1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,920 Hey, it's Tony Costa telling you to check out this christmaspodcast.com. 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:06,720 It's the official podcast for the new Sony film. 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:11,040 This Christmas starring Chris Brown for Gina King, Columbus Short, 4 00:00:11,040 --> 00:00:12,720 and an all-star cast. 5 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:16,400 The site includes a special holiday podcast from yours truly, 6 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,880 exclusive interviews from the stars in the film, 7 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:22,240 and a special red carpet coverage from the premiere. 8 00:00:22,240 --> 00:00:26,160 You can exchange gifts, but you can't exchange family. 9 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:29,040 This Christmas is truly the next holiday classic. 10 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:31,360 See it in theaters on November 21st, 11 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:34,960 and please check us out at this christmaspodcast.com. 12 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:09,040 I like to think I'm flying into this christmaspodcast.com, it's Adam Curry. 13 00:01:09,040 --> 00:04:57,520 [ Music ] 14 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:11,120 I'm really not sure how I, on Mr. Span's record came out, but a year ago, from the UK, PG Devon and 3D. 15 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:12,720 Tears don't last forever. 16 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:17,600 If I'm looking at their page here on the Pod State Music Network, influences, yeah, 17 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:21,700 no kidding, the Beatles, Green Day, Led Zeppelin, Otis Redding, Sam Cook. 18 00:05:21,700 --> 00:05:26,200 Fanta, one of these guys is still around, no new tracks in November 29th of 2006, great 19 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:32,040 music to kick off at Tuesday on your daily source code, episode number 690. 20 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:38,200 Well, actually, turns out I somehow skipped two episodes. 21 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,040 Someone pointed this out to me, yes, the only one person emailed me about it. 22 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:49,960 I posted show number 689 yesterday and indeed, looking back on Friday, it was show 686. 23 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:57,560 So 8687 and 689 are MIA, which means I think I'm just going to continue the count from 24 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:00,840 690 and then somewhere we'll do two secret episodes. 25 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:04,040 I don't want to mess up people who have a perfect collection, then you have stuff coming 26 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:05,040 out in the wrong order. 27 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:08,760 So, sorry about that. 28 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:10,760 Ha, must smoke less crack. 29 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:18,640 Hey, another a dreary day here in the UK, it's gray outside, it's wet and, of course, I'm 30 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:24,440 going to go into the city, battle the traffic, battle the new expanded congestion zone, 31 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:28,600 which has screwed everything up and let all kinds of people from Chelsea into the city 32 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:30,600 for almost zero cost. 33 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:32,600 Ah, so it goes. 34 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:33,600 Yeah, we've done some cool shit. 35 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:39,440 You know, we launched a new show on Monday here in the UK, it's called Spirit Messenger 36 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:40,440 with Gordon Smith. 37 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:43,840 Gordon Smith is a guy who's been getting a lot of attention here in the UK in the past 38 00:06:43,840 --> 00:06:49,480 couple weeks, and maybe even months, he's a psychic, or as we call him a spirit messenger. 39 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:54,080 He's a medium quite well known, used to be known as the psychic barber in the UK. 40 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:57,440 I think he's trying to change that image. 41 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:03,680 I stumbled across him through super agent Keith Bishop several months ago, and we 42 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:06,760 kept talking about, you know, we really got to do a show and then finally we just sat down 43 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:11,760 and we just did a show and his great spirit messenger dot podshow dot com. 44 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:18,400 This guy is pretty unbelievable and he does it in in under 10 minutes, at least that's 45 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:20,600 what's that's the show that we're making with him. 46 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:23,600 I don't see why you have to have a spirit show that's longer than 10 minutes. 47 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:25,360 Get to the point, help these people. 48 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:31,040 He's actually, he doesn't do a private reading and readings anymore, or even public readings 49 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:32,800 for that matter. 50 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:37,800 He's written several books and he's now in the field of grief counseling. 51 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:42,680 So the entire point of the show is there are people who have lost their loved ones and 52 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:48,160 they missed them dearly and he helps get in touch with them and counsels them as a medium 53 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:52,520 he passes on the messages from the spirit world. 54 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:55,560 It's funny because we've got a couple of people at the office who just don't believe 55 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:56,560 in this. 56 00:07:56,560 --> 00:08:01,360 They're working on the show and they're at, you know, really trying to say, you know, 57 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:06,560 this is just not real and even the biggest critics are now like, well, shit looks 58 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:07,560 pretty damn real. 59 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:08,560 Sounds pretty good. 60 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:12,000 Ah, let's see, trolling the voicemail line. 61 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,560 You know, I haven't played the voicemail lines in quite a such a time. 62 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:19,120 Actually, it turned out that there were more people calling in on the UK voicemail number 63 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:20,120 today than the US number. 64 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:22,480 So I'm going to give you a shot at both for a second. 65 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:39,480 Here's one for the Yankee Doodles. 66 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:41,480 Oh, what the hell was that? 67 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:42,480 Let's try that again. 68 00:08:42,480 --> 00:09:00,480 Now, of course, here's the first message that came through. 69 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:02,680 All right, I'll write a random fuck you. 70 00:09:02,680 --> 00:09:03,680 Adam Curry. 71 00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:04,680 Stop talking about that. 72 00:09:04,680 --> 00:09:05,680 I'm not. 73 00:09:05,680 --> 00:09:06,680 All right. 74 00:09:06,680 --> 00:09:08,680 And I'm going to buy it. 75 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:14,880 I just bought the N95 and now I have to buy this, you like, to thank you, have a nice day 76 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:15,880 and fuck you. 77 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:18,080 I don't buy it yet, man. 78 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:19,080 I haven't received it. 79 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:22,160 I haven't been able to do a full test yet, so I don't know if it's really going to rock 80 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:23,160 that hard. 81 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:24,520 Actually, I do. 82 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:26,160 I know it's going to be awesome. 83 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:27,480 I've been waiting for this one. 84 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:29,120 This is the device I've been waiting for. 85 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,320 Finally, I think all the pieces are coming together. 86 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:37,600 I've come together and it's a great intermediary between my cell phone and my computer. 87 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:41,160 Yeah, I got a page at curry.com. 88 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:46,560 Then keep your eye on a daily source code.com for a great deal on the N810. 89 00:09:46,560 --> 00:09:48,880 But first, let's wait until I get my device. 90 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:51,360 And because if it sucks, if I don't like it, I'm not going to be 91 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:52,040 hawking it to you. 92 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:54,320 Trust me, no matter what anyone else does. 93 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:56,200 But I have a feeling I'm going to like it very much. 94 00:09:56,200 --> 00:10:00,640 I've been spending even more time with my N800 recently. 95 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:04,160 Last night, I think the, I wonder how long the battery, how many 96 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:06,560 rechargees you can get on one of these batteries. 97 00:10:06,560 --> 00:10:10,160 They use a standard cell phone battery so that it really lasts a long time 98 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:12,240 depending on what you're doing. 99 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:14,600 But I don't know if I just don't know how long the last. 100 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:16,920 I wonder how long have I had the N800 a year or so? 101 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:19,240 I should just look that up. 102 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:22,760 Yeah, I think it's been almost a year. 103 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:24,920 And let me see, it's still holding in charge. 104 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:25,920 I'll check today. 105 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:28,000 I'm going to load it full up today. 106 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:32,200 And then hopefully tomorrow, if I can eat a show out tomorrow, 107 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:34,280 let you know how many hours it lasted. 108 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:39,680 But it does do a pretty good job, which is one of the big, big advantages of this over 109 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:42,000 any other portable device. 110 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:43,560 That was really the bummer with the iPhone. 111 00:10:43,560 --> 00:10:47,400 It's combined with the web surfing I do, which I do a lot of, you know, 112 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:52,320 just checking me email and looking at other things, Google reader. 113 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:56,080 I use a lot, I use the phone a lot. 114 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:58,400 And a seven hour day is just not enough. 115 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:02,600 I mean, maybe enough for people in Cupertino, but it's not enough for me. 116 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:04,840 Ah, let's check in with our European Congress. 117 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:06,440 Come on, come on, strip. 118 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:08,480 Come on, strip. 119 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:09,480 Come on, strip. 120 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:11,480 Come on, strip. 121 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:12,480 Come on, strip. 122 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:13,480 Come on, strip. 123 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:14,480 Come on, strip. 124 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:15,480 Come on, strip. 125 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:16,480 Come on, strip. 126 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:17,480 Come on, strip. 127 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:18,480 Come on, strip. 128 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:20,720 Fancy a carry in a carry. 129 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:22,680 Mr. Adam Curry. 130 00:11:22,680 --> 00:11:26,680 Hiya, here is CSB, your EU correspondent. 131 00:11:26,680 --> 00:11:29,680 So England gets closer to Europe. 132 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:35,200 Last week on Wednesday, Europe start trains from England to France. 133 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:39,240 And to Belgium are leaving, not from the shameful water load station. 134 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:41,560 You know, French is where I'm meeting at Waterloo. 135 00:11:41,560 --> 00:11:44,240 But from Renewed, Saint-Pavent-Cath station. 136 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:47,800 Yeah, what's up with that? 137 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:53,120 Wait a minute, I thought it came in the Waterloo station, or at least on the Euro rail side, 138 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:57,320 the Euro Star side of the Waterloo station, which is quite nice compared to Waterloo 139 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:59,040 station itself, which is my station. 140 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:00,040 I thought they were going in there. 141 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:05,520 Now, travel to England, from England to Europe, short ends by 20 minutes. 142 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:10,880 And after 2012, it will be even possible to go from England to Germany, from which 143 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:15,040 original Anglo-Saxons came from anyway. 144 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:17,240 So happy on the road to you, Adam. 145 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:18,240 You. 146 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:19,240 Ha ha. 147 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:22,040 Happy Emery to you, to my friend. 148 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:25,320 Although the pound has lost a little bit against the Euro on the dollar recently, which 149 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:27,360 is in a way kind of nice. 150 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,680 I still have lots of Euro, so that works for me. 151 00:12:30,680 --> 00:12:31,680 Forget getting dollars. 152 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:34,680 That's just the sad state of affairs. 153 00:12:34,680 --> 00:12:38,120 Yeah, this high-speed train stuff is pretty cool. 154 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:41,680 And I think it's a lot more convenient than the airports these day. 155 00:12:41,680 --> 00:12:46,560 Well, of course, you know, with the Delta Shira, with my own craft, it's the easiest of 156 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:47,560 all. 157 00:12:47,560 --> 00:12:52,560 But yeah, it seems like, in fact, the girls were talking to me about going to Disneyland 158 00:12:52,560 --> 00:12:57,320 Paris just before the Christmas holiday, which I think is a great idea. 159 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:01,120 I do, I am a sucker for Disneyland, I have to say, and you particularly when everything's 160 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:02,120 just right. 161 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:03,120 So that's what they do with Disney. 162 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:04,360 Everything's just kind of right. 163 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:08,480 It's the way you expect it to be. 164 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:11,840 And it's only like two hours or something like that by train, and so it's going to go 165 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:12,840 to Germany as well. 166 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:13,840 This is cool. 167 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:14,840 This is very cool. 168 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:18,640 Right now, I would say flying out of Heathrow or Gattwick is just not worth it. 169 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:24,440 You know, it's, yeah, I mean, sure, if you have to go to Finland, then you can't get 170 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:27,480 there by train easily, just yet. 171 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:31,840 Of course, the French and the Germans are striking. 172 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:37,000 So the German real workers of striking, I don't know if that affects the Euro star. 173 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,400 And the French, if it's Tuesday, of course, they're striking. 174 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:40,400 They always strike on Tuesday. 175 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:45,120 So they can get the maximum benefit of having the rest of the week off or almost as good 176 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:48,520 as the rest of the week off. 177 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:54,320 Speaking of strikes, New Story came out yesterday that the CBS news writers are now 178 00:13:54,320 --> 00:14:00,560 having now approved a strike, which they would do to support the writers' guild of America 179 00:14:00,560 --> 00:14:02,720 strike, which is going on there. 180 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:08,160 It's still going on in what it's third week now in California. 181 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:11,000 Let me see, I got the, it's a market watch story. 182 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,760 Let me see what I've got here. 183 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:14,760 Yeah. 184 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:17,080 So here it comes. 185 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:21,520 CBS news writers voted to Spurn, CBS has contract offer in November of last year since 186 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:25,200 then the network has refused to put forth any new proposals. 187 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:27,520 It looks like they're going to go on strike. 188 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:33,200 And then, of course, there's the non-scripted drama, a better known as reality writers. 189 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:34,440 They aren't in the guild. 190 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:35,600 There is no guild for that. 191 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:41,720 So expect to see a lot more reality shows in the coming few weeks, because I don't believe 192 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:43,000 they're going to work this out. 193 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:47,400 In fact, I think it's very difficult to work out this writer's strike because, well, quite 194 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:56,960 honestly, it's very complicated to make money online with video. 195 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:59,880 No one's really making any, we're making money. 196 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:06,280 It's costing a lot still to do it, but look at YouTube, I don't even see any ads. 197 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:09,560 Let alone a few. 198 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:11,600 Just look at many other sites out there. 199 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:13,640 The no one is really making a lot of money. 200 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:18,040 And of course, if there's not a lot of money to be made, then there's no profit to be 201 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:19,040 divvyed out. 202 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:20,880 And of course, that's not what the writers are going for. 203 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:27,360 The writers are going for a piece of the gross proceeds, which is just, it's Hollywood. 204 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:28,360 It's the movie business. 205 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:31,000 You're never going to be able to figure that out. 206 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:32,960 I feel really bad for him. 207 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:33,960 I don't know. 208 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:35,280 I still like Jack Myers. 209 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:39,640 If you haven't ever seen Jack Myers column, he's a media analyst. 210 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:42,160 Jack Myers.com. 211 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:47,480 And his suggestion was that the advertiser should create a pool of money that should 212 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:52,160 be divvy out to the writers. 213 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:57,160 So any money that is spent on interactive advertising, instead of getting it from the 214 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:01,280 recipient of that money, which is the studios and the producers, he's suggesting, why not 215 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:07,720 do it at the source and just have, whatever the budgets are, whatever budgets any of these 216 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:13,600 agencies, who, of course, collect 15% agency commission over any media buy they do. 217 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:17,680 So it would technically come out of their pocket and not out of the advertisers, that 218 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:21,800 1% should go to this pool and that should be divvyed up amongst the writers. 219 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:26,680 But of course, there's a lot of other unions that will pop up, who also work on these and 220 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:29,320 probably don't get residuals either. 221 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:30,320 So tough. 222 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:33,760 I think that's called a conundrum. 223 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:37,680 I got this awesome email from, who do I get that from? 224 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:41,600 This is, man, this is almost something I want to hear this. 225 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:46,840 Of course, Alexander, he sent me a link and I'm going to post this in the show notes 226 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:53,680 of dailysourcecode.com of private contractors that have US government contracts in Iraq 227 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:56,680 and Afghanistan between 2004 and 2006. 228 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:03,920 This is essentially where our tax dollars are going to fight to terror in those regions. 229 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:10,440 And what's interesting is, and, you know, this, he has links to public integrity.org. 230 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:16,200 And at the top of the list, there's 20 billion, actually $20.4 billion going to unidentified 231 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:17,200 foreign entities. 232 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:23,080 So that's just $20 billion that is not identifiable as to what, what our money was spent 233 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:24,080 on. 234 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:30,040 Number two is KBR with $16 billion in two years time. 235 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:37,080 Of course, KBR formerly known as Kellogg Brown and Ruit, a fine halibut in subsidiary. 236 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:43,400 Then it's Dine Corp International through Veritas Capital with $1 billion, boy, it's a big 237 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:44,400 drop. 238 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:46,000 Washington Group International Inc. 239 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:47,000 Another billion. 240 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:54,840 And then IAP Worldwide Services Inc, a division of service service, I guess, service capital 241 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:55,840 management. 242 00:17:55,840 --> 00:18:02,840 This is, let me just see if there's any recognizable names, Blackwater USA, 485 million 243 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:08,640 Lockheed Martin, that mall makes sense, that's all. 244 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:17,920 What I'm not seeing, oh, Tyco International, Boeing Corp, Zapata Engineering, these are all 245 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:21,720 pretty new well-known companies. 246 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:28,360 I'm looking for, because when I was in Bosra in 2004, was that 2003 at the Air Base, 247 00:18:28,360 --> 00:18:33,560 which, of course, has been, has been a lot of crap going on in Bosra in the past year. 248 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:39,320 It was a Burger King and was it a Burger King in a Pizza Hut or Macdonald? 249 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:42,480 No, I think it was a Burger King in a Pizza Hut. 250 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:46,640 So I'm wondering if they show up here, wouldn't that be funny? 251 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:52,640 This is only the top 100 with the number 100 company being ODB construction company, 252 00:18:52,640 --> 00:19:00,640 receiving 8 million, oh, only a poultry, 8 million, oh, there's a fine Dutch company 253 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:01,640 there. 254 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:03,840 SHV Holdings and V, let's find out what they do. 255 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:11,000 Well, second, I'm going to go to this public integrity.org website, let's see, Defense Logistics 256 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:20,400 Agency, Contract SP0600411D, full and open competition after exclusion of sources. 257 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:28,880 They provide converters of the electrical non-rotating kind for $17 million, nice, nice job. 258 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:34,240 If you can get it, let's get into the spirit, shall we, since our government is giving 259 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:37,440 away all of our money, why don't we think about giving away some money in the form of 260 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:49,840 presence and think of the horror they see as in? 261 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:53,560 Bull hay, everyone, this is Ed Roberts from the Looking Out the Window Music podcast. 262 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:58,280 It's that time of the year, time to ring in the Christmas season, time to ring in another 263 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:06,240 season of Pods' Safe Christmas. 264 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:11,680 Every day between Thanksgiving and Christmas will roll out three or four great Pods' Safe Christmas 265 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:14,200 tracks to get you into the Christmas season. 266 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:18,760 Visit PodsafeChristmas.com and look forward to having you join me here in this Christmas 267 00:20:21,250 --> 00:23:56,250 [ Music ] 268 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:08,080 be here again, my friends, when we all gather around the fire, hope to find your sweetheart 269 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:13,200 of the mistletoe, it's Christmas, and we're wishing you a podsafe for you. 270 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:18,600 Mindy Smith, Santa will find you, I guess. 271 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:26,280 This is a crazy story that came across my spectrum this morning, there's now a drug that 272 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:32,840 lengthens eyelashes, this of course is what Revlon and others have been claiming for years 273 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:38,040 to be able to do with the pure mascara, which of course is horseshorshit and they even got 274 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:45,120 in trouble for using stick-on lashes, false eyelashes and the commercials, which of course 275 00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:50,480 is something the lady Patricia has been calling out for years and years, but now there's 276 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:59,560 this glaucoma drug called Lumagon, Lumagon, I guess, and turns out that if you apply 277 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:05,800 this to your eyelashes, it actually makes your eyelashes grow longer. 278 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:12,960 So BIMA TOPROST is the active ingredient in Lumagon and others like it is a commonly 279 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:19,600 found in glaucoma drugs, it looks like mascara tube has a brush or tip for applying the product 280 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:25,920 along the base of the lashes and typically sells for $14260 in spas and doctors' offices. 281 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:32,160 So of course this is going to be a big news story because it's irrelevant, so be on the 282 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:35,920 lookout for it and it'll be top of the news everyone's going to be talking about it. 283 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:41,920 Even though we're spending billions on commercial companies fighting a non-existent 284 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:48,840 and well not a non-existent, an invisible enemy, a poorly defined enemy, namely terror. 285 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:52,840 Which is everywhere, it's on the roller coasters. 286 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,840 I'm not in college today, that's all I can say. 287 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:57,840 Hey Adam, you're Germany. 288 00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:58,840 Hey you? 289 00:25:58,840 --> 00:25:59,840 Hope all as well. 290 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:00,840 Yes. 291 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:07,840 It's been here to be 689 chilling out, nice couple herbal tea, if you know what I mean, and really enjoying 292 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:08,840 it. 293 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:10,840 I read this awesome book over the weekend. 294 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,840 You probably know when it's called Mr. Nice. 295 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:14,840 No, yeah. 296 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,840 It's written by Howard Knox and this guy's something else man. 297 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:25,840 I think he was one of the biggest smugglers of Mario Wana while back a couple years ago. 298 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:31,840 And he wrote this book in which he describes exactly how he smuggled and what he did to boost 299 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:36,840 the government and to get everything across the borders. 300 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:37,840 Great book. 301 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:39,840 I really enjoyed reading it. 302 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,840 I think he's also definitely a red pill guy. 303 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:48,840 I go a little bit, but it seems that he's pretty open to doing some to do an interview. 304 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,840 So you might even get him on the other day in the source. 305 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:53,840 That would be really nice. 306 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:54,840 See you, bye. 307 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:56,840 Yeah, interesting suggestion. 308 00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:00,840 And I'm always looking for someone interesting to talk to on the Charlie. 309 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:06,840 I read the book, Mr. Nice, about Howard Marx, which was actually should have been my first clue 310 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:12,840 that my, one of my old business partners in Holland who later fled the country. 311 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:21,840 As it turned out, the name I'd known him under for eight years and his name known in business on large contracts was not his real name. 312 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,840 I fled to Cambodia of all places. 313 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:27,840 It turned out, I mean, it's a long, as a really stupid story. 314 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,840 Not a very happy ending to that one. 315 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:33,840 But he recommended I read this book. 316 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:39,840 And of course, Howard Marx, famous for smuggling huge quantities of mainly marijuana. 317 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:46,840 And later, ecstasy, I believe, as that started to gain popularity towards the end of his quote, 318 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:47,840 career. 319 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:54,840 They would smuggle it in cases for amplifiers with bands traveling around Europe. 320 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:58,840 And quite interesting, big companies that are behind all this. 321 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:02,840 You know, hundreds of millions of euros in this trade. 322 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:06,840 And yeah, it's like, it's an interesting book. 323 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:11,840 It's maybe a bit of a glorification of the drug smuggling trade. 324 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,840 Yeah, he's a red pill, but I don't know. 325 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:16,840 I just don't find the story that interesting. 326 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,840 But it is a good read for sure. 327 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:23,840 If you want to know more about smuggling drugs, 328 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:24,840 I can't miss their nice. 329 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:25,840 Ah, you know what? 330 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:29,840 I'll put a link in the show notes to the book at Amazon.com. 331 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:31,840 So you can buy that. 332 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:33,840 I also grew a year older over the weekend. 333 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,840 Or it felt like 10 years older. 334 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:37,840 My daughter started her first driving lesson ever. 335 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:39,840 Oh, yeah, boy. 336 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:43,840 Of course, they don't have drivers at here in Europe or in the UK. 337 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:47,840 So it's not quite like the States where, you know, 15 or 16. 338 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:49,840 They're already taken drivers at. 339 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:51,840 And it's kind of a part of the schooling process. 340 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:53,840 And here it's a separate deal. 341 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:54,840 She had a great lesson, though. 342 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:55,840 She said she's really well. 343 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:59,840 She used to drive the tractor when she was a 10 or 11. 344 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:00,840 10, 11, 12. 345 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:03,840 No, when she was more like, yeah, 12, 12, 13. 346 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,840 When we had the castle, we had a little mini tractor, which is cool. 347 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:07,840 And she was good. 348 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:09,840 She could do the clutch and shift and all that. 349 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:10,840 So, you know, she's got a lot of that baked in. 350 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,840 But still, just kind of makes you feel like, oh, you know, crab. 351 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:14,840 Get old. 352 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:15,840 Hey, Adam. 353 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:17,840 Alan, person's also here. 354 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:18,840 Okay. 355 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:19,840 Now it's just on my way home. 356 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:20,840 Listen to my agenda. 357 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:22,840 Got to say, together, PG6. 358 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:23,840 You've got to be drinking. 359 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:24,840 You'll succeed. 360 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:28,840 It's got to be the best thing we could get in the UK. 361 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,840 Anyway, try it out. 362 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:31,840 Well, follow the rectal. 363 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:32,840 Okay. 364 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:33,840 Yep. 365 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:34,840 Cheers. 366 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:35,840 Well, let's end reference to the conversation. 367 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,840 I have with John C. Dvorak on no agenda. 368 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:39,840 Talking about what's the real. 369 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,840 I didn't know that he was a big tea guy. 370 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,840 He's just a, anything you can put in your mouth. 371 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:45,840 He's into. 372 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:46,840 Yes, that too. 373 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:47,840 I'm sure. 374 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:49,840 The wine food, tea coffees. 375 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:51,840 He loves it all. 376 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,840 And I was saying that, you know, we typically drink PG tips. 377 00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:56,840 But this Yorkshire stuff. 378 00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:57,840 Okay. 379 00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:58,840 I'll try that out. 380 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,840 I presume I can get that at Sainsbury's, which is where we shop. 381 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:03,840 All right. 382 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:04,840 Well, you know what? 383 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:06,840 I'm just going to really slow. 384 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:10,840 You know, have you ever had those moments where you just like to stop the world? 385 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,840 I think these moments are important, by the way, because we go so fast. 386 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:15,840 We're whirling around through the universe. 387 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:20,840 But hundreds of thousands of miles an hour, we're sending our bits, you know, 388 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:26,840 in packet form across the, the interwebs on an hourly minute, second basis. 389 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:30,840 Sometimes you're just going to slow everything down and just say, 390 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:39,840 I need to stop, stop the world, slow down, relax, and listen to a piece of music 391 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,840 from the soundtrack to my life. 392 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:44,840 Thank you. 393 00:30:44,840 --> 00:33:12,840 [ Music ] 394 00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:14,840 Thank you. 395 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:44,840 Thank you. 396 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:46,840 Thank you. 397 00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:14,840 Thank you. 398 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:43,840 Thank you.