Gitmo Nation West, San Francisco Fog, and High-Speed Rail
Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open the session from San Francisco, noting the heavy fog and local "Spare the Air" restrictions on wood-burning fires. They discuss a Wired article regarding a proposed 14-level underground bus station and high-speed rail hub. The hosts express skepticism regarding the feasibility of French TGV or German ICE style trains operating on existing local tracks.
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00:01 Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's January 10th, 2010, time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 164. This is no agenda. Practicing acting normal while on heroin. And coming to you live from the minimum security containment cell, crackpot. Command Center in Gitmo Nation West San Francisco, California in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and it's foggy here in northern Silicon Valley very foggy even though it's a spare the air damn John C. DeVore Act In the morning to you John is it foggy over there, huh?
00:41 It's a little overcast. I was hearing people complain about that spare the air day. What's the deal? We're not allowed to light a fire on days like this? You're supposed to hold your breath. Yeah, you're not supposed to light a fire. So if you're freezing your butt off, you can't light a fire. What kind of bull is that? You know, it came out most of the uh, yeah, sometimes during the colder Months we have these inversion layers. And so when you light a fire the the smoke It doesn't dissipate properly and it causes smog supposedly, but I think it's exaggerated come a little closer to the mic John It's uh, it's not sounding quite right yet Really? How about this? Is this better? Yeah, I don't know. It's like
01:26 I don't know what it is. I just don't know. Whenever we do the show and I'm anywhere but here, it sounds great. Whenever I'm here, I could probably spit across the river and hit you. Hey, you know, guess what? What? You're not going to be there long. No kidding. Did you see that Wired article about the bus station? Yeah, did you see the drawing of this supposed bus station? Yeah, it's like 14 levels for underground Oh, there's a TG. Where is the French TGV doing in there? That's what I'd like to know What a French do you mean the high-speed rail from France? They have to show the train at the bottom It looks like a French TGV or a nice train from Germany. Oh
02:07 Where are they? I haven't seen one. I see a clunker going down at 9, 10 in the morning down the track here, hobbling along, wiggling back and forth, the tracks bending every which way. I haven't seen any of these things. Come a little closer still. Hug the mic, man. If I was any closer, I'd be on the other side of it. Okay. Well, not quite that close. Who knows what that's all about? Anyway, the point is, is the, uh, turn me up. Well, it's, it's not the question of turning you up. It's dynamics. Dynamics. So, uh, we have an executive. Am I good enough to give the executive producer's name out? Yeah. Let's see here. Today's executive producer, we have two of them. Oh. Executive producer and an associate. The executive producer is Peter White. Hey, wait a minute. Uh, didn't Peter White send us some audio clips today?
