Adam Curry Rotterdam Report, Lex and Iranian Marriage Anecdote
Adam Curry reports from Rotterdam, Netherlands, discussing his transition back to the region and his stay at the country house of his friend Lex. He mentions a report in The Telegraph regarding his personal life before detailing an anecdote about Lex's marriage to an Iranian woman. The couple reportedly underwent an Islamic marriage ceremony in the Netherlands to facilitate travel to Iran, where they would otherwise be prohibited from sharing a hotel room.
rotterdam· netherlands· lex· iran· jet lag· the telegraph· islam marriage
00:00 They don't know anything. They're idiots! From Rotterdam, the Netherlands in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from old northern Silicon Valley here. Here I stand I am John C. Dvorak You stand there my friend you stand it here you stand there John I hate to say it well I don't hate to say but I have been here for a few days now
00:43 I'm still not over the jet lag entirely, but I have reports and I have feedback and information from the lowlands here in the trenches. The trenches of the Cold War... So you're enjoying it now? You finally beginning to groove, get your Dutch back to full tilt and all they're yacking away with locals? Yeah! It's been okay. Well, Christina and I speak English and I've been with her quite a bit But see I visited Lex, remember Lex my buddy with the Warhols? Lex! The guy with all the good art. Yeah but i visited his land house. Used to stay at his place. Yeah right yeah but now I stayed overnight in his place in the country Oh he has a place in the country?! I had never seen the Liechtenstein collection Is that a walking distance place in the country? No no no Joke about size of the country never mind Hey yo hey yo I hear ya
01:37 But I also spent a nice evening, didn't sleep overnight but I spent the nice evening at dinner with my first wife. Oh, you did now? Yeah. Of course I did! Well the word is you're getting back together Not just that...I've already sent my stuff it's on our way and said you better make room And the woodpaper had that report It was uh...the weekend The telegraph They were the only ones to get this stuff right Yay Telegraph Hey did you tweet man? Did you tweet? Did you retweet? No I didn't You should do that Void Zero is like hey man we got a turn out not high enough on the live stream John didn't tweet
02:13 Anyway, that was actually nice. I said hey you know what? I've got an idea how about you... That would definitely get the tongues wagging! I said how about you don't talk to the press about us anymore What do you think? She must have looked quizzical when you said that. Really? What, her head went back and forth? No, her head cocked to the left like really what? But she's alright but that was actually good yeah it was good Yeah okay well great I'm glad you guys are getting back together And apparently i'm moving here because I don't know how to make any money yet which is true of course You're like oh poor guy podcasting in a damn shack
02:56 he has to come back and you know be a DJ on the radio again. Yeah that makes sense. What would you do there? That's a big question. Kill myself, yeah I got another week to go but it's nice because i'm seeing all kinds of people haven't seen in a long while so it's kind of and i'm getting lots of information so you remember Lex is well...I think actually they are married because they got married an Islam marriage because... Your wife and Lex? No, not my wife. His girlfriend they went to Iran but they couldn't stay in the same hotel room or even be anywhere near each other if they weren't married so he went to one of the mullahs in The Netherlands got married so that could do that So his wife I'll say But she's Iranian And you know We've talked about her before when I was in Bonaire She's got all the inside dirt
