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A casting, all's like Adam Curry, howdy everybody, welcome to the Daily Source Code for Wednesday,

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December 8, 2004, coming to you from Curry College.

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I'm Adam Curry, it is quarter past 11 in the evening, big day today, went to London, took

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a train, it's been a couple of years.

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I don't know, man, I got to talk about these English trains.

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I only hear English people complain about the trains.

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I thought it was a pretty fucking great experience.

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Seriously, I had a really nice ass train.

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I'm not a train guy, maybe I've just been missing out on trains.

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Good matters, is your Daily Source Code, will we try to bring you 40 minutes of 40 minutes of

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well-party?

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40 minutes of users and developers partying together, or maybe there are no secrets, only

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information you don't yet have.

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And while we're on the power of pure intellect, let's start off with an audio comment that

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Hello Adam and have everybody.

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This is Chris Penard from Streetport, Louisiana, and you're listening to the Daily Source Code

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with Adam Curry.

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Adam, I wanted to tell you I enjoy the non-reverbs sound of your cottage.

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I hope you get broadband soon and best wishes from the States.

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You've inspired me to create a podcast on my own.

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Now only have to think of a subject.

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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

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Okay, so after yesterday's source code where I basically asked everybody, no, I'm sorry,

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I asked everybody, you know, what you thought about the reverb, I'd say 75% of all comments

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In other words, get rid of the goddamn reverb.

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We were just getting used to the sound of the cottage.

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anything up on the wall yet.

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You've got my gold records.

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My picture of me and many celebrities.

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So actually, I think that if I'm lucky this weekend, it's finally time for my office.

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Then we've done just about everything else in the house and then my office is last.

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So anyway, back to the reverbs, the reverb is basically off.

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I think that makes the show much better.

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Can never have too much cowbell, you know, basically.

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So anyway, I had an appointment with my senior private banker, her name is Kherty.

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She works for Mace Pearson.

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She's been our banker for, that's enough fucking cowbell.

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She's been our banker for, should I know, five years, I guess, and she really takes care

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with all kinds of companies and structures and crap in the Netherlands and Belgium.

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bank account that I can look at, I can pay my bills, I've got a direct debit card, you know,

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we've got everything is online within my world, within my universe.

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ordeal, but the train is almost nonstop. And on the way back, almost exactly the same thing,

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you know, after a great lunch and a little bit of war driving in the cab, I picked up.

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actually trying to connect, uh, but we weren't sitting in traffic long enough to, uh,

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to actually, you know, have any luck of, uh, of, of down or uploading anything on some open Wi-Fi.

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off the Starbucks on the way home, uh, sucked down some, uh, podcasts, the Gilmore gang, specifically,

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which I haven't listened to yet. And also it was great on the train. I had a commute, you know,

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after a long time, and there I was, um, chuckley, about on and droop. Uh, with, you know,

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the suits around me looking going like, what the, what's the sad weird guy with those weird

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shoes and, and he's kind of weird hair. I got my eggs. If you don't know what they are,

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made from, uh, sheep skin, but the sheep was killed humanly or some crap marketing story like that.

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had a great day in London. Uh, really, uh, happy about the, the connections. I had no idea what's

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going to be, um, yeah, really so incredibly easy to get back and forth. In fact, if I had one

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Christina's in school, Patricia and I could literally just decide to say, hey, let's go have lunch in

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the city and we could, you know, hop off, drive down to the station and go. It would be awesome.

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Oh, and Patricia had her first drive today. I mean, I've been doing all the driving since you,

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you sit on the left hand side. So it's still a bit confusing. And, um, so the other day I came home

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around 530 from Starbucks and it was dark and I said, come on, let's go. We're going to go to

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Sainsbury's going to go to the, and which is, that's a good, uh, three, four, about four, five

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kilometers, lots of roundabouts that you have to go around. Um, and producer to great, you know,

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it was, uh, yeah, especially for the first time and in the dark, which I specifically made or do.

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I, I noticed that I picked up a couple of instructional, um, habits from, uh, Wing Commander

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William, my, um, helicopter instructor and all my, I should, my flight instructor period. I got

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a call, I'm missing. It's like my wing, wingman, you know, my flying buddy and miss those guys,

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him and Nick the stick. I got to catch up with him soon. I got to catch up with him. I got to get

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flying and hold on a sec. Do you want to go out, Chess? I'm going to go out, girl. Okay, hold on. I'll

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tell you what, why don't you listen to this promo. I'm going to let the dog out of the, uh, out of my

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office here. Uh, uh, uh, uh, it's almost like the old days, isn't it?

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Hitting you right between the years with the message of hope, love and good news. This is light spring.

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And I'm Steve Webb, you're host. Here at Life Spring, we want to tell you about the one who loves

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you unconditionally and who gave his life for you, Jesus Christ. Here you'll find music,

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conversation, and reasons to believe. Our website is calpm1.org slash podcast.htm.

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Hey Adam, thanks for this brand new avenue communication. We all call podcasting and thanks

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everybody for listening. I'm out of here.

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Thanks everybody. The Lord says everybody give me a bowing. Oh, man, perfect. I'm telling you,

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I love religious podcasts. There's broadcasters of all sorts. I, I get a kick out of it.

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And sometimes I actually get a real positive boost. You know, I love people who are just

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positive and up and got energy. It works. It really does work. And we just said again,

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everybody, can you give me a bowing? Hold on. He went, buddy, for listening. I'm out of here.

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Excellent. Speaking of everybody, being out of here, big news here in the UK about the BBC.

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3000 people got fired or displaced before Christmas and expected another thousand after Christmas.

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As, you know, this is like, the BBC is public broadcasting and you pay a license. And actually,

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just, this is whack. You go to tvlicensing.co.uk. And maybe it's even tvlicensing.com. And there you

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register whether you have a black and white television, which costs I think, you know, 65 pounds.

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first one. And that's like a hundred and I think a hundred and twenty-one pounds. And if you don't,

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you can get fined up to a thousand pounds, which is, well, these days, almost $2,000, like $1,900.

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that. And as was in the train on the way to London, there were huge posters of tvlicensing.com.

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We said, we have a database. And we know every single home that doesn't have a TV license.

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Just thought we'd let you know. It's like, fuck that shit. I got my TV license immediately.

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But there's so anyway, so you pay for it, you know. And then took the people have a right to say,

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hey, what the fuck? We want, you know, we want value from money. And with over 27,000 employees

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at the BBC, there was a general feeling that, hey, you know, there's a lot of people here who

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think they got a job for life. We got to keep them on their toes and keep it competitive.

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worked, and although extremely professional, you know, even I was amazed at the, the amount of money

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that was basically being spent. And not to attract anything from the BBC, because I'd love the

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programs they made. But there's a lot of inefficiencies. Even when they needed me to be on BBC

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World, they called me at 9 o'clock 9 a.m. And I said, you know, can you be here at noon to be on the

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on the BBC World Service? And I sent a cab from a town 10 miles away, you know, it's like,

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because they had an account with them, which is totally ridiculous where they could have called

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a cab. Shit, they could have re-enversed me, you know. There's so many different ways they could have

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done that. And the, of course, the cab didn't wait. They had another one come from a different company.

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It was a, it was whack. It was totally whack. Anyway, so this has been going on. And I think most

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public broadcasts are being paid out of community funds are under a lot of pressure these days

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for this very same reason. And a lot of the pressure, of course, comes from the commercial

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broadcasters. What's really happening is everyone's eating each other up, you know.

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They're all just fucking eating each other up. And we have, what I think is great about podcasting

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is, and I was talking to the, uh, to charity and, uh, another, um, someone who works for, you know,

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the Anglo-Saxon into a trust division. It's great, man. Women bankers, they freak me out. I love it.

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They're so fucking smart. Um, we were talking about, uh, uh, I was thinking about women for a second

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then I lost my, my train of thought. Oh, shit. Oh, I don't remember. Uh, oh, yeah, about, uh,

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about podcasting. Um, you know, that we basically don't have to deal with 24 hours in a day.

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which is why I'm always advocating short podcast, right? Um, so because we can broadcast 5,000

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hours a day if we want of a simultaneous audio programing because it's completely three

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dimensional. You can listen to it whenever you want, wherever you want, however you want, um,

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and you can be behind a, you could, you could catch up. You could list skip bits. You can do all of that.

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So we basically, as podcasts, there's have to figure out how to grab people's attention and keep it,

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which probably means they should move on from this conversation. But I will say that our next or next

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or next or neighbors down the way. Um, I think her, she, uh, she's a school teacher. She brought her

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daughter over to meet Christina, uh, both the same age. Her husband works for BBC interactive.

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division is being moved. Uh, they fact thousands of employees are being moved to Manchester

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because, um, the BBC also feels. And this is a big thing that, uh, that the, the general, uh,

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listening and viewing audience feels is that it's too London based. It's too based around

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what's going on at London and not about basically the heart land. So that's why a lot of the, uh,

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programming staff, including interactive is going to Manchester. And I'm sure there's some financial

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reasons for that as well. And another big piece of news today is that there also be, um,

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I don't, I think he's a thousand, uh, job cuts at, uh, uh, Colgate Palm Olive headquarters,

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ladies and gentlemen of, uh, Colgate Palm Olive is in Gilford in the United Kingdom,

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which means there's going to be thousands of people, uh, being kicked out. Some of them, of course,

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at the Gilford Exchange, making DSL capable and probable. And BT, don't call me. Okay. I got

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my boys at EZNet on the case. We're going to use their gear at the Gilford Exchange. And you can

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go out and solicit more people. You could have had a real good customer on your hands.

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That's a, uh, that, uh, that, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,

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I haven't actually, listen to this next, uh, audio comment that came in. It's from Lee Wilkins and Jenny Patton,

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um, of course we know about them from the Alphi and Benson fund, there are two little doggies. Uh, and they sent a,

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thank you MP3, uh, which is intended for you listening to the daily source code right now.

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Hey, what's up everybody? This is Lee Wilkins from the Jenny and Lesha. This is just a

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special message for Adam Curry's daily source code and just to say a big thank you

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for me and Jenny to all those that have donated so far as of six o'clock

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Greenwich meantime on Monday we had raised up near our $1,200. I just wanted to say a

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big thank you to all of the daily source code listeners and also all those that

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done listen to today's source code and yet have donated it's just amazing knowing

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and seeing how community like the blogger's fair and podger's fair can come together

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at a time in need to help bring back Alfie and Benson. Alfie and Benson will hopefully be

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returning this weekend and will Alfie and Benson will have their own number of podcasts

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which we will launch and then we'll also have around blog which they'll be posting to as

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well when they get back and there's nothing left else for me to say apart from a big thank you

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to everybody and we would of course give you a date of progress at Alfie and Benson.com

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but I just yet there's nothing left to say apart from thank you Adam to forgive me the

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chance to tell our story and thank you again to everybody and I do mean everybody you will

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begin personally now especially now from both me Jane and Alfie and Benson when they return.

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Thank you very much. All righty I say mission accomplished everybody good job.

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Now imagine what we could do if we really fucking got together and really pulled our resources

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for something really big. It could happen you know I want to think about that and I'm sure there's

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lots of people out there who see the power now I mean we have just proven once again that you can

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create revenue and cash flow in in podcasting and man it was quick and you know it was realistic

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and we set a goal and we and I feel good about it you know and we could do the same for like

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people dying all over the world. Oh my god I'm about to break out into we are the world I should

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stop immediately. Thank you very much Lee and Jenny for sending in that audio comment.

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A comment on the weblog from let me see this was from Michael Martelli. Michael says hey Adam

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love the show rather new to podcasting got into him about three weeks ago while listening to

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and gadgets like that so of course I had to start listening to the god father's cast. Uh huh

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the pod father you mean. Uh actually don't list the podcast on MP3 player actually downloaded

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it to my computer at work. Listen while I write software. I'm very excited to be finally

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getting an iPod for Christmas so still probably listen by my computer. Oddly enough here comes

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I actually work at your old place of employment good old MTV networks software developer in the

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time square office 1515 Broadway and you show really helps that they go by special on five o'clock.

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Shocked listen to the days cast you mentioned my hometown of Wayne New Jersey. I did not know

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audible was located there neat thing to hear. You know there's all isn't it there's a isn't there a

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great roller rink in Wayne New Jersey. Maybe that's one town over from Wayne and I think the

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willabric mall is in Wayne New Jersey and when I think about 1515 Broadway actually was at 1515

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was the main office we also at one point had 1775 Broadway that actually part of that burned down

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um the some god I should ask Kenster J he should he'll probably do that on the next Ken and

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Squip show um and it was like someone's fucking extension it was Dave Kendall's god damn extension

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core that burned down a whole floor of the MTV offices remember Dave Kendall he did 120 minutes

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and we always used to tease him we said in the day where that fucking dead cat on his hat which

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was very mean to say of course some of the hair god should have actually punished me for that but

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they've been pretty pretty nice to me so anyway cool to hear that you're haunted and I wondered if you

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work for MTV if MTV's I guess it's still the biocomb building 1515 Broadway which of course

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we're also their live studios are all right well thanks for uh checkin in um and there was also

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I don't know if you saw this this new story um actually it finally got sent to me uh by email uh Gary

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why is who um we're scary from he's the IBV Greece transmitting station the station manager

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the hell is in Greece okay uh is that the same I guess so uh I Adam enjoy the source code yeah

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Boeing blah blah good luck with your uh with your van with sure Denver Post reports that the

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ours people spend listening to radio are in steep decline as younger audiences switch to iPods

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CDs mix at home and subscription satellite signals newspaper reports several local stations

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are taking steps to address this by cutting ads per hour jumping back into internet streaming

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no no no no no no an emphasizing live local shows to restore the companionship factor

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in commercial radio thank you this is exactly what is going on with podcasting and of course the

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BBC were you know they're talking about the value of what they're doing as well and I heard

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even though it was a pompous ass today uh who's on radio two or whatever it was uh and it was

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course radio BBC radio London whatever it was a call-in show and he was saying radio is also about

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the relationship between the listener and the person the presenter on the show and I think that

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the big companies like clear channel who own most of the radio stations have kind of overlooked that

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fact that you can't you know it's an art form it may be the lowest rung of the show is

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ladder to be in radio but that's okay you know it is an art form and uh and you can't just

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it's like you know disco eventually was doomed to fail for the same reason you can't automate

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music you know which is what the big excitement of disco was it was hey no more musicians you know

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fuck that shit we don't need those motherfuckers anymore well guess what you know it doesn't work

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that way you do need musicians um so uh and then he also points to a actually included a

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scan of an article from what was that uh radio world um and he yeah it's very cool sent me a

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PDF which of course I haven't attached to the production show notes everything else is an

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production show notes um that talks about podcasting um as it relates to radio broadcasting and that's

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it's an interesting it's a good read I'll see if we can get an online version he couldn't find one

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oh here it is Gary says he's writing from northern Greece where he manages a large short-way radio

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station for the for the man for the government I've moved internationally many times so I could relate

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to your comments on the transition from castle to cottage yeah right on okay oh by the way it's

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has my girlfriend is joining me here in Greece this weekend coming from Germany if you have any tips

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I'm making a multicultural relationship work in this case the American guy in a German girl please let

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me know hmm well that's an interesting question I think about that I don't have I'll have

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never gone out with I mean I don't even know German women I don't think the only German women

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I know are the ones that uh that make my Audi that's the only German women I know

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that are usually named Helga but somehow I doubt your girlfriend's name is Helga or nor does she

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look like she should be working in an Audi factory I don't think it makes any difference man

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whatever you're from it really doesn't as long as there's love as long as there's love and

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you might want to consider some you might want to consider some cowbell

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is it hey baby I want you to come over here and take off your dress and I'll put my cowbell

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okay all right Gary thank you very much Merry Christmas to you and uh into your girlfriend

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let's see about 25 minutes into the show so we're gonna be perfectly on time the way I have

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it plan at this point actually I was gonna talk the day today and we were emailing back and forth

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and yeah and I had half of an idea maybe we could do a trade secrets although I'm a little

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bit concerned still about his setup because when he's recording and there's something funky with

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his new computer and we have to get this fucking fix because if it's skipping while he's recording

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that's just not gonna work because then we can't do the the dawn and drew double ender trick

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because we won't be in sync and I'll have to now that's gonna be a fucking nightmare so

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and then he sent me a link to the latest morning coffee notes which now of course is on scripting news

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and I figured out maybe today would not be the day a great day for even just a social chat on the

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hell hello hello um this is a uh I feel better but my voice doesn't sound much better

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it's really interesting way of speaking because once they start getting going you know no when

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it's gonna just jump up normally I have a fairly deep voice but when it's in this mode

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just never know um when it's gonna jump up about it you know this reminds me of do you remember

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that episode of the um the cartridge family when Peter was going through puberty and he would sing

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and then his voice would crack and then you know it was like a real big problem because he had to

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do this solo during a really big concert and then what they did is they eventually changed the song

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or they did a special song for him to sing which was about changing let's go

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hey Dave you're going through your second puberty it's at 49

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anyway I just was reading a thing that said that Elliot Spitzer is running for a governor

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of New York State I just thought I could die with me like that run for a governor anything

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what if he wins people say governor Spitzer you'll be able to kids love a great time

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or sorry I have a fine mood that's right oh man that's frightening when Dave talks you know what

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we should bug him home on a second he's been posting eyes aware blog he wants someone to call him

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he has like one of these 206 free numbers let's see if you can do this I think what would be

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kind of let's give it a try I'm gonna try to do it on Skype with Skype out even though I'm on

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the dial-up modem here at the at the cottage I bet you I could get it done so while that's loading

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I have some great news for you um my mom called today and she has a date for operation um and this

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so the operation where they go in and remove either half a lung or a whole lung and I just said

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this off the cuff like she's going in for a fucking tune up but it's going to be on the 22nd

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that's when she should be admitted 23rd is when the actual operation takes place and we're

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really excited about it and it's great for her you know she now she has a date she can work

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towards it she knows when it's gonna happen and everything is really you know right on track

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and looking great so we just could not be could not be happier about it all okay hold on I've got

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my Skype here I hope this works hold on so I'll be going over I guess yeah I may spend

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yeah I may spend a good part of the holiday perhaps even Christmas in Holland so we'll have to

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see okay I'm gonna try this Skype out now let's see if this works see if we can call Dave's voice

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a 206 338 3143 so now there you go Skype just crashed fuck piece of shit

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fuck the application Skype is unexpectedly quit because it's a piece of shit on the Mac

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okay you know what we'll do I'll just call this boy

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hold on I'll just call him on the speaker phone here that's what I'll do okay so it's

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one country code 206 is the area code 338 3143 feel free to participate and and call Dave right now

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if you're in the car have yourself owned by anyone here let's call him hold on if I can get the

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oh that's lame there's like no message it just goes beep oh okay hey Dave it's Adam and friends

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here at the source code just partying is users and developers everybody and we want to say hi

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hope you feel better I hope your voice gets better so you can do another lovely morning coffee notes

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bye okay no to care of that okay moodlong Scott Phillips says fuck thanks for ruining my

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morning cigarette man first second hand smoked guilt now the shame of the love the dare not

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speak its name next I'll be supporting the terrorist I can just see it now stop sucking off the

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malbro mula I know maybe it's time to try the patch again I admire you for sticking with it still

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love you and Don both actually um as this is from Scott from Texas and Scott we hope you definitely

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definitely will consider quitting and you know Don's voice still rings true in my head the what she

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says and it keeps me off the evil the evil devil weed um and we'd like you to be around for

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why as well so anything we can do to help just listen I gotta get that excerpt from Don you know what

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maybe I should just try and find that right now excuse me for sniffing so disgustingly where's

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there was Don Andrew where's fucking Don Andrew show I have the Don Andrew show here somewhere

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let me just maybe just go and find oh where's Don Andrew show hold on I don't know if I can find

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it that quickly hold on a second let me put this into the right sound channel here we go

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all right you were gonna tell me something when we're driving home yeah like I think I'm gonna save it for

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when we're on the air what was it what was it I told you to remember because I knew you were gonna forget

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what's that it the field yeah it was that close find us some shit I'll kill that up tomorrow

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I just I gotta I need that as a jingle I need to play that over and over and over again whenever Don

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said whenever I want to smoke whenever you want to smoke I should play that and man it's the scariest thing

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so Scott also sent along a was it Scott who sent this tune I think it was we just see

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a pod save song which means non RIA from garage band dot com it says thought you might get a kick out of

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it stick with it till the end okay oh yeah right well it's it's a different kind of song

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roll it's into it since since you sent it in and since you like it I don't like to brush my teeth

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is the title you can find the link to this song in the production show notes

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and that's sweet it starts off with brushing his teeth and before you know it you didn't let it

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welcome to the ripen read blogger podcast I'm Charlie Quidnung reporting I read the blogosphere so you

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such as others looking for so always the best of the use of developers where we party together

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to figure this shit out makes the work if we can and of course all the best of podcasts and

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the promos and keep them coming Adam and Curry dot com attached to file

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that's really working quite well for me if you keep it on the keep between keep it on

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the three mags or five mags doesn't really matter if you send me seven mp three files

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absolutely perfect because I just leave the mail client running dirty during the night

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in the caches everything that comes in along with my my iPod or so I'm actually doing okay

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yeah wouldn't mind having a little bit of bandwidth with him in the next oh fucking century or so

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you can leave comments on the weblog of Curry dot com and of course I can get the all the archives

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in the latest show on daily source code dot com we back tomorrow with the source code from the

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cottage in the UK talk to you there and bye bye I remember all that