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16 million dollars worth of airplane strapped to my ass.

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In the next generation radio content in my ears.

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I like to think I'm flying into the future.

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Anyone here at all.

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That's the Jeff Smith.

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Not on the radio.

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Hey everybody, how you doing?

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It's Friday.

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They come into you from Curry Cottage in Guilford.

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The affluent suburb of Surrey in the United Kingdom, just southwest of London.

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Got in this morning from New York.

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Great trip, as always, as expected with Virgin upper class.

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I did something new this time.

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They have a special sleeper section, which is basically the forward portion of the upper deck on a 747.

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It's really nice, because the flight is only 6 hours.

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It's like no nonsense and you even get where you check in and actually when you book the reservation.

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But especially when you check in, they say, do you understand what the sleeper cabin means?

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And basically no nonsense.

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You've got to shut up, you've got to just be quiet and go to sleep and you've got a night cabin.

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That's it and then the wake up for breakfast if you want.

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And then actually put a little stamp on your ticket that says,

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What is it? Oh, I don't have the ticket anymore.

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Something like sleeper cabin has been explained to this passenger.

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I guess they need that so that they can tell you to shut up.

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So that was really nice actually.

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And it was, it was, um, what was your name, Liz?

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I think I think it was, yeah, Liz.

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Nice cottage last.

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And she woke me so nicely, so gently.

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It's really weird because I really was asleep.

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And then I just feel something on my leg.

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And it was, I don't know.

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I think I enjoyed it a little too much.

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Hey, Jeff Smith, who you heard with not on the radio.

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He's the guy behind.

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Oh, such a illustrious thing, such as, uh...

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Got no Roger Smalls for you.

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Just wanted to play the jingle again.

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Um, you can find Jeff Smith at TheJefSmith.com.

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Hey, you know, um, last night before I went to bed, uh, or actually while I was in bed,

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and I was, uh, trying to unwind and I knew I had, uh,

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the whole Thursday to do a couple things, which I'll talk about in a minute.

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I flipped on.

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I actually flipped through a couple of, uh, a couple of the late night talk shows.

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I just missed, um, John Stewart show, which bummed me out.

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I usually watch that every night, religiously in San Francisco.

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Um, so actually I tuned into Letterman.

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And of course he had some, you know, pretty funny, uh, Cheney jokes.

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is, uh, it may be hooked up, but I don't think they actually, you know,

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the way it's pointed doesn't seem like it would be a functional way for that

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particular microphone to work, but look at it.

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Doesn't it look just like the Hile PR 40?

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the casing is built, it looks exactly like it.

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So the question is, hey, is it a PR 40 with the, uh, label removed?

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I just thought it was interesting, then, just point that one out.

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Now about Dick Cheney.

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I know someone who knows Dick Cheney very well.

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Uh, in fact, I know someone who knows Donald Rums, Rumsfeld very well.

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Uh, Colin Powell very well.

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Uh, George H. Bush very very well.

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And this person is actually in my family.

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Uh, I know him is Uncle Don.

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I've always known him is Uncle Don.

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Um, you can Google him if you want.

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His name is Donald P. Greg Golf Romeo Echo Golf Golf.

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He's married to my, uh, my father's sister.

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And I got a beautiful email from him, uh, on Wednesday as well.

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And he said, you know, um, and I really, I should have realized this.

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I can move some stuff around tomorrow.

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Uh, I was actually planning on seeing a carry-wise burger.

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Ice burger?

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And there you go, my uncle worked at the CIA for 31 years.

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I believe he might have actually run it for a period of time.

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Then he got heavily involved in Asian affairs.

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He was in Vietnam for four years.

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He was also the ambassador to South Korea for a couple of years.

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And when George H 41, as we say, was vice president, Don was,

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I know he's a personal advisor.

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He was on the VPs personal staff.

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I don't know if it was security advisor or, well,

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we're going to find out because I am going to interview him

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in the not too distant future.

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Because he's just fascinating guy.

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70, yet years old.

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the Korea Society.

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And the Korea Society is a nonprofit.

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and Americans, North Koreans, as well, understand each other better.

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He's also been in North Korea several times.

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of the negotiations and the table of six,

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or what are the meeting of six, whatever it's called.

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So really, kind of stupid of me, not to have thought of

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hooking up with him much, much earlier.

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We had a great Korean lunch.

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It was really weird because I walked in and everyone's like

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Ambassador Greg and Ambassador Greg.

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And I'm 41 still calling him Uncle Don.

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Could help it.

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which was really nice, just have a nice lunch

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and sit in this beautiful library surrounded by pictures of

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presidents and him and all just fantastic artwork,

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Korean, just literature, all kinds of stuff,

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all over the place, really fascinating.

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And we really started talking about politics, of course.

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I mean, this is a guy when I used to stay at my cousin's house,

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which, of course, you know, kids of the ambassador.

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you pick that one up and you get the situation room.

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I do remember picking it up once and hearing some,

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and didn't, you know, I was just like,

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I'll just pick it up and listen to the dial tone and immediately

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it was like, you know, White House operator.

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What's wrong with the Greg?

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So I, you know, I said, you know, we just went on,

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you know, he had so many, he has a lot of frustration

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because he knows Korea so well.

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And obviously North Korea being on the so-called

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Axis of evil.

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So he's a guy who's a Republican who is not at all happy,

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not at all happy with 43.

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George W. Bush, he's very, very vocal about it.

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with a picture of Don, his wife, Meg, the Korean ambassador

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and his wife, and 43, George 41, George H.

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Merry Christmas, this is the good Bush.

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some other message on the card and sent it back to him.

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And I said, you know, but you know, you know, a whole bunch of these

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guys in the regime and of course, the topic was Cheney and he said

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something very interesting. He said, I do not recognize Cheney.

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He's 180 degrees, the opposite of the Cheney he knew.

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And I thought that was pretty interesting.

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But he has all kinds of just fascinating insight into what's going on in the

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world and then he had a guest speaker in and he's caught me. He's slick.

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he goes and meets with his speaker and I introduce his name.

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He goes right to the podium and introduces Ian Bremer, who's from

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the Eurasia group, which is also very interesting.

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This is another guy I want to introduce. I just want to introduce

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some of these people because, you know, it's so the quality of information I

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received and just an afternoon was so much better than any publication

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or news program or just anything that I've been able to learn about

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what's going on. And, you know, so of course we talked a little bit about

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podcasting, which he had not heard of. And I said, look, you know, I had

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really love to have you on the show and just ask you questions.

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off limits. I think I probably have to ask him first, you know, if there's

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stuff I can't even ask about because, you know, throughout the years, I'm sure

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as, you know, growing up in family, you know, you hear stuff that maybe

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not, maybe isn't meant for, for rebroadcast, particularly in the

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earlier agency years. But I'm really excited about that. So in the next,

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I'd say in the next four weeks or so I'm going to try and make it happen.

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I'm going to have the ambassador on the show. It'll be, I think you're really, really

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enjoyed and he has great stories and he does accents when he does stories,

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just a, he's a great storyteller. So that was, that really just perfected an

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already perfect week, even though I was dead dead tired, just from running around

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in the, in the snow in the city, it was very productive and it's good to be home.

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Patricia is leaving in a couple hours. She's, as, as I think I told you, she's going to

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rhododam to help her sister open up her accessories store.

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And I don't know what it's, I should ask her what it's called. So anyway, she's

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getting packed up and then Christina and I will be here for the weekend. Then on

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Sunday, as Patricia is headed home, I'll be heading out to San

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Fran for a week out on the west coast. Because, you know, there's some really

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important stuff that has to be done. Like getting Trinity ready to be

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pumped out. Let me see. Okay, let me see. I, I something I want to talk about,

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but let's just, let's do some some audio stuff first. Okay, then we'll get to

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go back out to Adam. It's got me from Geek Brief TV. Since the Charlie's

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a testing ground for podcasting, I'm wondering if you'd be willing to

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help me try something on the brief. Now, I know everyone's mind goes to a

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slightly inappropriate place when they hear the term Double Ender. But for

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people who don't know, a Double Ender is a technique where people in two

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different places talk on SkyBrown Foam and each recorded conversation. The

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two files are edited together, so you end up with audio quality equivalent to what

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you'd get if both people were recording the same room. I want to do that with

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video and I'd like the first experiment to be an interview with you. Here's how

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it work. We set up a time for an eye chat and we have TV cameras rolling

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on both sides. We do the interview. You send me your aunt and I'll

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mash it up with mine. Mm, dirty. What do you think? Wanna give it a

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try? Okay. How can I refuse and offer for a double ender with you?

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Of course, I'd love to give it a try. I'm going to be in San Francisco. You know, we

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could try the double ender between two rooms or something. You know, just in

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case, you know, the distance is too great in the ass. If you haven't seen

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Callie, you must see geekbrief.tv. Great gadgets, great presentation. It's

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very consumable. It's short. It's fun. It's surprising. There's always

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something else going on. And then, of course, there's, uh, there's Callie.

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Oh, man, we had some good talks over at a serious, uh, serious satellite radio

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HQ about Podsafe music on the bird. Nothing firm that I can talk about yet, but

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we had some really good conversations. And they're really kicking some

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ass over there. It's every single time I go back to serious, there's more

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shit, more paraphernalia rolling through the hallways, but it really

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actually it has a very early 1980s MTV vibe to be, to be honest with you. And

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that's just, you know, besides the fact that Steve leads a sitting in

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office overseeing things, it really does have that vibe to it. And it's

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cool, man. It really is. And it was, what a great trip. Great to hang out with P

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dub as well. And he'll eat. So, um, I was reading in the financial times, I

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believe it was probably Thursday's financial times, uh, but the reports were,

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you know, all over the place that, um, now there are more pictures of Abu

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gripe, uh, more pictures of detainees of, uh, apparent torture.

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And, uh, these have been obtained out of the Freedom of Information Act, and the

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government doesn't want them to be out because that'll cause unrest amongst

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Muslims and blah, blah, blah, blah, and you know, I'm like, okay, uh, I

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think that there is some process. As far as I know, there's some process

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taking place. And, and of course, you never get to the people who may be

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ultimately responsible, but people have been held to account for the

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atrocities that took place in Abu gripe. To me, you know, and this comes

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right back to the cartoons, and really the atrocity of, uh, of what the

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mainstream media is really doing. And to be honest, how influenced

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heavily by of all things, an episode of Boston Legal, um, James Spader, just

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fantastic actor, but the writing on that show is very, very clever, and

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and it does intertwine between reality and the twisted reality that is

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the law firm that includes Captain Kirk. I mean, let's be honest, right?

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And Candace Bergen, and we did have the lockler go, man. I was digging around the

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show. If you really want to make a stir, and you really want to help in

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the outrage that clearly there's outrage about the invasion of Iraq,

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um, there's lots of confusion about what's going on, but, you know, in the

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meantime, more than 2,000 soldiers, US soldiers have died. Over 300

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British soldiers, I believe, uh, Italians, certainly one Dutchman. I'm not sure

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about the Japanese, but they're also part of the quote coalition.

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And during the Vietnam war, the media really brought that war home. And what they

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did was, they showed our young men and women dying on foreign soil. And it

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caused an incredible outrage. And as I was thinking about this and that

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Boston Legal episode influenced me and thinking about this whole cartoon

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controversy. I'm like, you know, you want to be, you want to be a really big guy

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and really publish something that's really going to get some attention and we'll

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really get you in the news. Publish some pictures of dying marines,

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GIs, mail, and female. Publish some of that. And, you know, and this is not, and this

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is just, so I'm very clear, this is not out of disrespect for our service men and women

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quite the opposite, quite the opposite. It's about time that they really got

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respect for what's going on over there. And I feel that our media has not given them one

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single ounce of respect. I mean, even the pictures of the coffins coming back,

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drape with flags. Remember that? Those pictures had kind of been, they tried to

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muffle those away as well, because it's not good from morale. Come on, media, do your

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fucking job. Please excuse me, excuse my French. I hope that we can start a conversation

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about this, because, you know, now that I've been back in the States for a week again,

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I'm really thinking, where is it? Where are the pictures that will actually cause outrage?

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That will actually start a real conversation. And this kind of comes back to the, to the White

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House as well. You know, this whole chainy thing with, you know, trying to hide from the media,

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trying to cover up the story. Look, this is what what's happened. These guys are just like the

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Danny came movie are referred to, at least once a quarter, where they're writing the book of music

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and they sit in some university basement for 10 years writing this book. And by the time they

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come out, jazz has happened and has, has evolved. And, you know, they've completely only written

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maybe one quarter of the entire book of music. So too, with this, with this, with this administration,

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who've been in office during an entire internet revolution, yeah, Al Gore invented it and all that

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shit. But broadband has come really come home. The tools are there. We're creating. We're able to

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communicate very fast, very efficiently with each other. And these guys just don't know what happened.

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They're still doing it the old way. They're not even trying to cover anything up. But the old way

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was, you know, hey, we got to, you know, draw the wagons in a circle. Let's come up with how we're

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and by the way, Uncle Don has some shit to say about this as well. Draw everything in a circle,

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get everything, you know, completely positioned and do it all the right way. These guys can't

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deal with the speed of communication, the speed, which, which the constituency is living at,

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that's what's going on. That's why their PR nightmares continuously, because they're still trying

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to do it the old way. It doesn't work anymore. It does not work.

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Hey, man, that feels good to do that on a Friday. Hey, pretty soon in about two weeks, we'll be

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moving to channel 102 on serious. Currently, you're probably listening to the daily source code on

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serious stars 103. Glad to have you. If you really want to know what all the cool, uh, if you really

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want to hear all the cool stuff, then you have to check out some of these podcasts. Go to a podcast

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dialie.com, go to podshow.com or any podder.org or podcastpickle.com. You could check that out as well.

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For you guys in about five seconds, uh, Mark Yoshimaru Nemkov will come on with a

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Pacific Coast highway and after that the illustrious match Weinstein, and back on the podcast here.

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I have a, a Gmail inbound Gmail from Hank Garner. And I thought was a good question, a fair

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question. Adam, I'm a devout listener. I have a question for you. Does your daughter know about your

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quote, recreation? Just wondering, Hank Garner? Hank, yes, she does. Talking about the recreation.

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Remember now, I grew up in the Netherlands. I moved there when I was seven years old and

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very interesting country. It has changed quite a bit since, uh, since I live there, at least the

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first time around. Um, but there was, and it always has been in the Netherlands, um, culturally

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completely accepted. If you want to smoke a plant, that's your business. And it's not a process

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plant. It's just a plant. In fact, it's a, it's a, it's a weed. It grows just like a weed. Uh, so to are the

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drinking laws very supple in the Netherlands. Um, certainly when I was a child, if you were sick, if you,

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if you, at least look 16, you could walk into any bar and have a beer. And it really, none of these

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things were a big, big prostitution similar, um, regulated, um, kept under wraps, um, prostitutes

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plate, pay taxes, they have regular health checkups. This two has changed somewhat in the years.

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But because it was there and opened, it's no big deal. And nudity, I remember watching, uh,

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comedic shows that would come on at 730 in the evening and, uh, and they would be naked women

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walking around and either for humorous purposes or whatever, but uh, there's no shame for the naked

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body, uh, in the Netherlands. And that, that two has changed a little bit. Um, but that's the environment

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that I grew up in. And so all these things were just not considered a big deal. And guess what,

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if it's not a big deal, then it's not a big deal to have to try these things to an excess. Now,

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what they did do in the Netherlands is made driving very difficult. Most people will not get their

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license on the first go around probably two or three times that you'll have to take the exam before

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you actually pass. I think that's pretty smart. If you take the combination of all those things and

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also, you know, they really need less cars on the road and such a such a pimple of a country.

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Um, so I, uh, this is, this is it within my DNA that it's just not a big deal.

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And, um, when Christina was growing up in the US, she certainly did not, uh, know about any recreation,

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uh, for the simple reason that I wouldn't want her speaking of it, uh, at school because in the

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US, they would probably come and throw my ass in jail. I was really worried about that. Really.

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Um, so, um, but, um, no, she knows what it is. Of course she knows what it is. She's 15.

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She goes to public schools. She knows what everything is. Believe me. But it's no big deal. And she

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doesn't care. And she doesn't, um, she doesn't want to use it herself. She doesn't want to smoke.

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She doesn't smoke cigarettes. Uh, she doesn't drink. Um, and I think it's all just because it's

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no big deal. And if she wants to, then, uh, she knows where she can get a drink. Or if she wants

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something else, she knows where she can get that. She doesn't have to do that outside. So that's

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our vision on parenting. And I have to say we're really, really proud of this kid that we've, uh,

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we've produced and put on earth. We really are. What's this? Oh, yes. Oh, no. The

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cinema playground screens. I was a movie. Hey Adam, Jim from the cinema playground.

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I do. In honor of our one-year anniversary and our hundreds show, I have a new test for you

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in your daily source code listeners. I'll play three movie clips. You guess the movie.

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Okay. It might be a tumor. It's not a tumor. Uh, the Schwarzenegger.

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Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Oh, and in case I don't see you,

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good afternoon, good evening. Jim, uh, do you carry in the Truman Show?

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That one I know.

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The sportos and motorhips, geeks, sluts, bluts, waste oils. Do we be the kids? They all adore it.

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They think he's a righteous dude. Classic. Isn't that the principle from Ferris Bueller's Day off?

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Here they are one more time before giving you the answers. Give yourself extra credit for

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knowing the year and the actor of the movie. All right. Might be a tumor. It's not a tumor.

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From kindergarten and our star Arnold Schwarzenegger from 1989.

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Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Oh, and in case I don't see you,

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good afternoon, good evening and good night. Jim, carry in the 1998 film The Truman Show.

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Sportos and motorhips, geeks, sluts, bluts, waste oils. Do we be the kids? They all adore it.

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They think he's a righteous dude.

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In 1986, 80 McClurg and Ferris Bueller's Day off.

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Wait, I deserve a boring day off. Thanks for playing. Your feedback is appreciated.

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Feedback at cinemaplayground.com. We'll talk to you soon.

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Please remember to replace the speaker on the post when you leave the theater.

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Visit the cinemaplayground at cinemaplayground.com.

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Very cool. Congratulations on 100 episodes. There's a lot of those that have popped up recently. Very cool.

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This is not good at this. You actually pulled some movies that I have seen. And of course Ferris Bueller's

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Day off is such a classic and it was hard not to recognize Schwarzenegger. The boy,

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do I miss those hit tests? Oh, I wish we could do hit tests again. Really?

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Hey, Adam, this is Tokyo Jo from the newly released Made in Japan podcast.

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Hey, TJ. I just wanted to come in briefly and a couple of things that came up in Delta,

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Sarah, Charlie, 335. I see that Howard Stern has received some interest again from some

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of your listeners. And I was reminded of his thoughts or I lacked their love about podcasting when

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you're first talking about him a few months ago. So I decided to take a look at what podcast

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Ali is showing for statistics. And I see that as of today, there's 14,627 podcasts listed on podcast

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Ali. Now, it's thinking at each of them averages 100 listeners. Now, I know that not every podcast has

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100 listeners, but if you consider the DSC and Don and Drew probably make up for quite a bit of us who

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don't have the 100 listeners on average as yet. 14,627 podcasts times 100 listeners is 1.5 million

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listeners. Now, in the end, that may not be many just yet. But I think the important point of

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all this is that that's 100 or sorry, 1.5 million listeners listening from around the world.

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I've liked and I've listened a stern for a number of years when I was in the States,

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but on terrestrial radio or satellite radio, I can't hear them at all here in Tokyo, obviously.

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And you know, from that perspective, isn't one reason that podcasting is better than radio,

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it's simply because it's reach that can go around the world. And secondly, and briefly,

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this whole thing on advertising, you know, I heard the the communal earthling idea yesterday,

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I think it's great. But like some I said, also on the PSA's podcast, the impact of the

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burp in the Sinsayo comment, it's hit me like a ton of bricks. And I'm so in tune with the burping

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idea that anytime someone around me burps, I fall off with the Sinsayo, I actually board it out.

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And now all of my Japanese colleagues and friends, I'm sure they think I'm nuts,

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because you know, Sinsayo's not here and none of them have it, of course. Anyway, association

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advertising for my perspective really works. I don't care if you burp or fart at him,

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don't matter at all. This stuff really has my attention. I think it's something worth pursuing.

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Hey, keep it up, Adam, and thanks. All right, man. So two things, first of all, I think there are

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some podcasts of stirring around. And I believe that there's like a daily one minute or something that's

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uh, I had a meeting with Jennifer Betcat at serious. She's a formerly of AOL and she's actually got a pretty

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difficult task of integrating their website into their programming, which, of course, is not necessarily

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in the DNA like it is with podcasting, not of broadcasters. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

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comic strip, a blogger. Guess what, dude? Your wish is my command. Jennifer has promised me

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that the serious pod shows will be streaming. It's coming, my brother. It's coming.

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Now, regarding the earth link and advertising, yeah, the sound advertising, of course,

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was a tremendous experiment and I'm very happy with it. I can't even deprogram people. In

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fact, when I tried that, I got lots of people angry about the whole burping thing just by itself.

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So it is kind of limited in scope, because I don't have that many more bodily noises that I can

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that I'm guaranteed will show up within each, you know, within a half hour, basically, in any given

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half hour, and recording the show. So it's what somewhat limited in scope. Now, I'm a little disappointed

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for all the noise, all the pushback, all the the the flames and the ranting about the earth link

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advertising. So here we are. A Tuesday, I have a strategy, a strategy meeting.

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Thank God, it's not a steering committee, but we have a strategy meeting about the next earth link

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campaign. And this is going to be user generated. So, you know, now I've heard from lots of people,

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but all the people who yelled the loudest haven't come up with any really creative ideas,

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and I'd really like to hear from you because here's the opportunity. You know, you get the

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determined, how you want it to happen. So, you know, it's real easy to slag it, but now let's

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come up with some creative stuff, looking forward to it. I got plenty of ideas. I'm just very curious

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to see if some of the loud mouths have ideas. Hey, Happy, what are you doing? I'm about to jump

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on the information super highway in that old plunker. You got a better idea? Sure, do.

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First one. What can earth link give me that? I don't have here already. Earth link can give

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you an internet safe from viruses and scammers. Earth link can keep your personal information

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personal with free antivirus software of firewall and a spyware blocker. But I want to get on the

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information super highway. Come on, get in. Earth link has high speed options that really need.

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I love earth link. Earth link. We revolve around you. I love it. Thank you. That's the

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bedtime stories go for there for you. One thing up today's end of the week's shows with email

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from cyber, cypster DJ, cypster DJ from the cypster space electronic podcast. Good day Adam.

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Just found this great song from the P&M. It's pretty funky. It's called Preacher Man by Oh,

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yeah, and I think you're like, you know what? I did totally dig it. It is kind of funky. It's like

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electronic with tau whites playing.

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[ Music ]

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To feel me in the red

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To feel me in the red

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Well, pretty much a man

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On the pod safe music network

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A music dot pot show dot com

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New servers in place

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New structures

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tables, whatever crap I needed to be done.

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And Chris Walkwell said it's already.

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The purchasing is ready.

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So I told him make it so.

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Number one, make it live.

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It isn't live yet, but you should be able to test on

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pod save for peace today, I guess.

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Hopefully Chris is hearing this today, right, Chris?

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Today.

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Otherwise we're both going to have to

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teach other on president's day in the office

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because I am the president.

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All right, everybody.

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Thank you very much for traveling with me to New York

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and back again Sunday.

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I take off for San Francisco.

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So it'll be from the Curry condo on Monday.

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It'll be fun to see if Trinity still starts.

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If there's no flat tires.

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Some interesting guests on the podcast coming up this week.

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Oh, we'll talk about bird flu.

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And we'll talk about biodiesel and just all kinds of stuff coming up.

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Fo show daily source code.com is where you can find the podcast

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feed to subscribe to the show.

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And of course, latest episodes.

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Adam Curry dot com for all your feedback and have a great weekend

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everybody. Bye. Bye.

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Another pod show podcast.

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Stick it in your ear.