JCT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJqLtam5iak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9DGC54pfMs and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72aaT_qGdIA are the three video
reports on the May 31 2009 appearance of KingofthePaupers John
Turmel on CBC's Dragon's Den to pitch them on the idea of
investing in their Toronto or Calgary Dollar community currency
to make a quick 10% premium and help their town at the same time.

I guess they couldn't have been too enthused when I introduced
myself as John The Engineer saying: if engineering winners is
being a dragon, meet the King of the Dragons. Of course, I wanted
to grab their attention so they'd want to hear me out.

One dragon caught on right away when he asked how I could offer
them 10% from 110 Toronto Dollars on $100CA when the Berkshares I
had cited in the US were only offering them 5%, $100 Berkshares
on $95US. At least he got the concept even though Pittsboro
offers 11%, 100 Pittsboro Plentys for $90US!

One asked if I was so sharp, why wasn't I rich? Of course, I've
had two bank accounts seized for taxes owed on my winnings before
the Casino Turmel bust and ended noting that having money didn't
mean your were particularly smart, it only means you got lucky.

One of them got mouthy, an engineer, so I flashed my $500
Brantford Casino Poker Chip at him and told him to put his money
where his mouth was. When he stopped laughing, I administered my
usual coup de grace: Flash the cash, bye bye trash. Making a
multi-millionaire back down to the King of the Paupers, wild!


Of course, no one's ever beaten him up before on his own show.
He's used to dealing with on-their-knees supplicants desperate
for investment and never expected a professional gambler trying
to turn him on to a good bet (that also helps the community) for
free. They thought all contestants were pauper beggars and didn't
expect to run into the pauper king.

You all know how I love beating up their brains in written online
combat and it's even more fun in live video combat. Readers here,
who know me, know how quickly I can cut the feet out from under
an opponent and smash him with ridicule. They had not been told
who I was and even if they didn't follow politics and law for the
past 30 year, when I mentioned the Mathematics of Gambling
Engineer at the United Nations with the Guinness Record, it
should have cautioned their tongues. But people sitting on their
big pile of chips that keeps growing think they're good and have
no idea how those of us who score by achievement, not possession,
think of their records.

They couldn't get past that I wasn't out to profit with them,
that I only wanted it to deliver a fair game, that I didn't want
an edge from possessing the chips, that I only sought an edge in
playing the game. They're so used to scoring by merely having
lots of chips they can't imagine someone not interested in
scoring for having chips, but in scoring the pot.

I can't help feeling they'll have to cut out the King of the
Dragons forcing the multi-millionaire junior fire-breather to
back down from putting his money where his mouth was. It was
about as close to a brawl as you can get with a few good
beatings. It was exhilarating drilling the snooty big-shots with
quick one-liners prepared after years and years of honing. It's
like thinking you're in a simple bar-room brawl when you've
accidentally bumped into Mike Tyson. To get to beat up live
victims on National TV was a lot like the jolts I'd get while
protesting interest rates outside the Bank of Canada in the early
1980s and arguing with the economists. For a couple of years, I
had plenty of gnurds willing to argue with me when I knew they
were wrong. But after awhile, they got tired of having to back
down from my bets and stopped trying to challenge me.

I bet the producer $10 Casino Brantford Dollars that the King of
the Dragons would be too hot to handle on their show and he bet
me $10 Toronto Dollars he'd go purchase that they would air it.

Fortunately, I had my audiotape on so even if they cut the clash
with the King of the Dragons from the Dragons Den series, I'll
always be able to play it. I don't think it's right to post such
a vicious exchange before they get to play it first.

Besides, I can't tell if any dragons invested because I don't
know. All they have to do is buy in for some Toronto or Calgary
dollars to score their promised premium.

But I'll be registering in the St. Paul's Ontario provincial
byelection tomorrow and I'll be to make the same offer to Toronto
voters to buy into the Toronto Dollars system before we find out
if any of them have any brains to take the good bet too.

They said they'd give me a couple of weeks notice if they
broadcast CBC Dragon's Den torched by King of the Dragons.