John C. Dvorak, Adam Curry, Trade Show Pen Graveyard
John C. Dvorak and Adam Curry open episode 564 from the Travis Heights Hideout in FEMA Region 6. Dvorak laments his inability to find a working pen among his collection of 40 trade show souvenirs, including a vintage pen from the Grand Hyatt Singapore and a non-functional Apple-branded pen. The hosts eventually find a working pen from DPA Microphones to use for endorsing donation checks.
john c. dvorak· adam curry· trade shows· grand hyatt singapore· dpa microphones· apple pen· pens
00:00 I don't think you should be shooting up MSG. Adam Curry, John C. DeVora It's Sunday November 10th 2013 time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination episode 564 This is no agenda Chasing the rabbits! So you don't have to here at the Travis Heights Hideout in FEMA Region 6. Austin Tatehouse in the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley where I do not seem able find a pen that actually works...I am John C. Dvorak. Wow stellar opening one of our better ones so here's the deal so I go to trade shows constantly
00:39 You don't go to trade shows you stay home and watch it on the web I go to a lot of trade show so i go, these trade shows in the system boring there's nothing really who These most of these booths are hopeless well hold on all right collect all the pens with babes Booth babes or minor those days are over now. So i collect pins so usually come back with like 40 pins Within a week or two none of these pens write anymore No, no grab a pen you got a pile of pens. You grab one you try to write with it nothing It won't doesn't work I have this I had to say my wife is great about she buys new pens She goes to the store evaluates them and buys good working pens
01:25 This is a very minor pleasure. I get the good working pens too, but they get lost there's a pen graveyard and i think it's worth the flashlight graveyard And I think my socks are there the right ones that always walk away? There's socks flashlights and pens And they just disappear and so I have a bunch of pens and none of them right, So I grab a pen from the... let's see where this one is from. Oh this was from the Grand Hyatt Singapore This was the most recent trade show you've been to? What was it 1999? 1980! So..so you think that this pen from the Grand Hyatt would work No Done! How old is his pen?! Well okay here's another pen Here's an Apple This by the way is the coolest pen I have It would be great If it worked
02:12 It writes for like about one part of a line, then it craps out. But this is an Apple computer pen? This is an Apple Pen that was given... I don't know where this pen came from but it looks like an Apple Air. I mean its really you know, made with that same metal. Its big and hefty pen. Wow! That IS a good one. Its very fair-I've been wanting to gift it to some apple nut. Well okay Anyway but it doesn't work So I'm sitting here trying to find a pen that works. Why don't you, why don't you? Because i got the red book in front of me! I found one This one, this pen came from DPA Microphones. No the microphone company, DPA yeah the Dutch professional audio or Danish professional audio We really need to give John decaf before the show and it's just... And anyone out there if you're sending checks into the show send a pen So we can endorse them and actually cash in I'll endorse the DPA Pen
