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Daily source code February 7th
2005 transmitters we don't need
no

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Stinking transmitters autistic
it's Adam Curry. Hey everybody
thank God it's a

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Monday. It's a daily source code
coming to you from what was
actually a very

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cloudy and misty and overcast
day here in Guilford and Surrey
in

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the Kingdom of Curry Cottage
actually it's a nice day so the
birds are

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out they're singing and it's
time for your source code for
the 7th of February

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2005. So as long as it was
yesterday I'm gonna cut it just
a little bit

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shorter today do it well I'm
gonna try and keep it at the at
the 40

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minute mark as you used to maybe
just a little bit shorter
because we're

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gonna talk for a little while
with a special guest on the show
about a topic

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that came up yesterday on the
source code that is getting a
lot of comments

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of getting a lot of email
particularly about the EU the
European Union and so

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apparently I'm not that well
informed and maybe you aren't
either but I

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think it's interesting stuff we
should talk about.

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But first of course some pod
save music although I'm not
quite sure well this

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yeah I think this is pretty pod
safe it's it was sent to me in
reference to

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the Michael Jackson comments
yesterday actually I did see
that Haraldo interview

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and I was not disappointed
Haraldo indeed thinks Michael
Jackson is being

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framed and the problem with that
interview is that Michael is so
nice and so

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clean cut you just wanted to say
fuck you motherfucker you know
that would

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if you just said that you know
then I would feel much better
it's so clean but

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believe me this guy is you know
he was he's been raised to be
very polite very

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nice and I think he's probably
getting getting jerked around
don't take that

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too literally please so anyway
here's a tune sure

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[ Music ]

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they're just trying to be a
weird, you know what, otherwise
they wouldn't be

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interested to look at, to listen
to, that's why we like famous
people, they become famous

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because they're different weird,
artistic, or whatever, yeah, Dr.
Demento from his basement

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tapes, volume 12, famous people
is the title of that, and you
know what February is, don't
you?

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Shame on you if you don't

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I'm a little bit worried about
you, yeah, I'm PW Fenton here,
as you well know, here in the

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United States we set aside the
month of February is black
history month, last weekend I
spent

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a day at a street festival
honoring Zora Neal Hurston in
Eatonville, Florida, the oldest

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incorporated black city in the
United States, and that inspired
me to turn this week's

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digital flat some into my black
history month edition, it's a
little different, but that's

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what I try to make every show, I
hope you can check it out, yeah,
I am so into this podcast

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digital flat some, PW Fenton has
a great job, he's been doing a
lot of blue stuff recently

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and just a whole vibe, there's
something about this podcast
that, you know, I keep thinking

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this has got to be on, it's like
some repurpose show that's
already on radio, but no,

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this is a podcast, and as you
just heard, the digital flat
some podcast is a highlighting
black

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history month and I'm looking
forward to it, because it's
going to be some really, really
cool podcast.

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Again, we've got a special guest
coming up who I'm going to Skype
in, but first it's time for

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the little segment we do every
single day.

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Hi Adam, I'm Paulette here again
with another hit test, it's
number six already and I'll try

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to make one every day for you,
like I told you, I don't know
for sure if that is possible,

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but I'll do my best, let me tell
you that opening a Gmail account
was really a great move

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because now I'm also getting
lots of feedback and I really
enjoy that, lots of people
telling me

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it's a great test and they're
having lots of fun playing in
with you, that's also one of the

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biggest problems for me, because
many people have been asking me
when I will be starting my own
podcast,

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well there are two things I
really like about this thing,
the first thing is putting it
together,

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editing and recording it, and
the second thing is hearing you
taking the test,

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hearing me suck, if I make it
into its own podcast, I won't be
hearing you take the test,

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so hold it right there, yeah,
it's cool, you can make a
podcast, it could be the same
thing,

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you know, whatever you want,
that's the cool thing, I don't
think one has to exclude the
other,

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it would be shame, so I'm
thinking about what to do about
it, if you have some tips or
suggestions

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please let me know, and if there
are other people that have
suggestions please send them to
hittest at

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gmail.com, any feedback is
welcome, hittest at gmail.com,
by the way the sounds you're
hearing right now,

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that's the trick that was used,
that you played actually in
1991, I think, it's from the
second

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air check, I played a few days
ago, and you're right, it's not
a great song, it's not a great

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production, but the rhythm track
is awesome, so I turn it into a
filler, all righty, it's dry,

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let's go, I think it's time for
the test, right? I'm just a
play, are you ready, this is
number one,

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all right, oh yeah, of course,
Robbie Neville, say la b, ever
bobbing now,

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I love this song, number two,
yeah, I certainly recognize it,
is this a,

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it sounds like a pet child boy's
production,

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and pet child boy is very good,
he really was in the news, stuck
with you, man, I must have
played this song

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a million times, and at least 10
different radio stations, okay,
two out of three, not bad for a

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Monday morning, what do you say?
The answers, and here are the
answers, this is number one,

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that was Robbie Neville, right?
Not a difficult, I think, it's
Robbie Neville, with sale of

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the y'all American pronunciation
of sale of the show on the,
yeah, I'm out of that,

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great song, you know, this
Robbie Neville actually,

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Patricia recorded a song called
Danger, which I'll play for you
one of these days, which he
wrote,

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it's great, he's a great song,
right?

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Well Adam, I sincerely hope you
had the second one, right? Okay,
because I, I hate to find out
tomorrow

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that today the source code has
been cancelled, due to the
tragic death of the host,

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can you buy his wife? Oh shit,
this is an excursion for you,
but I buy yourself,

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Saturday night, I can't. Oh man,
oh man, if Patricia finds out,
she's gonna kill me, that's
right, I knew I

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recognized it.

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That's all.

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Of course, I was 12 when this
was released, right?

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There did not, I'd must have
been 1970, there he goes, I feel
like that.

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Oh, well, I hope you're still
around tomorrow, I might not be,
this is number three.

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Yeah, here we go. That is you,
we lose, and the new stuff, and
stuck with you.

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[ Music ]

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You will lose in the news, and
stuck with you. Oh man, I'm also
very happy to be stuck with you
on the daily source code.

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I don't know if I will be
starting podcasts of my own.
Please keep sending feedback to

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Hittest at gmail.com. And if you
would like to download one of
the earlier editions of the
hittest,

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they are to be located at the
following location,
www.helpathand.nl slash hittest.

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So that's www.helpathand.nl
slash hittest.

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I'll put the link here else,
probably, to be found in the
show, and up to the daily source
code on

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Adam's Web Law. Well, Adam, see
you next time for the next
edition of the hittest. Bye bye.

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Oh, yeah, man, I'm going to be
in so much trouble when Patricia
finds out that I messed that up.

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Oh my goodness. And you know
Saturday night, I literally was
like 12 or 13 when that song was
released.

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You know, I hope she gives me a
little bit of leeway. That was
trick, man. You tricked me.

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I've played some 80 stuff that I
really, oh, but it did sound
like the Pet Shop Boys,

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which I guess is a compliment
for the production values. That
was when she was disco queen,

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everybody. Oh, man. It's time to
get Patricia back on the show.

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Alrighty, okay. So indeed,
hopefully there will be a source
code tomorrow after this snafu.

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Time now to talk about the
European Union. Yesterday, I had
a long talk with you about my

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feelings about the EU and boy,
to that sparks some interesting
conversation in the comments on

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both curry dot com and on daily
source code dot com. We had a
podcast Paul actually who was

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a student of the EU and the
history has really been feeding
some fantastic information. I've
also

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received privately many, many
emails talking about the history
of the EU and it's like it's
unbelievable

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that we're at the on the brink
of signing a constitution,
bringing all these as they call
them

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member states. You know, they
don't call member countries.
Members states bring them
together into

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into one union that shares not
just money, but laws as well.
And I think there's a lot of
confusion.

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And I'm certainly not well
informed. I thought I was, but
when I read through all these
emails

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and all the information I've
been receiving. I've been
finding it's just very
confusing. Maybe

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that's something that we can
work on. And I received an email
this morning. It's about 430

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in the afternoon. Actually, I'm
doing this on Monday from
Raymond Port. And if you think
that

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name rings a bell, it does
because way back when I just
started doing the source code.
Now,

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I was doing one in Holland
driving in studio A8 from
Holland down to Belgium. You
remember there was

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a guy holding an iPod up and
honking the horn and traffic at
me saying, I'm listening to the

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source code and was early on.
And that was Raymond. And
Raymond sent me a long email
about

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the European Union. And he
certainly is well much more
versed than I am. So I thought
it would be

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a perfect opportunity to see if
we can get the old Skype system
working and have a little chat

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with him. So I'm calling him
now. I think he's at work. So
let's see if we can get Raymond
in here.

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Let me crank this up a little
bit. Make it a little bit
louder.

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Hello, Raymond. Hello. You're on
the source code. Can you hear
me? Raymond? Hello? Well, it's
not the

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first time. Yeah. Well, yeah, I
know. I know it's not the first
time. I don't know. We know it's
not

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the first time. That's for sure.
Yeah, that's true. So how are
you? Yeah, I'm doing pretty
great actually.

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A lot of things on my mind about
the working working very hard.
And are you at the office right

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now Raymond? Am I calling you at
work? Yeah, you're calling me at
the work. So I will not let my

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boss live here. It is. Okay.
Well, I really appreciate you
taking it. Well, again, one hour
break at a

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day. So it's pretty okay. Okay.
So this is this is your break
then clearly. Yeah, this is my
15 minutes break.

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Excellent. Well, I appreciate
it. On behalf of the source code
listeners, we really appreciate

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you hopping on the the Skype.
And by the way, kind of just
comment on your picture on
Skype,

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it is very becoming. It's just
beautiful. That hell. Hell is on
your head, man. What is that?

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Yeah, it's a punch ball pad. Oh,
that's bad. It was taken in
Universal Studios last year.

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So Raymond, you were, I was just
explaining to the listeners that
you were one of the people who
sent

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me a very eloquent email about
the European Union. And maybe
you could just reiterate a bit

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because you heard my podcast
yesterday, obviously. And you
had some things to say about the
history

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where it's coming from. And just
what the hell is going on? What
is happening in Europe? Are we

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trying to create the United
States of Europe? Yeah, it's
well, it seems like it.
Actually, I was

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listening to the source code
this morning in the car, of
course. Of course. And yeah, the
thing

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you said about Europe at this
moment, I think it's really
true. People at least in an
Netherlands,

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they don't, they don't really
seem to care if there are
elections or anything. Not many
people are

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voting. And we don't know. We
don't know what's going on. On
the other end, I cannot really
say too many

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negative things about Europe
because actually European
Commission is a customer of
mine.

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Well, that sucks. Well, but let
me understand something here.
Because what,

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okay, so this is actually
interesting. People don't know a
lot about the European Union,

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which I think is worse than
agreeing or disagree. And if you
don't know what's going on,
that's horrible.

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What is there actually is power
shifting from the individual
countries to Brussels and to

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Strasbourg? Will laws be made
there that will apply to all of
the member states?

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Actually, yeah, that is what is
happening. And not many people
know of it. And it goes pretty
far.

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I don't know the insight that
I've heard. It goes pretty far.
And it could be threatening as
well.

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On the other end, each country
is trying to, well, let's say,
save its own culture.

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Right. So, yeah, it's just very
delicate and complex thing,
obviously, because every country

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and borders France, there is
volume. We all know how France
is with its own culture.

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Yeah, they're very protective of
it. Difficulties.

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Yeah, you can say that. If you
don't speak French, you have a
big problem.

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Well, so this is one of the
reasons, well, that everything
is bilingual.

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Well, isn't it even so that the
European, that the Parliament,

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that they, which is, I guess
it's all supposed to be in
Brussels, but the French,

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and this is the way I've heard
it. The French complain so much
that they set up this other

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center in Strasbourg, and now
the entire European government,
if we can call it that,

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literally goes from Strasbourg
back and forth to Brussels to
make everybody happy, is that
what's happening?

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What could very well be,
actually, I'm not 100% sure,
whether it kind of strange that
there are two centers.

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And people really day, one half
of the week there in Strasbourg
and the other half there in
Brussels.

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Even going on commute every day.
It's just crazy.

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And then they also have to go
back to their own country. So
they often have to spend that
time there,

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as well, I presume, right?

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Yeah, and it's all paid by the
man.

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No, no, that would be you and I,
dude, we are the man in that
case. We're paying for it.

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Oh, I don't mean it's all our
money. But it was a kind of fun,
what you said, and the source,

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I guess, that actually it's
going back on control now.
Europe is all about control and

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new laws are being done. The
history of Europe, and that's
something that's not really much

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or many people know, started off
with control. The very basic
reason for building one big

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Europe was actually the wish for
some countries to have no more
war in Europe.

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Okay. Obviously, the middle ages
and the 80th century, even
Napoleon and the first world
war,

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which started with Germany and
France and the second world war
again in Europe, many countries

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had to be feeling no more war in
Europe and how can we prevent
that while we can prevent that
by

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introducing the euro. And then
everything was bright and clear.
Yeah, and then it was all

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sat and we were all happy. No,
but we're not happy. I mean, it
just, it makes no sense.

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I mean, the fact that people
don't know what the hell is
going on, that tells me enough.

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I mean, I'm American. So the
Constitution of the United
States is the document that the
entire

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country and its government,
everything was built around.
It's a document that every
American

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oops, I think I just lost
Raymond there. Hold on, let me
see if I can get him back.

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You all continue on my, um, on
my rant there. Let me just see
if I can get Raymond back. I
hate it

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when Skype does that. That's so
unfair in the middle of me
talking. You know, cut him off.
Okay,

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but shoot. Don't tell me this is
not going to work. Come on,
Raymond, come back to me.

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Hmm. Maybe we'll have to play a
song, uh, failed unknown error.
Yeah. All righty. We love that.

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Let's try it one more time here.
Hold on. Maybe that's a
connectivity thing on his end.
Okay.

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Meanwhile, we're about 22
minutes into your daily source
code for Monday, February 7,
2005.

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Now it says, user not on law.
I'll tell you what, we're going
to play a little song. See, we
can pick

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Raymond up, uh, in a, in a
minute or two. This is, uh, for
my buddy, Sid, Sid happens. He
said,

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me this wonderful mashup. See if
you can recognize it.

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[ Music ]

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oh, lovely, that's a bit of dawn
and Thai yellow ribbon around
the old oak tree and of course
was it, was it Beyonce or was it
Destiny's Chart now it's Beyonce
I think Raymond just popped
online again, so let's see if we
can get him in

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hey Raymond, hello, there it was
again, what happened did you
crash?

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well actually I'm using a
Windows based PC, well of
course, yeah, then we have all
the answers right there don't we

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you don't want to believe how my
desktop looks on on this Windows
machine because if you see it
it's just the Mac OS 10

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well listen Raymond, I can did
all the way, here's what I
suggest, why don't, of course
you did, why don't we want to
pick this up tomorrow and we'll
continue and let's see what kind
of comments coming on this and
see we can get a conversation
going with some people about
this stuff

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I don't know, I've got all kinds
of shit going off right now,
yeah because I've got alarms
going off and phones ringing and
people trying to get a hold of
me so and I really want to spend
some time and talk a bit more
about busy day again

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yeah, well you're busy too, can
we can we set it a date for
tomorrow maybe and we'll pick
this up and we'll continue

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yeah, yeah, that will be fine,
I'm happy to sit where I am now
in the meeting room, I can do my
work from here as well, so
that's not a big problem

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okay, I'll send you mail and
we'll see if we can hook up
tomorrow then that'd be great

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yeah, we perfect, okay, I
appreciate it Raymond, it's good
talking to you, of course you've
been along in this podcast
journey for a couple of months

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you've, you know, you have one
of the, one of the most famous
moments of the day being of
podcasts

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yeah, yeah, boiling, all right,
whatever you do, don't vote for
anything yet until we finish our
conversation, right?

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okay, I'll do that

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okay, Raymond, thanks a lot,
buddy, I'll talk to you tomorrow
and ensure the source code
listeners will appreciate this
as well

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yeah, happy, happy to do it and
just sit around in the room

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okay, great, thank you very
much, talk to you tomorrow

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my name, my name, my name, my
name, my name, my name, my name,
my name, my name is Matt Moron

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that's all I was like, yeah, go
ahead, what do you want to say?

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hello, my name, ladies and
gentlemen, my name is Sarah
Scott, I really have to be here

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All right buddy, we'll be
talking more eU tomorrow just
kidding all right that's

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Raymond Ford everybody thanks
Raymond talk to tomorrow

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Little discombobulated, but
that's what it's all about I
guess if it was slick

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Shit of the on the BBC right
that's it for the source code
comments Adam and Curry dot com
or

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Audio comments MP3 feedback a
Gmail dot com of course, you
know, it's got the latest show
in the archives and the podcast
feed a daily source code dot com

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I thanks to Raymond Ford

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We'll continue tomorrow
hopefully with less technical
difficulties and tomorrow more
pod save tunes from those and

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You know the typical crab right

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You