Hot Pockets 2012 Tour, Mustang Sally Overheating in Texas
Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open the program from the "Sin Bin" mobile studio in Arlington, Texas, during the first leg of the 2012 Hot Pockets tour. Curry describes the mechanical difficulties of towing a trailer with "Mustang Sally" in 106-degree heat, noting the vehicle's poor fuel economy and tendency to overheat. The hosts recount the Austin meetup organized by producers Mike and Jane, which featured a prank involving window writing on their rig.
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00:00 Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Sunday, July 29th, 2012, time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 430. This is no agenda. Budging the heat in the Sin Bin, just south of Pipeline Drive, still in the drone star state, Dallas Tejas in the morning everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from northern Silicon Valley where I'm spending all my time tweeting about the Olympics, I'm John C. Dvorak. It's crackpot and buzzkill. Hey, I think I'm over modulating. I don't think I sound good hold on you sound good to me Yeah, but you're not listening to the stream or whatever
00:38 There we go. Is everyone moaning? No, I'm moaning. I sounded a little over-modulated. Cracking up? Yeah, whatever. You're cracking? Yeah. Well, what you're hearing in the background, for those of you listening on headsets, I know most people right now are probably listening... Fanatics. Yeah. Well, you know, people do have iPods and iPhones and they do wear the headsets. Whenever you hear me speak, you will hear the Annoying sound of the air conditioner in the background. I know people say they don't hear it, but I hear it and it's... It's like I'm at sea. Like I'm a ship at sea. Because we are on the... 2009 tour. First leg of the tour. Austin, Texas to Dallas, Texas. Where I am sitting now in the Sin Bin as it's been dubbed. Just outside producer Dave Koss' house here.
01:34 in Arlington actually, which is I guess a suburb of Dallas and wow it's already been quite a trip John what happened? what do you mean what didn't happen? my goodness! I see that Mickey sent out a Twitter pic of the truck with Adam here and then it looked like JCD goes here and places JCD here with an X and then they have a little picture it looks like blackface. Well, so we had the Austin meetup which producers Mike and Jane put together which was extremely cool. We had a nice turnout, about 25 people, 30 people for a Saturday morning, not bad at all. No, that's not bad. No, and so while we weren't looking, we were there for a couple hours, two of our producers had found where we had parked the Mustang Sally in the sin bin
02:36 and they use that stuff that when you put, you know, when you write on someone's windshield when someone just got married. Yeah, they put that on there. Did they did that? They did that, but it's like literally like shut up slave, don't get too to the head. And it's on, you know, on Mickey's side, it's Miss Mickey goes here and then the window behind her hookers and blow go here. I mean, we had to stop gas stations quite frequently and people are looking at us like, really? You know, what is up with you guys? I'm gonna turn the air off John. I just go ahead Entertain the troops nobody can hear this you're complaining about I sure can't because then again. I'm listening over Nice pair of speakers, which is I'd rather be warm. I'd rather be warm than hear that the whole time. It's so annoying That's what's temperature. It's 106
03:29 It's a dry heat. Yeah, but listen, so we had the... Don't you bring a razor blade with you so you can scratch, scrape... Slip my wrist? Just slip my wrist? Just scrape it off the... No, no, no, no, no, we left it on. Are you kidding me? It's great. It's fantastic. No, it's so funny. People are like... Now, okay, so here's a couple of things. First of all, the trip from Austin to Dallas, we're getting about six and a half miles to the gallon. And this is flat country, my friends. There's up and downs, there's a little bit of hills. We're talking three miles to the gallon once you get to the Rockies. Oh yeah, easily. Now the problem with the rig... You should just go to the gas station and take the hose and just put it on the ground and turn it on. The problem with the rig is that it has such a small gas tank. It's like 25 gallons. And you kind of hit your reserve around... maybe it's 23 gallons or whatever.
04:24 And so you hit that, you know, it's like what are you doing? So you get about, go about 180 miles and you're done. Less, like 150. And then, you know, then it dings and you got to start looking. So it's not great. You better be careful in the Rockies because there's a lot of few and far between moments. Nice, thank you. But that's not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is with 106 degrees and of course when you're towing a trailer you have to have overdrive off. So the car is running a bit hot, John. And the only way to, you know, we're up at like the needles near the top of the range.
05:03 My advice, put some water in the radiator. Thanks. And we have water in the radiator, it's just because of the heat and pulling and the air conditioner. So here's how it works. You're driving along and about 63 miles an hour is the optimum speed with this configuration. And you're driving along and then when you start to go uphill, the only way to keep it from going too far into the red is by turning off the air conditioner. Now let me tell you something, this is not cool. Literally. Once you're out of Texas, Oklahoma, it'll cool down. It's not that hot any place else. Have you seen the weather report? Well, let me take a look. It's like 105.
05:51 where in in oklahoma and kansas it's like record temperatures uh... you did this last year you're correct not to have but we wouldn't know we were driving in the incident machine that was meant to carry all this weight i don't know if it may be is my ego that i leave in the trailer is something's comes back anyway uh... senator greece and shannon so eighty seven in coffee bill yet this is a pretty If you go to Goodland it's only 77. Lawrence, Kansas, 91. There's a town in Kansas called Liberal. Well that would be a relief, 91. Anyway, let me get back to the Austin meetup. A couple of interesting people, actually everyone who showed up was fantastic. I do want to point out Sgt. Fred, of course, he's always there. He always shows up to everything. Sgt. Fred is just such a loyal no-agenda head.
