No Agenda Episode 396: "200 Hundred Million Ninjas" (2012-04-01)

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John C. Dvorak:
maestro john c dvorak slide whistle
Jingle:
Adam Curry, John C Dvorak
Adam Curry:
It's sunday april first 2012 time for your gitmo nation media assasination episode three niner six
Jingle:
this is no agenda
Adam Curry:
coming to you from camp mofo in the capital of the drone star state, Austin Tejas. If he's the april, i'm the fool. In the morning everybody, im adam curry
John C. Dvorak:
nice try, from northern silicon valley we say, nice try. im john c dvorak
Jingle:
it's crackpot and buzzkill
John C. Dvorak:
Say nice try, I'm John C Dvorak
Jingle:
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill ITM
Adam Curry:
hehe, ... do something good
John C. Dvorak:
April fools day
Adam Curry:
yeah April, happy April fools
John C. Dvorak:
whatever that means yeah and this is, by the way
Adam Curry:
bullcrap
John C. Dvorak:
I used to always do these great gags but it's become so institutionalized now by by the internet, it's stupid. And Google did theirs. Oh, Google did...
Adam Curry:
what did they do?
John C. Dvorak:
they sent out a press release in conjunction with NASCAR, that their self-driving car will
Adam Curry:
{chuckles]Do you know that we had a tradition, my Grandfather Renwick Eugene Curry, on April Fool's if we happened to be staying there..I'm not sure where this came from..but, everything would be upside down and we would have a big steak and mashed potatoes for breakfast and then for dinner we'd have what looked like fried eggs on toast
Adam Curry:
with spinach. But, the fried eggs were actually like a cake with two [2] pear halves so it looked like a yolk with whipped cream around it. And my Grandfather would eat the spinach with a pair of pliers.
John C. Dvorak:
[laughs]
Adam Curry:
I know, it's like.
John C. Dvorak:
That's a good one. I like the pair of pliers part.
Adam Curry:
I never really understood...
John C. Dvorak:
I think we should all eat with a pair of pliers.
Adam Curry:
On April Fool's Day.
John C. Dvorak:
I think that should be standard operating procedure. You throw the pliers in the dish washer. They're all nice and clean.
Adam Curry:
Standard operating procedure.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, you have a steak. You hold it with a pair of pliers. You can't go wrong. You cut it with a knife or saw.
Adam Curry:
It was specifically the spinach. And it was kind of cool and he would go "grrrrr"
John C. Dvorak:
[laughing]No wonder you're a crackpot.
Adam Curry:
It's funny. I just remembered that. Grandpa used to do this crazy-ass thing. How weird is that. I wish he were still around, man, that guy was pretty awesome.
Adam Curry:
He probably is. He's probably right now smiling at me, chompin' on some caviar with his pliers. Oh boy. Well, in the morning to you John C. Dvorak.
John C. Dvorak:
In the morning to you Adam Curry. In the morning to all ships at sea and boots on the ground and feet in the air.
Adam Curry:
And I'd like to say a special warm welcome and hello to all the human resources who are in our chat room. Always there to keep us on the straight and narrow and to yell ugly things. How dumb I am, as an example. [chuckles]
Adam Curry:
We have quite a quorum actually today from all around gitmo nation. That's on NoAgendaStream.com, NoAgendaChat.net. Good to have you guys on board as we do the program live every Thursday and Sunday morning. Nine [9] AM gitmo nation west time. That would be Pacific Daylight Time in this case. So you will have to adjust for your time zone.
Adam Curry:
And I came to kind of a realization, John, that the entire world seems to..we have such a control grid on our consciousness here..that while we have a million people on the streets of Spain rioting against their government, burning stuff, and the gestapo police are there beating them into submission. Spain is just the latest. Our government is so smart, they turn us against each other. It's like the whole weekend you didn't see a single thing about Spain
Adam Curry:
on television. Not a single thing. All you see is white guys and black guys arguing about race. And how we're all gonna go kill each other. It's like..wow..we are so dumb in America that we allow that to happen.
John C. Dvorak:
Well, we don't have much of a choice because the media is the one that controls the collective unconscious.
Adam Curry:
I know you have a couple of Spain clips. Let me give you a..just close your eyes and imagine lots of kids burning stuff and smashing windows and just being really angry.
Clip:
[siren sounds followed by a gun shot]
Adam Curry:
Oh yeah, and shootin'. Ha ha ha.
Clip:
{siren sounds mixed with group chanting] [Voice in Spanish followed by English translation] I'm doing this because of the new government's abuse
Clip:
when it comes to spending cuts. The raising and denying those achievements we gained with many years of work and sacrifice is going to be irreversible. [Female voice in Spanish followed by female translation] I don't like anything about the labor reform. I don't see it helping employees.
Adam Curry:
You know? They get it.
Adam Curry:
They really get it. You know what I mean?
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah well. Yeah, they get it, but they also knew this was coming some ago when they acceded to the EU.
Adam Curry:
The European Union. Yeah. A troika.
John C. Dvorak:
Allowing them to borrow a bunch of money and spend it on projects that were a waste of money. When I was in Madrid I talked about this with some of the locals.
John C. Dvorak:
Garcia, being one of them. I haven't been able to get a hold of him, by the way.
Adam Curry:
Oh really? That doesn't sound good.
John C. Dvorak:
And we took the road..you know I talked about that freeway that was built outside of Madrid.
Adam Curry:
The beautiful one that no one is driving on.
John C. Dvorak:
There's nobody on it. Period. And I have a clip with more examples of this, which is the one about, what's the clip name here...
Adam Curry:
Spain Is Screwed? Would that be the one? Spain Report?
John C. Dvorak:
Spain Is Screwed and Spain Report. Play Spain Is Screwed.
Adam Curry:
Seems like a more fun one to me.
Clip:
[male reporter] A further problem is the debt of the regions. Valencia has the highest debt. A region struggling with a legacy of having backed prestigious projects. Valencia splashed out on a dazzling city of arts and sciences. The only problem: debt still around six hundred million [600,000,000] Euros. [inaudible] airport glistens in the sun.
Clip:
The cost: a hundred fifty million [150,000,000] Euros of public money. But, there was no demand and no plane has ever landed here.
Adam Curry:
Yay! I remember that.
John C. Dvorak:
No plane has ever landed. That reminded me of that road when I saw this report.
Adam Curry:
We should go and land there!
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, you'd be the first plane!
Adam Curry:
It's like [pilot talk] "Hello November Sierra Delta Seven Seven Four [774]..
John C. Dvorak:
It looks like a beautiful little airport that's got nobody..
Adam Curry:
Foam up! Foam up the runway. We're comin' in! [chuckles]
John C. Dvorak:
Hey the oil prices went up big time during Bush, and they where bitching and moaning during the election and now when the economy tanked it went way up. So he's, what is he thinking what is this logic form.
Adam Curry:
Well I don't know, but he asked you to thin k about it.
John C. Dvorak:
I did and he is full of shit.
Clip:
(Obama) The economy is doing badly, that is not the kind of pattern we want to be in, we want the economy to be doing well and people being able to afford their energy costs.
Adam Curry:
okay, now I'm done with that, but you know I'm like "You know, what why". If you listen
Adam Curry:
the buffet rule according to the CBO, who it's their job to report on this would generate 47 Bilion dollars over ten years or less than 5 billion a year. But here is the kicker, this doesn't start until 2013. He didn't mention that So..
John C. Dvorak:
Well that is because the Bush tax lash up , expires on January first 2013.
Adam Curry:
right but he's making
John C. Dvorak:
well you're going a, I don't know how much longer you are going to dwell on this but I do have a clip that kind of addresses
John C. Dvorak:
four weeks from today
Adam Curry:
I gotta get that clip, because the president can use that , he say It only takes a handful of this material in four weeks. That is not even two paychecks you'll be dead. The Iranians, the evil Iranians.
John C. Dvorak:
You know the logic of the Iranians bomb. you know the fear is they are going to trow a missile and you know theIsraelis are worried about this. They are gonna trow a missile into Jerusalem or Tel Aviv actually would be the target. And it would create a cloud of radioactive dust that would go you know to Russia