No Agenda Episode 322, Hot Pockets 2008 Tour Virginia Meetup
Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open episode 322 of the No Agenda show, with Curry broadcasting from a mobile RV in Virginia as part of the Hot Pockets 2008 Tour. Curry describes a recent meetup in the Virginia area attended by numerous producers, many of whom claim to hold high-level security clearances or work as government contractors. The hosts discuss the logistics of the RV tour, the local traffic conditions in the DC metro area, and the high concentration of technical and intelligence personnel among their listener base.
adam curry· john c. dvorak· virginia· hot pockets 2008 tour· baroness maggie vincent· security clearance· sysadmins
00:00 Adam Curry, John C. DeVora It's Sunday July 15th 2011 time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination episode 322 This is no agenda Reporting from the front lines of Gitmo Nation, from the Four Winds 5000 Crackpot Command Center in Gitmo Nation for Lovers! The great state of Virginia. From Baroness Maggie Vincent's driveway in the... kind-of morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley which is also for lovers I'm John C. Dvorak It's crackpot and buzzkill In the mornin' Hey now Hey now In the mornin to you John
00:40 In the morning to you, in the morning to all ships at sea and all feet on the ground. Feet in the air and everyone in between. And the boots on the oceans! And of course all our human resources who are charged up ready go in our chatroom noagenestream.com, noagenechat.net Charged up and ready the way their government loves them prepared to suck the lifeblood out of them. And to all producers out on the patios listening to the streams in real time So you're in Virginia? Yes, currently parked in the 4Winds 5000 Hot Pockets Mobile for the Hot Pockets 2008 Tour. We're in Baroness Maggie Vincent's driveway which... Wow! You've gotten far! Yeah we've driven nowhere! Have you taken anything around for a spin? No no we slept in it for two nights and let me just give you the lay of the land here this is
01:36 So this is actually about, I'd say seven or eight feet shorter than the than the rig that we rented for the test drive. Okay, however interesting so that kind of makes it's funny. It gets one mile to the gallon better mileage yeah The bed though I have to say is actually like a foot longer which is great because that was the biggest problem in the uh in the one we rented So the bed is fantastic We've slept great Kind of interesting though because you've got, when you look at Baroness Maggie Vincent and the lovely Miss Mickey. So they both kind of like coordinated all this stuff right? You know they... Everybody fits into bed that's what your saying? Yeah we're all in the bed!
02:21 No, what I'm saying is Maggie had everything all tricked out and you know had everything you could possibly think of that we would need on the trip. But of course Miss Mickey... You know I spent like a whole day weighing suitcases to make sure we wouldn't go over the 50 pound per suitcase limit as per whatever bullcrap rules there are so it's like physics! You show up with three suitcases this box is only so big You can get some straps and put stuff on the roof. Yeah, we could. Then you look like a real hick! And you know what would be funnier? Never leave the driveway! Just stay here and pretend...
03:05 I'll be leaving tomorrow. But it's been great man, so we arrived at Dulles Airport and there we had Harry Pilgrim and his lovely wife Jen to pick us up now Harry is the guy from the Pentagon And they broke his ankle just to make sure that he wouldn't take off with us They broke his ankle, he was on crutches and they had a... here's the funny thing, so they had a sign. A beautiful sign you know no agenda welcomes Adam and Mickey Hot Pockets 2008 people are walking by this sign just going like yeah whatever you know 2008 doesn't matter that's all good. People are oblivious to it No one cared So we got here Wow let me tell you something I'm gonna learn a lot on this trip traffic in this area
03:58 It's like it's worse than Los Angeles. Oh, it's unbelievable I've been hooked a lot of parts of the country are that way now around Atlanta? That's like that Chicago is a nightmare Well this is really this was bad This was a Saturday uh... when i was a it was friday but it was like eight o'clock and we were in standstill traffic and we're not like indy c hey you know this is because that you should be on a bicycle man yeah dude now the reason whereby he's always a little by signal nuts out there the ones you almost run into half the time of driving around these areas have bike lanes map as each country funny they don't pay attention to the stop says has happened to me the other day some guy
04:37 you know he's zooming around, he comes flying across on a crosswalk. You know I'm supposed to stop for him and they're the ones who make pressure these legislative types not to build roads so we have this mess everywhere and waste of gasoline it is unbelievable So we had our... so yeah, you're right. There's no bikes here though that may be happening in the DC metro area I don't know but I know but their bicycle influence oh yeah oh yeah it's a mess! So then we have uh....so we arrive here at the Baroness' homestead which is beautiful by the way The Baroness and Mr Smith
05:17 and uh... so that you know this is the there's the dot the rages in a driveway they actually created an entire uh... station to hook up to with the thirty amps and everything with a plug-in and uh... and the water effects of its it's just Have you seen this documentary Catfish? Have you heard about this? No, Catfish the documentary. Yeah so my daughter turned me on to this. Catfish is about... it wasn't intended as a documentary but it's a New York photographer he shares an office with a couple of filmmakers and that's why they turn it into a documentary This guy makes pictures they get published then starts getting these beautiful paintings sent him from seven-year old Abby somewhere like in Illinois somewhere
05:56 And he has this whole ongoing conversation with her mom and then Abby's older sister who he is starting to fall in love with. Then all of a sudden, you start seeing some weird things it turns out that this kid's mom was actually making the paintings and she created 25 fake Facebook profiles in this entire world just to lure this guy or really just have a life essentially And I have to say, like a week or so before we left it's like you know what if we show up and it's like the thing doesn't exist right? It was just a photo shot. That is what I was thinking all along to be honest about it. I was actually hoping for that! Oh shut up yo!
06:37 So, what turns out is it's a million times better. We couldn't have hoped for this! The RV is awesome Maggie's awesome She had a whole dinner for us with cheese fondue and skewers and then chocolate fondue And she was making martinis and cosmos I was so hammered like after one drink and we were smoking cigars out in the back It was just beautiful Then yesterday we had the first official Hot Pockets 2008 tour meetup for the Virginia area for the state of lovers dude John It's like I'm almost regretting not strapping you to the roof and taking along on this trip because you would love this People drove over 200 miles To come to this meet up. He was really amazing
07:30 and we as I was at a seafood place where we had, I think it was blue crab. That make sense? Blue crab? Was it soft shelled? No no hard! We got mallets and everything were like whacking away... There is thing called the blue crab in the area Yeah so we're whacking away at the crabs then we went to I forget all the names but we went to some bar that serves 300 micro brews And there's like 25-30 of us and I have really good news Here's the good news. 70% of the producers who were there yesterday have some form of security clearance, are sysadmins work within the bowels of government or government contractors and could take over portions of the world with one hit of a button
08:21 We are on the inside John, I'm telling you. Every conversation... Yeah, I was looking at a picture of the meetup and seeing at least five guys who were probably running some operation or other and could shut it down in the drop of a hat These guys have like... They're only getting paid so they don't screw these guy's over Right now these guys have like 75 year NDA's How long do we think that people will live in the future is my question We're all gonna be robots? And we're gonna live to 120? So, this is good news. Every single person's like yeah I'd do something over there. It's like could you mess things up? Oh yeah no problem. We also found that JC and I were looking at one picture we found the 1 maybe 2 CIA guys. Anyone with a baseball cap. Yeah it's okay though because they were all kind of playing along even the feds
09:18 Actually, there was one sysadmin who used to work at the Federal Reserve and he left after starting listening starting to listen to our show He's like I can't work here anymore. This is evil this is no good any less So so it's good news because you know look everyone here Is just you know trying to live the American dream right and get by? And just barely paying the rent so they're doing what they have to do But their they are our aunt they're on our side my friend if we need him If there ever was like some spark of revolution our people could make a real difference. They could really mess stuff up Yeah, we the difference would be we can get the net to mesh up and keep doing the show yeah That'll be nice Anyway, yes, so it's it's been phenomenal is very weird of course to be doing this late
10:09 It's in the p.m.. Here oh, that's right yeah, so I got it and I noticed that when I was in New York Yeah And it's messed up you know it's like of course I'm on a weird time schedule And we're sleeping in the RVs So you wake up with the birds which is this you know like 536 o'clock and of course? I'm on like 233 am timely huh what really shut up birds Screwed and cicadas John. Oh, oh that's right the cicadas are out how is that? Oh it's it's a symphony It's so symphony of grinding teeth of bugs now. It's beautiful It's a beautiful symphony. Yeah, it's nice so of course I'm in the RV now we've got the mobile rig if you haven't seen it on the tweeters its adam dot on the tweeter com You see a picture of the of the mobile rig which seems to be functioning okay knock on wood? I'm tapped into the Baroness's Wi-Fi she also by the way being assist admin She's got like a Mobile 3G router all hooked up for me and this is just it's
11:13 it's amazing and i'll be happy if you need it everybody is missing yet my friend including us and well they should yeah so uh... tomorrow we uh... a strike camp and will be driving uh... to through north carolina but two north carolina was only driving at the were taking the skyline drive uh... down there through virginia which is this channel valley exactly And uh... Look out for, be on the lookout for chiggers. That's my advice For what? Chiggers. Chiggers?! Yeah it's a small burrowing bug that bites you and then eats into your skin and then creates a nest just underneath the epidermis Well that's a happy thought They're all over the south So can I say that now? What!? Chiga! You gotta be kidding me Chiga! So no you can't No I can't okay
