Any chance we can take this thread back in the direction of talking about Kurt's broadcast? Rather than stuff that's optimized to draw down the wrath of the mods? Apologies for my part in the threadjack.
If a recording of it is made available, I'll happily volunteer to spend at least an hour or two transcribing a share of it. For that matter, I wonder how much of a head start modern speech recognition would give us?
Does anyone here know how to use Twitter? Can you message him privately without tweeting publicly? I honestly don't know the answer. Here is his Twitter page: https://twitter.com/vkurtb?lang=en
Thanks, but I’ve never been on Twitter, and I never will. It’s disgusting cesspool. I’ve seen too many awful effects of it, on a daily basis.
Register/create an account, follow VKurtB, then click on the blue button below his photo/profile info that says 'tweet to V. Kurt Bellman - your private tweet will be sent but there is no guarantee he will see it or respond - unless he follows you, there will be no notification sent - good luck
Yeah, I'm really sad to hear it, but I didn't see any other way it could unfold. Threatening your hosts with a lawsuit (or issuing a DMCA takedown notice) just isn't going to make you a welcome guest. And we are guests, all of us.
Kurt's a smart guy, sometimes quite funny, and his numismatic gravitas was a welcomed antidote to the constant onslaught of "Is this an error?" threads. But honestly, who among us couldn't anticipate something like this coming down the pike?