No Agenda Episode 800 Milestone and Apple Artwork Controversy
Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak celebrate the 800th episode of the No Agenda show, reflecting on their longevity since the program's inception. Curry details a conflict with Apple regarding promotional artwork designed by Nick the Rat, which Apple rejected due to perceived "controversial symbols" including an all-seeing eye and modified fist icons. The hosts discuss the difficulties of dealing with corporate guidelines and technical issues with SquirrelMail.
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00:00 Wiggy, wiggy, wiggy. 800 episodes of service as your guardian to reality and broadcasting live from the capital of the drone star state Austin Tejas FEMA region 6 in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley where i'm watching this zephyr go by. I am John C Devorah. Yes 916 no celebration without a Zephyr just went by on its way to Chicago
00:42 Hey, John. Hey! Congratulations man. Congratulations to you There ya go! Big 800 everybody! Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! Alrighty then... Yeah 800 episodes We did it! We did it we're here We're here we made it We did And without because I think remember we started the show in some early clips there was supposed to be a another 9-11 event According to the Feinstein committee that still has a major expert was that they're all saying We're gonna be attacked in six months, and that was like six years ago well to be fair. We did have Sam Bernardino It wasn't quite an 9-eleven like event But it's just a first I've seen like a corporate grudge kind of thing hey John Thanks man
01:36 Well, thank you. No, thank you and I want to thank all the ships at sea boots Oh Let's think a couple people here's to think of few people even though we do the show pretty much by on our own yeah now obviously Eric to shill of course and then there's Everybody who's helped us do the spreadsheet? Well let's see we have buzzkill jr Eric DeShield, Buzzkill Jr. We have Void Zero. Void Zero's a big help. And we got Dave Jones from the Freedom Controller He's the go-to guy Who... I forget her name or I forget her no agenda name who helps proofread the newsletter Pepper's Mama Pepper's mama That's how I was gonna say it! We want to thank Pepper's mama but yeah it's Shayna Okay Want to thank the candidate Mimi
02:28 She always does our end of year crap. Yes, and of course she... So you have a bunch of people helping us? Tina the Keeper, I want to thank Tina the Keeper Right And as the first podcaster to reach 800 episodes twice, I want to say to all the young podcasters out there There are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for the accomplishments Or for your fame I'm sorry, that's Taylor Swift's acceptance speech. Wrong one. Yeah you get the wrong one It's in the other pocket No but mostly of course thank you to the producers all of the producers who have... There is no show without a producer stuck with us throughout the ages i would say and there are so many people we could thank here The artists my goodness there are so many of them. They're fantastic And it was really because of the art That I realized just how..I am going to say the word Don't! I have too
03:26 No! Yes, I have to. How amazing it is...I said it...how amazing how amazing it is that we can continue to do this program based upon the support of all of the producers and it really came to light When I was working with the Apple folks on getting our 800 episode artwork all set up for the podcast app and the iTunes promotion. Right, this is a story you teased! Well I teased YOU with it... Yeah as well So we had it pretty much all setup Nick The Rat had sent us
04:08 piece of art with all the appropriate sizes and everything this is for the banner, and I don't think it actually had a number of people that said we want to thank everyone who Everyone who worked on it. Yeah now this banner drops on Monday Drops drops the banner drops on Monday pick it back up And so but they wanted the artwork in Monday this past Monday And so, you know we had already...we actually had a meeting after the show meeting which was big for us. So we got the artwork and I made up a nice little professional web page because i didn't want to send you know the big image through email because it was probably 60 megs or something PSD file but even came up with why even wrote our little tagline there which is what we'd come up with what was it uh
05:00 Post-modern modern Newton news deconstruction post modern news deconstruction if that doesn't get your attention nothing will Post-modern news to consider. What is that? so now I'm gonna bring this back to why we're so lucky to not have to function within the mainstream and As much as I appreciate the work that Nick did and the Apple guys wanting to help out with us um, I sent this artwork And I got the following email back. And for the way you could describe the artwork, it was let me let me describe it really one word okay innocuous Innocuous It was kind of an old-fashioned map and a two had two hands holding up the microphones and so here's the email I got back from the guys at Apple Hey Adam thanks for sending this over My first impression is that the map looked a little pixelated in low quality
05:55 Then I noticed the Illuminati symbol and also realized that the fists were like black power symbols modified to be holding a microphone. We tried to avoid all kinds of symbols which might be viewed as controversial, these include religions, cults special movies etc...I'd like to get a little bit more conservative for this so he wanted something else and I said, what are you talking about illuminatis symbol? Did you see this?! Well, I saw what was the pyramid that's on the back of the dollar bill. What happened is Nick had put a whole layer in there, but whole Photoshop layer of the all seeing eye
06:36 Yeah, the all-seeing eye. Which was pretty specific in Apple's guidelines...you know don't put swastikas symbols... I didn't notice it said the all seeing eye. No it didn't say that specifically but you know Nick did kind of slip us a fast one. It's on the back of the dollar bill! Is it also bad to put George Washington's head? Well so this is my point And I thought to myself, self oh my god. I'm so happy that I don't have to deal with corporations anymore We are so lucky you know You and I we just...we're it! We decide we'll do this or we'll do that This is dumb this is good whatever
07:17 And so it just went around and around and around. I'm not even sure they're going to use our tagline now, but interestingly enough the piece that i did send was the same logo as what you used in the newsletter. The kind of the wings with no agenda microphone on the middle? So that worked out pretty well because Uh, texting you sending you emails. No response then on Wednesday is Wednesday. This is 48 hours later and I send you emails. I texted nothing called if you really need to get a whole cricket's cricket. No really? That Google voice thing that was hi this is John on Google voice. I'm not here now. I mean like my real phone number. I have 10 phone numbers for you. I don't know which one is real
08:04 You also text me on three different numbers. After eight years, we still don't know each other's real phone numbers! This is sad... And then you're like sending me a check the newsletter and I'm like, oh what's wrong? What's going on?! It's just- Thanks John How do i get ahold of ya? I know what happened with your email. I figured it out. I know why you don't see some of my emails Okay Because I replied to A thread that you had already received one message for, and you use SquirrelMail. So when you use SquirrelMail there's a bug in SquirrelMail that it keeps the date of the original post in a thread as the date in your time...in your email inbox so even if I reply and you have it in threaded mode That reply will come through underneath the original which could be from days ago which you'll never see
09:05 I see him eventually. I search for you specifically No, you don't! The way it should work is if there's a new message in the thread the whole thread should pop to the top of your email It doesn't do that on SquirrelMail Whatever the case Yeah just letting ya know You fixed it Well kinda But we'll see We'll see if-if we get on Monday I hope...I hope So And of course we have lots of little ditties people have sent in, a couple things you might use today and there was some kind of... I don't know why he just didn't send in that other one. The second one. Which second? The one that was over the yellow background. He didn't care for it but it was about as bland as you could get. But I didn't have any assets! It doesn't matter. You were supposed to be in charge, they couldn't get ahold of ya'.
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11:30 Threat stream. Threat streams! Threat streams! Threat streams... That would be a threat stream A threat stream? I-I-I... A THREAT STREAM! A threat stream. A good threat stream. Somebody coming at ya peein' Pound it, pound it Jacking and hacking. Jacking and hacking. I'm jacking and hacking. Jacking and hacking There's a joke there that I won't go into Nah thats alright No no no no Right? RIGHT?! NO THATS NOT RIGHT There you go, 800 episodes all summed up perfectly by Paul. Secret Agent Paul! Well that was about as good as the show ever gets. Thank you very much everybody we had a good time anyway so yeah We're very thankful to our producers who make all kinds of stuff Our artists people who help us with information People who of course support us financially And today... Boots on the ground Yeah and then but we have boots on the ground everywhere
