Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak, Hotel Studio Setup in Dallas
Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open episode 1417 of the No Agenda Show, broadcasting from Dallas, Texas, in FEMA Region 6. Curry describes the technical challenges of setting up a mobile hotel studio using a Motu audio interface and minimal cabling. The hosts discuss the lack of furniture in modern "W Hotel" style accommodations and observe the demographic diversity of Dallas compared to Austin.
adam curry· john c. dvorak· dallas· motu· fema region 6· hotel studio· road show
00:00 What are you talking like this? That's not oxygen. Adam Curry, John C. DeVora. It's Sunday, January 16, 2022. This is your award-winning Gimbal Nation Media Assassination Episode 1417. This is no agenda. MacGyvering more hotel studios than any podcast and broadcasting live from Big D, Dallas, Texas, FEMA Region Number 6 in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from northern Silicon Valley, do you ever notice he always has the same FEMA region wherever he is, even in Denmark? I'm John C. DeVore. And I get regular reports and they're very different from the... They're the happiest people in the world. Well, because they're the most medicated. We all know it. They love their SSRIs out there. Weren't they number one on the list for both? Happiness and SSRIs. Hey man. Oh yeah. Yeah. Y'all's could die. I'm happy. So it's been a while but finally another road show.
01:15 I don't think we... Yeah, it sounds fine. It's amazing. You know, we did... I did so much testing with other audio boxes that I was able to refine my existing setup with the Motu, the Mark of the Unicorn, and it's really reduced to such a minimal amount of cables, and I can set up and get going within 20 minutes. It's really quite... I'm blue. The only problem is that this hotel that we're in, in Dallas, had no desk and no chairs. No table actually. Even if you ordered... I know, if you ordered room service, there's what would be the desk against the wall under the television.
02:02 except it has drawers in it. So I had to pull these drawers out and then... I mean, there's no chairs. Yeah, I had to ask for a chair. They had to bring me up a chair. How are you supposed to eat your breakfast when they bring room service up and there's no chairs? Okay, so what I think is going on these days, certainly in cities like Dallas, New York, I'm sure Los Angeles, every hotel is kind of like the W hotel format. You know, they got a bar up on top which is a huge pickup spot and all the beautiful people are there and there's music and it gets kind of loud after people are started, you know, finished eating around the restaurants that are up at the top and these are all, you know, very expensive with great views. And then the rooms I think are basically just to bang and do drugs, I'm not sure. It's like, you're not supposed to have room service here.
02:54 You're supposed to go down and have your breakfast in the restaurant or drink upstairs. It's an interesting format that I've identified now. I've been to W hotels, there's been chairs in there. I've never actually been in a hotel where there's no chair. I know. That was the one weird thing, but there's no reason for it because you can't place it anywhere. Anyway, I will say Dallas which I also have not been in a while, reminds me of, well, two things. One, how pretty and handsome the people are in Dallas. It's just a pretty town. Oh yeah. Unbelievable. Pretty girls. And the diversity is off the hook. I mean, Austin is a joke. You know, you want diversity? It's about 50-50 here. Ados, you know, black Americans.
03:52 It's really, and it was refreshing to see, quite honestly. It's like, oh yeah, that's right. I don't know what people think of Texas, but come to Dallas, man, if you want to see some diversity. How many Asians have you seen so far? Well, there were a couple at the wedding. So there were a couple at the wedding. Yeah. I mean, I would say Austin may have a lock on that, just because of the companies that are downtown and in the area. But I don't know. I mean they have a luck. What do you mean a luck? Like they win. Austin wins. I think there's more more Asian Americans in Austin. Yeah, I think so. I think so. Met Tom Starkweather and Alex for coffee. That was nice. They had a meet up which we couldn't go to but it was fun to hang out with them a little bit. How many Pacific Islanders were there? Have you seen?
04:48 I didn't ask for their card, so I don't know. Any other races you'd like to check? Well, I don't know. You make it sound like this place is the Nirvana of some sort. It just sounds to me like it's half white, half black. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, well that's diversity to me. It seems to be diversity, not just black and white people. No, no, no. When you're talking about liberal media diversity, that's what we're talking about. You know, these are the people who can't get to the you know, can't get to DMV for a voter ID, you know, that kind of stuff. This is the people that the John Lewis Voting Rights Act is for. The ones eating, you know, $50 sushi at the top of this restaurant. Which I learned, if you want a boxed sake, what would that mean to you if you saw that on the menu? A boxed sake. Well, to me it would mean, well, I think it would mean to most people like a boxed wine, but to me it would mean
05:50 one of those little uh sake boxes that you got it yeah the wooden sake exactly and that's what i ordered those at the house yeah and that's what i ordered and you know what i got a literal juice box of sake it was it was exactly what you didn't expect like it with a straw attached to it juice box yes yeah with a with a straw attached to it you know like a kid's juice box Wow. Yeah, I took a picture of it. Kids in Japan are living it up. They're having a good time, yeah. A bunch of drunks. Anyway, so it was a beautiful wedding, Catholic Mass, which was fun. I don't think I've ever been to one where they, which is, it's short actually. The ceremony was quite short and there's, you know, this great church and here's the thing that was surprising.
06:45 you know so we're sitting there and the and the what is it the pastor I guess he's you know he's doing priest I don't know if he was a pastor or priest he's an OP what does that mean OP office of the president okay or original poster exactly so he's doing his thing and you know there's these callbacks in the Catholic Church you know kind of like diamond and silk You know, and people who are in the Catholic Church know this, and so, you know, it's like, come on John, you grew up Catholic, you know what I'm talking about. They have things they say. Yeah, and all of a sudden I hear my wife, the keeper, like doing these callbacks, and like, what? Who it is? I had no idea that she, I guess I knew that she was raised Catholic, but it was really interesting, and I had this feeling that I think is a little bit like the No Agenda show when you first
07:43 Hear the show and you hear all these like codes and in the morning, especially this particular show go on What are you talking about? Sorry go one two, three, four, five six seven eight damn It was effort went by. Yeah. Well, I know I'm just saying, you know, we you talked about it. Never mind It was a joke that didn't dead fell flat just continue on. Okay, so she's going Dominus vobiscum or whatever. She says and And at Kumspir 220 or whatever, she's saying, was this all in Latin? Hey man, I don't want to bore you. We can move on from here. Let's go to something else. Let's talk about what happened while we were here. And we begin tonight with that breaking news as we come on the air on the West Coast. There is a developing hostage situation at a synagogue near Fort Worth, Texas. Just moments ago, one person was released unharmed. The incident happening during a Sabbath service that was being live streamed.
