Adam Curry Returns from I Love Laundry Tour
Adam Curry returns to Austin, Texas, after the first leg of his I Love Laundry Tour, broadcasting from FEMA Region 6. He describes a 400-mile drive from Lubbock to Buda to drop off his Airstream trailer, noting the difficulty of navigating Interstate 35 traffic. The hosts discuss the prevalence of closed gas stations in rural Texas and the lack of "Internet of Things" intelligence at modern fuel pumps.
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00:00 He said I could stop it whenever I wanted. Adam Curry, John C. DeVorah It's Thursday October 1st 2015 time once again for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 761 This is no agenda Back from the first leg of the I Love Laundry Tour, diving headfirst into Antebellum 2.0 and broadcasting live from FEMA Region 6 in Austin-Tejas In The Morning everybody! I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where if there's smoke there is fire, I am John C. DuBois It's Crackpot & Buzzkill! Wooo! Yeah baby
00:36 So I print something out from the wiki. Now this normally prints fine, but for some unknown reason... Wait, from our wiki or just...? No, the wikipedia. What is the... oh, just a general document? I printed out some document and for some reason and i can't figure out why it-I swear to god this is like two point type Okay, it's just like two-point type. I mean it's useless. I'm sorry for you Yeah, well then I can't use this material no oh well because you can't read it at all No It's like two point tight and this is only need a huge magnifying glass to take your forefinger in your thumb And put on the piece of paper and then try to zoom it yeah Let me try that doesn't do anything hey man? I gotta tell you did that drive from Lubbock that kind of took the wind out of me yesterday
01:30 How many miles it's about it's a little under 400 miles in one shot Yeah, you took a foreigner mile driving one shot. I wanted to get home before you know on Wednesday You got home on Wednesday that was yesterday yeah And you lost like driving from San Francisco Los Angeles this little tea and so because seven hours eight hours seven half eight hour Yeah It's a long haul yeah, and then he needs some pro vigil Yeah, instead I had McDonald's. You know that McDonald's breakfast? Because you're trying to make me sick. Okay here we go so you leave Lubbock and I said okay I'm gonna leave at 7 a.m because i did not want to hit Austin traffic on the way down south to Buda to drop off the uh the Airstream of Consciousness because they close at six o'clock and now it'd be too come...and you can get stuck in north-to-south Austin traffic and I35 for an hour and a half easily
02:26 So I leave at seven. That's the rush hour? Yeah, it's always... It's kind of like the 405. It's always... Is it always that way or is it all day or do you have a window? You have a window between 1 and 2 30 probably 1230 and 230 I'd say. A good window! And maybe 11am to 1117 or something like that. And so yeah, okay I'm gonna go. And you know Lubbock, the KOA there, The Campground Of America is on the north side. So you drive around the city or town, whatever you want to call it, to the south side and I'm thinking okay remember this is where I ran out of gas the first time from Austin to Lubbock so I'm not gonna let this happen but I get up and I take off...I hadn't unhitched the trailer anything just like up landing gear and we go and okay there'll be a gas station somewhere and um yeah I've got quarter tank I got 1⁸ of a tank I'm like really?
03:18 I'd have to get that jerry can out of the bag. It's great! No, it was not great and then finally i see one ah yes good you know there's a lot of guys at least three times during the trip where i was kind of like i really want to get some gas now because i don't know how many more miles or the next one will be where i've pulled off to what looks like a gas station and then you pull up and then not until you get out and you see the tufts of grass growing that you realize it's closed there's a lot of closed gas stations Which is just like ghost town things yeah, that's weird I think you should be able to do something cool with them because they have an interesting structure. You know yes they do Yeah, well, I thought maybe hookers. I think the old Hooker stations Yeah, hooker station Yeah
04:06 Can you move over to the right? We'll just drive it over there. Just park it over there. Number three, insert your credit card and when is anyone... And she'll come in the trailer. That's what she said now that's extra She'll enter the trailer. So I, you know with all this now they're hyping the chip and sign and oh everyone has to get this new credit card which we've discussed that nauseam is all bullshit at this point. Chip inside but you think For all the different places I went and got gasoline, at a certain point the pump which has some intelligence. It's dialing into something and sending information back or maybe it has zero intelligence but has communication capabilities How about... Hey Adam!
04:57 Good to see ya. This would be Internet of Things in my mind Hey Adam, good to see you! You still on the tour? I've already pre-selected 91 octane for you Ready to go just pull it out and of course i'll give you your receipt And no you don't want a car wash I already know this At what point... What's going on there? Uh oh Someone has activated the code The nuclear launch code You okay? Is that a smoke alarm? It was... No, it was hard to explain. The hell I don't even want to know but you know that would be Internet of Things to me
05:35 But you know, at what point does the ATM go hi Adam? Yeah. Hey good to see ya I know exactly what you want You want $100 in cash and if you don't want any other questions You don't want upsells and of course you're gonna pay for the extra, you know Three dollars to take your own money out At one point does that intelligence reach us that would just be so That would make me feel warm and fresh. You actually expect all this, all these promises to have anything to do with reality? No but I'm just saying...I think i'm pointing out the obvious that it's bullcrap because if they really wanted to enhance our lives there are these little small things you could do every single time Just in taking your money! I know but do it with a smile If you're gonna rear-end me just make me laugh Make me feel good about it
06:22 Well, I don't know about you seem to be like some sort of an alien Yeah. Yeah, I guess that's it anyway got home didn't you and okay so you got your gas? You got home safely yeah But I was it was a tiring stuck in the end of 305 or whatever 35 no No It was probably would still slow at 130 Coming through how many trailers do you see when you're on the road oh well Of course what happens is not nearly you know getting a 10-speed bike You you see airstreams everywhere, but you know the keeper and I we wrote it down We do on what when you go when you're coming. You can see an air stream coming right yeah because they're very distinctive Yeah, you flash your light guys give each other the yes waving flashing lights. Yeah absolutely So you know we came up with you know? We were in the car for hours on end And we have lots to talk about but we also came up with a new variant on the license plate game now
