No Agenda Episode 268 Introduction and New Web Features
Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open Episode 268 of the No Agenda podcast, originating from their respective command centers in Southern and Northern California. The hosts announce technical updates to the show's infrastructure, including the replacement of Mibbit with a new web chat interface at noagendachat.net and updates to the StreamUp service. Dvorak recounts his recent return from a trip to Chile and Las Vegas, noting the cold weather and technical difficulties encountered while traveling.
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00:00 Congresswoman Bono has her breasts exposed in a photo? Adam Curry, John C. DeVora. It's Sunday, January 9th, 2011, time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 268. This is no agenda. Celebrating National Slavery Month here at the Hilltop Watchtower, Crockpot Command Center in Gibbon Nation West, in the People's Republic of Southern California in the morning. I am the former Soviet spy known as Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where it's more than cold, it's chilly. I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crockpot and Buzzkill!
00:37 In the morning to you John. In the morning to you and in the morning to all ships at sea and all the boots on the ground. And foots in the ocean, wings in the skies, astronauts manning the moon and Mars base stations, hams on the air and human resources everywhere. And of course everybody in the chat room at noagendachat.net all charged up and ready to go the way your government loves you. And before we start, John, big thanks to the human resources who have been totally rocking it the past couple days. We've got the new StreamUp. I think it's even connected now to the PocketNoAgenda app. We've got a brand new web chat interface.
01:18 That has, uh, it's like, Mibit is gone now, so now we have like some cool thing that really works well and has the streaming stuff right in it. It's at noagenachat.net and it's great! Everyone's been working really hard. And where were you, by the way? I was in Chile, I lost the wages. We were working, man. Gitmo Nation, uh... Yeah. Chapstick. When did you get back? You need a lot of chapstick down there. Yeah. When did you get back? I got back yesterday, late yesterday, and staggered home and the house was freezing. We had people in the chat room like trying to hook you up with a hooker because they felt so bad that you couldn't find any.
02:02 There wouldn't, you know it was weird. I mean I didn't even see him in the hotel. What? Well, you know, some hotels apparently, I don't know what the new rules are because I don't go to Vegas as much as I used to, but you know, they used to be in the olden days, there used to be hookers all over town. They used to be wandering around. And then, but there were the high expensive hookers were available. You could find them if you had nothing but money. Like at Caesars Palace, you'd see them. There'd be all over there. I didn't see any. There's none been there, none there recently. And the last time I looked, which was like three or four years ago, there was a bunch of hookers roaming around the MGM Grand Casino.
02:44 I didn't see anybody. Were they wearing badges or, Hi my name's Debbie, I'm a hooker? How did you know that they were hookers? Yeah, exactly. They actually have this little badge and it said, but it wasn't Debbie. It was Raven. Oh! And, Hi I'm Raven, I'm a hooker. Yes. But anyway, so the one thing that was going on regarding this sort of thing, and by the way I'm a happily married man, I don't need hookers. but I like to chat with them. When I lived in Amsterdam, I grew up in Amsterdam and it was the most normal thing of the normal course back in the day by the way when they were Dutch and I you'd walk home and you walk through the alleyway and there'd be uh... an alley and Sean, Sean that's S-J-A-N not Sean as in Sean John and you'd say hi and you'd chat for a second you keep on walking and everyone knew each other it was it was like saying hi to your butcher
03:36 So the one thing they are doing, they have these little cards. I collected a few of them because I think they'll be a nice post. But these Mexican kids are hanging out all over the place and they're handing out these cards that say, call Jessie for a good time with her phone number and sometimes the price is on the card. Price is on the card. Yeah, right. $44, $50, $120. What? That's all? No, there were some cheap, there were some $75 deals. Special, special for Sherlock Holmes. Early bird special. Anyway, there's all these cards going around and there's pictures of these girls supporting. Oh, hold on. And these, they're business cards now, they're business card sized things, they're not big giant cards. Right. And they're, and on one side there's one girl and you flip the business card over, it's a full color photo and there's another girl on the other side of the card. I think these are collectible. Oh yes, of course they are.
04:28 and you've collected them all for the set. No I didn't collect as many as I'd like to but I can just imagine making a wall hanging. Those are in the... That would be quite entertaining. In Gitmo Nation East in London where they used to have telephones in the phone box the well-known British icon of the red box that's pretty much where you find the business cards now there's no phone in there it's just a place to go pick up... It's just girls cards. Yeah hooker cards not just girls by the way. Anyway It is good to have you back on a reasonable connection, John. Happy about that. Yeah, well that was on a hotel connection. It was a mess. The whole AT&T net went down completely. You couldn't get on, I couldn't even get a phone call out, let alone anything else. I mean, you could do some texting with AT&T if you had an AT&T, because everyone came into town, they all had iPhones, so they blew up the AT&T system. And people with Verizon had no problem whatsoever.
05:25 and uh... but was weird because the hotel would completely lost its wife i was just a lot of like we had a hard and it's like they'd like this happens every single time every year and it's not like it can and when he hears that the others this is the future and they can handle it welcome to it you know welcome to the future is sox Hey, if only there were some news to talk about. Yeah, it's been a pretty slow week except for the shooting. Except for the... what are they calling it now? Some alliteration. Not terror in Tucson. Is it terror in Tucson or tragedy? Tragedy in Tucson. Wait a minute. Tragedy in Tucson. Tragedy in Tucson. Yeah, it's all over the news. Before we get to that story, let's get a couple other things cleared out. Okay. Mainly because I have it on my screen. Good.
