Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak, Paris Travel Observations
Adam Curry broadcasts from Paris, France, noting the decline in tourism and the friendliness of locals. The hosts discuss common street scams targeting Americans near the Eiffel Tower and the prevalence of pickpocketing gangs. Curry shares an anecdote about an Uber driver from Morocco who changed his negative perception of Americans after interacting with them through the service.
adam curry· john c. dvorak· paris· france· tourism· pickpockets· uber
00:00 Now, what do we want to do at the end here? Adam Curry. John C. DeVore. It's Thursday May 5th 2016 and time once again for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 822! This is no agenda. Sipping wine from a box and eating cheese on a stick and broadcasting live from the capital of Gitmo nation Frogs Legs Paris France in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where I have no such pleasures, I'm John C. Dmorak In the morning there we go. Yeah, finally we did it in a couple of false starts yes I'm in Paris France We are live to tape lives the tape Live to tape every so how's the weather? Oh the weather is almost perfect if it was like five degrees eight degrees warmer Fahrenheit that is about 61 But this when this when the Sun is shining is dynamite dynamite. I tell you
00:59 The city of love, the city d'amour. Which I gotta tell you...the French are really nice to us! They claim their tourist business has been hit by the... Big time, big time. We took two Ubers Well, first of all this morning when we had breakfast and I'm trying my French you know that and I've always understood if you at least try then You know they appreciate it. And they usually say something really fast and then go what? a pilot blue and ultimately will play And then they'll just start talking English to you. So big warning about two things, about the pig pockets... The guy could not stop he's like please please please we're so happy to have here! Please be careful of the pig pockets it's crazy and he said this Brazilians who are doing it here in Paris. Well Brazil has a reputation for a group is like
01:49 It's not gypsies in the old-fashioned sense, but there is a lot of that criminal activity street activity pickpocketing in Brazil. It's very high I've never been pickpocketed there and have been there a lot But I did...I've seen movies as horrible There has been movies where they just strip a guy when you're naked They take everything Everywhere even in the Eiffel Tower everywhere signs like please please be careful Be careful with pickpockets and they work in gangs and stuff. Gangs, right? No they distract you with one group of people... This has been going on in Paris for a long time but apparently it's at its all-time worst Yeah It is apparently bad
02:32 Let's see, I learned a couple other things. So the pickpocketing... Oh and a couple of producers had emailed me about this about this is another hustle another scam where either young woman or maybe couple kids will run up to say you American? You American? And if you say yes then they'll say, oh you know here pledge and it's like some tattered piece of paper. And you know pledge some money or something if you write in the amount then the kids will start pestering that you have to pay now and drag it towards the ATM there's like 18 different scams but they're specifically for Americans and sure shooting we walk up to the Eiffel Tower and there's like hello American-American I'm like 90 spending doyser
03:16 He said, okay. And just kept on walking. But anyway so we took an Uber back from the Eiffel Tower to the Musée d'Orsay which is mind-blowing thank you very much for the recommendation I mean there are no more Monet's left in the world i don't think they're all there Emerald and sculptures, sculptures in Van Gogh. The classics the van Gogh's you go holy shit I've seen that all my life and here it is yes you're hearing well that's kind of amusing since there's two museums in Holland we didn't know most I know we didn't go to the Van Gogh Museum oh yeah with a Vango then there's one out in the stick someplace which has even got a bigger collection from what I can tell but don't forget about the Monet's were just unbelievable just so beautiful so beautiful
04:16 But anyway, so we took this Uber and the kid who got... actually young. He might have been my age from Morocco and we're just chatting and he's really funny but he says you know I've been here I moved from Morocco when i was seven I've been hearing 30 40 years whatever it was He said, and I really thought Americans were kind of douchebags. You know that they didn't like us and they think we're assholes." And he said, but once I started driving Uber, I found out that Americans are really nice people and we're so happy to have you here because 25% down Americans alone in tourism," he said
04:54 So now's the time to go. Yes, I've always said that we did some horrible event go then yeah And everyone is really nice and happy were here you know It's beautiful and it's a beaver my crappy ass you know You know grade school French anyway Yeah That's been fantastic has really been great when we got a couple more days and that We have a special episode of the show today Which was compiled for us by Sir Cyber. He did the previous version of this which is kind of a lot of our gags and jokes and funny moments from... I don't know, it's hundreds of episodes he just keeps listening and plugs stuff in but i'm not quite sure his processes actually think you sent me an email maybe if I have any spare time I'll put it in the show notes his process on how to put this together but it is actually quite funny
05:46 Yeah, it's kind of weirdly funny because it's all the humor that he can compile. He apparently likes the funny parts of this show and I guess in every show we have one or two moments where something hilarious happens and these put them all on one show and now you see updated that which is what we're gonna hear now. Okay so are we going to come back? Are break yeah we'll come back right in the middle of it and uh all right good discuss a few more things maybe a little more about your trip to paris and then ask for some contributions so we can keep doing this show. And well let's see what he's got for us okay here he is sir cybers no agenda funnies part two
