WEBVTT 00:03.000 --> 00:10.000 The power of your own power is infinite. 00:10.000 --> 00:13.000 What? Good evening, everybody! 00:13.000 --> 00:15.000 Yes! It still exists! 00:21.000 --> 00:27.000 to redo on Saturday the 18th, and here we are, 10.36pm on Sunday the 19th. 00:40.500 --> 00:43.500 36 hours that I had so much to... 00:46.500 --> 00:48.500 which is where I had my office. 00:51.000 --> 00:59.000 A spaghetti factory has exploded and anyone who's ever tinkered around with audio and patch cables and wires probably knows exactly what I'm talking about. 00:59.000 --> 01:05.000 It kinda looks like my room when I was 6 years old too, you know, stringing wires all across the room. 01:16.500 --> 01:21.500 So let me see, of course life got in the way of having some actual real fun here. 01:21.500 --> 01:25.500 I had to go up, I was being interviewed for a TV show so I had to be... 01:30.000 --> 01:35.000 And there's some financial meetings I could do and actually I really wanted to go back to Belgium 01:35.000 --> 01:38.000 And then possibly even fly back up to Amsterdam or even stay there 01:39.000 --> 01:41.000 for the 27th annual 01:42.000 --> 01:45.000 reunion of the pirate radio station I worked at in the 01:46.000 --> 01:49.000 very early 80 81 79 through 01:51.000 --> 01:58.000 27th annual reunion Christ. So I drove back down to Belgium and it being a Friday, 01:58.000 --> 02:03.000 usually traffic is a little bit heavier. It takes about an hour and a half to get from Belgium to Amsterdam 02:03.000 --> 02:09.000 and vice versa from where we live. And there were a couple of accidents. So I wound up spending about 02:09.000 --> 02:14.000 three hours on the road. Didn't get it until 6.30. And I said, well, screw it. I'm going to have dinner here 02:14.000 --> 02:16.000 with the... 02:16.500 --> 02:17.500 That's my daughter Christina. 02:17.500 --> 02:20.500 She said, what are you doing? 02:20.500 --> 02:21.500 What are you wearing? 02:21.500 --> 02:22.500 Mom's Uggs. 02:22.500 --> 02:23.500 OK. 02:28.500 --> 02:30.500 So it was 10. 02:30.500 --> 02:31.500 Oh, so it was about 7 o'clock. 02:31.500 --> 02:32.500 We had dinner. 02:32.500 --> 02:34.500 And Christina was out. 02:34.500 --> 02:39.500 She was training for horse riding. 02:39.500 --> 02:42.500 So we hung out, watched a bit of TV in there on 10.15, 02:42.500 --> 02:43.500 10.30. 02:43.500 --> 02:45.500 I said, OK, I'm going to go record the source code. 02:45.500 --> 02:49.500 And Patricia said, well, why don't you do that tomorrow 02:49.500 --> 02:50.500 when you're nice and fresh? 02:50.500 --> 02:52.500 I said, no, it's Friday. 02:52.500 --> 02:52.500 I've got to do this. 02:52.500 --> 02:54.500 I have to do it every single day. 02:54.500 --> 02:59.500 And it was like five or six minutes late. 02:59.500 --> 03:00.500 I was thinking about Saturday morning. 03:00.500 --> 03:04.500 And I was humming a tune, which is Chicago Saturday 03:04.500 --> 03:05.500 in the Park. 03:05.500 --> 03:06.500 So I'm humming this tune. 03:06.500 --> 03:08.500 And I'm singing along with the lyrics. 03:15.000 --> 03:21.000 And the Patricia says, no no no no, it's uh, Saturday in the park, I think it was the first of July, and of course! 03:21.000 --> 03:25.000 Yeah, after 17 years of marriage, you say, wanna bet? 03:33.000 --> 03:37.000 Right, so obviously I won the bet, which I knew I would. 03:37.000 --> 03:38.000 You never want to bet with a disj- 03:40.500 --> 03:46.500 And, um, as sometimes will happen between consenting adults, you know, they'll make some kind of... 03:48.000 --> 03:56.000 Maybe it's insurable for broadcast, no matter if it's on airwaves or on MP3. 03:56.000 --> 03:58.000 So needless to say... 04:03.000 --> 04:10.000 Anyway, so to make it up and then of course I'll tell you what happened on Saturday morning and Sunday all the stuff that I went through 04:12.000 --> 04:13.000 Oh, we're gonna play a couple s- 04:26.250 --> 07:43.750 [ Music ] 07:49.500 --> 07:50.500 from Belgium. 07:50.500 --> 07:53.500 Okay, so Saturday morning, I got up bright and early, 07:53.500 --> 07:55.500 had all these songs all chosen, of course, 07:55.500 --> 07:57.500 you know, it's gonna make total sense 07:57.500 --> 07:58.500 to play that on Saturday 07:58.500 --> 08:01.500 and to make up for missing out on Friday. 08:02.500 --> 08:06.500 And I was up at 7.30, got everything together. 08:06.500 --> 08:11.500 I reverted back to the old way of recording. 08:11.500 --> 08:12.500 And I was figuring, you know, 08:12.500 --> 08:15.500 I'd get one source code down and then, you know, 08:15.500 --> 08:17.500 I'd really work on my audio setup 08:17.500 --> 08:19.500 to make the new show, Trade Secrets, 08:19.500 --> 08:22.500 much, much better from quality, of quality. 08:22.500 --> 08:24.500 Because, you know, I was sitting in the car 08:24.500 --> 08:26.500 for so many hours, it had my iPod with me, of course. 08:26.500 --> 08:31.500 And it had the first, the inaugural Trade Secret show 08:32.500 --> 08:33.500 loaded up on it. 08:33.500 --> 08:34.500 So I had a chance to listen to the show 08:34.500 --> 08:35.500 and I was not happy. 08:35.500 --> 08:36.500 I was happy with the content. 08:38.500 --> 08:43.500 I thought it was very good for a first co-host show. 08:43.500 --> 08:46.500 Particularly if you've known each other for a long time, 08:46.500 --> 08:49.500 because the risk, and Dave Slusher pointed this out 08:49.500 --> 08:50.500 on the evil genius chronic. 08:51.000 --> 08:54.000 There's a risk that you get a little buddy-buddy and then the listener is sitting there going, 08:54.000 --> 08:56.000 what are these guys laughing about? 08:56.000 --> 09:01.000 But as you get to know us better, then you'll understand our humor and you'll pick up on stuff pretty quickly. 09:01.000 --> 09:04.000 It always happens with that. I've done a lot of radio shows with co- 09:06.000 --> 09:17.000 And, yeah, so I really, even though technologically we had a set up pretty interesting with recording via wire tap, which records all of your Mac OS audio, 09:17.000 --> 09:25.000 and using, we tried Skype, Skype didn't work, and then we tried iChat with the AOL Instant Message client. 09:25.000 --> 09:28.000 And what's nice about iChat is you can route the input and the output. 09:31.500 --> 09:37.500 How can we do this, like a real highly produced show that you do live to MP3 on your computer? 09:37.500 --> 09:39.500 And do we have all the bits to do that with? 09:41.500 --> 09:46.500 Because my mic sounded really good on Trace Secrets and Dave just, 09:46.500 --> 09:51.500 because my mic sounded so hot and so processed and his volume was soft, 09:51.500 --> 09:54.500 that it just sounded almost like talking with a person on the phone, 09:54.500 --> 09:57.500 which is not what I wanted it to be. I wanted it to sound much more like we're 09:58.500 --> 10:04.500 more or less in the same room. So I wanted to figure all of that out, but I just cut a quick 10:04.500 --> 10:08.500 source code. Do a nice 40 minute show, whatever. So I was in the 30 minutes into it, 10:08.500 --> 10:13.500 then the computer froze up again, just like it had done three times when Dave and I started 10:13.500 --> 10:17.500 recording the first Trace Secrets, which was so hard man, because your energy is gone. 10:18.500 --> 10:22.500 It's hard to tell the same story again because it's just not fresh anymore. 10:23.500 --> 10:30.500 And still, I think we did a pretty good job, but it was so frustrating Saturday morning and it 10:30.500 --> 10:32.500 froze up and then I'd say, okay, I'm... 10:33.000 --> 10:37.000 to go back to the bare basics and what are going to use wire tap and just a little bit 10:37.000 --> 10:41.000 of microphone processing and the quick time player and then that start crashing. 10:41.000 --> 10:41.000 I said, you know what? 10:41.000 --> 10:42.000 Screw it. 10:42.000 --> 10:47.000 I'm going to figure out how to get this audio stuff working the way I want it before I record 10:47.000 --> 10:47.000 another show. 10:48.000 --> 10:55.000 Well, have you ever been trying to get somewhere from anyone with like a train or an airplane? 10:55.000 --> 10:56.000 We need the connection. 10:57.000 --> 11:01.000 And someone eventually will say to you, excuse me, you just can't get here. 11:01.000 --> 11:02.000 Get there from here. 11:02.000 --> 11:05.000 Well, let me move my life out of the way of my necklace. 11:05.000 --> 11:05.000 There. 11:05.000 --> 11:06.000 Hello. 11:06.000 --> 11:10.000 You know, so this is kind of the same with what I'm trying to do here with the 11:10.000 --> 11:11.000 audio set up on the Mac. 11:11.000 --> 11:15.000 You cannot get there from here, at least not with the tools that you have. 11:15.000 --> 11:15.000 Hold on. 11:15.000 --> 11:17.000 Let me just stick that inside there. 11:17.000 --> 11:17.000 There we go. 11:20.000 --> 11:21.000 Here's what I wanted. 11:21.000 --> 11:28.000 Now anyone who's who's worked in a radio studio or in any type of audio 11:28.000 --> 11:32.000 studio, you know that you have all your outputs and you want to have 11:32.000 --> 11:34.000 sends to send stuff to, you know, rather. 11:34.500 --> 11:42.500 it to a different place and trying to find the combination of being able to route audio 11:42.500 --> 11:46.500 into the right places and to record it all and to be able to shut off the mic selectively 11:46.500 --> 11:50.500 so that it doesn't keep on recording was very, very difficult. 11:50.500 --> 11:57.500 There is no application as far as I know for OSX, for Mac that will let you do exactly 11:57.500 --> 11:59.500 what I want to achieve. 11:59.500 --> 12:05.500 So here's how I had it set up at a certain point and I have seen the limits of the G4 processor ladies and gentlemen. 12:05.500 --> 12:06.500 I have been to the edge and it doesn't 12:09.000 --> 12:14.000 to do and I'll tell you what the solution is. So what I want to be able to do is, well, 12:14.000 --> 12:20.000 basically there is no program that I could find that would let you address more than 12:20.000 --> 12:26.000 one audio interface per channel on a mixing console because that's really what I need. 12:26.000 --> 12:31.000 Now there's all kinds of virtual devices that you can set up. You have Soundflower 12:31.000 --> 12:35.000 which gives you two channels in, two channels out of a virtual device. You have Soundflower 12:35.000 --> 12:41.000 16 which obviously gives you 16 channels. These, and they work very well. 12:41.000 --> 12:46.000 Also you have something called Jack Tools. Jake Savin from Userland sent me an email. 12:49.500 --> 12:51.500 knows damn well what's out there and what's available. 12:51.500 --> 12:55.500 He also pointed to Jack Tools and he said, you know, this stuff is open source. 12:55.500 --> 12:59.500 It's come from the Linux world, but still all pretty much cutting edge. 12:59.500 --> 13:00.500 Yeah, boy is it. 13:00.500 --> 13:01.500 It does work. 13:01.500 --> 13:07.500 You know, you can actually route the sound out of one application into another application. 13:07.500 --> 13:10.500 And at a certain point I had it all set up. 13:10.500 --> 13:11.500 Everything was working. 13:11.500 --> 13:14.500 I could selectively route things left and right. 13:14.500 --> 13:21.500 The problem was you're sending all of this audio through virtual audio devices and delay 13:21.500 --> 13:22.500 builds up latency. 13:22.500 --> 13:27.500 It starts off with maybe just a millisecond or two. 13:27.500 --> 13:30.500 And then before you know it, you know, you do something else, you move your mouse and 13:30.500 --> 13:33.500 then, you know, it's going to start caching that and storing it in different places in 13:33.500 --> 13:35.500 memory. 13:35.500 --> 13:43.500 And then basically on the headphones, I'd hear my voice delayed, which makes it very difficult 13:43.500 --> 13:49.500 to talk because, you know, the machine had it. 13:49.500 --> 13:50.500 I opened up a terminal. 13:51.000 --> 14:00.000 window and I did a top command that was running like an average of 11 or 12 on the load on 14:00.000 --> 14:01.000 the machine. 14:01.000 --> 14:06.000 And the first thing I thought was, oh, I need to do a processor now. 14:06.000 --> 14:09.000 But then I was like, no, you're never going to get it exactly synced up. 14:09.000 --> 14:11.000 There's always going to be a delay. 14:11.000 --> 14:16.000 Now my PowerBook, as with most Macs, has an internal device, but you can only switch 14:16.000 --> 14:21.000 between your internal microphone or your line input. 14:21.000 --> 14:28.000 And it only really has one real input device. 14:28.000 --> 14:30.000 So I had to break down. 14:30.000 --> 14:32.000 I didn't want to, but I guess there's no other choice. 14:34.500 --> 14:38.500 hardware device. Now I happen to have sitting around, I've had it for a long 14:38.500 --> 14:43.500 time, never really used it. It's an M-Box from Digi Design. It's just a little, and 14:43.500 --> 14:48.500 thank God it's not too big, so it's still portable. It's a little plastic box. 14:48.500 --> 14:57.500 It connects by USB to the computer. It has two inputs. One mix output and it has, 14:57.500 --> 15:04.500 hold on a second, let me just see what I've got here. Yeah, and it has a volume for 15:04.500 --> 15:08.500 headphones. I can also provide phantom power 48 volts if needed and you can 15:08.500 --> 15:14.500 switch those inputs between a line or a mic or a MIDI instrument. 15:15.000 --> 15:20.000 So, I believe it or not, I now have it so that, 15:20.000 --> 15:25.000 and I purchased DJ 1800, which is like, I think it's $35. 15:27.000 --> 15:32.000 And it's, you basically have a visual interface of four playback decks. 15:33.000 --> 15:37.000 And they pretty much look like either a digital deck or a, 15:37.000 --> 15:40.000 it has a very VCR quality to it. 15:40.000 --> 15:45.000 But it looks a lot like studio CD players that we've used on radio studios. 15:45.000 --> 15:49.000 And you can cue up stuff real quick and it automatically detects the beginning and the end of a track. 15:49.000 --> 15:51.000 And you can, you know, loop it. 15:51.000 --> 15:52.000 There's a countdown timer. 15:52.000 --> 15:55.000 You can speed through it really quickly, step through exactly what you want. 15:55.000 --> 16:00.000 With four faders for outputs, you can route stuff to a different output for, 16:00.000 --> 16:03.000 if you know, if you want to cue something up so that it's not being recorded. 16:03.000 --> 16:06.000 Now I'm sending the output of that just to the regular speakers. 16:06.000 --> 16:09.000 I'm using GarageBand for the mic processing. 16:09.000 --> 16:16.000 Also, so that's just grabbing the microphone in and that literally is. 16:16.500 --> 16:17.500 Let me see. 16:17.500 --> 16:22.500 Oh, that's grabbing from the M-Box because the microphone is plugged into the M-Box. 16:22.500 --> 16:24.500 It gets crazier. 16:24.500 --> 16:26.500 But here's the way I did it. 16:26.500 --> 16:31.500 So somewhere I had to build one routing, one connection between two different devices, 16:31.500 --> 16:33.500 and neither of them could be a virtual device. 16:33.500 --> 16:42.500 So indeed, I now have, from the headphones, going out is a 3.5mm stereo jack, going 16:42.500 --> 16:47.500 into two XLRs, which are the, you know, if you've ever seen those, those are professional plugs. 16:47.500 --> 16:49.500 Often you see them on microphones. 16:49.500 --> 16:55.500 It's a round plug with three big holes, or if it's a male connector, three prongs in there. 16:55.500 --> 17:00.500 And that's being fed into the DigiDesign hardware box. 17:00.500 --> 17:02.500 So that's now become an input. 17:02.500 --> 17:06.500 And all of that eventually routes into Audio Hijack Pro, which I also purchased. 17:06.500 --> 17:11.500 Otherwise, after 10 minutes, you get this really nasty hissing sound. 17:11.500 --> 17:14.500 And that is recording everything that's coming off of that box. 17:14.500 --> 17:17.500 So in theory, I can send all this. 17:18.000 --> 17:23.000 information I can write, you know, a whole bunch more of applications output to the 17:23.000 --> 17:28.000 inbox because it's all sitting there in a chip, I guess, in theory. There's no 17:28.000 --> 17:32.000 memory that's being swapped from disk or anything that can really slow down and I 17:32.000 --> 17:36.000 think it can handle quite a lot and it's really only getting, you know, one 17:36.000 --> 17:38.000 signal that's already mixed. So I think that I should be able to do quite a 17:38.000 --> 17:44.000 lot and of course now I can add a either an iChat call and I can route 17:45.000 --> 17:51.000 back to it from anything that I want to. So for the next trade secrets, I should be 17:51.000 --> 17:56.000 able to not only get Dave's quality equal to mine, but I should also be able to send 17:56.000 --> 18:01.000 it when I play something. He should be able to hear that on his head, on his end, 18:01.000 --> 18:06.000 even if I'm playing an mp3. Okay, so you can only imagine that this took all of 18:06.000 --> 18:11.000 Saturday up until 1am and that's when I finally gave up. You know, actually I 18:11.000 --> 18:18.000 thought I had it all running at 1am and I was still, excuse me, using wiretap and damn it. 18:19.500 --> 18:22.500 killed it, like 30, again 30 minutes into it. 18:22.500 --> 18:26.500 So, there's nothing more damning than having recorded something 18:26.500 --> 18:29.500 and really put some effort into whatever you're saying 18:29.500 --> 18:33.500 and then just have that crash and be totally gone. 18:33.500 --> 18:34.500 So I needed something really stable 18:34.500 --> 18:35.500 and I think I have this set up. 18:35.500 --> 18:38.500 And I'll really list this and take some screenshots 18:38.500 --> 18:40.500 so everybody can see what the setup is 18:40.500 --> 18:42.500 because I know that not many people 18:42.500 --> 18:44.500 are on this path trying to make this happen. 18:44.500 --> 18:46.500 But it can be done. 18:46.500 --> 18:49.500 It's just the external box that pisses me off 18:49.500 --> 18:50.500 that I have to have that. 18:50.500 --> 18:55.500 But until I have two different sound devices in my computer 18:55.500 --> 18:59.500 or if anyone makes one like that that's portable, 18:59.500 --> 19:00.500 just have to live with this. 19:02.500 --> 19:03.500 Let's see, what I want to talk about. 19:03.500 --> 19:08.500 Oh, it's funny because so this morning, 19:08.500 --> 19:11.500 again got up really early 19:11.500 --> 19:14.500 because we had to go to a big fashion show 19:14.500 --> 19:18.500 that Patricia does every year or every season actually 19:18.500 --> 19:19.500 with Paul Schilter. 19:19.500 --> 19:20.500 He's a... 19:21.000 --> 19:25.000 a big fashion guy here in the Netherlands, actually in Europe. 19:25.000 --> 19:28.000 And he has a huge, so 750 people. 19:28.000 --> 19:31.000 And she designs the makeup, works with the models. 19:31.000 --> 19:37.000 She also has a big influence on all of the clothing stuff that he does. 19:37.000 --> 19:42.000 This year, we had our flat screens, the Grand Master View flat screens. 19:42.000 --> 19:45.000 I'm a shareholder in the company. 19:45.000 --> 19:48.000 These are flat screens that are 2 meter 20 diagonal. 19:48.000 --> 19:50.000 That's the consumer version. 19:50.000 --> 19:52.000 We can make them so big you wouldn't believe. 19:52.000 --> 19:54.000 So I was there selling screens. 19:54.000 --> 19:56.000 Patricia was there with her cosmetics company. 19:56.000 --> 19:58.000 And she also did something very cool. 19:58.000 --> 19:59.000 She did a song. 19:59.000 --> 20:02.000 She performed a song at the very end of the show. 20:02.000 --> 20:05.000 And all the models came out and danced with her. 20:05.000 --> 20:11.000 And I played that one for you because it's just kind of cool 20:11.000 --> 20:13.000 and it's rather short. 20:13.000 --> 20:15.000 That's my wife. 20:15.000 --> 20:17.000 My husband. 20:17.000 --> 20:18.000 Italiano. 20:18.000 --> 20:19.000 I'm a source girl. 20:21.250 --> 22:36.250 [ Music ] 22:37.500 --> 22:39.500 I'm always at the unknown. 22:39.500 --> 22:40.500 My wife. 22:40.500 --> 22:41.500 On the source code. 22:41.500 --> 22:42.500 Go figure. 22:42.500 --> 22:45.500 Man, if I played my wife's song on the radio, people would be so pissed off. 22:45.500 --> 22:49.500 No, no, no, you can't do that because you know, that's like... 22:49.500 --> 22:51.500 Anyway, my show, do whatever the hell I want. 22:51.500 --> 22:53.500 Okay, let's switch gears here for a second. 22:53.500 --> 22:55.500 Need to talk about a couple things. 22:55.500 --> 22:59.500 First of all, as I was on the road a lot, I also caught Dave Slusher's source code 22:59.500 --> 23:00.500 for yesterday. 23:00.500 --> 23:02.500 I'm on the source code. 23:03.000 --> 23:12.000 And he came up with something. He caught a refer which was hitting his or was it his bit 23:12.000 --> 23:16.000 torrents? Well, you'd have to listen to the latest show to get all of that. I don't have it queued up 23:16.000 --> 23:24.000 right now. But he saw in his refer log, I think it was a podcaster.net and he's coined podcasting. 23:24.000 --> 23:29.000 And I'm like, I'm all for that. That sounds good. We're podcasting everybody. Of course, 23:29.000 --> 23:36.000 you have to all agree that pods are MP3 devices. I don't think Apple can see us for pods, can they? 23:36.000 --> 23:43.000 So podcasting, I'm digging that. Like it. Which brings me from the bit torrent brings me to the iPod 23:43.000 --> 23:46.000 list. I also haven't had a lot of time for email. Haven't even posted anything on the web. 23:48.000 --> 23:57.000 deep into the core audio of Mac OS X that I did skim through most of the messages on 23:57.000 --> 23:58.000 the iPod developer list. 23:58.000 --> 24:01.000 It's a great, great vibe that's there. 24:01.000 --> 24:06.000 Everyone's using each other's code, commenting on how we can make it all better. 24:06.000 --> 24:15.000 I see that we kind of want to have some set definitions as to what an iPod is so we can 24:15.000 --> 24:23.000 all make a version with some either multiple versions with the same functionality or maybe 24:23.000 --> 24:30.000 we come up with some common gold standard that everybody uses and tomorrow I'll be able to 24:30.000 --> 24:34.000 focus on that and see what I can contribute. 24:34.000 --> 24:37.000 But some great iPod versions are out there. 24:37.000 --> 24:39.000 It's hard to even keep track of at this point. 24:39.000 --> 24:42.000 I think I spidered on evil gene. 24:45.000 --> 24:50.000 which I have tried now it has an install package for OSX. 24:50.000 --> 24:52.000 It adds a cron job. 24:54.000 --> 24:56.000 See there was some other great features that it has. 24:56.000 --> 24:59.000 Oh, it also understands BitTorrents. 24:59.000 --> 25:00.000 This is really cool. 25:00.000 --> 25:03.000 So if you attach a BitTorrent of your show, 25:03.000 --> 25:06.000 then it knows to go out, download the torrent file 25:06.000 --> 25:07.000 and then put that in your items. 25:07.000 --> 25:11.000 And woo, I gotta try the new version of iPod tomorrow 25:11.000 --> 25:14.000 because that's exactly what I'm looking for. 25:15.000 --> 25:18.000 really hookin' this all together. It's just phenomenal. 25:18.000 --> 25:25.000 See, there was something on IT conversations that I was listening to. It wasn't the most recent Gilmore gang. 25:28.500 --> 25:33.500 On the road I listened to about half of the show and they were talking about, it was about 25:33.500 --> 25:38.500 IT and law and although sometimes very technical and a bit over my head, I do like listening 25:38.500 --> 25:40.500 to those types of conversations. 25:40.500 --> 25:46.500 And this one focused a lot on the three different music services, of course IT Music Store from 25:46.500 --> 25:51.500 Apple, Microsoft and Reel. 25:51.500 --> 25:56.500 And as I was listening to this, I'm like, how, here are these guys, these big companies 25:56.500 --> 26:01.500 and they see the music businesses in trouble and it's as if they're trying to say, oh, 26:01.500 --> 26:02.500 you know, it's up for grabs. 26:02.500 --> 26:04.500 I'm going to go, you know, we're going to go get this market. 26:04.500 --> 26:09.500 I don't think that's, you know, that's where the big money is, you know, look at, 26:09.500 --> 26:13.500 look at what's happening all of a sudden with, with the, with the iPod platform. 26:13.500 --> 26:17.500 Look, we're using this as completely not in the way they ever thought over the 26:17.500 --> 26:17.500 way to design it. 26:17.500 --> 26:21.500 And as long as we keep using MP3s and keep that to ourselves, then we're going to 26:21.500 --> 26:23.500 be, we're going to be pretty good. 26:23.500 --> 26:27.500 Although there's a lot to say for other formats and a lot of people are looking 26:27.500 --> 26:29.500 at AC files, which is. 26:30.000 --> 26:37.000 I guess proprietary compression which includes DRM and also some nifty features like bookmarking. 26:37.000 --> 26:43.000 But I'm going to keep it with MP3 because I think that's the format that we have to protect and have to serve. 26:43.000 --> 26:51.000 There was so much, you know, I've started this show so many times over the past couple of days. 26:51.000 --> 26:53.000 So much to talk about. 26:53.000 --> 26:55.000 Darn. 26:56.000 --> 27:01.000 Well, I have a couple other things queued up and ready to go for you. 27:01.000 --> 27:08.000 I was thinking about the George Carlin bit that I played, how long was that? 27:08.000 --> 27:14.000 Must have been last week, maybe the beginning of last week, and I played the bit about stuff. 27:14.000 --> 27:23.000 And as I was working with this new DJ 1800 program, which I'm just really happy about how it performs, 27:23.000 --> 27:30.000 it also integrates with iTunes so you can just drag something out of your iTunes playlist right onto a player and it works. 27:30.000 --> 27:32.000 And it'll eat anything that... 27:31.500 --> 27:34.500 that iTunes does or the QuickTime does, I guess. 27:34.500 --> 27:39.500 And I ran across a show from 1999, George Carlin, 27:40.500 --> 27:43.500 I believe it was on HBO, and I had an audio file of that 27:43.500 --> 27:46.500 for some reason, well, because I like it so much. 27:46.500 --> 27:48.500 And he does this one bit, which now, of course, 27:48.500 --> 27:51.500 this is pre-911. 27:51.500 --> 27:53.500 And the bit is about airport security. 27:53.500 --> 27:57.500 And although, you know, not if you thought that this was 27:57.500 --> 28:00.500 done just yesterday or anytime post-911, 28:00.500 --> 28:02.500 you might be offended by some bit. 28:02.500 --> 28:05.500 So you have to take into consideration and keep in mind 28:05.500 --> 28:10.500 that this is from 1999, at the time when I was traveling 28:10.500 --> 28:13.500 a lot in America, I was on flights all the time. 28:13.500 --> 28:16.500 And then George Carlin comes out with this great bit 28:16.500 --> 28:18.500 about airport security and think, 28:18.500 --> 28:20.500 and just listen to what he's saying 28:20.500 --> 28:25.500 and listen to how insightful he was at the time 28:25.500 --> 28:27.500 and also think about where we are today 28:27.500 --> 28:29.500 with security in general, 28:29.500 --> 28:32.500 and certainly when it comes to airport security. 28:32.500 --> 28:33.500 George Carlin. 28:33.000 --> 28:35.000 with airport security. 28:51.000 --> 28:53.000 and it makes the world a lot easier to sort out. 28:53.000 --> 28:57.000 First thing on my list tonight, airport security. 28:57.000 --> 28:59.000 Tired of this shit. There's too much of it. 28:59.000 --> 29:02.000 There's too much security at the airport. 29:02.000 --> 29:05.000 I'm tired of some guy with a double digit IQ 29:05.000 --> 29:06.000 and a triple digit in... 29:10.500 --> 29:12.500 haven't found anything yet. 29:12.500 --> 29:15.500 Haven't found one bomb in one bag. 29:15.500 --> 29:18.500 And don't tell me, well, the terrorists know their bags are going to be searched, 29:18.500 --> 29:20.500 so now they're leaving their bombs at home. 29:20.500 --> 29:22.500 There are no bombs. 29:22.500 --> 29:25.500 The whole thing is fucking pointless. 29:25.500 --> 29:28.500 It's completely without logic. 29:28.500 --> 29:29.500 There's no logic at all. 29:29.500 --> 29:32.500 They'll take away a gun, but let you keep a knife. 29:32.500 --> 29:34.500 Well, what the fuck is that? 29:34.500 --> 29:39.500 In fact, there's a whole list of lethal objects they will allow you to take onboard. 29:39.500 --> 29:43.500 Theoretically, you could take a knife, a nice pick, a hatchet, a straight razor, 29:43.500 --> 29:47.500 a pair of scissors, a chainsaw, six knitting needles, and a broken whiskey bottle. 29:47.500 --> 29:52.500 And the only thing they're going to say to you is that bag has to fit all the way under the seat in front of you. 29:55.500 --> 29:58.500 If you didn't take a weapon on board, relax. 29:58.500 --> 30:02.500 After you've been flying for about an hour, they're going to bring you a knife and fork. 30:04.500 --> 30:06.500 To they give you a fucking knife 30:06.500 --> 30:10.500 It's only a table knife, but you could kill a pilot with a table knife 30:11.500 --> 30:13.500 Might take a couple of minutes, you know 30:14.500 --> 30:16.500 Especially if he's hefty, huh? 30:17.500 --> 30:21.500 Yeah, but you could get the job done. You really want to kill the prick 30:22.500 --> 30:27.500 But there's a lot of things you could use to kill a guy with you could probably beat a guy to death with a Sunday, New York 30:30.000 --> 30:34.000 Or, suppose you just had really big hands. 30:34.000 --> 30:36.000 Couldn't you strangle a flight attendant? 30:36.000 --> 30:39.000 Sure you could probably strangle two of them, one with each hand. 30:39.000 --> 30:44.000 You know, if you were lucky enough to catch him in that little kitchen area, before they 30:44.000 --> 30:46.000 give out the fucking peanuts, you know? 30:46.000 --> 30:51.000 But you could get the job done, if you're really cared enough. 30:51.000 --> 30:57.000 So why isn't they allow a man with big powerful hands to get on board an airplane? 30:57.000 --> 30:58.000 I'll tell you why. 30:58.000 --> 31:05.000 They know he's not a security risk because he's already answered the three big questions. 31:05.000 --> 31:11.000 Question number one, did you pack your bags yourself? 31:11.000 --> 31:11.000 No. 31:13.500 --> 31:15.500 My bad 31:19.500 --> 31:22.500 He and Martha Stewart and Florence Henderson came over to the house last night, 31:22.500 --> 31:29.500 fixed me a lovely lobster new burger, gave me a full body massage with sacred oils from India, 31:29.500 --> 31:33.500 performed a far way around the world, and then they packed my bags. 31:33.500 --> 31:35.500 Next question. 31:43.500 --> 31:46.500 You're back been in your possession the whole time. No 31:48.500 --> 31:51.500 Usually the night before I travel just as the moon is rising 31:53.500 --> 31:57.500 Place my suitcases out on the street corner and leave them there unattended for several hours 31:58.500 --> 32:00.500 Just for good luck 32:01.500 --> 32:03.500 Next question 32:04.500 --> 32:07.500 As any unknown person asked you to take anything on board 32:08.500 --> 32:10.500 hmm 32:10.500 --> 32:13.500 Well, what exactly is an unknown person? 32:14.500 --> 32:16.500 Surely everyone is known to someone 32:17.500 --> 32:21.500 in fact just this morning Karim and you said Ali Ben Gabbá 32:23.500 --> 32:25.500 They didn't know each other quite well 32:25.500 --> 32:29.500 They kept joking about which one of my suitcases was the heaviest 32:30.500 --> 32:37.500 And that's another thing they don't like at the airport jokes, you know, yeah, you can't joke about a bomb 32:37.500 --> 32:40.500 Well, why is it just jokes what about a riddle? 32:43.500 --> 32:45.500 How about a limerick? 32:45.500 --> 32:48.500 How about a bomb anecdote? 32:48.500 --> 32:52.500 You know, no punchline, just a really cute story. 32:52.500 --> 32:57.500 Or, suppose you intended to remark, not as a joke, but as an ironic musing. 32:57.500 --> 32:59.500 Are they prepared to make that distinction? 32:59.500 --> 33:02.500 Why, I think not. 33:02.500 --> 33:05.500 And besides, who's to say what's funny? 33:05.500 --> 33:08.500 Airport security is a stupid idea that's a waste of money 33:08.500 --> 33:12.500 and it's only there for one reason to make white people feel safe. 33:12.500 --> 33:15.500 That's all. The illusion. 33:15.500 --> 33:18.500 The feeling and illusion of safety. 33:18.500 --> 33:22.500 Because the authorities know they can't make an airplane completely safe. 33:24.000 --> 33:29.000 You'll notice the drug smugglers don't seem to have a lot of trouble getting their little packages on board, do they? 33:29.000 --> 33:32.000 No, and God bless them too! 33:39.000 --> 33:42.000 By the way, an airplane flight shouldn't be completely safe. 33:42.000 --> 33:45.000 You need a little danger in your life. 33:45.000 --> 33:48.000 Take a fucking chance once in a while, will you? 33:48.000 --> 33:52.000 What are you gonna do? Play with your prick for another 30 years? 33:52.000 --> 33:57.000 What are you gonna read, People Magazine and Eat It Wendy's till the end of time? 33:57.000 --> 33:58.000 Take a fucking chance. 33:58.000 --> 34:02.000 Besides, even if they made all the airplanes completely safe, 34:02.000 --> 34:06.000 the terrorists would simply start bombing other places that are crowded. 34:06.000 --> 34:10.000 Porn shops, track houses, city bars and gang bangs. 34:10.000 --> 34:11.000 Hello. 34:11.000 --> 34:14.000 Entertainment venues. 34:14.000 --> 34:18.000 The odds of you being killed by a terrorist are practically zero. 34:18.000 --> 34:21.000 So I say relax and enjoy the show. 34:21.000 --> 34:25.000 You have to be a realist. You have to be realistic about terrorism. 34:25.000 --> 34:27.000 Certain groups of people, certain groups, 34:27.000 --> 34:31.000 Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, 34:31.000 --> 34:34.000 and just plain guys from Montana. 34:36.000 --> 34:40.000 continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time. 34:40.000 --> 34:42.000 That's the reality. 34:42.000 --> 34:47.000 Angry men in combat fatigues talking to God on a two-way radio and muttering incoherent 34:47.000 --> 34:53.000 slogans about freedom are eventually going to provide us with a great deal of entertainment. 34:53.000 --> 34:59.000 Especially after your stupid fucking economy collapses all around you and the terrorists 34:59.000 --> 35:02.000 come out of the woodwork and you'll have anthrax in your water supply and sarin gas 35:02.000 --> 35:06.000 in your air condition that'd be chemical and 35:09.000 --> 35:12.000 enjoy the show take a fucking chance put a little fun in your life 35:12.000 --> 35:15.000 to me terrorism is exciting it's exciting 35:15.000 --> 35:19.000 I think the very idea that you can set off a bomb in a marketplace and kill 35:19.000 --> 35:22.000 several hundred people 35:33.000 --> 35:38.000 But we also know that most Americans are soft and frightened and unimaginative and they 35:38.000 --> 35:40.000 don't realize there's such a thing as being... 35:42.000 --> 35:45.000 certainly don't recognize a good show when they see one. 35:45.000 --> 35:48.000 I've always been willing to put myself at great personal risk 35:48.000 --> 35:50.000 for the sake of entertainment. 35:50.000 --> 35:52.000 And I've always been willing to put you at great personal risk 35:52.000 --> 35:54.000 for the same reason. 35:54.000 --> 35:57.000 As far as I'm concerned, all of this airport security, 35:57.000 --> 35:59.000 all the searches, the screenings, the cameras, 35:59.000 --> 36:01.000 the questions, it's just one more way. 36:07.500 --> 36:09.500 As long as you put up with it. 36:09.500 --> 36:11.500 As long as you put up with it. 36:11.500 --> 36:14.500 Which means of course, any time they want. 36:14.500 --> 36:15.500 Because that's what Americans do now. 36:15.500 --> 36:18.500 They're always willing to trade away a little of their freedom 36:18.500 --> 36:20.500 in exchange for the feeling, the el- 36:27.000 --> 36:31.000 obsessed with security and safety and crime and drugs and cleanliness. 36:33.000 --> 36:38.000 There's another thing, germs. Where did the sudden fear of germs come from? 36:38.000 --> 36:40.000 In the country of Harlem. 36:40.000 --> 36:51.000 1999, about airport security, about terrorism, and about your personal freedom, fellow Americans. 36:51.000 --> 37:00.000 Holy moly, what an insight. 1999. I wonder if he'd do the same routine again today, and if he'd change anything, what he'd be changing. 37:00.000 --> 37:07.000 Okay, it's now 11.13. Unfortunately, I can't use Audio Hijack Pro to cut. 37:09.000 --> 37:13.000 because once again I'm taxing the processor and it actually starts to skip little bits 37:13.000 --> 37:19.000 of recording which blows. 37:19.000 --> 37:24.000 So I'm recording it to AIFF which is a format that I have a nice little Apple script for 37:24.000 --> 37:25.000 that. 37:28.500 --> 37:34.500 M-A-A-M, which is MPEG to AIFF or AIFF to MPEG. 37:34.500 --> 37:39.500 We actually wrote that script when we were doing our reality show because we had so many, 37:39.500 --> 37:42.500 we put all kinds of great tunes in the show, 37:42.500 --> 37:46.500 and of course they were all downloaded from the internet, 37:46.500 --> 37:48.500 and we had to get them into Final Cut Pro, 37:48.500 --> 37:51.500 which I don't think the new version eats MP3s yet. 37:51.500 --> 37:55.500 And AIFF is just much easier for it to work with, less processor intensive 37:55.500 --> 37:58.500 because it's file, you know, there's so much more information there, 37:58.500 --> 38:01.500 it doesn't have to go through so much compression and decompression. 38:01.500 --> 38:07.500 And so we, you know, we just have a script, a little droplet, you drag MP3 onto it, 38:07.500 --> 38:10.500 turns into an AIFF with the same name and vice versa. 38:10.500 --> 38:13.500 So I have to do the conversion and then I can upload it to the server. 38:13.500 --> 38:18.500 So it may even be Monday the 20th by the time the show gets up on the air. 38:18.500 --> 38:24.500 And again, I apologize for the radio silence or the podcasting silence. 38:24.500 --> 38:30.500 I will be sure to do a little more coherent show tomorrow, also it won't be cool. 38:30.000 --> 38:34.000 quite as tired. It's been a really long weekend and I got a lot of cleaning up to do. There's 38:34.000 --> 38:39.000 wires everywhere. And of course now for the next four days, I'm Mr. Mom. Patricia stayed 38:39.000 --> 38:45.000 in Amsterdam with her sister at the bunker and they're off to the UK tomorrow to go and 38:45.000 --> 38:51.000 look at houses. And she's got the video camera with her. So, yes, Jesse, hold on, 38:51.000 --> 38:56.000 the dog wants to go out. So depending on the footage that she brings back, maybe 38:56.000 --> 38:58.000 you'll post some of that online. Go ahead. 38:58.000 --> 39:01.000 I said, just gonna walk out the back here for a second. 39:02.000 --> 39:04.000 Ah, it's a lovely night. 39:06.000 --> 39:09.000 If you can hear that, that's our fountain over on the other side of the courtyard. 39:12.000 --> 39:14.000 Total silence here. I'm gonna miss this 39:16.000 --> 39:18.000 Our nice castle in 39:20.000 --> 39:22.000 Flanders in Belgium I 39:22.000 --> 39:23.000 can see 39:23.000 --> 39:28.000 Fred and ginger are two black swans with their six babies which aren't even babies anymore 39:28.000 --> 39:31.000 They're walking on the grass back here. They're gonna start flying pretty soon 39:31.000 --> 39:33.000 They're gonna try to start flying which is always hilarious 39:34.000 --> 39:39.000 Because they you know sometimes it's it's like the keystone cops. You know and they they even fly into each other 39:40.000 --> 39:42.000 You done Jess come on 39:42.000 --> 39:45.000 This is Jesse one of our three dogs. Good 39:46.000 --> 39:51.000 So tomorrow morning to some more techno talk because of course 39:51.000 --> 39:57.000 The credo of source code is that we try to make the place where users and developers party together 39:58.000 --> 40:05.000 And there's a lot more to talk about these are the iPod or the iPod platform podcasting and all that other groovy stuff 40:05.000 --> 40:07.000 And I've got to go put my daughter to bed right now 40:07.000 --> 40:13.000 So again, mr. Ball be real busy. You know we have goats and chickens and 40:13.500 --> 40:18.500 horses and really start to appreciate what someone else does in the household. 40:18.500 --> 40:22.500 So I'm going to leave you with that for today and I will be back. 40:24.000 --> 40:29.000 We're the new source code for Monday, September. 40:29.000 --> 40:31.000 As always, if you want to respond to- 40:39.000 --> 40:40.000 code on the website. 40:43.500 --> 40:45.500 The power of the door is lost. 40:45.500 --> 40:50.500 If you're subscribing to this or you want to subscribe, the URL for the RSS 2.0. 40:58.500 --> 41:01.500 And if you're new to the old iPodder concept, check out iPodder.org. 41:01.500 --> 41:03.500 See you tomorrow on the source code!