5 chapters across the catalog
Austin City Limits Festival, Guns N' Roses Headliners
The Austin City Limits music festival is currently taking place over two weekends at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas. Major headliners for the event include Childish Gambino, Guns N' Roses, and The Cure. Local traffic congestion has increased significantly due to the influx of attendees visiting the downtown area for the performances.
The Austin City Limits music festival features Paul McCartney as a headliner, drawing a significant millennial following. The hosts discuss the "Bernie grandpa factor" and the influence of the movie "Across the Universe" on young fans' appreciation of the Beatles. One host recounts meeting McCartney and Linda McCartney in 1984.
The planned No Agenda meetup in Austin, Texas, is being delayed due to the Austin City Limits music festival, which makes hotel and parking logistics impossible. Adam Curry encourages listeners to organize their own local meetups, citing a recent successful gathering in Chicago as an example of "self-startership."
News organizations frequently emphasized that Houston is the fourth largest city in the United States during their coverage of Hurricane Harvey. This specific data point is viewed as a rhetorical tool to provide context for the scale of the disaster to a national audience that might otherwise be indifferent. There is some debate over whether this ranking applies to the city limits or the broader metropolitan area compared to cities like Chicago or Dallas.
Mayor Bloomberg and New York City Fiscal Crisis
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is criticized for seeking a term-limit extension while simultaneously proposing significant income tax hikes to address the city's bankruptcy. The city's financial distress is attributed to mismanagement of pension plans and overspending during Bloomberg's previous two terms. New York remains one of the few U.S. cities with a high local income tax.
