I have one of those radios
what it says anyway you kid it

707
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:59,310
am started by the way, there's
no nobody broadcasts in a stereo

708
00:40:59,310 --> 00:41:02,310
anymore. But we used to be
turned the dial and you would

709
00:41:02,310 --> 00:41:07,410
find a one station on the entire
spectrum that had an AMC light

710
00:41:07,410 --> 00:41:11,490
up a little thing would light up
on the radio. So am stereo. So

711
00:41:11,490 --> 00:41:14,430
you listen to it. It was it was
the crappiest? You know, I don't

712
00:41:14,430 --> 00:41:18,240
know what the point of it was.
It didn't sound any better. You

713
00:41:18,240 --> 00:41:21,240
know, it was like the wasn't it?
It didn't even hold a candle

714
00:41:21,240 --> 00:41:23,910
come closer with FM sounds like
so what was the point?

715
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:28,440
I'm trying to think there was a
reason there was there were a

716
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:30,180
couple of different reasons they
were trying I

717
00:41:30,180 --> 00:41:33,750
remember at some CES, somebody
gave me some rationale about am

718
00:41:33,750 --> 00:41:36,690
stereo, and how it's going to
actually take over because you

719
00:41:36,690 --> 00:41:39,240
get bigger distances. It's
better than FM and all the rest

720
00:41:39,240 --> 00:41:41,520
of it. It didn't go anywhere.
It's like this thing going on

721
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:43,920
this high definition radio
that's going on right now.

722
00:41:44,430 --> 00:41:48,120
They're trying to push HD radio
and that's not going anywhere. I

723
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,760
mean, it's just like you know
this this stuff is fixed already

724
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,640
is done. It's over you got your
aim is you got what do you got

725
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,040
you got talk radio, it's what
it's turned into. And then you

726
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:58,740
have your FM which is you got
your your music and you got

727
00:41:58,740 --> 00:42:01,110
whatever else you want to put
over there in the public. Right.

728
00:42:01,110 --> 00:42:01,290
And

729
00:42:01,290 --> 00:42:05,370
then you've got the real media
the real true New Media podcast.

730
00:42:05,610 --> 00:42:10,470
Yeah. And then you have the new
media which are you know, much

731
00:42:10,470 --> 00:42:12,870
more versatile. You can listen
anytime you want. You don't

732
00:42:12,870 --> 00:42:14,700
you're not stuck, I'm still
worked about it. Listen to

733
00:42:14,700 --> 00:42:17,370
because I listen to like a lot
of us listen to right wing talk

734
00:42:17,370 --> 00:42:19,500
radio, because it's very
entertaining. And yeah, what's

735
00:42:19,500 --> 00:42:21,720
what's the GAO say something or
somebody will say something, you

736
00:42:21,720 --> 00:42:24,300
want to back it up, or you
wanted to save it, or you can't

737
00:42:24,300 --> 00:42:26,970
do any of that. And you can't
listen to it when you want to

738
00:42:26,970 --> 00:42:29,490
listen to it, you have to listen
to it when they're broadcasting.

739
00:42:29,790 --> 00:42:32,970
And I mean, the whole thing is,
I mean, that whole model of you

740
00:42:32,970 --> 00:42:36,960
know, time based broadcasting,
is it all evidence choice,

741
00:42:36,990 --> 00:42:40,890
nobody would prefer it, you
prefer the more versatile style,

742
00:42:40,890 --> 00:42:47,430
which is what we're doing. Hell
yeah. boils down to that

743
00:42:47,430 --> 00:42:49,440
advertisers will get a clue. And
they'll start realising

744
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:52,380
that that's not that now, let me
just say that's not entirely

745
00:42:52,380 --> 00:42:56,550
true, because our audio
programming is doing millions of

746
00:42:56,550 --> 00:43:01,050
dollars a month, of which a
significant portion goes to the

747
00:43:01,050 --> 00:43:03,720
producers of those audio
programmes. With our

748
00:43:03,720 --> 00:43:06,450
transactional campaigns, you
know, this, you've been in it,

749
00:43:06,450 --> 00:43:08,490
you've been in these meetings,
this shit works, you know that.

750
00:43:08,670 --> 00:43:12,240
You use my code for GoDaddy, use
my code for eHarmony, use my

751
00:43:12,240 --> 00:43:16,920
code for budget, use my code for
footlocker. And I think that as

752
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:21,240
we move into the depression,
that as long as the grid stays

753
00:43:21,240 --> 00:43:24,870
up, and people can still
connect, I think that we'll see

754
00:43:24,870 --> 00:43:29,310
increasing use of, of these
types of offerings. And that's

755
00:43:29,310 --> 00:43:32,310
it for us. It's 40% of our
revenue. John, it's a serious

756
00:43:32,310 --> 00:43:33,000
business.

757
00:43:33,450 --> 00:43:36,450
No, I'm not saying it's not, but
it's not if you put it side by

758
00:43:36,450 --> 00:43:39,150
side with big media, it's like a
split. But think

759
00:43:39,150 --> 00:43:43,530
about it. The reason why, for
the same reasons that that that

760
00:43:43,530 --> 00:43:48,450
radio in broadcast towers is no
longer valid, because you have

761
00:43:48,450 --> 00:43:51,780
to listen at that, at that
moment. The interruptive nature

762
00:43:51,780 --> 00:43:55,680
of advertising also doesn't work
anymore. Or you can even skip

763
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:59,850
past it, you can ignore it. You
can there's so it's so

764
00:43:59,850 --> 00:44:03,570
completely breaks the model, and
which is why, you know, the

765
00:44:03,570 --> 00:44:06,630
counting of downloads never
work. No one could ever agree on

766
00:44:06,630 --> 00:44:09,390
it. You know, we had all kinds
of guilds and organisations and

767
00:44:09,390 --> 00:44:13,530
societies and whatever. And it
was just never work that way.

768
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:17,190
And by the way, listen to radio,
they're doing the exact same

769
00:44:17,190 --> 00:44:20,790
thing. They're saying, hey, use
my code, if all of them are.

770
00:44:23,790 --> 00:44:26,400
Well, I have a code
budget.com/tech.

771
00:44:27,330 --> 00:44:28,740
Guy. My code is

772
00:44:30,570 --> 00:44:34,590
10% off on any budget. And by
the way, I say this on the tech

773
00:44:34,620 --> 00:44:38,520
five thing, which is that I use
budget because they really do

774
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:39,690
have the coolest cars,

775
00:44:40,230 --> 00:44:43,500
and you get a 10% discount on
your weekly rent. They've had

776
00:44:43,500 --> 00:44:44,340
jaguars,

777
00:44:44,340 --> 00:44:46,050
they got all kinds of cool stuff
anyway.

778
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:50,340
So you won't have Jaguars
anytime in the future.

779
00:44:50,850 --> 00:44:53,460
They're about to go belly up.
Well, that's a shame.

780
00:44:54,900 --> 00:44:57,780
Well, it's a massive shame
because I got to get rid of my

781
00:44:57,780 --> 00:44:59,460
jag and no one will buy it.

782
00:45:01,260 --> 00:45:03,690
Well, the problem is you of
course, you know, Jaguars have

783
00:45:03,690 --> 00:45:06,660
the reputation of the once they
get past warranty, they just

784
00:45:06,660 --> 00:45:09,450
start falling apart. So I don't
see too many old ones on the

785
00:45:09,450 --> 00:45:09,990
road.

786
00:45:11,309 --> 00:45:15,479
Well, this one is not that old.
But the dealer will not buy it

787
00:45:15,479 --> 00:45:19,199
back. They don't have the money.
They do and they can't have a

788
00:45:19,199 --> 00:45:22,559
car that has actual money of
theirs in it is sitting on the

789
00:45:22,559 --> 00:45:24,839
lot. And they said, there's no
one to look around. There's no

790
00:45:24,839 --> 00:45:28,229
one here. Then we're not selling
any cars. No one's coming in two

791
00:45:28,229 --> 00:45:33,389
people who do come in half of
them can't get the financing. So

792
00:45:33,389 --> 00:45:36,299
the only people are coming in
are people who really, you know,

793
00:45:36,299 --> 00:45:39,569
have the money cashed down to
buy a good deal on something new

794
00:45:39,569 --> 00:45:43,709
but Jaguar. Now that Tata who
owns them has said, Hey, we need

795
00:45:43,709 --> 00:45:46,109
a billion pounds to stay in
business because they're looking

796
00:45:46,109 --> 00:45:48,509
for their own bailouts don't
think it's just the big three

797
00:45:48,989 --> 00:45:57,959
over here. Nissan, Toyota,
Bentley, Aston Martin. Jaguar,

798
00:45:57,989 --> 00:46:00,989
they've all asked the government
for help. They're all in the

799
00:46:00,989 --> 00:46:03,869
same position. There's no
difference between here and the

800
00:46:03,869 --> 00:46:06,419
United States. Unless you listen
to Gordon Brown who says it's

801
00:46:06,419 --> 00:46:08,099
all the all America's fault.

802
00:46:10,290 --> 00:46:13,710
You see Jaguar the way Stewie
would on Family Guy?

803
00:46:13,890 --> 00:46:25,290
Jaguar? Yeah, yeah, well, I am
Stewie. Jaguar that's come on, I

804
00:46:25,290 --> 00:46:28,200
slipped in a couple of my
correct pronunciation from time

805
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:30,810
to time, I'm slowly going
through my transformation.

806
00:46:32,370 --> 00:46:33,900
Yeah, you're gonna become
British?

807
00:46:34,500 --> 00:46:37,770
No, I don't think there's any
danger of that. I will, however,

808
00:46:38,340 --> 00:46:41,370
have to register for my ID card
with biometric data.

809
00:46:41,910 --> 00:46:45,660
Yeah, what biometric data gonna
steal from you? Well, of course,

810
00:46:46,260 --> 00:46:48,120
people have your blood. That's
what they should do.

811
00:46:48,150 --> 00:46:51,240
And they don't actually tell
you. But this is the same Jackie

812
00:46:51,240 --> 00:46:54,240
Smith of the home office. The
one who said that everyone's

813
00:46:54,240 --> 00:46:57,510
clamouring and so excited about
the national ID cards. She

814
00:46:57,510 --> 00:47:00,210
literally said that, Oh, I get
calls, that people are so

815
00:47:00,210 --> 00:47:03,240
excited. They can't wait to have
one. So the first group of

816
00:47:03,240 --> 00:47:05,670
people who are singled out who
of course will be the first ones

817
00:47:05,670 --> 00:47:09,450
to get on the train to the camp
are people like me, if you're

818
00:47:09,450 --> 00:47:13,920
married to an EU national, and
which gives you the right to

819
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:16,620
live and work in the United
Kingdom, then you're the first

820
00:47:16,620 --> 00:47:21,210
group to get a card it will
contain your visa status, name,

821
00:47:21,210 --> 00:47:26,550
address, picture fingerprint,
and, quote, other biometric

822
00:47:26,550 --> 00:47:31,440
data, which I can only assume is
is probably will be DNA.

823
00:47:33,150 --> 00:47:35,340
Could be when should they take a
swab?

824
00:47:36,750 --> 00:47:41,070
In the in the Netherlands,
there's a big debate going on

825
00:47:41,070 --> 00:47:45,930
about something called the
electronic child dossier. And

826
00:47:45,930 --> 00:47:51,120
they want to start this in 2009.
When a child was born, a

827
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,880
basically they create a new
record in the database and call

828
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:57,300
that the electronic child
dossier. Which obviously is

829
00:47:57,300 --> 00:48:02,040
meant for easy access to
information about the child so

830
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:07,800
that physicians and medical
institutions can swiftly access

831
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:10,530
the information and it'll
probably stop terrorism as well.

832
00:48:11,490 --> 00:48:14,730
But the big debate has been so
they have all these fields, you

833
00:48:14,730 --> 00:48:18,330
know, name, skin colour, eye
colour, hair colour, and then

834
00:48:18,330 --> 00:48:21,930
they have a field in the record,
which is the the subject of the

835
00:48:21,930 --> 00:48:27,990
debate, which is pubic hair. And
literally, there are like three

836
00:48:27,990 --> 00:48:31,590
choices of pubic hair that have
to be entered into the record.

837
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:37,950
What? Yes, sir. Pubic hair. How
fucked up is that?

838
00:48:38,430 --> 00:48:39,870
Unbelievable?

839
00:48:41,100 --> 00:48:43,350
Yeah, yeah. Unbelievable.

840
00:48:43,799 --> 00:48:47,609
And fat is so unbelievable. I
don't believe it. Well, just

841
00:48:47,609 --> 00:48:49,019
send me a link. I got a blog it.

842
00:48:50,190 --> 00:48:53,190
I'll see if there's an English
article about it yet, but it's

843
00:48:53,190 --> 00:48:57,060
all in Dutch so far. And I'm
sure Google Translate won't

844
00:48:57,060 --> 00:49:00,390
really do it justice. Well,
yeah, the three options were I

845
00:49:00,390 --> 00:49:06,180
think, curly, hairy, and curly,
or just adult hairy. That's a

846
00:49:06,180 --> 00:49:10,470
direct translation. So it sounds
kind of weird. And I was talking

847
00:49:10,470 --> 00:49:13,680
to Patricia about this. I said,
Yes, clearly, you have this

848
00:49:13,710 --> 00:49:17,760
electronic child dossier well
into puberty, so everyone will

849
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:20,070
have one. So what are you going
to put on yours? Honey, do we

850
00:49:20,070 --> 00:49:23,760
have to change yours? From time
to time? It was like Brazilian

851
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:27,090
landing strip. Ooh, nothing
called the likes it you know,

852
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:32,670
what part by the way the girls
at the club last night. No

853
00:49:32,670 --> 00:49:34,890
entry, just leave that one
blank, baby.

854
00:49:36,240 --> 00:49:38,040
What's funny, but,

855
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:41,700
I mean, this is what's going on
all over Europe, John. It's like

856
00:49:41,700 --> 00:49:45,330
in record tempo. This stuff is
uh, it's just click, click

857
00:49:45,330 --> 00:49:46,350
click. It's happening.

858
00:49:47,010 --> 00:49:49,560
Yeah, well, you know, it's just
the 1000 year Reich.

859
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:54,390
The 1000 year Reich or is this
another cyclical thing?

860
00:49:54,630 --> 00:49:57,150
No, no, I mean, that's what
Hitler said when he began his

861
00:49:57,150 --> 00:50:00,180
like programme to make
everything fascist. He's said

862
00:50:00,180 --> 00:50:03,420
it'd be 1000 year write up 1000
years of this, you know, and

863
00:50:03,420 --> 00:50:06,000
then of course, you know, they
beat him in World War Two and

864
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,940
everyone figured it was the end
of it, but I guess not.

865
00:50:11,490 --> 00:50:14,550
It's it's pretty scary

866
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:21,480
so in other news, yes. What else
is going on?

867
00:50:21,870 --> 00:50:27,090
Um, hold on a second. I did get
a little bit of homework as he

868
00:50:27,090 --> 00:50:28,980
ruffles The Financial Times
open.

869
00:50:29,009 --> 00:50:32,129
So when I was floating around
Portugal doing my show guy

870
00:50:32,129 --> 00:50:36,899
brought with me some gear. I
brought the what did I bring? I

871
00:50:36,899 --> 00:50:41,279
boil I brought was the M audio
interface. It sounded good. It

872
00:50:41,279 --> 00:50:47,219
were NF P I use that because it
was a it was a Heil PR 4242

873
00:50:48,030 --> 00:50:49,890
It's a 40 not a 4040?

874
00:50:50,310 --> 00:50:55,050
Yes. 40 It's a really good Heil
mic. Yeah. The one that Leo

875
00:50:55,050 --> 00:50:57,690
Laporte uses, because you know,
and Leo has been in radio

876
00:50:57,690 --> 00:51:00,630
forever. And he has used that
there's one evey model that

877
00:51:00,630 --> 00:51:04,050
everybody in radio used to use
the electric voice. Yeah, yeah.

878
00:51:04,050 --> 00:51:06,960
And electro voice specific
dynamic electric was not these

879
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:09,180
aren't condenser mics. And which
is interesting, because this

880
00:51:09,180 --> 00:51:13,740
Heil sounds exactly like a
condenser mic. As far as I know,

881
00:51:13,740 --> 00:51:16,920
without the without the phantom
power. Without Yeah, without

882
00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:20,340
needing this extra power to
drive it. It's just a regular

883
00:51:20,340 --> 00:51:22,650
dynamic microphone, but it
sounds so good. So I got a bunch

884
00:51:22,650 --> 00:51:27,090
of notes from people, although,
I'd need to have a some sort of

885
00:51:27,510 --> 00:51:30,360
pretending that they said it
sounds better than normal.

886
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:33,150
That's what they said, right?
Yeah. I have this happen all the

887
00:51:33,150 --> 00:51:36,510
time. I was using, I told you, I
use my love in New York, and

888
00:51:36,510 --> 00:51:38,730
people like wow, this sounds
awesome. You should always sound

889
00:51:38,730 --> 00:51:41,160
like this. And I'm actually
talking on the same wireless lav

890
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:43,980
mic is happening. I don't know
if it's just because it sounds

891
00:51:43,980 --> 00:51:47,880
different. And then people think
it sounds better. Or if we over

892
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:50,670
obsess the sound and so that
actually sounds shittier than

893
00:51:50,670 --> 00:51:53,130
normal. But I've noticed this
exact same thing. Whenever I

894
00:51:53,130 --> 00:51:55,950
change my setup. On the road,
people like it,

895
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:59,430
I had a guy send me a note
saying tell Adam to stay with

896
00:51:59,430 --> 00:52:02,580
that because you were wearing a
headset. I wanted the shows. Or

897
00:52:02,580 --> 00:52:03,990
something. You know, it's

898
00:52:03,990 --> 00:52:05,970
this mic. It's the microphone
talking through right. They

899
00:52:05,970 --> 00:52:09,030
said all challenges. Just use
that mic. It sounds a million

900
00:52:09,030 --> 00:52:12,540
times better. Yeah. And I am i
Oh, that's why I'm gonna get a

901
00:52:12,540 --> 00:52:13,980
country I'm gonna get a country
man. I

902
00:52:13,980 --> 00:52:16,380
gotta get a country man to I
really want to try that.

903
00:52:16,500 --> 00:52:20,400
Because you because that because
this PR 40 which is a nice,

904
00:52:20,430 --> 00:52:23,610
beautiful sounding mic and try
to probably switch to it. I'm

905
00:52:23,610 --> 00:52:28,890
writing now I'm using an AKG.
But a condenser with a tube.

906
00:52:29,340 --> 00:52:32,160
Sounds nice. That's yeah, but
apparently the other one will

907
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:35,940
sound better, but what kind of
but we travel with that. Pr 40

908
00:52:35,940 --> 00:52:38,730
The thing is a bit clunker. It's
huge. And then again, every time

909
00:52:38,730 --> 00:52:41,610
I get stopped at it one of the
gates on the aeroplane, they

910
00:52:41,610 --> 00:52:44,280
want to know what that they find
and then they'd hold it up and

911
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:46,110
they'd look around and say
What's this? You know, they

912
00:52:46,110 --> 00:52:48,630
don't know what a microphone is
do or liquid test on that

913
00:52:48,630 --> 00:52:52,200
fucker. You know, I'm surprised
they didn't crack it open. But

914
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:58,500
anyway, so So I come back from
Europe with to Salamis and a

915
00:52:58,770 --> 00:52:59,730
microphone.

916
00:53:01,050 --> 00:53:05,190
to Salamis and a microphone. His
name is John C. de Gaulle. Oh,

917
00:53:05,190 --> 00:53:05,640
June,

918
00:53:05,730 --> 00:53:07,920
and so they're all obsessing.
They don't give a shit about the

919
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:10,560
Salamis or obsessing over this
microphone. Right? But anyway,

920
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:14,910
that's too big. Now the country
man is just a wire. It's just a

921
00:53:14,910 --> 00:53:17,190
wisp of the thing. I mean, it
doesn't weigh anything. It

922
00:53:17,340 --> 00:53:21,390
weighs nothing. I mean, if that
mic is though, is sounds as good

923
00:53:21,390 --> 00:53:25,080
as the PR and my experience. It
does. sounds as good as the PR

924
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:29,580
40 Yeah. Then why take the PR 40
On the road to the country, man

925
00:53:29,580 --> 00:53:32,850
and just you know, you don't
because when you travel, you

926
00:53:32,850 --> 00:53:37,170
know that people don't travel a
lot. They don't understand. You

927
00:53:37,170 --> 00:53:42,570
know that when you travel, I
travel light. I know how to pack

928
00:53:42,570 --> 00:53:45,330
a suit into a regular suitcase.
I can go under a seat.

929
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:47,070
I got a roll of salami in it.

930
00:53:47,370 --> 00:53:50,280
i Well, I got the salami in the
computer case.

931
00:53:51,300 --> 00:53:53,700
It's hide the salami with John
C. Dvorak.

932
00:53:53,820 --> 00:53:58,200
So I've got a light so I travel
very light. And I see these poor

933
00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:01,650
schmucks that and especially the
some of these women who don't

934
00:54:01,650 --> 00:54:04,650
know how to travel and then they
end their husbands put up with

935
00:54:04,650 --> 00:54:10,140
this crap. They have a suitcase
the size of like a refrigerator,

936
00:54:10,470 --> 00:54:12,900
and you know, and they're they
can't move it up, then they

937
00:54:12,900 --> 00:54:14,730
can't put it up overhead. They
can't do anything with the

938
00:54:14,730 --> 00:54:19,980
things wait to the end of it,
then hubby is stuck. I was going

939
00:54:19,980 --> 00:54:23,940
to the Oakland airport about to
go up north about two or three

940
00:54:23,940 --> 00:54:25,650
months ago and there's a
funniest thing that was one of

941
00:54:25,650 --> 00:54:28,500
these women she was doing her
nails in the front of the bus

942
00:54:28,500 --> 00:54:33,000
from the parking lot thing. And
and, and I was when I got on

943
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:36,660
this this whole luggage area was
stacked to the gills with

944
00:54:36,660 --> 00:54:42,180
luggage. And so they get off.
And this woman you know, she

945
00:54:42,300 --> 00:54:46,170
refuses to carry anything but
her handbag and this poor schlub

946
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:51,360
husband of hers. He's got like
two huge rollers and a thing

947
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:53,730
another thing and the kids have
got a couple of bags, and he's

948
00:54:53,730 --> 00:54:56,910
got some stuff over his head. I
mean, you're around his neck.

949
00:54:57,030 --> 00:54:59,850
He's holding the port guys. I
voted down like a mule.

950
00:54:59,880 --> 00:55:02,340
I Did he have a baby a baby
hanging from him as well?

951
00:55:02,460 --> 00:55:05,340
I don't need you know, there was
just short of that. And the

952
00:55:05,340 --> 00:55:10,020
little girl that's with him goes
up and she crashes. She goes up

953
00:55:10,020 --> 00:55:12,840
to her monitored. Mommy, Mommy,
why does daddy have to take all

954
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:15,480
the luggage all the time? You
know, she was giving her crap

955
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:19,530
was smart. Yeah. And Ben
Dysport, daddy, he was carrying

956
00:55:19,530 --> 00:55:24,690
all this thing. I mean, you can
travel with one bag, but I

957
00:55:24,690 --> 00:55:26,850
always tell people to travel
with nothing and then buy stuff

958
00:55:26,850 --> 00:55:30,330
over there and ship it back. But
you can travel very light if you

959
00:55:30,330 --> 00:55:35,280
try hard. I know people that
travel for example, is a rant. I

960
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:37,050
know people that travel for
example, and they'll bring

961
00:55:37,500 --> 00:55:40,470
before the liquid thing, which I
think was a benefit to all

962
00:55:40,470 --> 00:55:43,470
travellers before the three
ounce rule which the 100

963
00:55:43,470 --> 00:55:47,760
millilitres actually, they would
bring an entire giant bottle a

964
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:52,740
year supply of shampoo, and
packet. Why would you what do

965
00:55:52,740 --> 00:55:57,120
you bring in this giant bottle
of shampoo, a two week trip or a

966
00:55:57,120 --> 00:55:59,460
one week trip or whatever? It's
just ridiculous.

967
00:55:59,490 --> 00:56:03,000
You should you should be at
Heathrow. All very often the

968
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:06,690
Virgin Atlantic flight from San
Francisco lands simultaneously

969
00:56:06,720 --> 00:56:11,790
with a flight from Mumbai. My
goodness, man, the Indians when

970
00:56:11,790 --> 00:56:15,720
they when the when they travel.
It's like it's it's enormous.

971
00:56:15,720 --> 00:56:20,010
The amount of luggage they have.
absolutely enormous, big crate.

972
00:56:20,370 --> 00:56:23,310
Huge. And you see of course
they're always stopped at

973
00:56:23,310 --> 00:56:25,980
Immigrations and some schmuck
there is unpacking all this

974
00:56:25,980 --> 00:56:29,010
care. I mean, then they pack it
tight. And then I don't know if

975
00:56:29,010 --> 00:56:33,630
they come on over here forever
or what but it's real. Yeah,

976
00:56:33,630 --> 00:56:33,780
when

977
00:56:33,780 --> 00:56:37,140
I see this big luxury dance, I'm
always thinking, Are you moving

978
00:56:37,140 --> 00:56:40,560
there? Is that what you're
bringing so much stuff? You

979
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:44,100
know? I don't know. I tell
people, I guess there's some

980
00:56:44,100 --> 00:56:48,150
women who in fact, I went to.
When I went to Korea, Gina

981
00:56:48,150 --> 00:56:51,630
Smith, she brought like 10 pairs
of shorts. 15 pairs of shoes.

982
00:56:51,930 --> 00:56:54,150
And so we brought all these
shoes forces. Well, somebody

983
00:56:54,150 --> 00:56:57,120
told me she had been there
before is that they really are

984
00:56:57,540 --> 00:56:59,970
are picky about shoes. You can't
wear the same pair of shoes

985
00:56:59,970 --> 00:57:03,030
twice. And I'm thinking for you
and you believe this.

986
00:57:03,210 --> 00:57:09,750
I even I wouldn't believe that
one. So anyway, a Woolworths is

987
00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:12,480
bankrupt over here. I didn't
even know they're still in

988
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:15,960
business. Oh, they've been Oh,
yeah. Oh, Woolworths has been in

989
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:16,680
business here for

990
00:57:16,680 --> 00:57:19,350
decades. We haven't I don't
think I've seen a wool. We used

991
00:57:19,350 --> 00:57:21,090
to have Woolworths although it
was bought up.

992
00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:27,720
It was it was purchased by was a
what was in like 19 Eight or oh

993
00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:29,550
eight or something like that? I
think they Oh, they did? They

994
00:57:29,550 --> 00:57:33,840
opened up a store in the United
Kingdom. And who's the the name

995
00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:39,360
of the guy something I'm sure
it's a John H. Woolworth. He

996
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:42,180
discovered that they could do it
was the original Five and Dime

997
00:57:42,180 --> 00:57:45,510
concept. Right. Right. And it
really worked over the United

998
00:57:45,510 --> 00:57:48,570
Kingdom, particularly with an
American in the store. And so we

999
00:57:48,570 --> 00:57:51,960
really expand that in the 1970s.
You know, they had, I think they

1000
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:57,090
had like, they're like, seven
800 stores. And they were bought

1001
00:57:57,090 --> 00:58:02,370
up by, you know, by another big,
you know, conglomerate that owns

1002
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:06,450
multiple chains. And but
Woolworths Florida for the UK

1003
00:58:06,450 --> 00:58:09,000
ever since the 70s has really
been the place where you where

1004
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:12,360
you get you buy your music, you
know, very much like, like a

1005
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:19,560
Walmart, I guess. So they're,
they're bankrupt. Which is

1006
00:58:19,590 --> 00:58:21,720
culturally a big deal here.

1007
00:58:22,830 --> 00:58:27,690
Well, we used to have a
Woolworths nearby in the El

1008
00:58:27,690 --> 00:58:31,500
Cerrito Plaza, and I would go
there, you'd always get go

1009
00:58:31,500 --> 00:58:33,900
there. You know that that style
of story. There's also it used

1010
00:58:33,900 --> 00:58:37,020
to be a Kresge in Berkeley or
crest or whatever it was, I

1011
00:58:37,020 --> 00:58:40,350
think it was Kresge which was
the competitor, which had the

1012
00:58:40,350 --> 00:58:42,690
cooler stores for that a big
round glass windows and all this

1013
00:58:42,690 --> 00:58:44,520
others have Yeah, but you could
go there you could always there

1014
00:58:44,520 --> 00:58:47,310
was just about everything you
wanted. You know if you need it

1015
00:58:47,310 --> 00:58:50,730
glue or scotch tape, or you
know, something you actually

1016
00:58:50,790 --> 00:58:53,520
saw, like it was like a
miniaturised what target cells?

1017
00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:57,810
Like if you remember Zehrs. I
vaguely remember there was I

1018
00:58:57,810 --> 00:58:59,700
think it was like a chain on the
East Coast. Yeah,

1019
00:58:59,700 --> 00:59:01,560
it was it was east coast. So I
remember when we'd go on

1020
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:05,190
vacation in the 70s. Back from
Europe, to the states, we'd

1021
00:59:05,190 --> 00:59:09,750
always be excited, because we'd
stay in Armonk, at my

1022
00:59:09,750 --> 00:59:13,380
grandparents place. And in White
Plains, they had a huge zerres

1023
00:59:13,590 --> 00:59:16,230
And we go to his heirs, and we
just shop him. It was it was one

1024
00:59:16,230 --> 00:59:20,220
of the first everything there
for everybody lose your kids for

1025
00:59:20,220 --> 00:59:21,120
five hours.

1026
00:59:23,670 --> 00:59:25,890
Yeah, well, now the big box
stores have taken over that

1027
00:59:25,890 --> 00:59:28,920
business. I mean, the target is
the one that fascinates me the

1028
00:59:28,920 --> 00:59:34,050
most because I'm still reminded
of the white front stores that

1029
00:59:34,050 --> 00:59:37,410
used to be here, which were
actually a mob, a guy who was on

1030
00:59:37,410 --> 00:59:40,860
witness protection. And there's
always these they always have

1031
00:59:40,860 --> 00:59:46,440
these names. I think Conway on
this and Conway trucking was one

1032
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:49,440
of these things and there's
there's always a joke Yeah, the

1033
00:59:49,440 --> 00:59:53,790
name game sure name and Target
has always been to me. One of

1034
00:59:53,790 --> 00:59:57,660
those joke names of target of
target target of what it was

1035
00:59:57,660 --> 01:00:00,660
like a target. And so I'm
thinking you know, I keep going

1036
01:00:00,660 --> 01:00:02,970
through these and they got so
many targets. If you drive up

1037
01:00:02,970 --> 01:00:08,910
Highway 80, there's a Target
store about once every every two

1038
01:00:08,910 --> 01:00:12,450
miles off the freeway and very
high. These are a high expensive

1039
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:15,810
real estate areas. And so
there's a target that I can see

1040
01:00:15,810 --> 01:00:18,270
when from my house. And then you
go up, there's another one up

1041
01:00:18,270 --> 01:00:20,220
and written in the web
enrichment is another one

1042
01:00:20,220 --> 01:00:22,140
further up. And then there's
another and another, and

1043
01:00:22,140 --> 01:00:24,240
another. All these Target
stores. There's a whole slew of

1044
01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:26,430
them, you go into these stores,
and they're great stores, by the

1045
01:00:26,430 --> 01:00:28,710
way, even though everything's
from China, but they have

1046
01:00:28,890 --> 01:00:32,250
everything. And you can get
anything now they even have food

1047
01:00:32,250 --> 01:00:35,580
now. And you can get soap and
you can get dog food and you can

1048
01:00:35,580 --> 01:00:38,790
get tissue and you can get
scotch tape. It's just like a

1049
01:00:38,790 --> 01:00:42,900
Woolworths only They're huge.
And you can get out of a Target

1050
01:00:42,900 --> 01:00:46,680
store almost instantly. They
have way too many checkers. I

1051
01:00:46,680 --> 01:00:50,370
mean, you never wait. You go in
no matter when it is and you're

1052
01:00:50,370 --> 01:00:53,760
rarely wait behind one person.
There's always an open thing.

1053
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:56,400
Just you're out of there. It's
amazing. It's a great store, but

1054
01:00:56,610 --> 01:00:59,970
I don't see how they can afford
to stay in business. Because I

1055
01:00:59,970 --> 01:01:03,270
don't see that the traffic is
that outrageous going in and out

1056
01:01:03,270 --> 01:01:08,610
of there? Well, I don't know.
But because of places like

1057
01:01:08,610 --> 01:01:11,430
Target, there's no more five and
dime stores.

1058
01:01:12,420 --> 01:01:14,790
Well, I do know that we're
trying to do business with them.

1059
01:01:14,790 --> 01:01:17,850
I know that they're interested
in working with us.

1060
01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:22,200
Well, they do a lot of
advertising. Oh, hell yeah. And

1061
01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:24,120
their advertisements are
creative. It's a really

1062
01:01:24,120 --> 01:01:26,310
interesting company. The other
thing that they've done, which

1063
01:01:26,310 --> 01:01:29,790
is unique is that they've found
you know, all these high end

1064
01:01:29,790 --> 01:01:33,030
designers that do these
expensive stuff. And they've had

1065
01:01:33,030 --> 01:01:34,890
them do a cheap blindstitched
Yeah,

1066
01:01:34,890 --> 01:01:37,350
this is what ah, h&m started
that though, didn't they?

1067
01:01:37,860 --> 01:01:41,040
I don't know. I don't know the
h&m story. I do know h&m is

1068
01:01:41,040 --> 01:01:42,330
everywhere. Yeah.

1069
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:45,600
Hmm. I think they started with
Karl Lagerfeld, who of course,

1070
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:49,830
is you know, massive designer.
And he did a whole line at you

1071
01:01:49,830 --> 01:01:52,440
know, like 200 bucks for
whatever a shirt or whatever,

1072
01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:56,190
which is incredibly cheap for a
Karl Lagerfeld. And there were

1073
01:01:56,190 --> 01:02:00,330
people queued up in the morning
just to get in a Madonna did

1074
01:02:00,390 --> 01:02:03,450
wasn't successful, but they have
they have a lot of big names

1075
01:02:03,450 --> 01:02:03,900
doing,

1076
01:02:04,710 --> 01:02:07,500
I believe fashion lines. They do
like you know, a guy who was a

1077
01:02:07,500 --> 01:02:10,620
designer of you know, one thing
rather than having to do a

1078
01:02:10,620 --> 01:02:14,250
toaster. And then he got like
designer designed toasters and

1079
01:02:14,250 --> 01:02:18,300
clocks and stuff like that. But
I was by the way, surprise, I

1080
01:02:18,300 --> 01:02:20,970
was in Lisbon. There was a
there's an h&m there. I didn't

1081
01:02:20,970 --> 01:02:22,770
know that place was I didn't
know it was an international

1082
01:02:22,770 --> 01:02:23,280
chain.

1083
01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:26,370
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They're
everywhere. But it started in

1084
01:02:26,370 --> 01:02:29,280
the UK. It's I think it's known.
Wait a minute. Yeah, hammers and

1085
01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:29,790
Morris.

1086
01:02:30,180 --> 01:02:33,510
Is that what it is? Yeah, it's
not American. That's what it

1087
01:02:33,510 --> 01:02:39,660
stands for. hammers and Morris?
I think so. Yeah. Why? I will.

1088
01:02:39,660 --> 01:02:41,760
The reason is, because it's one
of those things that kind of

1089
01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:45,150
snuck up on me. I didn't I was
unaware of h&m until a couple

1090
01:02:45,150 --> 01:02:50,220
years ago. And it was already be
making, you know, it's already

1091
01:02:50,250 --> 01:02:52,410
taken over the kids more. I
mean, the kids when I say kids,

1092
01:02:52,410 --> 01:02:56,610
I mean, you know, college kids
and high school kids and anyone

1093
01:02:56,610 --> 01:03:01,680
under 25 That's where they shop.
Yeah. And because, you know, you

1094
01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:03,960
go in there, you can see that
they're oriented toward that,

1095
01:03:03,990 --> 01:03:08,940
that age group is 18 to 26 or
whatever the demo is, and, and

1096
01:03:08,940 --> 01:03:11,490
they have a lot of nice stylish
stuff, you know, that's, that's

1097
01:03:11,490 --> 01:03:14,160
cheap. Cheap.

1098
01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:19,650
The big thing here is Primark.
And Primark is I'm sure it's

1099
01:03:19,650 --> 01:03:23,850
made in in Asian sweatshops,
because the prices are just it's

1100
01:03:23,850 --> 01:03:28,590
so incredibly cheap. It's you
know, it's the price of Kmart

1101
01:03:29,370 --> 01:03:32,730
but it's it's actually it's
quite knockoffs you know? So

1102
01:03:32,730 --> 01:03:35,280
they look at whatever's in Vogue
magazine or whatever is in

1103
01:03:35,280 --> 01:03:38,400
glamour or Mary Claire or
whatever. And then they they

1104
01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:41,190
whip them up which of course I'm
sure comes directly from the

1105
01:03:41,190 --> 01:03:45,450
back door of the the the
factories that are making, you

1106
01:03:45,450 --> 01:03:48,960
know, the h&m stuff. Yeah, and
say boom, boom, boom, they

1107
01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:51,660
hammer rods, the same colours,
it's the same patterns is you

1108
01:03:51,660 --> 01:03:53,370
know, there's no lawsuits in
fashion.

1109
01:03:53,640 --> 01:03:58,080
No, for a number of reasons. You
can't copyright a font.

1110
01:03:59,820 --> 01:04:02,730
So you can't copyright a font I
didn't know now you

1111
01:04:02,730 --> 01:04:05,190
can know that's why fonts are
stolen forever, but yet you did

1112
01:04:05,190 --> 01:04:08,730
what you can copyright is the
name of the font. Ah, so if you

1113
01:04:08,730 --> 01:04:12,090
have like, you design a font
like Hatton Shriver, or one of

1114
01:04:12,090 --> 01:04:16,080
these crazy things our universe
which is you and I are Helvetica

1115
01:04:16,080 --> 01:04:19,080
is the classic example of attic
is the most, you know, the most

1116
01:04:19,080 --> 01:04:22,950
used font in the world. And if
you run into the good knockoffs

1117
01:04:22,950 --> 01:04:25,500
of it, because it's owned by one
of the front, one of the

1118
01:04:25,500 --> 01:04:28,260
foundries all the knockoffs have
different names. There's like

1119
01:04:28,260 --> 01:04:34,050
hell I still when my favourite
one was held HTLV S, which HP

1120
01:04:34,050 --> 01:04:37,980
used in one of their cartridges
early on, but there's, you know,

1121
01:04:37,980 --> 01:04:38,880
the other ones have all the

1122
01:04:39,270 --> 01:04:41,940
copyright of the name. It's a
trademark of the trademark,

1123
01:04:41,940 --> 01:04:45,900
right? It's a trademark. And so
you can't you can't steal that

1124
01:04:45,900 --> 01:04:49,110
you can steal the font, the
design of Helvetica, but you

1125
01:04:49,110 --> 01:04:52,680
can't call it Helvetica. And
that's what everybody does.

1126
01:04:53,040 --> 01:04:58,650
Funny. But anyway, the fashion
is, by the way, this is a good

1127
01:04:58,710 --> 01:05:01,800
argument at the end A patent
people have in the anti

1128
01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:04,770
copyright people have said,
look, the fashion industry, if

1129
01:05:04,770 --> 01:05:09,120
you design some fancy dress, and
you roll it out for $25,000, a

1130
01:05:09,120 --> 01:05:12,270
couture, and then somebody else
knocks it off and sells it for

1131
01:05:12,270 --> 01:05:16,890
150 bucks, exact same look and
feel you can't do anything about

1132
01:05:16,890 --> 01:05:21,540
it. This is an argument, this is
an argument against patents and

1133
01:05:21,540 --> 01:05:24,540
copyrights. Because if you just
look at the picture, overall,

1134
01:05:24,540 --> 01:05:26,880
it's a highly competitive
business. And people in the

1135
01:05:26,880 --> 01:05:29,820
fashion industry, many of them
make millions of dollars. It's a

1136
01:05:29,820 --> 01:05:33,180
very successful industry with
this model of everything being

1137
01:05:33,180 --> 01:05:34,620
stolen constantly.

1138
01:05:35,069 --> 01:05:37,799
But it's not just stolen, it is
a part of the entire

1139
01:05:38,219 --> 01:05:40,859
infrastructure because if there
were only designers making

1140
01:05:40,859 --> 01:05:45,569
$25,000 outfits for a very small
select clientele, we'd all be

1141
01:05:45,569 --> 01:05:49,229
wearing potato sacks. And of
course, we'd be wearing very

1142
01:05:49,229 --> 01:05:53,069
stupid ugly clothing. So it
trickles down. And it's meant to

1143
01:05:53,069 --> 01:05:57,089
do that now and it's a whole
power structure and the you

1144
01:05:57,089 --> 01:06:01,589
know, Elsa clench from CNN and
you know, the these women like

1145
01:06:01,619 --> 01:06:04,109
and they are predominantly women
least who are in the on the

1146
01:06:04,109 --> 01:06:07,469
media side of fashion, they
really control what we will look

1147
01:06:07,469 --> 01:06:11,399
like, in three months from now
or what we'll be wearing and

1148
01:06:11,399 --> 01:06:14,309
they love that it's it's a part
of how it all works. It's

1149
01:06:14,910 --> 01:06:17,370
what's funny, it even goes
deeper than that people don't

1150
01:06:17,370 --> 01:06:20,400
realise is like you know, when
they have you know, there are

1151
01:06:20,520 --> 01:06:23,580
it's so far it's done so far in
advance, it reminds me a lot of

1152
01:06:23,580 --> 01:06:27,000
the semiconductor business where
you have a really long ramp

1153
01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:29,370
because everybody knows we're
going to go to 32 nanometers

1154
01:06:29,370 --> 01:06:31,830
we're going to do this and it's
always done in advance because

1155
01:06:31,830 --> 01:06:35,430
you have this this pacing that
set by Moore's Law and with

1156
01:06:35,430 --> 01:06:39,510
fashion that you know, all these
like, Oh, this is the fall cut,

1157
01:06:39,510 --> 01:06:41,910
this is fall colours, this is a
new colours, you're going to

1158
01:06:41,910 --> 01:06:45,330
have this orange and this blue,
that's got it this tint and that

1159
01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:49,260
those colours are done by these,
you know, these guys who do

1160
01:06:49,290 --> 01:06:54,840
design inks and dyes six months
earlier, or specialty Yeah,

1161
01:06:54,840 --> 01:06:57,330
that's what they're doing, they
come up with these colours way

1162
01:06:57,330 --> 01:07:00,870
in advance of the of the of the
fashion season, because those

1163
01:07:00,870 --> 01:07:04,830
dyes have to go into the cloth,
and they have to. So this is so

1164
01:07:04,830 --> 01:07:07,770
there's like a real long ramp.
And then all of a sudden, these

1165
01:07:07,830 --> 01:07:10,350
new colours come out and
everyone's all jacked up about

1166
01:07:10,350 --> 01:07:13,530
it. Oh, that's the new green,
you bring the old green, you

1167
01:07:13,530 --> 01:07:15,690
know, well this you could have
probably figured out what the

1168
01:07:15,690 --> 01:07:18,510
new green is gonna be if you
were in the business because it

1169
01:07:18,540 --> 01:07:22,500
did things was decided like nine
months earlier or a year now.

1170
01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:24,900
I think it's like six it's like
six months

1171
01:07:25,680 --> 01:07:28,080
Okay, so long as six months but
it gets you the problems at

1172
01:07:28,110 --> 01:07:29,700
first you got to first you got
to

1173
01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:33,300
close the colour and then the
and then the design the design,

1174
01:07:33,660 --> 01:07:35,400
you have to come with the
colours and then you have to

1175
01:07:35,430 --> 01:07:37,920
then you have to come up with
the fabric that uses the

1176
01:07:37,920 --> 01:07:40,650
colours. And so there's a
there's a gap there because you

1177
01:07:40,650 --> 01:07:42,360
got to make fabric usually

1178
01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:46,260
the designers they get they step
into that part of the process.

1179
01:07:46,260 --> 01:07:50,340
So Karl Lagerfeld he'll he'll
get fabric which already has,

1180
01:07:50,370 --> 01:07:52,800
you know, there's a selection of
colours that go with it. So

1181
01:07:52,830 --> 01:07:54,780
they're even a step behind that.

1182
01:07:55,740 --> 01:07:58,980
Yeah, probably, I would think so
you'd have to be I have,

1183
01:07:59,250 --> 01:08:02,370
I happen to know. So I have a
wife who is involved in all

1184
01:08:02,370 --> 01:08:03,150
this. Well, you

1185
01:08:03,150 --> 01:08:06,480
have to be anyway. So there's,
the ramp is large as long it's

1186
01:08:06,480 --> 01:08:10,050
not like it's a big shock, that
all of a sudden, I always get

1187
01:08:10,050 --> 01:08:14,640
the biggest kick out of you go
to Europe, where they're more

1188
01:08:14,640 --> 01:08:18,240
fashion oriented, especially
with these colours than they are

1189
01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:20,430
in the United States. And so
you'll go past the department

1190
01:08:20,430 --> 01:08:23,400
store and they'll have all these
colours, these new colours for

1191
01:08:23,400 --> 01:08:27,720
this, you know, season this, you
know, spring, you know, oh nine,

1192
01:08:28,050 --> 01:08:32,280
and so you'll see all these
colours, and then it was just

1193
01:08:32,280 --> 01:08:35,370
they really emphasise these
colours in Europe. And you come

1194
01:08:35,370 --> 01:08:38,310
to us and every so often there
was no I remember this one.

1195
01:08:38,310 --> 01:08:42,780
There's this crazy rust colour
from some years ago, that was

1196
01:08:42,780 --> 01:08:45,690
just kind of almost gaudy. It
was they were pushing the heck

1197
01:08:45,690 --> 01:08:48,390
out of in Europe and you could
not even find this colour in the

1198
01:08:48,390 --> 01:08:52,020
United States. So apparently,
all our people said screw it. We

1199
01:08:52,020 --> 01:08:55,620
don't like this colour. care
what anybody buddy thinks and we

1200
01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:57,840
never got the colour was just
the funniest thing. Is he

1201
01:08:57,840 --> 01:08:58,380
missing?

1202
01:08:59,939 --> 01:09:05,039
I don't know. I got I got two
more things. Unless you got

1203
01:09:05,039 --> 01:09:05,909
some. No,

1204
01:09:05,910 --> 01:09:07,440
I got nothing you can tell.

1205
01:09:08,069 --> 01:09:10,169
No, I like it. Because you've
been you've been on a couple of

1206
01:09:10,169 --> 01:09:11,069
good rants today.

1207
01:09:11,279 --> 01:09:12,839
Yeah, well, you know, certainly.

1208
01:09:14,460 --> 01:09:17,490
Do you know who Buckminster
Fuller is? Oh, absolutely.

1209
01:09:17,490 --> 01:09:19,530
Everybody knows who Bucky is.
Well, I'm

1210
01:09:19,530 --> 01:09:22,440
just learning about Bucky, can
you give me some background on

1211
01:09:22,440 --> 01:09:23,970
this guy? He seems highly
interesting.

1212
01:09:24,120 --> 01:09:26,640
He's very interesting. I think
I've always thought he you know,

1213
01:09:26,640 --> 01:09:30,000
he was very popular amongst a
new age nutballs

1214
01:09:30,060 --> 01:09:31,830
Yeah, that's why I like him.
Exactly.

1215
01:09:33,569 --> 01:09:36,389
Well, you if you were actually a
new age nut ball, which you're

1216
01:09:36,389 --> 01:09:40,109
not I can assure that audience
you would have known about him

1217
01:09:40,109 --> 01:09:43,889
by now that I actually the fact
that you're so far behind on

1218
01:09:43,889 --> 01:09:49,469
Buckminster Fuller proves and
you know, with with us authority

1219
01:09:49,469 --> 01:09:53,459
that you're not a new age
nutball but anyway, did that but

1220
01:09:53,459 --> 01:09:56,669
I digress. So Buckminster Fuller
had all these crazy ideas. He

1221
01:09:56,699 --> 01:10:00,419
invented the geodesic dome. He
did experiments on himself he

1222
01:10:00,419 --> 01:10:03,479
did his crazy experiment about
sleeping He put himself in some

1223
01:10:03,479 --> 01:10:06,119
isolation and decided to sleep
when he felt like and found that

1224
01:10:06,119 --> 01:10:08,549
you only needed if you didn't
have any beds or anywhere

1225
01:10:08,549 --> 01:10:11,489
sleeping you just conked out
when he felt like and then wake

1226
01:10:11,489 --> 01:10:14,669
up and conk out and wake up kind
of passed out theory of

1227
01:10:14,670 --> 01:10:16,950
hey, that's kind of how I live
my life.

1228
01:10:17,520 --> 01:10:20,100
He said you only did it turns
out you only need four hours a

1229
01:10:20,100 --> 01:10:21,810
day and

1230
01:10:22,860 --> 01:10:25,200
I need a little more than that.
And he also

1231
01:10:25,200 --> 01:10:27,930
did a thing called the Dymaxion
car which is the one you should

1232
01:10:27,930 --> 01:10:31,170
really look into because it's
the funniest thing but but when

1233
01:10:31,170 --> 01:10:34,380
you look at like his Dymaxion
car and all this other theories

1234
01:10:34,380 --> 01:10:39,480
and things, I always thought he
was like a crackpot. You know,

1235
01:10:39,480 --> 01:10:41,820
yeah, he did came up with a
couple of interesting ideas. But

1236
01:10:41,820 --> 01:10:43,830
when you start look when you
start seeing how these things

1237
01:10:43,860 --> 01:10:47,430
work, in terms of aesthetics,
that they maxium car was the

1238
01:10:47,460 --> 01:10:50,190
ugliest, stupidest thing ever
put on the road.

1239
01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:53,520
That was what was so special
about it. What was that?

1240
01:10:53,790 --> 01:10:56,910
It had steered from the one
wheel in the back or something

1241
01:10:56,910 --> 01:11:01,980
that was made. It was made out
of, of the kind of material that

1242
01:11:01,980 --> 01:11:05,340
aeroplanes are made out of
carbon fibre? No, no, we're

1243
01:11:05,340 --> 01:11:08,430
talking about back in the 30s.
Stretch aluminium aluminium.

1244
01:11:08,460 --> 01:11:12,030
Yes. Now, yeah, aluminium. And
it was just as domestic and

1245
01:11:12,030 --> 01:11:15,000
apparently killed somebody in
New York in a freak accident and

1246
01:11:15,030 --> 01:11:17,880
you know, they stopped making
them or they were you.

1247
01:11:18,570 --> 01:11:21,870
Let me give you the context of
how I how I've come in contact

1248
01:11:21,870 --> 01:11:24,390
with the work of Buckminster
Fuller, and I'm really

1249
01:11:24,390 --> 01:11:28,890
interested in how he makes money
what his deal is. Well, there

1250
01:11:28,890 --> 01:11:29,370
you go.

1251
01:11:29,730 --> 01:11:31,920
He's been dead for years. As far
as I know,

1252
01:11:32,160 --> 01:11:34,500
maybe I should retract that
email with the interview

1253
01:11:34,500 --> 01:11:36,450
request. A good idea.

1254
01:11:39,780 --> 01:11:41,400
look him up on Wikipedia.

1255
01:11:41,820 --> 01:11:44,430
This this piece of video where
he's talking about, you know,

1256
01:11:44,430 --> 01:11:48,630
2012, which of course, you know,
I'm interested in God. Yeah. And

1257
01:11:48,660 --> 01:11:52,980
he says, this is humanity's
final exam. And in what was

1258
01:11:52,980 --> 01:11:56,970
interested, the concepts we have
to unlearn. You are not actually

1259
01:11:57,000 --> 01:12:03,030
of this era. If you cannot grasp
the following two concepts. He

1260
01:12:03,030 --> 01:12:07,560
died at three by the way. Okay,
so free was an early Kook. So

1261
01:12:07,560 --> 01:12:10,800
one the concept that the sun
does not set unless you can

1262
01:12:10,800 --> 01:12:14,400
actually envision yourself
spinning on the globe at 24,000

1263
01:12:14,400 --> 01:12:18,780
miles an hour and spinning past
the sun, then you're still

1264
01:12:18,780 --> 01:12:21,780
living fight and 500 years in
the past. And he said, the

1265
01:12:21,780 --> 01:12:24,360
second one, and this is this is
funny, I'm going to start using

1266
01:12:24,360 --> 01:12:28,350
this just to piss people off.
There is no up or down. There is

1267
01:12:28,680 --> 01:12:33,150
out in and around, or through.
But there's no up and down

1268
01:12:33,180 --> 01:12:35,820
because you actually when you go
wood, when you go up in an

1269
01:12:35,820 --> 01:12:38,370
aeroplane, you're actually going
out of the earth. And if you're

1270
01:12:38,370 --> 01:12:42,630
going towards the moon, you're
going into the moon. And I was

1271
01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:45,300
just it was a concept. I was
like wow, that's pretty

1272
01:12:45,300 --> 01:12:47,670
interesting. And then when you
start thinking about it when you

1273
01:12:47,670 --> 01:12:52,440
start feeling yourself being on
the globe, which is spinning

1274
01:12:52,440 --> 01:12:56,730
around I don't know it's a it
had an elevating effect on me, I

1275
01:12:56,730 --> 01:13:00,180
guess. Yeah, well, I apparently
did I find the whole thing to be

1276
01:13:00,390 --> 01:13:05,490
specious, tedious and bullshit.
Spaceship Earth is one of the

1277
01:13:05,490 --> 01:13:10,770
things that he you know, named.
And everybody got jacked up

1278
01:13:10,770 --> 01:13:12,060
about that. I mean, yeah, he was

1279
01:13:12,120 --> 01:13:14,910
a ship Earth. I gotta write this
down. Is that a? Is that a book?

1280
01:13:15,179 --> 01:13:18,839
What is he popularised the term
this is Wikipedia. You know, I

1281
01:13:18,839 --> 01:13:23,999
remember a spaceship Earth. Oh,
yeah. Okay, whatever. Anyway,

1282
01:13:23,999 --> 01:13:26,279
the geodesic domes his main
thing and people would build

1283
01:13:26,279 --> 01:13:28,439
these domes because they were
they're actually very good. It's

1284
01:13:28,439 --> 01:13:31,529
a good very strong structure.
But they're the gosh awful

1285
01:13:31,529 --> 01:13:34,649
looking this thing they're
horrible. You know,

1286
01:13:34,649 --> 01:13:36,959
aesthetically, I see these domes
that people will

1287
01:13:37,020 --> 01:13:40,620
be living in like you're living
in Epcot worse

1288
01:13:41,430 --> 01:13:43,710
because they had this like this
this structure of it. That thing

1289
01:13:43,710 --> 01:13:46,770
was just ugly. It looked like
some it's just creepy looking.

1290
01:13:47,220 --> 01:13:49,560
And so but people would build
them because Oh, it's a geodesic

1291
01:13:49,560 --> 01:13:52,530
dome Buckminster Fuller anyway,
so I you can tell I'm not a

1292
01:13:53,670 --> 01:13:54,150
fan?

1293
01:13:56,400 --> 01:14:00,090
No, not really. I don't see what
his contribution really was. I

1294
01:14:00,090 --> 01:14:05,160
don't know. Well, that's why I
asked. Now you know, you'll be

1295
01:14:05,160 --> 01:14:07,950
good. But go to the diamagnetic
die. Maxine is this stuff you

1296
01:14:07,950 --> 01:14:09,690
want to look into because that's
the funniest stuff,

1297
01:14:10,080 --> 01:14:13,980
by Maxine Carr. Okay, so we're
going to expedite maxium hits D

1298
01:14:13,980 --> 01:14:19,950
YMAXIONDYMAX. i O when all
different

1299
01:14:19,950 --> 01:14:24,510
look into that. And then before
we leave, I'll just crank up the

1300
01:14:24,510 --> 01:14:28,740
printing press one more time.
Interesting story in the

1301
01:14:28,740 --> 01:14:33,480
Financial Times. That for the
first time, and this is always

1302
01:14:33,480 --> 01:14:36,990
kind of important when you look
at economics, the United States.

1303
01:14:37,410 --> 01:14:39,840
I have a great picture of Rahm
Emanuel here, by the way looking

1304
01:14:39,840 --> 01:14:44,490
really scary. Gary guy, for the
first time the London School of

1305
01:14:44,490 --> 01:14:49,320
Economics is almost in the
majority in Obama's cabinet

1306
01:14:49,320 --> 01:14:53,490
slash buddies. Because normally
it's this is a big deal, right?

1307
01:14:53,490 --> 01:14:57,270
It's like what what school of
course, Bill Clinton was Oxford.

1308
01:14:57,570 --> 01:15:01,230
So what was it I should read
that again? Okay, I'll

1309
01:15:01,230 --> 01:15:04,230
read you the headline, actually
London School of Economics is

1310
01:15:04,230 --> 01:15:10,140
well represented amongst Obama's
buddies. And the the point of it

1311
01:15:10,140 --> 01:15:16,740
is, is that I'm looking for the
names here. Yeah, Peter, Peter

1312
01:15:16,740 --> 01:15:21,180
or Zog as Budget Director Pete
Rouse and Mona Sutphen as senior

1313
01:15:21,180 --> 01:15:24,900
White House staff means the
London School of Economics only

1314
01:15:24,900 --> 01:15:29,640
has two fewer graduates than
Harvard in team Obama. And it

1315
01:15:29,640 --> 01:15:32,730
goes on to listen to only one
from MIT and it seems like a

1316
01:15:32,730 --> 01:15:37,800
real that's like in the UK. Of
course, all the politicians come

1317
01:15:37,800 --> 01:15:42,240
from what's that horrible boy
school named? Exeter? No, no,

1318
01:15:42,270 --> 01:15:45,990
it's in Exeter. Probably. No,
it's not. Is it Exeter? I think

1319
01:15:45,990 --> 01:15:49,140
so. Now it's something else. But
anyway, I just thought it was

1320
01:15:52,860 --> 01:15:55,950
I thought it was Exeter. But
anyway, the, ya know, I was

1321
01:15:55,950 --> 01:15:58,530
looking at this and everybody's
got a PhD. It's like they all

1322
01:15:58,530 --> 01:16:01,200
went to like Yale, and then
they've got their Harvard but

1323
01:16:01,200 --> 01:16:03,330
mostly Harvard. Is that
different? I mean, what we have,

1324
01:16:03,960 --> 01:16:07,380
you know, we had the during the
Bush administration, everybody's

1325
01:16:07,380 --> 01:16:10,800
a Yalie. And then, you know,
everyone's from Yale. You have

1326
01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:14,040
to be from Yale. And then this
is switching over to harbour

1327
01:16:14,040 --> 01:16:16,920
which I actually think is an
improvement. But I could be

1328
01:16:16,920 --> 01:16:20,220
wrong. And because who knows? I
mean, I don't understand why we

1329
01:16:20,220 --> 01:16:22,590
don't have more West Coast
representation. There's nobody

1330
01:16:22,590 --> 01:16:26,130
from you know, Berkeley, you
know, or any of these schools

1331
01:16:26,130 --> 01:16:29,580
out here. You don't have too
much Cal Tech, you know,

1332
01:16:29,580 --> 01:16:32,160
represented in the Gervase all
these East Coast Ivy League

1333
01:16:32,220 --> 01:16:35,610
clubby schools that you know,
have the same fraternities. And

1334
01:16:35,610 --> 01:16:36,570
you makes you wonder,

1335
01:16:37,050 --> 01:16:41,340
yeah, like Skull and Bones.
Shit. Yeah. Eatin is the one

1336
01:16:41,340 --> 01:16:45,030
that you hate. And that's it.
I'm sorry, Ian, I knew that. I

1337
01:16:45,030 --> 01:16:50,040
knew it too. So, oops. Well,
anyway, for those of you who are

1338
01:16:50,070 --> 01:16:52,530
Oh, and that is the final thing
I want to say. Those of you who

1339
01:16:52,530 --> 01:16:55,680
are enjoying the change, which
is already taking place, we can

1340
01:16:55,680 --> 01:16:59,340
see it perfectly. The guy in the
front has changed. Everyone else

1341
01:16:59,340 --> 01:17:03,030
in the back remains the same in
the administration. twice now

1342
01:17:03,030 --> 01:17:07,770
I've noticed on both the John
Stuart show that the Daily Show

1343
01:17:08,040 --> 01:17:12,870
and on I saw it happen on The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He

1344
01:17:12,870 --> 01:17:16,500
had I forget her name. She has a
talk show on E she's like a

1345
01:17:16,500 --> 01:17:22,950
comedian. Kind of funny. Tall
MILFy looking chick. Now you

1346
01:17:22,950 --> 01:17:26,580
don't know. Now I don't know.
But you know when people pull

1347
01:17:26,580 --> 01:17:29,760
out an obvious crowd pleaser,
you know, like, like the old

1348
01:17:29,760 --> 01:17:33,690
Hey, but we got change Obama's
in the audience goes dead

1349
01:17:33,720 --> 01:17:37,920
silent. There's no more cheering
there's no more laughter There's

1350
01:17:37,920 --> 01:17:40,920
no more Yeah, we got him Look at
you. Yeah, we're we're rocking

1351
01:17:40,920 --> 01:17:44,070
and rolling the country is back.
It's it's not even a chuckle

1352
01:17:44,100 --> 01:17:49,050
John, really pletely it's dying.
You cannot use Obama as a as a

1353
01:17:49,050 --> 01:17:54,330
crowd pleaser anymore. On these
talk shows, that's interesting.

1354
01:17:54,570 --> 01:17:57,330
Now, I thought that was highly
interesting, because that shows

1355
01:17:57,330 --> 01:18:00,540
a real change of mentality
almost overnight.

1356
01:18:01,019 --> 01:18:03,359
It doesn't take much the
American public in particular is

1357
01:18:03,359 --> 01:18:07,619
extremely fickle, and they can
turn on a dime. I mean, that's

1358
01:18:07,619 --> 01:18:09,959
been fantastic in the economy
due to these crazy turn on a

1359
01:18:09,959 --> 01:18:14,129
dime things. I mean, we had, I'm
still stunned by this, you know,

1360
01:18:14,129 --> 01:18:18,209
I was like, I was just in
Portugal and prices were

1361
01:18:18,209 --> 01:18:21,659
reasonable. Compared to you
know, we haven't gotten

1362
01:18:22,230 --> 01:18:24,630
well with your American dollar
now, which is being

1363
01:18:26,550 --> 01:18:29,100
you know, we had who knew the
pound got to two bucks and the

1364
01:18:29,160 --> 01:18:32,370
and the weird thing was the
Canadian dollar got to $1 became

1365
01:18:32,370 --> 01:18:36,180
one to one. And when the stink
turned around, just like a month

1366
01:18:36,180 --> 01:18:40,290
or two ago, which I expected, it
took years to get where it got

1367
01:18:40,410 --> 01:18:43,980
and it turns around and goes
right back to 76 cents or 75

1368
01:18:43,980 --> 01:18:47,310
cents for the Canadian dollar.
And then the pound is back was a

1369
01:18:47,310 --> 01:18:52,560
buck 46 When I went there, which
was low is usually a buck 55 You

1370
01:18:52,560 --> 01:18:55,920
know, and traditionally, so it's
a buck 46 which was low once it

1371
01:18:55,920 --> 01:18:58,530
goes below a buck 50 To me
that's like bargain time in

1372
01:18:58,530 --> 01:19:01,890
England. I'm thinking this just
happened overnight. I've never

1373
01:19:01,890 --> 01:19:04,800
seen anything collapsed like
this I mean, the gas prices I

1374
01:19:04,800 --> 01:19:07,650
bought gasoline for a buck 99
premium

1375
01:19:09,030 --> 01:19:13,290
and the same thing is as the
Euro same thing crushed the

1376
01:19:13,290 --> 01:19:19,560
pound super crushed. It was two
bucks now it's 153 that's under

1377
01:19:19,560 --> 01:19:25,380
that's an unbelievable drop.
Yeah. But I figured out the

1378
01:19:25,380 --> 01:19:27,780
other way around, it's an
unbelievable rise in the dollar

1379
01:19:27,780 --> 01:19:31,650
because the Federal Reserve is
selling gold. They're selling it

1380
01:19:31,650 --> 01:19:37,710
and I'm like no one else's
business No one's buying it. You

1381
01:19:37,710 --> 01:19:43,050
know, buying the goal. You are
some of it. Now Iran actually

1382
01:19:43,050 --> 01:19:49,320
just purchased $75 billion worth
of gold. Now these are the this

1383
01:19:49,320 --> 01:19:51,480
is not just a bunch of camel
jockeys out there, they know

1384
01:19:51,480 --> 01:19:54,990
what they're doing. And I think
they're incredibly smart.

1385
01:19:55,530 --> 01:19:58,740
Oh, that means that gold is
going to collapse. We only do

1386
01:19:58,740 --> 01:20:00,450
stuff like this this group
People.

1387
01:20:01,680 --> 01:20:04,110
Hey, John, welcome to the dark
side,

1388
01:20:05,100 --> 01:20:08,280
telling you I can defend against
if you want to sell a gold to a

1389
01:20:08,280 --> 01:20:11,280
bunch of dumb Iranians and pull
the rug out from under him I

1390
01:20:11,280 --> 01:20:13,050
don't have a problem with it
doesn't you know,

1391
01:20:14,130 --> 01:20:17,820
Lindsey Williams, the chaplain,
who like completely base all of

1392
01:20:17,820 --> 01:20:21,780
my predictions on just by
parroting him who worked for the

1393
01:20:21,780 --> 01:20:24,240
oil companies in Alaska, this is
the guy who said, it's gonna go

1394
01:20:24,240 --> 01:20:28,380
to 200. And it's gonna happen
now. And he was right, and

1395
01:20:28,590 --> 01:20:33,390
what's gonna go to 200, oil,
whatever went to 200, it went

1396
01:20:33,390 --> 01:20:37,350
close. But then he came out
close, it got to 147. Close

1397
01:20:37,350 --> 01:20:41,460
enough, it was 60 when he said
it, not even it was 50 when he

1398
01:20:41,460 --> 01:20:44,850
said it, when he came out, he
came out a couple months ago,

1399
01:20:44,940 --> 01:20:48,660
now, eight, six or eight weeks
ago, and he said, it's going

1400
01:20:48,660 --> 01:20:51,840
down to 50. And of course, it's
gone down to 50. And he says

1401
01:20:51,840 --> 01:20:54,540
it's stay in there a long time.
And the reason why he claims

1402
01:20:54,540 --> 01:20:57,060
that he's actually speaks to one
of these guys, who, who

1403
01:20:57,060 --> 01:21:00,450
determines this. He says,
because they want to bankrupt

1404
01:21:00,450 --> 01:21:03,000
the Middle East, they want to
completely bankrupt him, they're

1405
01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:06,090
going to keep the oil at 50
bucks, they want him out of the

1406
01:21:06,090 --> 01:21:06,420
way,

1407
01:21:06,930 --> 01:21:09,990
they should drop it to 40 that I
mean, just traditionally 25

1408
01:21:12,180 --> 01:21:14,340
I think it's become too
expensive right now, because

1409
01:21:14,340 --> 01:21:17,670
even just to get it out of the
ground costs 30 or 40, well, you

1410
01:21:17,670 --> 01:21:20,520
know that you can bankrupt these
guys, if you get everybody you

1411
01:21:20,520 --> 01:21:23,760
know, on the same page, there's
gonna go to 200 and everybody

1412
01:21:23,760 --> 01:21:26,550
starts banking on and they start
all these green projects, and

1413
01:21:26,550 --> 01:21:28,470
we're gonna do solar, we're
gonna do all these other things.

1414
01:21:28,710 --> 01:21:31,200
Because, you know, the cost of
oil makes it profitable to do

1415
01:21:31,200 --> 01:21:35,070
all these other alternative
energy tricks. Usually over you

1416
01:21:35,070 --> 01:21:38,580
know, anytime it goes over 40
Actually, and then you get

1417
01:21:38,580 --> 01:21:41,310
everybody all geared up for this
stuff, and you begin having the

1418
01:21:41,430 --> 01:21:45,180
Goldman Sachs come out and say
it's gonna go to 200 They're

1419
01:21:45,300 --> 01:21:48,480
amongst the group that was
cheerleading. And then the thing

1420
01:21:48,510 --> 01:21:52,470
you know, everybody's all geared
up for this $200 deal. You know,

1421
01:21:52,470 --> 01:21:55,950
and it's already at 140 It was a
setup, it's a setup and you're

1422
01:21:55,950 --> 01:21:59,130
all up you're in you're putting
all your chips to the middle of

1423
01:21:59,130 --> 01:22:01,770
the table and then boom, you
pull the rug out from under the

1424
01:22:01,770 --> 01:22:04,860
sink falls like our rock if you
take a look at the charts by the

1425
01:22:04,860 --> 01:22:08,850
way, I mean, this oil pricing
went straight down. It wasn't

1426
01:22:08,850 --> 01:22:12,000
like Well, let me hesitate here
and just loop down it wasn't

1427
01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:14,940
like it wasn't like it was going
over a cliff in a nice smooth

1428
01:22:14,940 --> 01:22:19,200
curve. It went straight down
with one blip if it wants to

1429
01:22:19,200 --> 01:22:20,700
basically straight down and I
love

1430
01:22:20,700 --> 01:22:24,000
it how I love it how politicians
still talk about the incredible

1431
01:22:24,000 --> 01:22:24,900
price of oil

1432
01:22:25,950 --> 01:22:27,030
they don't even notice

1433
01:22:28,710 --> 01:22:32,040
oil is so expensive energy costs
are very expensive. Oh,

1434
01:22:32,580 --> 01:22:34,440
I don't have any good don't go
outside.

1435
01:22:35,520 --> 01:22:39,090
Although it is it is true that
shell I just read this today,

1436
01:22:39,240 --> 01:22:45,270
shell had to shut down their
Nigerian liquid natural gas

1437
01:22:45,750 --> 01:22:50,790
production which is what Europe
gets almost all of their energy

1438
01:22:50,790 --> 01:22:55,590
from from from the Nigerian
liquid natural gas. So I predict

1439
01:22:55,590 --> 01:22:58,290
that when it comes to heating,
you know like gas heating, etc I

1440
01:22:58,290 --> 01:23:01,350
think it's going to skyrocket at
least in Europe it's going to go

1441
01:23:01,350 --> 01:23:03,450
out of control and then of
course we have to go buy it from

1442
01:23:03,450 --> 01:23:05,070
the Russians which is going to
be interesting

1443
01:23:06,510 --> 01:23:09,270
well I know shell had that that
advertisement they actually had

1444
01:23:09,270 --> 01:23:12,240
a channel in addition network
promoting this liquid natural

1445
01:23:12,240 --> 01:23:13,110
gas bullshit

1446
01:23:13,110 --> 01:23:18,840
so evil. It's that's the Dutch
royal family, the House of

1447
01:23:18,840 --> 01:23:24,600
Orange founders of the
Bilderberg Group, know yep, yep.

1448
01:23:26,370 --> 01:23:27,960
Let's end it on a Hi, John.

1449
01:23:29,880 --> 01:23:33,150
Hi, as you can buy premium gas
now for around two bucks.

1450
01:23:34,500 --> 01:23:41,610
I'll take it as good. I've now I
can fly much cheaper to that. I

1451
01:23:41,610 --> 01:23:44,970
don't hate the weather. It's
completely crap. Absolutely no

1452
01:23:44,970 --> 01:23:51,720
flying. Alright. What's coming
up this week, anything special

1453
01:23:51,750 --> 01:23:53,130
besides Cyber Monday?

1454
01:23:54,390 --> 01:23:56,850
What's going on in Cyber Monday?
Cyber Monday. It's

1455
01:23:56,850 --> 01:24:00,570
the internet's version of Black
Friday. Oh, yeah. I'm gonna be

1456
01:24:00,570 --> 01:24:03,630
plugging all of our deals all of
our get them cheap deals. See,

1457
01:24:03,630 --> 01:24:08,760
we can hop on the bandwagon. Get
get a cheap deal on budget.

1458
01:24:09,240 --> 01:24:16,110
I got a bunch of budget.com/tech
the I have to there's something

1459
01:24:16,110 --> 01:24:17,400
I had to do. Yeah, I gotta

1460
01:24:17,940 --> 01:24:24,510
see. Ah, right. budget.com/te ch
Yeah, te ch. It's MVNO.

1461
01:24:24,510 --> 01:24:29,340
offers.com is where you can find
you can Gianna hug Gianna

1462
01:24:29,580 --> 01:24:34,560
and need some, you know, some
action. So yeah, I gotta go do

1463
01:24:34,560 --> 01:24:37,200
my online ordering because I
think next week is probably the

1464
01:24:37,200 --> 01:24:39,570
best year right after that, you
know? That's

1465
01:24:39,570 --> 01:24:42,270
what that's what Cyber Monday is
all about. That's the day when

1466
01:24:42,270 --> 01:24:44,670
you get all the best deals. Now,
it'll really be dependent upon

1467
01:24:44,670 --> 01:24:47,130
what happens today. On Black
Friday. I

1468
01:24:47,130 --> 01:24:49,560
mean, what do you think is gonna
happen? Just predicted? Okay.

1469
01:24:49,770 --> 01:24:49,980
Well,

1470
01:24:49,980 --> 01:24:53,100
I have to say I've already
watched some of the news. And it

1471
01:24:53,100 --> 01:24:56,820
seemed like this. This was they
were reporting on CNBC on the

1472
01:24:56,820 --> 01:24:59,790
west coast because they have
reporters in the malls. Right.

1473
01:24:59,790 --> 01:25:03,150
This is This is how crazy we
are. On the west coast seems

1474
01:25:03,150 --> 01:25:05,190
like everywhere, it seemed like
same amount of people were

1475
01:25:05,190 --> 01:25:08,520
showing up. But now they have to
find out how the sales figures

1476
01:25:08,520 --> 01:25:11,010
are. But on the West Coast,
people were using predominantly

1477
01:25:11,010 --> 01:25:15,330
cash on the East Coast people
using 85% using credit cards.

1478
01:25:16,619 --> 01:25:18,329
We're always ahead of the game
out here.

1479
01:25:18,419 --> 01:25:23,669
So I'm going to predict we will
see a non a significant drop,

1480
01:25:23,669 --> 01:25:27,209
I'm going to say 20 to 25% less
than last year, which of course

1481
01:25:27,209 --> 01:25:30,209
will be amazing because it'd be
the first time in 100 years that

1482
01:25:30,209 --> 01:25:33,839
we've actually gone down in
Black Friday sales, but I think

1483
01:25:33,839 --> 01:25:36,209
it's I think it's going to be 20
to 25% down.

1484
01:25:36,569 --> 01:25:40,649
I'm saying 5% down. Okay,

1485
01:25:40,739 --> 01:25:47,489
five, interesting. And we'll
find out tomorrow, but we won't

1486
01:25:47,489 --> 01:25:53,279
talk about it until next week.
Alright, everybody, coming to

1487
01:25:53,279 --> 01:25:55,859
you from Gitmo East in the
United Kingdom. I'm Adam curry,

1488
01:25:56,130 --> 01:25:58,770
and get more West. I'm in
northern Silicon Valley. I'm

1489
01:25:58,770 --> 01:25:59,790
John C. Dvorak.

1490
01:26:00,030 --> 01:26:02,820
We'll talk again next week right
here on no agenda.