Travis Heights Hideout, South by Southwest Platinum Passes
Adam Curry introduces the show from his new studio, the Travis Heights Hideout in Austin, Texas, while John C. Dvorak joins from Silicon Valley. Curry describes rebuilding his command center and mentions his new neighbors who keep chickens. He reveals that South by Southwest organizers invited him to interview They Might Be Giants, offering two platinum passes valued at $1,200 each as compensation instead of a speaking fee.
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00:00 I'm sure you haven't read this so I shall- Oh brother. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday, February 21st, 2013, time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 489-er. This is no agenda. With the first broadcast from the Travis Heights Hideouts on the east side of South Congress in Austin, the capital of the drone star state in the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where it's garbage day, I'm John C. Dvorak. And we're out of sync now because our garbage day is now Tuesday. Oh, yeah Yeah from the new Hacienda here. What do you think Travis Heights hideout does that sound like? It's kind of good. I just came to me as I was doing as I was opening the show I had no idea what to do. It went into the zone. Yeah, miss Mickey does not like cabana. Oh
00:51 She's like, I want you to be a cabana boy. Well, no, no, does that I think she actually might like that Hey, how am I sounding? I mean is it look at this? I can once again I can do my nails I can get a manicure pedicure everything runs itself. It's all automated is beautiful I've rebuilt the entire command center. Isn't it the same as the old command center? You can put a new gear No, well, I took some gear out actually I took out our big bottom and So we removed that and I rerouted things. I think... I have a feeling I was routing things incorrectly and just never really realized it. And somehow it just kind of worked. Like, whatever, don't mess with it. And there used to be a very slight hum which I've removed.
01:39 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I had a Grounded loop around loop. Yeah, like a real problematic ground loop And I haven't really had time to set up any of the ham radio gear But I did I did throw the antenna over the tree limb yes, that'll put the hum back in no no no in fact There's like no HF Disturbance here because that's what I wanted to know it's like am I gonna get like the neighbors you know God knows what you know actually our neighbor check this out and our neighbors Tiger and Bonnie, we met them. Tiger rides a Harley. Now you're in Texas now. Yeah, Tiger rides a Harley. And they got two chickens. Oh, that's good. They probably maybe sometimes have extra eggs. Yeah, yeah. And they got fluorescent lights in the workshop. Tell them if you give them a couple more chickens,
02:34 Because once you take care of two chickens, you might as well take care of four if you can get the eggs. Oh no, no, they already promised us eggs. Yeah, but two chickens can only lay two eggs a day if they're in laying mood. Yeah, this is true. And usually they don't even do that much. They produce maybe an egg and a half every two days. An egg and a half? So half an egg. Yeah, you need half an egg. I have had chickens, you know. I had a lot of chickens. Well, you don't do it when they're sitting on the eggs. Yeah, but if you're hungry and you go out and you want to get your eggs from the chicken, the chicken just, you know, and they will sit there all day. They don't move, they don't like, oh, he's coming to get my egg. They don't hop off. They're protective. That's the brooding type of chicken. They got to get hungry once in a while. Just go, just push the, do what my daughter does. She just kind of kicks the chicken out of our sight.
03:38 and then grabs the eggs. She does that up in Washington. In fact, I get you if you're stealing their eggs. Yeah, yeah, that's cool. Anyway, so we've kind of done our move. We're still in the middle of boxes and the command center is about the third of the size that I used to have. On the other hand, I have windows. So now I can see. I can see what's going on. Yeah, you might as well just leave the boxes packed. No, to your lease. We've committed. Two year. Yeah. It's amazing how much crap you, um... We've only been together four years and there's so much crap that we have together. It's unbelievable. So what is this? Crap? Oh, okay. Put it in the garage.
04:26 Yeah, that's kind of a problem. It's a you're becoming an archivist No, no, no, because you can the house is nice. We have an archivist shack This is what you need as an archivist ie a hoarder You need a garage that you do not park a car in do you have one of these? Yeah. Yeah, it gets filled with junk Yeah, yeah So, anyway, yeah, it's amazing. Now we're really in the city of Austin, but in the old city of Austin, south of the river. And I'm so Austin now, even South by Southwest people called and asked if I wanted to do something. Because of course, I'm sure someone dropped out. And like, oh man, it's two weeks, we got to find somebody. Who lives in Austin? Who's that Bon Jovi guy, that hair guy?
05:19 Adam Sandler no I yeah Adam Curry Mark Goodman no who what yeah call him and so they're like hey man we got a great spot for you we'd like for you to interview they might be Giants oh that's a good idea and I thought and yeah of course I've done I don't know how you gonna plug the show Well, I'll figure out. So, what do I get in consideration for being a part of your South by Southwest? Money-making operation. You're South by Southwest money-making operation. Hugely successful money-making operation.
05:57 so uh... you know that the with the wording that i got back you wanna hear it all yeah that's pretty funny i've heard of all the what do you think the wording was with the fact that well for consideration you know the publicity is being a bit of a road you know you get a lot of publicity and other than that of the community and i don't know how some of the much much much slicker than that much slicker than that hold on because name is was a charm c shown at the dead that's shown Shawn O'Keefe here we go. Oh crap I guess I might have did I delete that that makes no sense hold on. Shawn. Once you delete files it's usually unless you purged them. Well you know I'm using I can't run Thunderbird on the on the computer here during the show.
06:49 Cuz it just kills it totally kills everything. He's a crap Thunderbird. It works. Okay, but not on this machine It works okay on on my MacBook air Here we go here. We go here. We go Shoot man any crap. I can't believe I don't have this anymore this blows. Well. He said something like oh Well, you know the promotional platform that South by Southwest is never a compensate speakers with fees or honorarium However, he said that he would give me more than they give any other participants out by Southwest which would be And this has some value to platinum passes. What's that mean the platinum pass? if you are
07:41 Either an incredible insider or rich. The platinum pass is an all-access, all areas, all events for the entire duration of South by Southwest. I think it's like 1,200 bucks to buy the pass. So to get two of those and then you basically wear the pass everywhere. You go out to dinner, you're wearing your pass. You just, you know, you walk in your dog, you're wearing your pass because everyone knows, oh. Oh, right. He's on the inside. He's wearing the pass. Sorry. It's okay. There was a... What's the matter, John? Sorry? What's the matter? Well, there was a FedEx truck. I got two people in the house and a FedEx is gonna drop off something that needs signing and apparently everybody missed it. They tried to drive the truck down on the way back. I hate it when the real doll arrives and no one's there to sign for it. Sucks. Anyway, in the morning to you, John C. Dvorak from Austin Tejas here.
