No Agenda Episode 223 Introduction, Bonaire Technical Difficulties
Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open Episode 223 of No Agenda, broadcasting from a beach shack in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles. The hosts immediately encounter significant technical difficulties and connection drops due to the remote location's infrastructure. They discuss the local scenery and the lack of 3G connectivity on the island.
adam curry· john c. dvorak· bonaire· netherlands antilles· gitmo nation· technical issues· skype
00:01 I don't like shooting myself, i'm sorry. Adam Curry John C. Dvorak It's Thursday August 5th 2010 time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 223 This is no agenda In a tiny beach shack, coming to you from the Diver's Paradise Crackpot Command Center just 35 kilometers north of Alo Presidente in the Netherlands Antilles. In the morning I'm Adam Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley where i don't expect this call to last more than five minutes because of The Connection I'm John C. Dvorak It's crackpot and buzzkill! Yeah... You're probably right. I give it like 10 minutes actually
00:41 Yeah, it was ten minutes the last time it crapped out. In the morning to you John! In the morning to you and in the morning to all of the ships at sea! And of course our human resources who should be all charged up and ready your government needs you nice and charged Yeah, that's what they need charged. Yeah They need charging so the one thing I've forgot to do amongst all this is Twitter have you done that? Oh now you just retweet me okay hold on let me do that Of course I'm afraid to do anything at this point cuz yeah don't worry about it. It's done too late. It's all over So we have a bunch of old in effect. That's funny yes
01:24 Ah, and there we go. We've already lost John at least we got the opening down Let me see if I can bring him back into the fold here this May just not work Yeah, I was right five minutes, but actually that's no good you sound terrible well yeah wasn't even five minutes It was like two minutes Well, you're back. Yeah well you know what it is that you mentioned a lo presidente and immediately they flipped the switch on me. It's like hey those crackpots are too close we got to turn them off uh all right so we'll see how long it lasts but I don't have a very good feeling about at all...I do however have a brand new jingle to share with you John hit it! It's another Jeff Smith spectacular Adam Curry former Soviet spy yes
02:28 Yeah, I like it. It doesn't do me any good but it's okay. Of course not! It was not meant for you, it was meant for me So uh... Up here or down here I should say in the What would this portion of Gitmo Nation be? That is a good question Island, I don't know Because we are about 35 clicks north of Venezuela Although officially on... Ah fuck me Alright, well let's just get you know if it drops out again then I have one other option If-if? I got my bat signal that worked the push notification came through. All right Yeah So yeah, you know it's the island life my friend Yeah, yeah, I guess that's out as a permanent residence yeah, yeah That said that does kind of put all a bummer on the whole thing
03:31 Yeah, because you were talking... we were having a conversation last night and Mickey wanted to just stay there. Move there. Yeah well that ain't gonna happen if we have this... they don't have 3G on the island either unfortunately they have GPRS so I am overlooking uh...the most beautiful blue green ocean i've ever seen and it's been quite peaceful I haven't unfortunately not been able to actually watch Allo Presidente show They don't carry it here no yeah it's a real bummer we do have uh... bravo i think mickey found was able to find kardashians she said so all is well that's why she has in mind moving here the kardashians can be received yuck how can you watch that show yes or what's going on there stateside uh... well they passed the gay uh... mary or another day may rest in this turned down by the good local judge
