Health Code Violation

00:01 Adam Curry, John C. DeVore Oh yeah, it's time once again for your bi-weekly Gitmo Nation publication. It's Sunday, it is the 17th. This is no agenda. Coming to you from the southwest quadrant of Gitmo Nation East, better known as the United Kingdom, right here in Gitmo Nation East. It's called London. I'm Adam Curry. And from the Gitmo Nation, also Silicon Valley North, and also Gitmo Nation California, and God knows what else we want to call it because I guess it's getting a little old. I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! In the morning! Wow man, you outlasted the tune! Almost. Yeah. Hey, buddy. Buddy, buddy, buddy, buddy, buddy. You're in a funny mood. Yeah, I gotta say something right off the bat to our listeners slash producers.

00:52 I'm high. No, I'm not. I know actually I am completely clean. I know I'm not baked Disclaimer I'm not baked. I just wanted to say there's some stuff going on in my life that People will hear about In the near future Nothing I can talk about now Just so I what I'd hate is for our listeners to say oh man, and this was going on He didn't talk about it on the show. So there you go. Okay, so I don't think people are that into it. No, but it's a trust thing. It's a trust thing if they hear me You know doing a show and they don't know what's going on. They hear about it later I know this because people it's important as people, you know that they don't think we're holding anything back But I'm disclaiming it right off the bat. Well, I'm holding only something back right and immediately which is I

01:42 Costco oh boy straight into the I mean straight into And now back to real or is this food news food and wine food and drink Oh, it probably who knows it's probably food and wine more than anything else, but so I go to Costco yesterday and And one of the things about Costco, we've talked about it before and I talk about all the time, I try to clue people into the Easter eggs. Because the CEO is into this and so he makes all the managers into it. They bring in stuff that they, it's like you go, what is this doing here? Right, this is, you have mentioned this before and you go searching for the wine Easter eggs, which is purposely put there. It really is an Easter egg of something great for a great price, correct?

02:27 Yep, like one time I got Chateau Mouton Rothschild. For how much? It was $99. At the time, this particular vintage was going for $300 every place else. Wow. And it was in Port Angela. It was out in the middle of nowhere. Of all places, Port Angela's. So I'm over here. And they have a, I think it's a, I don't have the label in front of me, it's a Saint-Abbé from Yse-Yse-Nid-de-Mer, some obscure part of France that makes the best butter. And I'm looking at this cheese, it's a soft ripened cheese, and it says clearly on the label raw milk. Which is not allowed, right? Well, I mean, I always thought it was, even though people had been sneaking it in.

03:20 And raw milk cheese of course is so much better than pasteurized milk cheese. Because it's a living... It develops, it changes and it stays good, it doesn't get that ammoniated weirdness that... Because you know the bacteria that's natural to the milk, you know, holds a lot of stuff at bay. That ruins the cheese and so you get to develop these very unique flavors that if you go to France and you get the cheese plate in France, You know, from any restaurant in the whole country you get these unbelievable local cheeses that have flavors you've never had before. So I'm like eating this cheese now. As we speak, for your breakfast? Yeah. Hey ladies, we need a new jingle. It's raw milk cheese! It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! In the morning! That's right, raw milk cheese! In the morning! It's good for ya!

04:16 So, anyway, I was stunned by this cheese. And it's actually, it's very, I mean, good real cheese like this is very filling. It turns out that you can't eat, I mean, it's just like, whoa. Now, do you consider, why do you consider this to be an Easter egg? Or is it just coincidence? No, no, I think it's an Easter egg because for one thing, it just stands out too much like a sore thumb. I mean the raw milk, they have a lot of cheese at this Costco I go to. And every once in a while they'll have some cheese that is just like, why is this cheese here? They had a, I think all the Easter eggs at this Costco with few exceptions, this particular one, are mostly things like cheese. Because I think the guy likes cheese. But they had a, they had a, a feta. Have you ever met the CEO of Costco?

05:13 No, but he apparently is very easy to get a hold of. He's supposed to be just like this great guy. But they had this cheese one time, I go to this place and there's a feta from Greece that has not one word of English on it. And the ingredients are all in Greek as well? Everything is just like, what is this cheese even doing here? It was just too weird. That's got to be a violation of some law somehow. Oh, I think the raw milk thing, unless they change, maybe they changed the law or something because I have another cheese shop that has it occasionally, but I've never seen it so blatant. I mean, it's just printed on the label raw, you know? I don't know. All right. Well, it's cool. Of course, now they'll be raided by the FDA.

06:01 Now that the way things are going nobody's raiding anybody. What what do you mean? Well, I mean, I don't see government enforcement on anything In fact, that's one of the things I want to get into later in the show or even now. Hmm. Well about a new methodology of cooking that has become so popular and as far as I can tell it's a It's an out-and-out violation of every health code Law in every state. I'd like to spread it out a bit because there is some absolute And now, back to real news. That we really need to talk about before we do anything. Because last night was the final, the big show, the Eurovision Song Contest. I wish they'd show that in this country. Well, I wish they had, John, because I'm going to take back almost everything I said. Almost everything. The gay thing was more prevalent than ever. And by the way, just about every single guy on stage was gay.

06:58 It's just that kind of a show. Not that I give a shit, but the women who were on stage, whether they were lead singers, backing singers, they were all stunningly beautiful. But what was outrageous This production, which is rumored to have cost about 40 million euros, this production done by the Russians, because it was held in Moscow, was some of the best live television with performances I have ever seen. It was... I get goose... By the what? By the Russians. I know! I'm telling you, it was... It was so outrageously good that you would not believe the stage. There were some non-Russians behind the scenes saying, there's no way... No, no, no, no, no, no. I looked at all of the credits, I slowed them down even, and Dexter, Christina's boyfriend, who's a total video nut,

07:56 We couldn't believe the shots that were being made. It was like, where's the jib? I mean, it's unbelievable, the shots and then you never see any, no steadicam guys, no nothing. You could not see a thing. John, at one point, it was like a Cirque du Soleil. So when they're counting the votes, which is a 15 minute break and everyone in Europe or all the participating countries are dialing in to vote for their favorite, they usually have this really, really lame, stupid show to kind of entertain the audience. And it's always the big joke. This thing, they had swimming pools made of some kind of plexiglass structure with people swimming on the bottom and diving in and these things lowered down right onto the audience. The audience could actually be touching it. It's like that documentary show from Cirque du Soleil. It was Cirque du Soleil, no doubt about it. It was either done by Cirque du Soleil or inspired by.

08:48 And the video effects, I'm getting goosebumps again. It was out-fricking-no really, I mean, as a television guy, I was like, holy crap, they just pissed on everybody who has ever hosted this show, who has ever produced it. It was the bomb. And even the songs weren't all that bad. I have to really say it. Well, you have to look into this then. Yeah, oh yeah, I mean, I'm, I just haven't, you know, had the time. I do want to play the winning song for you, which I, just a little bit, just wait for the hook, because when I heard the song I immediately knew that this was going to win. I mean, it was, it's so obvious, such a typical Eurovision Song Contest winner from Norway. This is I'm in Love with a Fairy Tale. Years ago

09:37 Now wait for it. Just want you to hear the hook which is coming right up. So if you know anything about pop music you understand why this thing won. I mean it was just absolutely perfect. And the guy is cute. You know he's probably gay but he's cute and the girls are freaking out over him.

10:15 He's got that Norwegian cuteness. Yeah, he's probably gay, you're right. So, uh... Only in the morning! So, um... Yeah, I know I blew you away with that didn't I? You weren't expecting it. Well, I mean the song is just rinky-dink, let's face it. No, no, no, it's very, very clever. And the UK, by the way, who have always been last, they used to win a lot, but they've been last for many, many years, did quite well. I think they came in fourth or fifth, they were number two for a while, and they were so desperate. You know, they did a reality show here.

10:51 Andrew Lloyd Webber did a reality show to choose the person who was going to perform his song and he was there he played the piano for Wow, that's putting it out. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, and it was no it was a good song too good So why is the Norwegian guy singing the song in English? well Typical for the Eurovision Song Contest is there would be a native language version and an English language version, but these days pretty much everyone does English. Once in a while someone will do a native tongue version and they do get extra respect for that. But you know this this you know these these contestants have also been all throughout Europe promoting their songs prior to Prior to the song contest, you know make sure every country has been exposed to it And you know these are pop records we didn't talk about it last time on the show, but it is a song contest It's about the best song not about the best performance not about the performer It's about the song which of course the audience doesn't give a crap about because for the audience is the full package and

11:49 And this guy had it and he comes out and he's playing the fiddle. You know, he's playing the violin and oh really? Oh, yeah. Yeah. No, it's great It was and there was there was one point and you know I told you Terry Wogan didn't do the voiceover this year for the first year I bet he's sitting at home going crap. This was the best one ever and I'm not on it. I think there's a coincidence Terry so Graham Norton who is this extremely gay television host who just you know as one gay joke after another which is very appropriate by the way for the United Kingdom and They just they like that stuff at one point. I think it was the from Estonia which was I I would the song was way too good and the performance was fantastic was his

12:29 Well, what he said is, oh my god, it's a stripper in a hamster wheel. And it really was. It was like this transvestite kind of transsexual chick, really hot looking, and she was in a hamster wheel. It was crazy, John. I wish you could see it. Now that you're going on and on like a maniac about this, I'm now wondering why somebody in the US... Doesn't broadcast it. ...just for its entertainment value hasn't picked it up. Yeah, I wonder if maybe PBS or BBC World maybe, maybe they would... Well, that's no good. I mean, it should be like, it sounds like a network show. It easily could be. It easily could be. It was just good. I mean, I can't help it. I was, the Russians are doing this shit?

13:10 It was and and they always have this this moment where well the Russians, you know do have an artistic bent Oh, yeah, but they got something to prove dude. I mean that this is so obviously speaking Russia I always used to use it as a joke I mean if you set something up say you're doing a TV thing and you had somebody too close to the wall for example And they're doing news reading and the walls right behind them is a good example of what you call Russian TV It's just, you know, it's just poorly staged. I mean the Russians were notorious for this cheap looking Stalin style staging and it was always like, it always looked crappy and it had a cheap look to it. It was worse than the 1950s. I mean it just looked like you didn't know what you were doing and so I would, I was, you know, so it's somewhat for people out there wondering why

13:57 you know, we're even talking about this, it's remarkable that something like that would actually happen from Russians. It was almost as if Putin personally had said, anyone fucks this up, you get to the head. It was so, like everyone was just, you know, sometimes these things just come together, you know, there was not a single technical glitch. It was just astounding, astounding. Now granted, There were some interesting little points to note. I don't want to dwell on it too long, but basically only the lead vocal track is sung live or by the rules has to be sung live, which is kind of funny because there was one act and of course I forget which country they were from, but Graham Norton set us up. I say, watch the woman in the blue dress over on the side of the stage.

14:48 So she was actually singing the lead vocals while the girl who was, you know, looking like the lead, she was maybe doing harmonies or singing along. Oh, that's a nice trick. Yeah, very good trick. Because, you know, that's within the rules. Yeah. So, you know, stuff like that. But just great. Fantastic. Bravo. Spasibo. Good job. Good job. It's nice to see real, real television. I'm sure our Russian listeners will be amused. You would be amazed how many Russian listeners we might have. Might but I'd be interesting to if one of them's had some insight into this I don't think I've that many media people that listen to the show otherwise would have gotten my bit part in a movie by now I think I can get you in the next Jay and Silent Bob movie You'd be great in that yeah, it's just like a stoner, dude Hey, man, where are you going? Man are you holding?

15:47 All this stuff from the 60s Tony and Shanghai wrote in says hey Adam I live in China the guy that wrote that email on last on the last show about the Chinese zodiac and the calamities befalling us yeah, it's full of shit 2007 was the year of the pig, 2008 was the year of the mouse or the rat in the West, 2009 is the year of the cow, the bull in the West, and 2010 will be the year of the tiger. That guy wants to twist the truth to get some attention or else he got a hold of a really poorly printed Chinese restaurant placemat. And I'm thinking that the latter is probably true because that's pretty much how we prep for this show. Yes Our listeners are right into that that's that's the layer Chinese police man, I found a place Matt dude, and it says China's great so Well, I mean I didn't think if you did anyone out there listen to interlude number five oh man, may I stop you before you say anything I

16:47 May I just say Dvorak's interlude number five was so much the bomb You brought that whole thing up to a crescendo. You were playing songs. I'm like, oh my god this You have you have you're like a lotus flower to me now John as the petals peel back I'm like look at the depth of this man and then you had the only you could get away with actually playing Freebird at the end and setting it up and saying I gotta play free bird And you played the perfect version that ends with an end. I loved it. More. Give us more. You know, the Freebird was... The one thing I wanted to mention is I had a hippie set. Yes, a Hawaiian hippie set I think it was. A Hawaiian hippie set for you out there on the big island. Yeah, buddy!

17:39 and which is a hippie island there's no question about anyone who's ever been there knows this immediately I mean you can go to the store and they got all this frozen sourdough bread from San Francisco they got Columbus salamis I mean it's just and then if you listen to the local station it's all hippie music it's just the damnedest thing So, you know, at least I think... But make no mistake, and it still runs at 9pm Eastern time, I believe, the Interlude 5, every single day. Make no mistake, the hippie music doesn't mean it's like, you know, jingle-jangle Hare Krishna shit. I mean, it was... give me an example of a couple of tunes, John. You played Autograph. First of all, you played Autograph. You started with Autograph. I couldn't believe it! I could not believe... I haven't heard this song in 15 years.

18:21 Yeah, it was a good one. The model is I usually start with that style of rock and then I go do whatever I'm gonna do. I, Roger Glover's The Mask is the one who actually, when I was listening to that song recently and I said, you know, that is, it was a weird song because it's like a hippie song done like 20 years late. I mean, the song came out in the 80s. Yeah, I remember that. It's a hippie song. I mean, it's just, it just got hippie written all over it. I was listening to the lyrics. The lyrics are just the weirdest. I mean we should read the lyrics of this song and I also played Ichiku Park which also has the stupidest lyrics. I got high, high, I love it. What do you do there? Are you kidding me? You know my line in there that I like the most is that why don't we, you know, why don't we skip school? Wouldn't that be cool? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why should we be listening to the words of fools? I mean it was just like this

19:19 You know, drop out, tune in, turn on, drop out kind of mentality. I love that song. I got the lyrics here for The Mask, Roger Glover. By the way, the song I love from him is The Butterfly Ball, Love Is All. You ever hear that? I remember it, but I can't catch the tune right now. It's later on a Wednesday, the sun's going down. I'm standing naked by a swimming pool, there's no one round. My imagination wanders back, red dust is always there. We lay together in the jungle and love was in the air. As I dive into the water both time and motion freeze I'm hanging there suspended like a feather in the breeze Below is your reflection like an image from the past But I can't be sure if it's really you because you're wearing a tribal mask take it off take off the mask. Oh, man good shit It's unbelievable. It's good shit, baby so that's like that to me is like a classic hippie song because it's actually a

20:14 What are you talking about? I mean, this is obviously a drug-induced, you know, lyric. Yeah, you think? Yeah, I think. So but he's a but since Glover is like, you know an old pro, you know He pp puts the song together around a very nice melody and rhythm and and the arrangement is just dynamite It's actually one of the finest great songs of all those if you if you anyone out there's listening to these these these These interlude they tend to be pretty they tend to be oriented to a fairly hard I'm gonna switch it on right after the show. You have another we have six coming, right? I

20:54 Yeah, six and then the one that's a gonna that that I'm really impressed with myself is seven He said modestly seven is plus because seven is just a mind-boggler Uh-huh. So when will sick when going can I have six probably Monday? Okay, then I'll repeat five right after the show cuz people need to hear I mean, they'll put you in a good mood and it's you know How important it is to have a build up, you know, and you just did it man. You fucking nailed it nailed it. I Hey anyway back to the the Leonard Skinner free bird for anybody not to go These guys are boring me stiff. They're gonna tune out, but let me I'm gonna finish with this one comment free birds always fascinated me as a song and

21:37 So I'm driving around with my daughter one day and Freeberg comes on the station that I listen to on the radio. I say, oh you gotta hear it. And I explain to her the song and you know the fact is kind of a, it's almost a cliché song people like to play. You know, it's like there's another one or two of these types of anthems that go on forever. They're very long songs from, that developed in the 70s. and so I'm listening to it and it fades out at the end. I'm saying, what happened to the end of the song? Yeah, it sucks. I hate that. Yep, you're right. It's a great song even though people laugh about it and yell it at concerts. Play Free Bird! And so I didn't realize that I had been listening to this outtake version all these years and then when I dug up to my CD that has it on there and it explained it was the outtake version

22:27 And it was exactly the same song except it has an actual ending. So that's the one I ran with because I found the other one. It was like I was... because it actually has a nice ending. I don't understand what the point of that other release was and that's the one that was publicly released. There's got to be some executive bonehead. Yeah, of course you know some some dork. I mean this was even ever released as a single I probably not you know no But the first thing when it first appeared on to even on an LP was this this bad version Hmm. Yeah, no I'd never heard the version that actually ended so I appreciate it. I really appreciate it John Who's that who says that I really appreciate it? Oh?

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25:00 Don't wait another minute call 1-888-313-8035 right now and get your pair and your free gift. That's 1-888-313-8035. Call now! You know Obama's boys are cracking down on this stuff. This is not, this is not an official anything. He's here, he's got the official, his signature underneath his picture. No way. No, this is, these guys are gonna be out of business in two weeks, I guarantee it. Two weeks from today, we'll revisit this and I guarantee this website will be off. These guys are toast. There's no way they because they've been cracking down on this stuff and in fact the funny things do they have any of the Obama logos? Yeah, oh, yeah the logo the If you go to the websites and look at those logos their copyright we would because the audience should know that we had tried Yeah, we had looked into this. Yeah, because we you and me we're going to do Obama armbands Yep, and with that logo we were denied

26:13 You can't do it. I mean, you could, but they're going to just stop you eventually. And I don't think you'd want the IRS pounding on the door because you did some armbands. But I still think the armbands would be hilarious, but we're not doing them. I got an email. He's got an email. Okay, this is from Mitchell Mitchell Gordon. Hi guys I just heard in a 97 where John mentioned set step in which is the people that bring in the cocaine For a coca-cola all right, right we need and I had to send this note to you new Trier. Which is the school that

26:54 that Rahm Emanuel and Rumsfeld went to. Has two campuses, a freshman campus in Northfield and the main campus with sophomores, juniors and seniors about 15 miles away in Winnetka. The freshman campus, which I attend, has six buildings. One of the buildings, the infamous B building, is rented out to a company as an office building with their main company, none other than Stepin. Wait, so they've got Coke on campus? Well, it says the main company's specific building being 50 yards away from the new Trier campus. The company is, I don't know. Hey kids, come to our school! We've got Coke on campus!

27:38 It's just the cement leaves. To me it seems like a rather large coincidence that the only company licensed to import cocaine happens to be renting buildings from Rahm Emanuel's and Donald Rumsfeld's high school and have their world headquarters located right next to the school. Could that be the relationship between Nutrior and Stepan is more than it appears? We need to look into that. Yeah, we really need to look into that. That's outrageous. You know, as far as I'm concerned, they should import more of those leaves. I've never done it. I mean, I know you're talking about the Lees, but I've never done coke. I have no interest in it. I don't care. I've actually never even seen anyone do it around me, if you can believe it, considering my history. I see one of my producers says it's pronounced neutrier. Oh, apologies.

28:31 We did not want to start any controversy. Well the leaves are very critical, I mean they're very fundamental to the Andes culture in Bolivia, in Ecuador. Yeah, they put that on their cornflakes up there don't they? So I'm what I mentioned this before because I've chewed on these things and the it's like it's like chewing on lawn clippings Left to dry out in the Sun. It's just the worst You can't get you can't get enough moisture out of your mouth to actually do I mean it's just and what does it do to you? Do you feel weird?

29:07 No, you don't feel anything except you feel normal because you're up at a high altitude where you're just gasping for breath and these things give you a kind of a normalizing stamina where you don't feel that you're up at 14,000 feet. You feel pretty normal. Interesting. They could use these things in telluride Colorado, these leaves. How about in aviation? I don't see why, I don't, to be honest about it, there's no, there's zero high. There's no high. Well, what a waste. What's the use? I see where you're saying it, but in fact, it's just a normalizing thing. And actually, once you've realized what's going on with them, it's just that you just, that's what you're going to be chewing all the time because to just walk

30:03 in some of these places up in the northern, the highest peaks of the Andes where there's villages. Above the timber line, there's no trees up there. Just to walk around, especially up in this hilly, which is a problem. You get pooped. I mean, it's just like you're gasping. Yeah, of course, because you got no oxygen. Yeah, absolutely. You chew on these leaves and you still get a little poop, but it's like there's a big difference between you and everyone who's not chewing the leaves. Yeah, I remember you told me that you were doing just fine and you neglected to mention the cocoa leaves at the time. So, bags, cats out of the bag. No, I don't think you mentioned it. I had a handful.

30:40 And I was walking past kids that were 20 years younger than me and they couldn't walk. They were bent over, gasping. I'm thinking, hey, come on, let's go. What's your problem? Speaking of kids, man, I don't know if... I presume I have not looked at Dvorak.org slash blog. I presume you saw this article from the New York Times, which I'm going to Skype you the link right now, titled, Scouts trained to fight terrorists and more. Have you seen this? Is this an outrage? They're training Boy Scouts to be like militia. Border Patrol. Yeah, well, militia. I mean, it's crazy.

31:24 I mean, and I encourage everyone, it'll be in the show notes of course at noagenda.mevio.com to read through this, you know, as a The Sheriff's deputy says, this is about being a true-blooded American guy and girl which you know it fits right in with the honor and bravery of the Boy Scouts and and it's like you know here put him on his face put a knee in his back I guarantee you'll shut up then I mean this is the kind of training they're getting you know and this by the way is our audience for the armbands which it bums me out they'd be perfect I got some brown shirts in the closet too which I think would look nifty

32:02 This is unbelievable. It goes beyond unbelievable. Yeah, and the pictures are just too frightening, too precious. I mean, look, it's like 15 year old kids in combat gear with handguns and assault rifles and... I want to cry. It's so wrong. Yeah, this article, people who follow the show, this will be posted in the show notes. You have to, if you haven't seen this article in the New York Times, and we do have a version of it on the blog, but if you haven't seen this article, it's just like, it's a head shaker and an eye roller to the max. Yeah, yeah, it really is. You'll just go. And these kids look like, I don't even want to get into it. Please say it, say it, say it, say it, it's important. They look like a bunch of boneheads.

32:52 Yeah, these are the kids who always have the big bunch of keys dangling from their belt. You know what I mean? Yeah, in fact one of them has keys dangling from his belt. Oh no, really? Really? Really? Wait, I gotta look at it again. I gotta look at it again. Hold on. Cause those are always the kids. Oh, you're right. No, he only has like a couple keys. Well, they all have a key though. Oh no, I think he's gotten worse. He's got the thing hanging from his belt with the hook and it looks like it goes into his pocket. These are the guys who have the keys or the my favorite all-time favorite thing that these guys do which must be a chick magnet is you have this keychain thing hooked to a hole drilled through your wallet and then the wallet is shoved into your pocket hooked to this chain like everybody's out to get your wallet. I mean, please. I don't want all that important cash to get ripped off baby. They got to take me with it all my money. Oh funny.

33:49 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. So, um, I gotta do another piece of email here. It kind of relates a bit. Adam, I hate it when you talk about the military because you were always wrong. Oh yeah, I got this one too. And it's okay, first of all, anyone in the military, I appreciate and respect your service. Coming from my background, I have a right to say that and I know what it means to serve your country from a family standpoint. Yeah, you don't have to apologize. You're not anti-military. No, of course not. The latest just make you make errors. Yes, of course, and this is why we read these emails So the latest was your theory of the friendly fire incident in Iraq? The incident was at a mental health facility and those killed were mental health professionals and patients that explains why they didn't defend themselves They probably didn't have weapons. Additionally. This was nowhere near the green zone. This is the story that I talked about where I was a guy the maniac goes in that pissed off

34:45 uh... right and and and sort and sources say that this was actually an attack on nancy pelosi who was there The commanding general in Afghanistan was replaced, not the commanding general in Iraq. So that's a big bone mistake on my part. Also, when the military does something weird sometimes, it is just because we do stupid things. Okay. Conspiracy theorists often give us too much credit. The military are just people. Sometimes people do stupid things like fly the presidential 747 around the Statue of Liberty and take pretty pictures. Yeah. Okay. I got a bridge for sale for you for that one. I distrust the government almost as much as you do, but sometimes we just do stupid things that don't involve a national conspiracy. On a side note, I supported a special ops mission a few days ago in Afghanistan. The mission took down an opiate

35:28 grower and burned several hundred thousand pounds of heroin grade opium. Probably a drop in the bucket, but we do take them down sometimes. I know, I know you're going to say he was probably the competition. I love you anyway, man. You know what? He was probably the competition. I like that. He didn't sign up. He didn't sign up with the consortium. Hey, buddy. Hey, see that field that you're gonna give us? You're gonna sign up? No. Okay. Burn it. Exactly. He's not he's not in the in the group in the clan. He hasn't signed in he hasn't signed up to give his name on the signup sheet

36:07 Tamil Tigers concede defeat. Yeah, this is this is big shit. I'm glad you're this is a huge story It's getting very little play in the US, but it's one of the main I mean, this is the one Place where you appear so all the terrorism in the world is Muslims There's no this is the worst that I think over 50,000 people were killed on terrorist acts. Yeah and Sri Lanka which used to be called Ceylon and Can you just explain briefly what's going on there? I'm getting a newspaper article as well. Go ahead. There's two groups of people battling each other. There's Buddhists and Hindus. And the Hindu Tamils is a specific kind of a... Religion, sect. It's a sect.

36:53 And they've been in a beef for I don't know how long when it first started. It was over 10 years ago, I think. I think even longer. I mean, in the 80s, Sri Lanka used to be like the place to go. It was a vacation paradise. But actually, I understand it's still to be. But the area where this is fighting going on is ridiculous. And it's some of the worst kinds of terrorism. You like depleted uranium on your cornflakes. Yeah, it's a great place to be. And anyway, it's over finally. They started to crack down. The Indian government, see the problem was the Tamils were the troublemakers and the Indian government... Who by the way are a rag-tag bunch including women who just get blown to pieces, their heads blown off, their bodies exploded. You know, it's women as well who are fighting. Yeah.

37:43 and they were fighting against these Buddhists and the Indian government was like, well you know, they were like wishy-washy about doing anything about it. And I think it's because the Tamils were Hindus and nobody in India, even though Buddhism actually originated in India, this is not a Buddhist country. And I think they were just, I think they were lax. I think the Indians are not great at law enforcement. So there was a huge article in the Financial Times. By the way, we do expect email after I said that. It's okay. Just the fact that we're bringing this up is great. Huge article, full page in the Financial Times for this weekend. And there's an important little side note.

38:27 that China is actually the huge beneficiary of all of this because Beijing, I'll just read from the paper, Beijing has in the last few years become a crucial supplier of weaponry and aid to Sri Lanka. More than that, it has helped to deflect international criticism of mass civilian casualties in the war. In return, Beijing has won access to a key Sri Lankan port giving it a strategic foothold next to one of the world's premier shipping lanes right under the nose of the South Asian regional power India So this is a very very big deal and I encourage you to look at Google Maps or Google Earth Take a look at this shit and see where it is. You know, it'll it'll be good for you

39:11 Didn't know that that makes sense I mean and that and I was like okay that makes a hell of a lot of sense and so the Chinese have basically been funding this this horrible atrocity which has killed many many civilians and And what they're getting back for it is the quid pro quo is they get they get the shipping lanes and they get the port right there I mean, this is so clear. This is new world order and It's India being, I don't know what their problem is. But the thing is this battle was halted, it should have been halted years ago. And here in the United Kingdom, the Tom Mills

39:51 have been protesting they've gone on hunger strikes have been outside white hall that been you know demonstrating actually i believe it came to a little bit of a head there were some uh... skirmishes going on last weekend and uh... how much do we see about on the news now i mean all we're seeing is common with the fairy tale you know your vision And this is happening in London in London every single day There's hundreds if not thousands of people protesting saying hey you guys could do something about this shit because you know people are dying Civilians are dying. Well, whatever That's a t-shirt right there people are dying and on the back well, whatever whatever so

40:36 So I guess Obama's gonna speak at Notre Dame. By the way, his, Michelle Obama, what is this? Obama's on the speaking tour. I mean, do these guys actually do any work? Michelle Obama is giving the commencement speech at UC Merced. Where's Merced? Which is the newest campus of the University of California, which was kind of doing what it could to try to get people to even come to this school. I mean, nobody was, I mean, if the campuses of the University of California aren't already in Hicksville, with Riverside and Davis and God knows where else they have some of these campuses. Now they open one in Merced.

41:14 Or Modesto. I mean, it might as well be Modesto. And it's like, Michelle, all of a sudden, is there giving a commencement speech? They have room for like 2,000 people to watch this and then apparently 25,000 people are coming this or already did. I don't think she gave it yet. But it's like 25,000. Wow. Yeah, when when they were over here for the G. These are the rock star. We're stuck with these rock stars Yeah, when when they were over here for the g20 Michelle Obama went to a girl's school and spoke at a girl's school And you know she's a big big example and hero and blotty blotty blah. Yeah, well, you know it's You know I mean it gets better service at a restaurant in Belgium Belgium Brussels

42:00 Why would you know the joke would have been in France, but Disney were never came no matter what was to you could the service is what it is Yeah, that's for sure This is, I'm glad this was, I picked this up off of Twitter, it was sent in an at reply to me. You want to talk about Gitmo Nation, you want to talk about New World Order, you want to talk about what is being done to save journalism as we have discussed many times in this program, in particular newspapers. From The Guardian who reports, and the reason I'm using The Guardian is because all the other reports I have are in Dutch.

42:38 Dutch government to pay salaries of 60 newspaper journalists. Yeah, we blog this too. 4 million euros to pay the salaries of 60 young journalists to work on otherwise commercially funded regional and national newspapers across the Netherlands. Does anyone see how this is wrong? It's like the CIA. This is so wrong. It's the Ministry of Truth. The Ministry of Truth, that's what we need. You know where that's from, don't you? You know where that's from, right? That's from 1984, Orwell. Oh, right, right. Ministry of Truth, where you got all these journalists who are, you know, correcting the news. Correcting. Yeah, and even the archives, they go back in the... I mean, you can totally see that. This is so much a step towards it.

43:36 And I haven't really seen the discussion anywhere other than, yeah, our newspapers are really, really important. And so the government needs to support it. But please, no, this is not how you get independence. This is how you get ministry of truth. Yeah, we should have a jingle for that Jeff Smith emailed me. He's gonna be in San Francisco I think when I'm there beginning of June is there a Macworld coming up or something in June to some kind of no the macros in January What's in there's a developers conference maybe? Hmm well anyway he said that he you know he had blown out his pipes And he had to take it easy for a while, but he's gonna get some more jingles our way I love that guy you know he's made a career out of this and

44:19 Out of his out of the jingle business for podcasts. He's made a real career. It's fucking live just for podcast. Yeah Well, he also he also has ringtones And I haven't I've never really looked into exactly what it is, but just googled Jeff Smith GEO FF Jeff Smith ringtones or go to the Jeff Smith comm and You can find and that's also working very well I got to figure out what he's doing because he's doing something successful and I like that. We got to look into that and So Wolfram Alpha came out. Is this a video game? No, it's a new search engine, but it's not really a search engine. Oh, right. This is the thing that has all this super algorithm and is actually supposed to get you answers, not links or something? Yeah, there's no links. You ask it a question, or you don't even ask it a question, you put in San Francisco and you get essentially a version, a kind of CIA fact book.

45:17 Is it WolframAlpha.com? Yeah, but what's interesting about it is you can put comparative stuff in there. You can put San Francisco, Cincinnati, something else and you get these comparisons or you can put a bunch of countries in and you get a combined population. It's actually for people who I've mentioned this in a column I wrote that if anyone who's doing a talk show like us You should just have it up all the time because you can type in you know you have a quick question about something and you just think it answers it without having to deal with it as you know a middleman well I did what is no agenda and Wolfram Alpha isn't sure what to do with my input Yeah, because that's not what it does. Oh, what would the question be well? You say we're talking about put in Tamil put in Tamil time Sri Lanka, okay? Oh

46:07 Sri Lanka Paradise I think the thing that has to be dealt with I mean you have to realize what this thing can and can't do. So I get I'm sorry Dave I'm afraid I can't do that Wolfram Alpha has temporarily exceeded its current maximum test load. See the live video feed of the control center. Whoa hold on a second it must be pretty small. It has time wait wait let me get this straight it's got the bandwidth to show you some live video feeds but it can't give you That's good luck. Yeah, that's pretty rich on it. Although. It's not really loading the video. Oh wait here comes here comes Let's see we get

46:45 Oh, that's on Justin TV. That's why. Oh, okay. So it's not their feed. No. Anyway, so that's what it's good for. I mean, right now everyone's looking at it and they're probably bitching a lot because you can't do, for example, a vanity search and get anywhere. I mean, it's not about you. I read an interesting little note and something we have not talked about, of course, is our buddy, Naley Smith. the anti-competition European Council member chick. Who was just who was just fine who has just find Intel 1.4 billion dollars For and and we'll talk about that in a second, but I was reading some related articles about wool from alpha And you know say well, you know Should Google be worried about this and and of course well first of all no, but second of all it's competition It's exactly what they need. They're probably funding it on the back end. It's exactly what they need so they don't get into this anti-competitive problem

47:46 Yeah, there is that but the fact of the matter is Wolfram Alpha and Google have nothing in common You don't use in fact even with Wolfram Alpha when you get your data It has a link to the Google site if you want to get you know the normal result there you go there I told you that they're on the back end. No there needs to be some competition to Google right now there's nothing Microsoft can't seem to do it because I think they're just too cheap. Place to be I mean any anybody can start a competitor to Google you probably won't succeed But anybody can start it there are no gating factors that the government can write it They don't send a couple of guys over to beat you up. No not at all. You don't have to use Google. You know it's and It's nuts. That's crazy talk, but this Intel AMD thing was that part of the the the eons of lawsuits that you have actually testified in court for

48:53 Yeah. This is it. So this is the result of your labor. I had nothing to do with the most recent stuff. Good job. Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen. I'll be here the whole week. So, no, this actually is a result of a more recent Most of those lawsuits that go back were all instituted by Intel as a harassment scheme, and it was typical of the Silicon Valley mentality. This more recent one was the result literally of AMD complaining bitterly to anyone who would listen about the business practices that Intel employed to keep AMD in its place, short-sheeted as it were.

49:42 and the EU paid attention and now Intel's a little worried about the fact that these things are kind of like dominoes because nobody does anything and nobody does anything and nobody does anything and then one person, you know, Nelly... Nelly. Yeah, whatever. Whoa, Nelly! She does something and it's a big deal in Intel of course poopoo's it but it's a fact is it's a huge deal Yeah, and now everyone else's that didn't do anything is re examining you know well as thinking well We're gonna look bad here. You know the EU is doing all the hard the heavy lifting We bet we're gonna look like a bunch of schmucks, and we don't do something You know what happened to you know these other guy? You know you start to get worried these bureaucrats as a bureaucrat mentality and it entails now has to deal with the

50:31 With all this other stuff, just what happened with Microsoft. I mean, nothing, nothing, nothing happened. And then boom. Cup boom and then every state now tries to get in on the action they got sued over and over and over but do one thing after another it becomes a nightmare and This is what the potential is for Intel is gonna have to deal with the nightmare scenario If they can't you know I don't know what they're gonna do about Beyonce. You know that I believe that the fine could actually amount to like up to 10% of their gross That's the worst case scenario fine. They've never done that fine that I know of. And being a public company where you already have Sarbanes-Oxley, I mean that's horrible. I just had to build a bridge to it, sorry. You just wanted to use the Sarbanes-Oxley thing. Let's hear it again, I like it.

51:28 You know, you're gonna have to have a bunch of these, you have to be like Kramer on the Mad Money where you have the buttons that you can see. Oh yeah, the big buttons, yeah. Yeah, so you can hit these things because, you know, if anyone listens to this show, they know that you suck at hitting the sound effects in a timely fashion. Hello! Who sucks, baby? Who sucks all right anymore really anymore? Yeah, I got some important news. Yeah, I got some important things God bless the Germans, and I've said many times. We actually we all we almost got the setup pod pod show Germany at the time It was really I had a very good time with Professor good t-shirt by the way what God bless the German oh God bless the Germans. Yeah, that is a good t-shirt This is

52:26 It could be the ultimate in political control, but it won't be patented, or as we say, patented, in Germany. German media outlets reported last week that a Saudi investor's application to patent a killer chip, as the Swiss tabloids put it, has been denied. The basic model would consist of a tiny GPS transceiver placed in a capsule and inserted under a person's skin so that authorities could easily track him. Model B would have an extra function, a dose of cyanide to remotely kill the wearer without muss or fuss if authorities deemed he'd become a public threat.

53:02 The inventor said the chip could be used to track terrorists, criminals, fugitives, illegal immigrants, political dissidents, domestic servants, and foreigners overstaying their visas. What happened? You forgot pedophiles and people who look at pornography. The invention will probably be found to violate paragraph 2 of the German patent law which does not allow inventions that transgress public order or good morals. Yeah, I'd say this oversteps the boundary a bit. So where did this idea come from? from a guy who's trying to patent it. Saudi Arabia, Saudi inventor. So this is the Saudi contribution to intellectual property. Well remember, ACTA's coming soon, you never know what will be allowed. They might change those rules about good morals. ACTA could have it all for us. So here's what the downside of this, well downside besides the fact that the chip is ridiculous, but

53:58 Here's I mean, I'm just gonna predict for people out there who want to see this coming down Broadway if Anybody comes up with any of these chips these little tracking chips then the idea that you'd have one with cyanide or arsenic cyanide in it You could say do you sure that that chip that they're giving you it doesn't have the cyanide in it exactly or or that it's not being banked but controlled by Vista and And Vista is, is this like the James Bond group organization? No, Vista is Windows Vista. Oh, right. Right, it reboots and you're dead. Android. Now with Android. Uh-huh. Hello?

54:44 Yeah, no, I'm just trying to think I'm just wondering who would come up with this idea of putting arsenic in a GPS chip. I mean these Saudis are nuts. It was cyanide. It was cyanide. Cyanide. Cyanide. I mean, yeah, cyanide would work better. The cyanide is an interesting poison. We've talked about it before. You can honk the horn. Go ahead. I don't recall. Well cyanide is like it's interesting because it's fully metabolized by the body. So if you doesn't kill you It doesn't have any long-term damaging effects, necessarily, unless it gets to the point where it almost kills you. But it's almost like it kills you and then it gets metabolized. It's used a lot for assassinations where somebody looked like they had a heart attack because essentially it metabolizes so quickly in the body that it's hard to uncover it in an autopsy. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Do you remember Ellery Queen?

55:47 Yeah, I'm Ellery Queen and his dad, his wacky dad and what was it, was it Dick Van... no who was it? Who played Ellery Queen? The long lanky kind of dude on the... it was a TV show, I detect, but they always are like cyanide, you know, it's impossible to detect because the body metabolizes it. So, but when you're working in a chemistry lab, you get to smell it every so often. And if you know what to look for, you run into it in food. I mean, cyanide is very common and it's essentially accounts for the almond aroma. Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah. It smells like almonds. But how, so cyanide is actually the almond aroma or an extract of it?

56:27 No, it's not an extract of it at all, but the almond aroma that you're smelling when it gets really intense is actually is cyanide. And in fact, you've run into modest amounts of cyanide in, for example, apricot pits, which are used in the French use apricot pits when they make jams and jellies. They put the pits, you know, you take, you crack the pit open. There's a little nut inside, which is by the way, delicious. Have your cyanide pit today. You can't, a lot of people consider that, they used to call it vitamin K, anti-cancer, there's a lot of controversy over that stuff. So what is the main source of cyanide? Cyanide is just a carbon and a nitrogen atom hooked together. The main source is, I mean it's just everywhere. I mean cyanide, I don't know where you, I don't know. How do you make it?

57:20 It's very actually quite easy to make I Mean it's like really easy to make really yeah, no, it's cool. I Used to know how to make it I meant about I don't remember But it's I do recall is really easy to make you have to be real careful because you get a whiff of it every once in a while you go whoop and you just say am I how am I doing and then you okay now fine really How am I feeling am I doing my okay? I'm good. I'm good Wow so Anyway, this cyanide occurs naturally in food, like nuts of fruit. You can eat a couple of these pits, nuts from apricots, but if you ate a handful, you'd probably be dead. The other one where it shows up, and by the way, the more delicious

58:13 If you really want to taste cyanide in its most flavorful form... I think we need to do this by the way when I'm in San Francisco in June. We must have some cyanide. You can do it in the backyard or you can do it at the house. No, but I'd like to have it with you. I'd like to have some cyanide with you. Eat? Join me for the cyanide party. Now that we're both dead, this is another two shots in the head. Ah, we've got him now. Yeah, oh, now we've got... Oh, they were experimenting with cyanide. Experimenting with cyanide, these idiots. Ain't that a shame? Apple wait a minute wait John hold on a second I believe in UFOs they're coming to save us I just gotta say something like that real quick so that we don't get knocked out apple seeds which by the way

58:56 Absolutely. Good apple seed, especially if it's mature, is one of the most delicious things you'll ever have. I mean, they're just tasty. But it's a cyanide thing. You can't eat more than a few of them. You can have one or two. Of an apple seed? Yeah. If you had a, I think a tablespoon of apple seeds, you're risking health problems. Because of the cyanide? Yeah. Wow. Well, that is news. Thank you. That's a, that's a, it's a no agenda health tip. Don't eat too many apple seeds, kids. But if you get a real strong whiff of almond extract smell, and that's what the smell would be exactly like. If you get some good almond extract and you sniff it, that's what cyanide smells like exactly. And if you get a real strong smell of that somewhere, you know, if you can't hold your breath, you're screwed. So you had more health and food safety tips?

59:57 for today? Well, yeah. If you want to get into it, if you got it, we do don't have a jingle. Somebody says, by the way, in the food news. I didn't get the jingle. We got a food jingle. Yeah. Is that forwarded to me? I thought so. We'll use it next week. What's it called? What was it? You don't remember. I'm in Gmail so fast. I can't use the jingle because I haven't got the sound effect machine on my side. But there's an article. You can go to Wired, look at it. People should look, check this out. So here's what, I'm going to give you a genesis of how I've come to certain conclusions. based on the news that we've been doing over the past few months and the fact that I was at a used bookstore and saw Thomas Keller's cookbook on a process of cooking called sous vide. It's spelled S-O-U-S-V-I-D-E. So there's two things that happened in the news that were interesting. One was the smear campaign against Gordon Ramsay and the other one was the food poisoning incident at the Fat Duck in England.

1:01:05 Right, right. That was where they had to close it down, right? The Celebrity Chef. Right. So, as soon as I saw this book, and I realized by the way, I've had this kind of cooking a couple of times. In fact, I had some in Holland. I had a piece of veal that was prepared with the sous vide method. I just a bunch of things fell into place and let me explain. First of all, Gordon Ramsay was accused of using baggy food, you know, stuff in a plastic bag and you know, he's taking as though it was a shortcut when in fact, obviously, Ramsay is experimenting with this cooking technique which involves taking a piece of food

1:01:42 putting in a vacuum sealed cryovac bag, sucking all the air out of it, throwing it into a water bath and cooking it rather slowly for a very long time at a very low temperature. And this creates an unusual cooking. You get a very weird food out of this technique and it's used mostly, in fact there's a good Wikipedia article, you should look it up out there everybody, S-O-U-S-V-I-D-E. and uh... and make a copy of that but it goes on and on with the explanation of where it began it started in the seventies it came out of france and everybody who's anybody all these hot shot chefs and all the guys doing the three star restaurants are using this technique because you can present somebody with some really wild food now michael minna i know must use it because he has a duck dish over here at his restaurant in san francisco that is cooked this way it's absolutely fantastic and i had a piece of veal in holland that was obviously cooked this way

1:02:33 And what it entails is, and there's a good article in Wired Magazine, because Nathan Myhrvold, who is something of a foodie, he's the Microsoft dude, right? Microsoft dude to a billionaire who's a... Billionaire dude. Billionaire dude is experimenting with this trick, and I'm looking at a picture of him in Wired, which he's wearing a the chef's outfit, I mean, come on. And then he's putting leaves into a piece of salmon that he's gonna cook with this method. This, as I read this, this I think is one of the most dangerous cooking techniques. It needs to be either outlawed or there has to be a warning on a menu. I do not want to eat this food prepared in this manner from amateurs and I think the fact that what's his name, Blumenthal, or Fat Duck made a whole bunch of people sick and if you read those articles about this,

1:03:28 The first thing I did as soon as I, thinking back, I typed in his name and then sous vide. Boom. He's like one of the number one guys involved with this type of cooking. In fact, most of his dishes are done this way. And I'm reading the articles from these dumb journalists, the same ones who thought that Gordon Ramsay's doing cooking bags. Nobody and they said well, maybe it was bad fish. It could have been the scallops It could have been the oysters which you know generally speaking You don't get 40 people in your restaurant sick on oysters because there's only usually a bad oyster You know, it's not like a batch of them and and how many people have oysters nowadays not too many So I figure this is cooking methodology that got people sick, but nobody's bringing this up I'm gonna read the article to read is the one and wired with Nathan Maribold and here's the reason you want to look at it because I'm gonna read you a couple of

1:04:17 points that Nathan talks about, because he's apparently been experimenting with this and I actually would advise him to stop. So let me read a couple of points here. The articles are actually quite short. Don't bother, here's his tips. Don't bother with lab quality thermal circulator. Everybody in France who has been trained in this methodology says you must have a lab quality thermal circulator because you're cooking at extremely low temperatures. I'm reading from the Mervold article. For at-home fare, check out the temperature controllers at allburns.com which can be used with a rice cooker. You'll also need a vacuum sealer like FoodSaver, which doesn't do a good enough job in my opinion. Cook short ribs forever. I love to cook short ribs at 130 degrees Fahrenheit for 36 hours, Mervold says. They become very flavorful and have a different texture than most braised meat. Yes.

1:05:11 Don't be tricked by the color of your fish. Now here's the one that gets me. Fish can be particularly interesting. Cook salmon at 102 to 104 degrees for 20 minutes, Mervold says. It will look raw but have the texture of cooked fish. Now I want to point out this. 102 to 104 degrees is about 20 degrees less than the ambient temperature in Phoenix, Arizona most of the year. and you're gonna be cooking at this temperature. To be cooking food at a hundred and two degrees in a vacuum pack you're asking for the botulism Bacteria if nothing else to propagate like a maniac and make you sick I don't believe that this form of cooking should be there should be a warning on a menu. I mean I was actually This is really interesting John because I did mention this a couple weeks ago on the show But I didn't know this background. This is fascinating. I

1:06:10 There should be a warning on the menu if anyone's using this technique to cook anything. There was a lot of training that went on with some French chefs that are using it. And yeah, you get some really weird food out of it because you're cooking. It's not even cooking. I don't even know what – the fact is I beside myself obviously with the fact that this is being – this kind of cooking is being done and propagated and promoted. Irresponsibly I might add all this is not to be even experimented with unless you want to read This is a real health risk and the health department's have got a crackdown on it I don't care if people if somebody knows what they're doing cooks this way I just want to know that this is what I'm gonna be getting and would you eat it if you knew it? It depends on the chef Ramsey

1:07:05 I would trust Ramsey. I think Ramsey is a fanatic. He's something of a screwball and I would think that he could do the job right. I mean, he's not known for this cooking technique and he's obviously experimenting with it. uh... but i'm sure that he's such a stickler for details he's not going to tell people not to use that you know the one thing i ran into is this information about this extremely expensive circulating water thing that you that these guys all cook with and then merrville saying i don't worry about it get a rice cooker and then cook your salmon at a hundred two degrees and he's actually showing uh... the picture of him putting leaves which are you know some sort of uh... herbs on top of some pieces of salmon that he's sticking in these bags and uh... i don't care what

1:07:47 I pieces of plant material. I mean, it's a witch's brew, potentially, to be putting it in some sort of a bath of any sort and cooking it at 102 degrees. It's going to be, in Northern California here today, it's going to be 102 degrees outside. Why don't you just throw the food in the street, you know, let it cook that way. Yeah, just cook it right on the asphalt, right on the tarmac. Perfect.

1:08:26 So anyway, I was very upset about this. I didn't know any of this. I should have known. It's been going on for a number of years. But it all makes sense now. That's why Ramsey got busted for using baggies. And this is why I'm sure why they got a bunch of sick people at the fact dock. But is it that much better? I mean, I just don't understand the philosophy behind it. Is that the only way to cook it? Or I just don't get it. Why? Here's the two dishes I know I've had cooked with this method. One a few weeks ago in Holland, it was a veal dish that was amazing. It was like this veal, what it is, it creates an extremely interesting texture that you've never had before. The tenderness factors through the roof and the

1:09:14 The product itself, in this case veal, it doesn't look right. It looks like something, it looks like it's been treated in some sort of a, in some weird way. It's got funny colors and, but it's fascinating and delicious and probably partially pre-digested. The Michael Minna dish, which is, and anyone who wants to go to Michael Minna's restaurant in San Francisco, which I thought I bitched about before because I went to three times and every time it got progressively worse in terms of the service until I finally did a bait and switch on a bottle of wine that irked me to no end. And they have a duck dish there, and at this restaurant, Michael Minnett's in the St. Francis Hotel, they have everything prepared three ways. And so you get the ordered duck, you got this version and this version. Hey John, the chat room is complaining, I'm sorry to interrupt, the chat room is complaining about hearing dripping water from you? No. You got no dripping water?

1:10:14 No, I think maybe they're complaining about the Tech 5 show. I don't have any dripping water. Oh, yeah, no, no. Maybe I'm confused. I'm sorry. Well, have them say something else. But anyway, the point is they have these three dishes and they got this duck dish. And I remember the guy telling me about it. Now it's cooked in some, you know, he kind of explained. Now I realize what it was. It was cooked in this method. And I'd say, you know, it's wow, it's like amazingly delicious. uh... and that's the reason cuz it's a new culinary thing you haven't had before and so it's like an uncensored securityosity more than it is anything else is all these guys are very attracted to it and the guys who are pretty practicing it for getting all these michelin stars i gotta get one hot shot chef to say won't do it because it's just too dangerous this is a dangerous cooking technique in these new people need to have a warning i think i would be you know i can see what people get sick of that dot

1:11:11 Okay, can we stop now? That was very interesting. That's the end of it. Yeah, it was very interesting because we do have some health news we need to discuss because show's almost over man, things whip by. According to the CDC, 100,000 plus people in the US have flu, half have swine flu. According to the, this is on WebMD. Now they're just making it up. Yeah, but this is on WebMD and it's according to more than 100,000 Americans probably have the flu. At least half of these cases are H1N1 swine flu as CDC expert estimates. There you go. See I had it. I had it dude. I had the swine flu. I'm telling you I had it Of course I did you need to get tested you do do the antibodies in your body still see ya Yeah, well, I'm not gonna blend. I'm not letting them put any needles in me not even the test who knows if it might smell like almonds

1:12:04 Well, you might inject me with a chip, a GPS chip. By the way, the GPS chip, I mean, there's so much, they're so far advanced. They have RFID dust now, where you can just sprinkle this dust on someone and they can track you. No bullshit! No, absolutely. RFID dust is for real. It's for real. And it was funny because when we went to Portugal, So Dexter came with us and Dexter has a British passport a gitmo nation East passport and I was like Do you have a recent one? Yeah, I got a recent passport because you know if you have the if you're if you have a chipped passport Then it's much easier because the reader can you know can get all the info and it's gonna be a requirement obviously And I look and I look at the yeah you have I have one too, but you know It's like a very little itty bitty chip right in ours and

1:12:54 But in the UK passport, John, I'm going to take a picture of him, just scan his passport. So you have the chip in the middle. The antenna is the entire back of the passport. There's wire all the way around it. They could pick this thing up from fucking space. It's amazing how big the antenna is on the UK passport. I wonder if the, I have a wallet. I'll talk about the brand and give the guy a Faraday cage wallet. Yeah. You have that? You use that? I wonder if this is a Faraday cage wallet's interesting because I think it stops the US passport, but I use a key card at Zipf Davis at the office building when I go do Cranky Geeks and I've put the key card inside one of these wallets and it blows through the Faraday cage. Wow. It's got a big, it's a big, just like what you're describing, it's got a huge key card. It's a big one. Yeah.

1:13:48 and uh... which probably has a big antenna on it. I say you should get your money back from that uh... faraday cage wallet. Well it's not meant for passports, I don't know if it's meant for a key card but whatever the case is I was meant for credit cards all kinds of things, isn't credit cards another big thing? Yeah, it's supposed to be. But it's a nice wallet anyway but the point is that I wonder if that wallet will protect against a big antenna that they have in those, I doubt it. It was a Canberra, is it Canberra? Canberra, right? Canberra based scientist who came up with the theory that swine flu must have come from a laboratory or laboratory.

1:14:31 As we say in Gitmo Nation East, Adrian Gibbs researched, he said genetic markers suggest the combination of genes and the virus was not a natural event. Of course, the World Health Organization, the WHO, won't be fooled again, says the virus probably evolved naturally. So I just want you to know that they're out there debunking and, you know, quote, the other group of scientists felt that the original hypotheses does not really stand up to scrutiny and this is how scientific process can work in the context of this kind of public health emergency. Well, it's funny how they go along with this kind of debate, except when it comes to global warming. Right. Everybody's in a debate about that. Everybody, because Joy told us so. Yeah, everybody. Without exception. Every single scientist in the entire universe. Hey, you know what it's time for?

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1:16:14 No, he used the iDice app on his iPhone. He had this whole intricate way of coming up with a good number and that was it. And that was the amount that he donated. And he's going to keep doing it. I love that. We should have that in our No Agenda app, which there are two of course, but you need to look at the show notes and there's a link at least to one of them. That should be a part of it, you know, a donation dice. Yeah, I like it. One of the things right now we haven't done which is up the ante and what we can help get some t-shirts that are interesting and have some apps that are interesting, things that are value added because I think we got all the low hanging apples from the tree already and these are the real dedicated listeners. But anybody out there, we do, would like to do this show as a job.

1:17:04 and although it's not really a job. So go to noagendalibrary.com or dvorak.org slash NA and help us out. It wouldn't hurt. For the armory? Yeah, we got the armory and the winery and the library to do. We have a lot to build. Basically it costs us millions of dollars. We have a lot to build before we get two to the head, Johnny boy. Hey, you better give someone a password to the PayPal account, like me. Oh yeah, okay. In case, you know, but someone else as well, a trusted third party in case we smell the almonds, we wake up and smell the almonds. It's a good point. Yeah, just saying. So that, you know, because our legacy must live on then, you know, and it will, it will, it will be good.

1:17:51 So, we should probably remove that money and put it somewhere else at some point. Anyway, so noagenda.library.com or dvorak.org slash NA. And I'll probably by sometime midweek, I'll make that a little more, we'll come up with some new Reasons that you should donate to help the show and also you know we and also the interlude thing that we do in a gender stream That's that's running 24-7. It's like you know it needs to be supported. It does well people are supporting me with technical help which is highly appreciated. And art. The only art you can deliver is fine. Yeah, we've been getting some good artwork and of course now we can't use everything obviously so don't be bummed out. Make sure you put it on the drop, noagendadrop.com. Noagendachat.com. We can eventually put a website up showing all the art too as a little gallery. Yeah, we gotta fix all our URLs too man. Sucking with that shit. Sucking.

1:18:51 So I'm gonna be in New York next week, which will be interesting. We may have to do the show Wednesday night, because I actually got meetings and I leave New York Thursday evening, so we'll have to kind of play that by ear. Wednesday night works. Yeah, I'm sure it does. If you can get a connection. Well, yeah, I'm staying at... Have you ever stayed at the Sofitel in New York, which has been completely redone? I don't believe so. Oh my god. It is It's because the Sophie tell kind of had like a a bit of a drippy image, but it's great It's kind of like I have good food at the Sophie tell I didn't have a chance to eat there yet But no they have

1:19:34 You know besides just excellent amenities and very stylish rooms You know kind of old-world, New York Which I like only it's all new and fresh and you know and it fits and it closes properly So it's kind of like the st. Regis only modern modernized But the same kind of style and they give you a hardwired connection, which I you know I love I love a hardwired connection. I love a good hard wire connection. Well. We'll see yeah We will they could suck Alright, and I'm coming out to San Francisco after that for the entire month of June. Yeah, that's something to deal with yeah, well it's good Thanks, it's gonna be interesting to see how the show goes I'm gonna have to find a way to watch BBC California like the the bull sorry about that I don't know what's going on. Maybe there's an international newsstand you can visit once in a while I'm sure there is

1:20:35 Coming to you from the southwest quadrant of Gitmo Nation East, better known as London in the United Kingdom, I'm Adam Currie. And from where there's going to be an ambient cooking temperature of around 100 degrees today, Northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak. We'll talk to you again Wednesday or Thursday. We'll Twitter all about it right here on No Agenda.