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June 11, 2009 - No Agenda
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103: Taylor Swift Sucks
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Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
Oh yeah, we've got the paper towel mic stand ready once again.
It's time for your Gitmo Nation audio publication.
This is no agenda.
Still coming to you from the place with the crappy bandwidth, but we're doing our best.
Coming to you from Gitmo Nation West in an undisclosed hotel location.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from some dark area, sun seems to have set.
I guess that's not in the morning.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
Yeah, well it's in the morning somewhere.
It's always in the morning somewhere.
That's right.
In Amsterdam it's in the morning right now.
There we go.
I'm sure there's a couple guys listening.
You think?
I'm sure.
Probably.
It is, well it's actually Wednesday evening, but by the time this goes out it'll be Thursday.
So we'll be right on time for the show as usual.
Kind of.
Yeah.
Hey John, how you doing?
Good.
Excellent.
You've had a busy week.
It really has been busy, but, you know, I'm back in the...
Meetings, meetings, meetings.
I go into the office, there's meetings, meetings, meetings.
There's lots of meetings.
Well, it's not just...
Yeah, there's meetings, but we've got some...
You know, we've got a huge piece of business in, so it's all been creative meetings, which is different from boring meetings.
I like the creative meetings.
So we got...
We got...
What do we got?
The new Honda Scooter?
We're going to advertise on the network.
What new Honda scooter?
Yeah, Italy's favorite scooter is made by Honda, apparently.
It's like a little motor scooter?
Yeah, 150cc, so a real proper, and it's highway legal, apparently.
So this is like better than the Honda 50 back in the old 60s and 70s when they had the Beach Boys singing da-da-da-da-da-da?
The 49.9cc Honda?
Yeah.
By the way, so I used to ride a motorcycle, and I realized that from one experience, one of those Honda 50s, as they used to be called.
Which were four-stroke, weren't they?
They might have been, yeah.
They weren't two-stroke.
I think they were four-stroke.
But whatever the case was, it makes them even more gutless.
Because if you had a two-stroke 50, you'd have twice as much power, basically.
They had power.
I had one.
They had no ignition.
Well, I don't know.
I don't remember that.
But whatever the case was, I do remember this.
The thing, it was dangerous.
The brakes weren't any good.
Wait, wait.
John, John, John, wait a minute.
Hold on.
Do the words new advertiser and Honda mean anything to you?
No, I'm saying now they've obviously gone in a different direction.
Yes, thank you.
Okay, just making sure.
You fool.
We're going to do an unboxing.
I can't wait.
They're going to actually ship it in a crate and I'm going to unbox the scooter.
Are you going to drive the scooter?
I don't have a license for a scooter because I've been forbidden by many people in my life to ever drive anything with two wheels again.
What happened?
Give us a story.
I told you this.
I used to do the celebrity motocross.
I used to do a lot of riding and motocross and trial riding.
Aren't you a little tall to be on a motocross bike?
Well, it was a KTM 450.
Which was the last one I had.
And I could have been easily quadriplegic.
I got lucky.
I couldn't poop straight for a year.
And I have not forgotten that.
Because when it comes to pooping, it's pretty important to me.
Yeah, I think everybody knows that.
What do you mean?
Nobody knows that.
So, what's on the top of the agenda?
Because all the news I have is going to be real news.
Oh, really?
Well, not really.
I mean, it depends on what real news is to you.
But as you settle in in the Bay Area, I think you're going to find real news to be news.
Well, no.
No, I'm not going to allow that to happen.
Did you know that since 1983?
I didn't know this, by the way.
No, no.
This is just the thing.
I've got my notepad for me.
Every time I see this, I get annoyed.
Did you know that since 1983, all the pennies in the United States that were minted are made of zinc, not copper?
I think we've actually discussed this, and I think we discussed that not just the pennies, but I've also noticed the quarters and the nickels seem lighter than they used to.
Yeah, there's that too.
So they copper plate.
Zinc underneath?
Yeah.
I presume that's cheaper?
Yeah.
Well, copper, actually, a copper penny, if you collected a bunch of pre-1983 copper pennies and you sold them as scrap, they'd be worth two cents each.
So why don't they just make them out of wood and cut straight to the chase?
Just make nickels out of wood and then we can use that saying again.
Yeah, the wood and nickel.
I do have some excellent news for you.
I don't know if you caught this or blogged it, but, of course, I continue to receive lots.
And thank you so much to our producers out there, because particularly in these times where, yes, I am very busy at the moment.
I've got a lot of catching up to do, working hard at the office.
And, of course, you're traveling tomorrow, so I had set aside time to do proper show prep.
It wasn't as easy as normal for me today.
I'm getting lots of great stories.
Two of the passengers on Air France's Flight 447 happened to be two of the world's most prominent illegal arms trade and international drug trafficking foes.
I'm glad you brought the story up, and I'll tell you why.
It's already been suppressed.
There was a discussion earlier in the day about these two guys, and the way they presented it, because I never got the whole story, and I never followed up.
The link from the Sunday Herald Times will be in the show notes at noagenda.mevio.com.
Anyway, the way they presented it on the national media was, or they hinted, implied that there were like two terrorists that may have blown up the place.
They didn't even mention this, what you just said, which actually makes it even more interesting.
I bet you on any flight coming from Brazil to France...
Of course, there's all kinds of drug dealers and arms dealers.
Pablo Dreyfus, 39-year-old Argentinian, who was traveling with his wife.
That's what most terrorists do, by the way.
Let's see.
Ronald Dreyer, Swiss diplomat.
This is a whole list of people.
Hold on, let me go back to the original story.
Give us some of the names.
Yeah, hold on a second.
Swiss diplomat.
39-year-old Argentinian Pablo Dreyfus said to be a major player in an effort by Brazilian authorities to stop flow of arms to drug gangs in Rio.
Who?
Who?
He was a consultant for Small Arms Survey, a Geneva-based think tank.
Another consultant.
So these guys are consultants.
I love that.
Ronald Dreyer, Swiss diplomat and coordinator of the Geneva.
By the way, most arms dealers, you know, are like legit guys.
You know, they can travel internationally.
They have huge yachts, like Khashoggi.
You've probably heard of him.
Yeah.
So these guys were consultants.
And they were reportedly traveling to Switzerland to, quote, present the latest edition of the Small Arms Survey Handbook.
This story is weird.
And it just keeps getting weirder, I think.
You know, now they found the tail, which means, you know, if you found the tail, they're pretty close.
And the Pinger still should be on.
The Pinger's going to be on for another week.
Yeah, they've got black box data by now.
I'm pretty sure.
Spokesman for Pilots Union says all Air France jets taking off now have been equipped with two new generation speed sensors.
This is the bullshit, which I'm just going to call bullshit right now, that the plane disintegrated because they hadn't turned on the pitot heat.
And let me explain that.
There's two ways.
The way you measure airspeed is by a pitot, which is, have you ever seen one of those tubes that kind of looks like a little arrow point sticking straight out?
Yeah, they're called a pitot tube, yeah.
Pitot tube.
And then you have the static port, which is a pinhole size hole on the side of the aircraft.
And on these larger aircraft, they have several for backup systems.
And when you're flying at high altitude, the pitot tube can freeze because it's made of metal, and it can then start to misindicate.
But, you know, I'm sorry.
It's bullshit.
It's just BS. You know, oh, we forgot to switch on the pitot tube in our huge airliner.
No.
And then the plane disintegrated.
No.
I'm just not going to accept that.
And they have all these bogus reports of, you know, whoa, 24 warnings.
It stinks.
How come no one just says it?
The thing was blown out of the sky or there was some huge maintenance issue.
But even that, you know, where were the radio transmissions?
Yeah, well, if they get the black box up and running, then they'll have to...
But you can't trust these guys with the black box.
Yeah, in fact, it reminds me, what was the story recently where somebody said that it was the Swiss or somebody got a hold of the black box and then they phonied up the data?
What was that story?
I can't remember.
In 9-11, they phonied up the data.
If you go to 911pilotsfortruth.org, you'll see how they phonied up the data of the Pentagon plane, big quotation marks, where it actually overflew the Pentagon by 530 feet because they forgot to adjust for the pressure altitude setting of that day when they massaged the data.
I mean, you can't trust...
How can you trust a government or a government organization like the FAA to actually give you the pure data that came out of the black box?
I mean, how can you?
I don't.
But at the same time, who else can we trust?
So what's the name of that website with the Pilots for Truth?
Is it another bunch of truthers?
That's actually how I got involved in it.
911pilotsfortruth.org.
And the reason why I got interested is because the FAA... Also the NIST report, but the 9-11 Commission report still maintains that the aircraft that flew into the Twin Towers were traveling at 400 miles an hour at 700 feet.
And that is not possible.
You can call Boeing right now and say, can your aircraft fly at 400 miles an hour at 700 feet?
And they will laugh and hang up on you.
Because the engines won't even, they will flame out at that speed, let alone that the entire airframe will disintegrate.
Yes, you can fly at that speed at 40,000 feet when there's much less resistance, but you cannot fly that fast.
And they maintain that.
It's in the report.
So it's a physical impossibility.
And then I said, okay.
Yeah, but see, here's the problem that a normal person would have with this kind of thinking.
Let's say that they weren't flying at 400 miles an hour.
They were flying at 250, which is doable at that speed, at that height.
Yep.
Maybe.
So what difference does it make?
Well, there's got to be that, because at zero altitude, you can get to 160 with most of these big planes.
Yeah.
Okay.
Then add on top of that that the flight data...
First of all, the aircraft that flew into the Pentagon...
The Pentagon situation is a little weirder because they won't release the videos that were taken across the street.
It's really annoying.
Why don't they just release the video?
And I love all the cell phone recordings.
Please, please, on your next flight, and you know what?
You can tell them I said so, and they can come and arrest me.
Please try and make a cell phone call from your flight, and tell me that you can call home.
And just record that, because you can't.
It is not possible.
You can't do that above 1,000 feet almost.
You cannot keep a connection.
You cannot make a phone call.
It has been proven with records that there was no air phones on board, so there was no on-board calling facilities, yet all these people are calling.
I mean, I'm sorry.
There's too much information there.
And we have Rumsfeld actually saying, well, the plane that was shot down over Pennsylvania.
Remember we played that clip?
Yeah, I know.
That's still kind of annoying.
Yeah.
So.
All right.
Well, let's get back to our regular topics.
All right.
Well, give me some.
Wasn't that one of our regular topics?
Unfortunately it was.
It's the only thing keeping us alive, by the way.
Let's talk about flying saucers.
Give me some real news.
Alright, here goes real news.
So I'm watching...
Do you want to play the jingle?
I just played the jingle.
You didn't hear that?
I didn't hear it.
Well, shut up and listen.
And now, back to real movies.
You can hear that, can't you?
Yeah, I can now.
Okay, so last night, and people who watch television, I mean, I was stunned.
Those of you who have no life...
Well, everybody watches television, whether they have a life or not.
I mean, everybody.
You watch television.
No, I have not watched television since I've gotten to San Francisco.
You have a television to watch?
Yeah, I can't stand it.
I tried.
Let me tell you, before you get into this real news story, I turned on the television last Saturday, and I see Miami, and I see Sodom and Gomorrah in South Beach, Miami.
You know, five feet of water and, you know, it's horrible and lightning and fire, electrical fires.
I'm like, oh my God, Ron and Marta just flew to Miami.
I'm like, I'm freaking out.
You know, like, oh man, I hope these guys are okay.
I mean, I don't know what's going on.
It looks like, you know, and there's reporters and, oh, it's horrible.
And, you know, I finally get a hold of them and, like, oh, the sun's shining.
Yeah, it was kind of messed up.
It took us three hours to drive from the airport.
But, you know, The reality was so much in contrast with what was actually happening.
And I said, that's it.
I just can't watch this crap anymore.
And then all they're doing is they're talking about themselves and they're talking about Bill O'Reilly and about what's the doodah dude from Keith Olbermann.
They're all talking about themselves all day long.
It's tiring and sickening.
So how do you really feel about it?
Give me the real news.
All right, here we go.
I got a couple of real news.
Not to mention Bill O'Reilly, I got another one.
But in fact, I got a...
I don't know if I gave you the Bill O'Reilly clip.
No, you did not.
You did not.
So I'm watching Jim, flipping around, looking for something reasonable to watch because I missed the basketball game.
And...
They're Dateline NBC. An entire hour, which could have just as easily been an infomercial, an entire hour dedicated to this new talent, Taylor Swift.
Who's that?
Yeah.
Perfect.
I asked the question.
Taylor Swift.
Who is Taylor Swift?
Who the heck is Taylor Swift?
Taylor Swift is a blonde singer that, and by the way, our one listener at Mevio, Andrew Brummett, Hey, Andrew.
Hey, buddy.
We'll see you at the office tomorrow.
One listener at Miravio's comes up to me a couple weeks ago and he mentioned something.
He says, you know, apparently his wife and daughter are big fans of Taylor Swift.
Wait a minute.
Haven't we already done this story about Taylor Swift?
No.
Yes, we have.
It's exactly the same thing.
She was just on Dateline last night.
I'm calling it.
I'm calling this a repeat.
How could it be a repeat?
This was on last night.
Yeah, but we already talked about Taylor Swift, not knowing who the heck she was.
We played the song and we said the exact same thing about Andrew Grummet being the fan of Taylor Swift.
I'm bringing people back up to speed.
I have to give them some background.
You just said you don't know who she is.
Well, apparently you do.
You have a short memory.
So let me get back to the story.
So they give her...
Hello?
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Hold on a second.
Hello, Kettle?
That's for short-term memory loss.
Okay.
Okay.
So anyway, yes, I have bitched about this woman before.
I said she's over-promoted, but this gave me a little more background because there was an entire hour devoted to her on network TV and prime time.
All she's ever done that she's accomplished is she won Album of the Year for, I think, Country and Western.
Country, yeah.
And it was like, there's not a song on there that's memorable or good.
I don't think she sings very well.
I hate to be a downer, but I am the buzzkill.
So, they were interviewing her and they got some, whoever the host this is, the woman I see her once in a while, she's giggly, she's gushing.
They're showing Taylor behind the scenes and what a genius she is.
She's a genius.
She's basically Mozart.
She's better than Stevie Wonder.
She's unbelievable.
And so I want you to play one short clip from the show and I'm going to set it up.
They talked to one of the people working for her.
Apparently, she's on a tour, and that's what they were documenting, this tour.
By the way, this is what I think anybody out there who's in show business as a singer or in a band or does anything on the road, and I think that people like Cheryl Crow or Leanne Rimes, people who can actually sing, they must be steaming.
Oh, yeah.
They throw up in their mouth.
Absolutely.
Steaming.
Yeah.
This woman is, oh, she designs the sets, she does the staging, and all the people I work for go, oh, she's amazing for 19.
She's a genius.
So here's my Mozart clip showing what a genius she is.
Play it.
But Taylor's strive for perfection only makes the people who work with this young star respect her that much more.
Let's go!
A sound check?
Yeah.
There's been times where I've played a solo, and then she'll say, well, can you kind of do this?
And she'll sing me a melody, and I'll incorporate that.
And that's very impressive for a younger age.
The problem that I was having with the solo is that it's getting a little noodley.
Like it's a little I'd rather it be like Less notes less notes less notice It's too noodley.
That's real musician speak, by the way.
I hear, you know, the Jeff Smith, who is actually a performing, working, his ass-off musician who was in the office today at Mevio.
You can see him on Mevio Underground.
He must be puking in his mouth hearing this.
I mean, that is less noodley.
She's a genius!
My God, for someone who's 19 to actually be able to tell me to adjust a note.
I mean, wow.
I'm just flipping out.
Yeah.
So there must be a commercial tie-in, obviously.
There's a lot of money invested in this girl.
What label is she on?
Hold on.
I'm afraid to...
This is my problem, John.
Well, here's the deal.
She was picked up by...
First, she was picked up by RCA. And they told a story.
And then RCA dumped her.
And then some guy who used to be with Universal Records decided to start his own label, kind of a virtual David Geffen, because he saw the promotional abilities, because he, I think, is the promoter.
And he picked her up, and it's a completely new label.
But the guy behind her has got to be this guy, and he's really good.
Well, there's got to be a tie-in to get a full hour on Dateline.
A full hour.
So she can...
How about not too much noodling, too many notes?
It was unbelievable.
Yeah.
Well, that's what your news time on television is spent on, ladies and gentlemen.
Hey, this is very, very exciting.
I've been talking about Congressman Ron Paul's bill to audit the Federal Reserve.
Currently, 209 co-sponsors, only nine more needed, and this thing goes to the Senate.
That's where it dies.
I was waiting for you.
Almost on cue.
I'm sorry.
Well, that's good.
I mean, how many Democrats...
How many Democrats?
I guess I should look at the split, but that's a pretty good 209.
It's getting there.
There is some hope, and yeah, maybe it dies in the Senate, but still, we can try it again, and we can try it again.
We really need to do this.
We need to audit this stuff.
We need to.
It's never going to happen.
Oh, by the way, let me back up to the Taylor Swift thing, because I have one note that needs to be...
Don't noodle it.
As long as you don't noodle the notes...
So they were interviewing her, and they got these close-ups, and I keep looking at the woman, because I know that what they're trying to do is find a replacement for Britney Spears.
And so I'm looking at her, and I'm saying, you know, this girl, you know, I mean, she's kind of pleasant-looking.
She's kind of a puffy-faced, you know, cutie pie is the only way to describe it.
Mouseketeer kind of girl.
Yeah, and I'm looking at her and she looks familiar.
She just looks familiar.
And I hate to be mean-spirited when I give my analysis here, but I keep looking at her and I've noticed her lips.
She's got a really small mouth.
So?
And I look and look and look and say, oh, Donald Trump.
And then I look, wait, it gets worse.
Now, first thing I think is she looks like Donald Trump.
And then I look at her nose and then I look at her eyes.
She looks like Donald Trump in drag if he was 19.
I swear to God.
Your lips ain't exactly Angelina Jolie, John.
I don't look like Donald Trump and I don't form my mouth a certain way that Donald Trump does.
She talks like him, too.
Maybe that's the tie-in.
I don't know.
Maybe she's related.
Jinx.
Yeah, you never know.
That's the last story I'm ever doing about this girl.
She's probably made more money than the two of us combined.
Oh, no, I doubt it.
I doubt it.
You think she's being taken for a ride like everybody else in the business?
Of course.
Of course.
There's no money in the business right now.
You really have to have three hit albums before even the record company.
God, there's so much money that goes into promoting these artists these days.
But there is...
You mentioned Britney Spears.
There is a Britney Spears documentary.
I forget the name of it.
It was playing on the Virgin Flight.
It's actually worth viewing because when you kind of strip away all the bullshit that you normally see, at the very core, there is a young girl who just really wants to dance.
She was really a mousketeer.
She came up with Justin Timberlake and Jessica Simpson.
If you have a chance, take a look at this, because it will change your perception about Britney Spears in some degree.
I really don't have a negative attitude toward her, mainly because a friend of mine who was in the computer business for a long time became one of her aide-de-camp's for a few years.
Oh, one of her boot-licking lackeys.
And he told me a couple of things that were really kind of sad.
And he said that she's a pretty nice person.
She might be a little bisexual on occasion, but she's...
Well, that's not a bad thing.
No, it doesn't bother me.
Talking about that, we might as well bring in another clip, if you want.
Yeah, sure.
Sure, I love clips.
Play the clip.
This was from, you know, over the years, Letterman and Leno have, you know, they pretend to be friends, but now they hate each other.
Well, apparently.
I think they do.
You've got to play the clip.
Howard Stern came on The Letterman Show, and this is what he did.
This is big pressure.
We've got to beat this Conan.
I mean, for God's sakes, how are you feeling that Jay left late-night television, and now we've got a new guy we've got to compete with?
And I want to say something to this audience about loyalty.
Dave put me on national television many, many years.
Stern, it's the same rap every single time.
It's a little tiring.
I don't want you to listen to Stern.
I want you to listen to the letter.
Before I was known, and I have stuck with Dave.
I didn't like Jay.
I never liked Jay.
I can't stand Jay.
Let me say something.
Now we can talk.
Thank you, Howard.
I've never seen anybody who behaves like a robot like this guy.
I watched his final show.
He says goodbye to The Tonight Show.
He's reading it off a teleprompter for crying out loud.
Where's the emotion and where's the humanity?
Here's the host that we want to watch.
Thank you, Howard.
I appreciate that.
I went on this guy's show one time.
Who are we talking about now?
Jay Leno.
I bring out two lesbians, right?
Howard Stern, I bring out two lesbians.
He's shocked.
He walked off his own show.
Really?
I knew it wouldn't last.
But it was Letterman thanking him profusely for these negative comments.
Yeah.
But this is also kind of the rap they always do when Stern is on.
He's always bashing...
Yeah, no, that's true.
But Letterman has always been a little reticent when he did it.
I mean, he let him do it.
He wasn't profusely thanking him.
I wonder, maybe Letterman is probably thinking shit, you know?
I wouldn't mind having the 10 p.m.
slot.
No, that 10 p.m.
slut's a disaster.
Yeah, I know what you're thinking about it.
We'll see.
I'm open-minded.
I'm open-minded.
They're going to do a lot of months before they pull it off the air.
They're not going to yank it.
There's way too much riding on it.
Well, that's because I think you or somebody else pointed out.
I did.
It's a Hail Mary.
It's the final thing they can do.
And they don't have a backup plan.
Nothing.
Nothing whatsoever.
But it isn't just on Stern for a moment.
Boy, has that guy gone into complete irrelevance.
In just a short amount of time.
It used to be he was, you know, people would talk about him, you know, and now it's, and I still love the stuff he does, and I don't have a chance really to listen anymore.
I don't even think, I can barely get internet in this place, let alone that I could receive a serious satellite radio and have to string up an antenna.
So the reception is so poor.
This is an aside.
There's one thing interesting about him that I only noticed at this time watching him because I've been working with you for such a long time.
And he reminds me of you in this way.
You guys both have an extremely radio-centric, natural voice.
Yeah.
That is just actually a...
You know, even Leo Laporte has commented on your voice.
Oh, really?
Oh, that's nice.
In a positive way.
But it's like, you know...
I'll take that as a compliment.
And the fact of the matter is, and I will tell everybody out there...
That, you know, Adam is using...
Like, I'm using an AKG-3000B. It's a really high-end mic.
I'm running through a compressor.
I have, like, you know...
I'm making myself sound as good as I can.
Adam is using a lavalier.
Wireless.
From a Kleenex box.
Paper towel holder.
No, because I like the sound of this mic.
Now, I have to say...
What mic is it?
It's a...
Hold on.
It's a Lectro...
I love that.
This is a brand for you.
Electro UHF UM110. And I've had this thing for six or seven years.
I do like the dynamics of it, but...
It's just really handy because it's small and you can't go mobile with it.
It's a condenser though, isn't it?
Yes, it is.
But if you go to curry.com, and I rarely ever plug the website because I rarely ever post anything except for this show.
You'll see a picture of me when I was about 15 years old.
Actually, you can see my CB radio set up.
I would literally sit...
I had one of those beds that was built up.
My dad built a bed for me.
Probably too cheap to buy me a real bed.
And the room was so small.
Like, hey, cool.
You can have a little desk underneath where you can do your schoolwork.
Yeah, right.
I'm saying ham radio shack.
That's what I'm building there.
And you'll see me with my dark sunglasses on looking all cool.
But I would sit under there for hours, for hours practicing my voice.
For hours at a time, recording, playing back, talking up intros.
I did that incessantly.
I just kept on doing it and doing it and doing it because I had...
I auditioned for a hospital radio station.
At this point, I had built my own little pirate radio transmitter.
My mom drove me around the block to see how far the signal would reach.
I found out that some kids in the neighborhood, of course, I was the dork, they were listening to it.
I was like, oh, wait a minute, cool.
I built my own little mixer, and I was mixing records, and I was talking stuff up.
There was a hospital radio station, which is a very captive audience, of course.
They can't really run away from your signal.
And they had two openings, one as an engineer and one as a host.
And I auditioned for both.
You had to be 16, but my parents let me lie and say that I was 15.
I said I was 16 even though I was 15.
And they rejected me as a presenter, I think they called it, And it really hurt.
They accepted me as an engineer, so I had all this time in the professional studio, and I practiced there after hours, after school, so I really, really worked it.
What's interesting is when I speak in Dutch, I'm almost an octave higher.
I cannot project the same voice in the Dutch language.
That's a long way to get to that punchline, but that's actually kind of interesting.
Yeah.
Well, I like talking about myself.
Yeah, well, it's okay, too.
Huh.
Yeah.
Well, that's nice that you like a regular Kobe Bryant.
I mean, you have to practice a lot to get any good, and you're like, you have a really great...
I mean, your sound is fantastic.
I mean, I'm basically a stammering, you know, amateur by comparison.
If it wasn't for the fact that I have superior content, I'd be nowhere in this thing, getting...
When I was 16, I would drive my moped to the big pirate station in Amsterdam, Radio Decibel, and no one knew who I was.
I actually got away with a persona called John Holden.
I was black, 24, and rode a Harley Davidson, and I would make dates with listeners.
I would say, hey baby, why don't you meet up with me behind the American Hotel tonight after the show?
And for people who have ever been to Amsterdam, there is no Behind the American Hotel.
You can't get Behind the American Hotel.
But they bought it.
They thought I was actually 24, this big black guy who rode a Harley.
And eventually, when kids at school caught on in high school, I became cool.
And that's why I've always been on radio.
Because, you know, you're a geek, you're a loser, you wear the wrong clothes, your hair is all wrong, you look stupid, you have Tourette's.
Hey, radio is the place for you, boy.
Well, anyway, that's what Stern reminds me.
He's got a similar, obviously, a perfected style.
And it's not the radio voice.
You know, the guys who really got that one, you know, that announcer's voice that they like to develop.
It's more of a natural sounding, but if you really listen to it, yours I would include, it's not natural.
It's a practiced voice that is a natural sounding.
It's almost like, you know, it reminds me of women.
There's women out there that are gorgeous, And their real perfection is that they can use makeup and they look like they don't have any makeup on.
Oh, I love them.
They're awesome.
We should find out some of them.
So talking about Letterman, he got his tit in the ringer for making a Sarah Palin joke.
Oh, I had not heard.
Yeah, it was a big deal.
All the right-wing talk shows are all over this.
O'Reilly just had a big special.
There they go.
Media talking about media.
There's wars going on, there's shit going on in our own country, and we're just talking about media.
And here we are.
We're talking about media talking about media.
How stupid are we?
You're right.
In fact, I'm going to drop you the story.
Okay.
But it's ridiculous.
The guy makes it lightweight.
It's just a light joke.
And Sarah called him a pedophile.
He said that?
She did.
She said he was because he made a joke about her daughter.
Oh, God.
She has no concept.
She's an idiot.
I've given up on her.
I can't take it anymore.
I can't stand that voice.
It's just screech.
She mispronounces words.
I mean, it's just...
I just can't handle it.
I mean, I would vote for the Republican ticket.
And now, of course, they're criticizing.
Monica Crowley comes on and she criticizes Letterman for being a functionary of the Democrats.
Letterman's a Republican.
He's always been a Republican.
Yeah, he voted for Obama.
To get him on the show.
Which we do too, by the way.
Yes, we're big Obama fans.
Let's go to Canada for a second.
Interesting little scandal going on there with Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt, I believe spelled the same way as Bonnie Raitt, maybe related, re-rated.
Caught on tape, and this is how your politicians basically talk behind the scenes, and of course I don't have the tape, but I was sent the article with parts of the transcript.
On this recording, she's caught calling the medical isotopes crisis, which I'm not familiar with, a, quote, sexy problem and wanted credit for fixing it.
So basically, cancer, saying, hey, this is a really sexy problem.
This is really going to further my political career.
I want some credit for fixing this problem.
Are you familiar with the isotopes problem, John?
I've never heard of this isotopes problem.
Let me see...
A publication ban covering...
Oh, okay, that's what we didn't hear.
Let me see if I can pick up this story where this is.
Novakoshi Supreme Court Justice Gerald Moore rejected an injunction application by rights for more funds.
Story...
Bullshit, bullshit.
Oh, okay.
So I guess there's some kind of isotope leak somewhere that is possibly causing cancer.
And she says, oh, it's a sexy story because radioactive leaks cause cancer.
And that's good for my political career.
How sick are these people?
That's pretty bad.
She should be in Chicago.
She would fit right in there.
Yeah, no kidding.
Jeez.
So here's one here.
I get an off-the-wall thing.
What are my other lists?
Do you have one on there that I think is on my list of clips?
I've got Gordon Brown.
I know what this is.
I know what this is.
I heard him do this.
I have to say, I was watching the...
The D-Day commemorative, which of course, the 65th anniversary of D-Day.
It's like, you know, 50?
Yeah, okay.
75?
Yeah.
No, they made a decision.
There was two things.
One, it was politically great for Obama.
Yes.
But the reason I said, look, these guys are going to be dead if we wait any longer.
You can't wait until 75.
There will be nobody there.
I will say my paternal grandfather, Albert Schoble, who actually was born in Schwarzwald in Germany, he landed on Omaha Beach and he fought his way all the way to Arnhem, to a bridge too far, if you've seen the movie.
Yeah, wow.
Yeah, and he lived to be 90-something.
He died in his chair peacefully, in his favorite chair.
He was a true American patriot.
And yeah, of course, these guys never really would talk about that.
No, it was probably not the greatest experience of their lives.
2,500 troops died landing on Omaha Beach.
So apparently Omaha Beach has been renamed by Gordon Brown Playa.
And so next to Obama Beach...
We join President Obama in paying particular tribute to the spectacularly bravery of American soldiers who gave their lives on Omaha Beach.
Let's hear that again in case you missed it.
It's Omaha Beach and of course...
The way he does it at the end though, he realizes halfway through that he's such a dick.
So next to Obama Beach...
These are the people leading the free world.
We should get a clip of that.
That is outrageous.
Obama Beach.
And let's listen to the end when he muffs it up again.
We joined President Obama in paying particular tribute to the spectacularly bravery of American soldiers who gave their lives on Omaha Beach.
Obama wasn't even born then.
And now we're paying tribute to Obama by renaming Omaha Beach, Obama Beach.
Obama Beach.
Gordon Brown, screw you.
What a horrible misuse of a great tragedy.
Well, he's a jerk.
So, yeah, I think he's out, isn't he?
I think he's going to be...
No.
He's on the outs.
No, he's not.
Not yet.
Did you see all those guys, though?
They all had their choppers, and they're all...
It was like a new invasion.
It was just...
It was...
Oh, it really, really pained me.
And you see these guys, you know, tears in their eyes, and all these...
I'm sorry, please.
I try to keep it family friendly.
But these fuckwads are just using it for their own political advantage.
It really was disturbing, particularly from the type of family that I come from.
And I'm very anti-government, big government, anti-war, anti-all of that.
But you cannot deny the patriotism of people who serve their country.
You just cannot.
That's what America, unfortunately or fortunately, is a big part of it.
My whole family has been in service.
And then to have these guys, this Napoleon crap head, you know, walking around like he is Napoleon, strutting his stuff, you know, oh, it really made me angry.
You're talking about Sarkozy?
Yeah.
Yeah, he had his own chopper there, and Obama had three choppers, and Gordon Brown had his chopper.
It was like a fly-in.
It was like Oshkosh.
I swear to God.
Okay, end of rant.
I got one more clip.
All right, so let's go.
We got another clip.
What's the one?
Charlie.
Charlie.
Okay, this is Charlie Rose, who is, I don't know, he's like a...
Who I think is diminishing in his importance, and I really don't like his...
No, he's always been.
He's been a psycho fan since the day...
I don't like him.
I like him as a guy, maybe, but he's no big deal.
He's not a great interviewer.
No, but he's in the right place at the right time.
He's set himself up.
I've never liked him because I always thought years ago he would always just be asking people what it was like to be rich.
I remember he was on a remote shot one time and he goes into this guy's house and he sees this painting.
It was a Picasso or something.
He asks him, what is that worth today?
He's worse than the people that ask you.
He's a suck-up.
He's a total suck-up.
So he has Elizabeth Edwards on, who, during her period where she's going for...
She's got a book out, so she's pounding the pavement and also slamming her husband.
Yeah, because he was having an affair while she was going through cancer treatment.
Yeah, she was slamming him.
But she was doing it gently.
It was really like driving the knife home.
But this one little segment of this particular interview says to me something interesting.
Just play it straight, and then at the very end, let me make the comment that I... Observed immediately.
Okay.
Instead of having the chance to appreciate their father, as I had for so long.
Why is sexual affair so a big deal?
It's about sex.
Right.
He didn't love another person.
Right.
He loved, everybody knows that, he knows that, and you know that.
I know, and...
So why is this a big deal?
Well, I mean...
Okay, what is it?
I'm listening to this going, oh, Charlie's having an affair.
It sounds like Charlie's having an affair, exactly.
It's like, it's just sex.
It's not love, baby.
It's just sex.
I just needed some sex.
It wasn't really anything else.
I mean, you can't not hear that.
You had the same reaction.
Of course, of course.
This guy's obviously rationalizing a lot.
Voting for some future use.
Or current use.
You never know.
But I will say that people condemn very, very quickly and it's very easy to say, oh, what a shit.
He had an affair while she was going through cancer treatment.
That's just not...
You cannot know what the relationship is like.
You don't know the details.
You do not know.
But people speculate whether you like her.
Is that the last clip I have?
Yes.
Let's play this Taylor Swift again.
Please, let's not.
Let's not.
I hope you have something else because as I said...
I've got to talk about something.
We haven't thanked our supporters.
Oh yes, our producers.
Can you turn down your speakers just a bit?
Have a drink.
Someone actually sent me a jingle for that, but I can't download anything while doing the show, so I'm severely handicapped here.
I'm trying to do it, and already the connection's breaking up, so I've got to stop it.
Yeah, don't do it.
Stop it.
So, by the way, the crazy numbers people have been sending us has luckily passed, it looks like.
We have three new numbers, 1908, 836...
Wait, 1908 first, 1908, 1908.
Well, there was a depression in 1908.
But is it 1908 dollars?
No, I wish.
Okay.
All right.
Well, then let's not talk about it.
836 and 1054, you know.
You know what no one has done is the 1040, like the tax return.
Isn't that interesting?
Oh, by the way, I feel like this.
Remember the IRS agents showed up at the office with their hand on their guns because all of a sudden I started getting payroll in America after 10 years and I hadn't filed something and then they're like, okay, you owe us $8 gazillion Yeah, can you want to honk the horn now?
No, because I have a new slant on the story.
Well, I still get the horn honked at me.
No, it's...
Alright, continue, continue.
- Can you, I'm just pointing this out. - Okay, good. - So, I'm gonna rent an apartment here in San Francisco For one reason only, I need some proper bandwidth.
Okay.
And the ashtrays in this one are full.
That's how dedicated we are, ladies and gentlemen.
That's right.
So the agent, James, who I actually used before, I had the Curry condo and we got rid of that because I wasn't out here enough.
And of course, the minute I got rid of it, it's like, oh, by the way, maybe I should be out here more.
Yeah, typical.
Actually, it's pretty good because prices are very, very cheap right now.
You can pick up something really nice and I think you've got a really nice loft, which will work fine.
And so he goes, hey Adam, and I worked with this guy before.
He's like, you know, I just got to do a, do you mind if we just do a credit check?
No, I haven't been here for 10 years.
You know, that shouldn't be a problem.
So two things show up.
One thing is like $147 for AT&T from 1999.
By the way, AT&T tracks your ass better than the government.
So apparently when we moved from New Jersey, I guess the phone line didn't get shut off or whatever.
So, okay, that's not a big deal.
And then there's like $143,000 tax lien.
I'm like, what?
Which had been removed...
But not from all of the credit reports.
So my credit is completely hosed.
Wow.
Yeah.
And like, okay.
And so now it's like, now I have to go and figure out, you know, I immediately, because it took me a year and I had, it spent like 20 grand on lawyers to prove that, you know, I didn't owe anything.
But this is what always happens, by the way.
And so now I've got to get this thing removed, and that's not quite as easy as you think it is, unless you get one of these hosebag agents who then go take care of it for you.
God, it's like a percentage.
It drives me nuts.
Yeah.
Just a little personal thingy there.
You did get the place, though.
Yeah, but I had to pay like eight months in advance.
Well, you're a big risk, my friend.
You've been working with this guy for a long time.
It's not him, it's the owner.
The owner's like, well, I don't trust this guy.
So you pay your two months deposit plus six months in advance.
I was like, okay.
Damn.
Well, that stinks.
Yeah, it really does.
Alright, so let's go over some of our guys who have gone to the...
This is why we need some money.
I need to get my credit repaired.
Okay, I need a mic stand.
How about that?
Is that better?
Hello?
Sean?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on, hold on, hold on, back up.
Something went really wrong with Skype.
Okay, start it again.
Noagenda, I'm sorry, the noagendalibrary.com is one of the sites you can go to to help us, or devork.org slash na, and I will have a new HTML page up that eventually, I just don't know why I haven't...
Yeah, just like our website?
I got to work on that too.
Okay.
Okay.
Robert Montgomery.
Well, you know, we're doing the show.
Are you downloading something?
No.
I just turned something off.
But let me check.
Let me see.
It's horrible.
All of a sudden you went Mickey Mouse on me and all crap.
Maybe it's the guys upstairs downloading porn again.
No, it could happen.
You're not getting me so I won't be able to get these names off.
Yeah, I can hear you, but it sounds muffled and crappy.
But go ahead.
I'll be quiet.
You sound pretty crappy, too.
Yeah.
Robert Montgomery, 50 bucks.
Jon Stewart.
These are all $50 donors.
Jon Stewart, Christopher Charles.
Scuba Vision Productions.
So I don't know what that's all about.
That's a commercial.
I guess, yeah.
It's not a bad idea.
Frank Van Son gave us $51.
Ooh.
Well, that's one more than $50.
Andrew Valencia is up to $100.
He's a good guy.
And Kelly Rogstad, another $100 donor.
Thank you.
And then we got...
Timothy Tillman gave us a nice fat $250.
Lovely.
Thank you.
Oh, great.
Thank you very much.
That's very nice.
Appreciate it.
Timothy Tillman will do a jingle around people who give us a lot of money.
Anyway, so that got us through the week.
You just said something very interesting.
This, of course, has been kind of a marketing exercise to see if we can actually fund a show, which we're not able to, based upon donations, kind of like the PBS model, which people apparently give a lot of money to.
Yeah, they do.
But, you know, we haven't milked it.
Well, you just said something very interesting.
Whenever you watch PBS, you always have companies, when they're doing a fund drive, and like, well, all the employees of Best Buy got together and came up with $130,000.
And, of course, it's a huge commercial for Best Buy.
Yeah.
So that's, what was it, Scuba Vision?
What was the guy's name?
Hey, S.H. Frankel, stop Skyping me, you shit.
Yeah.
Scuba Vision Productions.
Maybe that's what the problem is.
People are Skyping you.
No, because I'm declining.
Well, it's jamming up the system, apparently.
So that's Scuba Vision Productions.
Well, that's very smart.
You just got four mentions for the price of $50.
Or five.
I lost track.
It's $10 a mention.
You can't beat that.
No.
What's the CPM on that, baby?
It's really...
It's like 15 cents.
I had an interesting...
We had a meeting with...
With someone who was actually pitching us on investing in us today.
And what was interesting about it, I knew this guy, I'm not going to mention his name, because before we got our initial investment four years ago, we met with a subdivision of, I'll mention the name in a minute, an outfit called Constellation in New York.
Actually, they had investments from people like Will Smith and Bruce Willis.
So they basically take Hollywood money and then lose it.
And they invest in media stuff.
And they were kind of arrogant, you know, kind of a little cocky.
And it was a subdivision of Bear Stearns.
Yeah, Constellation is fairly well known for being that way.
Right.
So they were a part of Bear Stearns.
And so seeing this guy again, who was now working for a different outfit...
And I said, oh, so dude, you know, how's it going?
He said, well, and he walked me through the story, and he was like, you know, and it was really, really weird on Friday, because you remember this all came down on a Sunday, right, when all this stuff happened.
There were rumors about Maybe there would be a buyer, but no one believed it because how in God's name could anything happen over the weekend?
He said, I remember laying in my bed Saturday night looking up at the ceiling and thinking, oh, this is so horribly wrong.
Maybe I should get out of bed right now and go to the office and get my stuff.
And he thought to himself, no, you know what?
I'll go tomorrow morning.
And so he went in Sunday morning.
He said there were all these gray-haired senior executives all walking through the hallways with their boxes.
And so he got his box of shit, and he says, almost like your house is on fire, what do you take?
And so he got all his stuff left on Sunday.
And this was, remember when the rumored price was $1, and they sold it for $2, and then something very interesting happened, and this is kind of the point I was going to make.
Even though it had sold for two, or that was the price that was mentioned on Sunday, and Bear Stearns, the way it worked was you could have all this tremendous, and people had leveraged their stock, and people were going broke massively because they had margin calls.
But at Bear Stearns, you could not sell your Bear Stearns stock until some ridiculous thing like five years after you worked there.
They had some really weird lockup.
And on that Monday, they said, oh, everyone can sell now.
Go ahead.
It's all free.
Everyone's unlocked.
Everyone started to sell at $3.
And then remember what happened?
The price went to $10, the purchase price, because they included the building or some crap like that.
Yeah, yeah.
And I said, you know, please confirm for me one thing.
That was a personal vendetta from Goldman Sachs.
Because, of course, Goldman Sachs runs the Treasury.
And he said, absolutely.
Absolutely.
Because it was the only bank that went bankrupt.
Every other bank has been bailed out.
And it was a complete targeted vendetta towards Bear Stearns.
But what was the reason?
Hatred.
The Goldman guys are dicks.
Because Bear Stearns was outside of the system, kind of.
They were their own independent.
They didn't play nicely with everybody.
They just kind of did their own thing.
They didn't play with the group.
They didn't suck up to the treasury.
And the Treasury being Goldman Sachs guys.
And look at it.
Look at who was in.
Timothy Geithner.
You know, look at all these.
Who was the other guy?
Everybody's singing on business and everywhere else.
You know, whatever you do, you can't get around this.
Although there's a bunch of goody goodies out there that don't want to believe this simple fact.
People hold grudges.
Grudges, absolutely.
Big time.
And they sit on the grudge for years.
And when they have the chance, they will stick it in you.
Yeah, well, you know, I probably would do the same thing.
You do it all the time to me.
I don't do it to you ever.
By the way, I'm just laying in wait.
Yes, you are.
Ah, I can strike.
Finally, I can get that long-haired freak.
It was a good Cranky Geeks today.
I really enjoyed it.
I was in the studio with a good friend of mine from New York, Kevin.
I thought it was really fun to watch.
I thought the topics were good.
I'm just going to give you a little bit of props.
Maybe you were just on your game.
Maybe you felt a little nervous because the boss was there and you had to perform better.
Yeah, like a monkey.
Yeah.
Yes.
Grind for me, monkey boy.
Grind for me.
But it was a good show.
It was really, really good.
The second show we did, we had a couple good shows.
I think, to be honest about it, I wasn't on my game.
In fact, I screwed up.
The second show?
No.
The first show was great!
What are you talking about?
The first show was good.
The second show was good.
But both shows, I was having trouble with the cards.
And then in the second show, I go out of my way.
This is a classic blunder.
I go out of my way to wear the stupid sweater vest for the first show.
Yeah.
To take it off for the second show because we're running it next week and I want to look like we're wearing the same clothes.
So I left the sweater vest on.
I never wear a sweater vest.
So it just draws attention to the fact that I have the exact same outfit on for two weeks in a row.
Yeah, gee.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to give away the fact that it won't be live next week.
Why isn't it live, by the way?
Who gave you permission to pre-tape?
We do it all the time.
Every time, if you're not going to be there Wednesday and I'm going to be in New York City, we do two shows in a row.
And how come I'm not on the show?
You would have been on the show.
Of course, you would have showed up late.
Not if I was on the show.
I showed up just in time.
If we knew that you were going to be around, you'll be on the show.
You're going to be in town all the time.
You'll be on the show way too much now, so don't start complaining yet.
I love it.
I love when I'm on the show because all the fans of the show dislike me.
That's not true.
You're full of it.
People like you.
You're very personable.
You're actually quite good on the show.
Oh, thank you.
Well, have me on the show, then.
We'll have you on the show.
Can I play a jingle?
No, no, still getting no jingles.
You haven't heard this jingle yet.
Oh, you mean, I thought you meant on the show, when you do the show.
No, on this show.
Oh, yeah.
Time has come!
Oh, wait.
That's the wrong one.
We've heard that.
That's not the one I meant to play.
I need to honk the horn for myself.
I'm sorry.
Didn't mean to do that.
I thought it was a different one.
All right.
That was it?
Well, as I said, you know, I have this whole list.
We've still got five minutes left.
We've still got five minutes left.
Well, I have this whole list of things, except I didn't have time to open the web browsers and preload everything.
Well, let's forget that.
We still have the restaurant review to do.
Oh, God.
So...
What do you mean, oh, God?
Because it ended exactly like the last time we had dinner with...
We can review the restaurant without reviewing the fact that, you know, you can't seem to control your emotions.
No.
No, what happens is you have an uncanny knack of turning a completely nice dinner into me actually agreeing with you, yelling at my girlfriend, where I should be punching your lights out.
I couldn't believe myself.
I'm like, what the hell am I doing?
I'm letting this jackass get away with this crap.
And I don't actually like you.
I'm telling you.
No wonder this show is good because I think you're a dick.
I could not believe myself.
I don't know what your problem is.
Let's review the restaurant.
All right.
Ozuma.
It's a place in San Francisco.
It's been around for a while.
I think the giveaway, if I'm going to give the final analysis of this thing, is it's got a huge sushi bar and there was not one person sitting at it.
Yeah, it was completely empty.
I agree.
Yeah, that was kind of weird.
I've never seen that.
San Francisco, which is sushi territory, all these places are packed.
You can very rarely get to the sushi bar.
The place was too expensive.
Yes, it was outrageously expensive.
It was pretentious.
It was too pretentious.
The Kobe beef was good.
It wasn't that good.
It was okay, but the thing that bugged me the most is we had two bottles of sake, indistinguishable from each other.
It both tasted like, you know, water that made you drunk.
And made you not punch out John Dvorak, but like agree with him while he's berating your girlfriend.
Bad mojo.
Berating her?
Bad mojo.
We drank two bottles of sake amongst the three of us.
It was set up for disaster.
This was bad.
Did you drive home?
It wasn't that much.
You should be arrested.
Hey, unless I'm seeing double, I'm not worried about it.
Well, when you look at us, you kind of are.
Like, hey, there's two tall, blonde people.
What's going on with that?
No, the food was okay, but not for that price and not for the pretentiousness.
Actually, the food was okay.
The Kobe thing was not as good as they claimed it to be.
There's a lot of pretense at the place.
The sake was way too expensive, but that was the cheap sake.
They had sake on their list for $600, $700 a bottle.
It was ridiculous.
Give me a break.
They had, and they wanted to do, the thing that bugged me the most, even though everybody was kind of going along with the program, it got me annoyed almost instantly, which is probably the reason I was so surly.
You think?
Here's the problem.
When these guys come over with the sales pitch, you know, let me prepare a meal for you.
Now look at the guy.
He's like 27 years old.
He wants to dream up some meal for us.
And I'm looking at the menu, which has enough good stuff on.
I'd like to test a few things out.
First thing I'm thinking of, well, that's interesting.
This is what Nobu does.
But unfortunately, Nobu, by comparison, you get tremendous stuff.
I mean, Nobu...
Especially the one in New York, which is the one I've eaten at most, although I've eaten at the Las Vegas Nobu, too, and it's actually quite good.
But it's extremely expensive, just like this place, but you get mind-boggling food.
This place, you got just good sushi.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
It was just I didn't think much of it.
I wouldn't go back.
No, me neither.
And you know what?
For the place being so empty, why didn't they give us a table that actually had a real view?
I checked that out.
The tables with the real view, there wasn't actually one up against the window.
I did check that out.
I did not like the way the tables were positioned.
I thought it could have been a lot better.
Hey, we're a pretty hot-looking crowd.
We're all over 6'1".
I think we lit up the place.
We certainly lit up near the end.
Boy, we were lit up.
But here's the buzzkill.
John says, you know, I said, well, man, how come you weren't excited, you know, when he said, you know, come on out to dinner?
He's like, well, there was a game on television I really wanted to see.
You know, you are just...
It's a Lakers game.
Come on!
He will tape that shit.
TiVo it.
You know, we weren't going to tell you.
TiVo basketball is the worst thing in the world to TiVo.
I didn't mean it as an insult.
It came across as one.
Okay, I get out of the house.
My wife, she's always going on.
You went out.
You had some fun.
She's always a little messy.
Why don't you go live with your wife?
Here's a concept.
Live with your wife for a while.
In Washington State, it's a little hard for her to haul her ass down here to have lousy sushi.
You can do the show from Washington State.
Why do you live here at all?
Because I'm doing some work for a company where the boss, if he doesn't see you once in a while, you're not working for me.
All right.
End of show.
Gee, we're out of time.
The band is playing.
It's better to be in northern Silicon Valley if you're reporting on Silicon Valley.
This is true.
But you're going to be doing finances soon, and you've got your...
Your cycles book and your pepper book and all this stuff that...
Spice's book is looking terrific.
When is that thing coming out, man?
Can I proof it?
Final edit on it and then it's done.
Can I proof it?
You want to take a look at it?
I'll send you the PDFs.
I'd love to.
Are you kidding?
You look at it and go, my God, this is gorgeous, this book.
But is it interesting?
Yeah.
If you're into spices, it's extremely interesting.
I'd be interested.
What's the market for spices these days, for a book about spices?
I think the way Mimi did this book, there's nothing like it.
She's kind of a background around the spices from the various areas of the world and what their theory of spicing is, and then a bunch of ways to mix up their style of spicing, and you can use it in your cooking if you want to.
It's actually quite unique.
Cool.
Okay, so you're going to New York.
When are you back?
I'm back Wednesday night.
Ah.
Okay.
Wait a minute.
So you're going to do the show on Sunday from New York?
I'm going to be in Washington because my son's graduating from Evergreen.
Oh, congratulations.
Good.
That's excellent.
And I will...
I think I'm...
I might be in Los Angeles?
No.
I don't know.
On Sunday?
Yeah, maybe for one day.
I've got to figure it out.
No, no, no.
I'm going to be here.
I'll be here for the Sunday show.
So I'll have crappy bandwidth for the last time.
And then I call Comcast Cares for the new place and we're all set.
Lovely.
Coming to you from the undisclosed Flophouse, I'm Adam Curry.
And from the northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak.
We'll talk to you again on Sunday, right here on No Agenda.
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