Michelle Obama, Lady Macbeth Comparison and Listener Audio
Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open the program by discussing a listener-submitted audio clip. The clip portrays Michelle Obama in a "Lady Macbeth" role, allegedly making threats within the White House. The hosts discuss the technical quality of the edit and how listener contributions provide inspiration for the show's content.
michelle obama· lady macbeth· white house· audio editing· listener feedback
00:02 Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. Protecting you from the Ides of March all across Gitmo Nation, this is no agenda for March 15th, 2009. This is no agenda. Navigating the matrix from the Crackpot Command Center in Southwest London, a borough of Gitmo Nation East, I'm Adam Curry. And from the Gitmo Nation Northwest and Buzzkill Central, I'm John C. Dvorak. Crackpot and Buzzkill! Wow! I think we did it. Yeah, well I decided to. You decided not to mess with me and... Last week, you know, when we ran that, I listened to it. It actually came out perfect. No, it wasn't quite right because you could hear you kind of funk. A couple people tweeted it saying, hey, that was great. That was just awesome. That was... I got a... you know, people send us stuff all the time.
01:01 And actually this was the impetus or is that the right word? The inspiration for a lot of the work I've been doing this past week. Have a listen to this. This was sent in, it was regarding our Michelle Obama possibly being a kind of Lady Macbeth or someone lurking in the shadows at the White House telling people that if they don't shape up, they will be killed. So listen to this. If you do that one more time, I will kill you. You know what? You will step back and shut the fuck up. That's what you will do. Or quit. As he shouted each name, he stabbed the table with his steak knife. Nat Landau dead! Cliff Jackson dead! Apparently others at the table joined in. So he is a candidate. Yeah, he's a candidate.
02:09 The message is really conveyed in very short sound bites. If you do that one more time, I will kill. So what are you using? You're just like twisting, you're using audacity and then... No I didn't do this, this is one of our listeners did this. Yeah, yeah. So I'm, and we really don't have any place in the show. We have these great listeners that do all this work. No, they're fantastic, are you kidding me? And so this is where I was thinking, how, what can I do with stuff like this? Because it doesn't really make sense to play that in the context of the show. This one, because it's, you know, 50 seconds or less than a minute.
02:49 I'm thinking well, why don't I do something with the no agenda stream because it's you know, we only have we only have it up, you know twice a week for the show, but then you know, there's all kinds of cool applications and services out there and you have this thing called Auto DJ where you can set up a playlist and rotation and it basically it talks to the shoutcast server and it does it all out there so I don't have to be uploading or streaming anything from the crackpot command center. And I'm thinking you know it'd be kind of cool, so I start uploading songs you know lots of Revolution songs screw the government songs, but across multiple decades and And I kind of got into it. I started having fun. You know and I'm putting up our jingles our sweepers So every three songs there's a station identification And people are tuning into it man. They listen to a shana station identification the Internet
