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Hey, it's Tony Costa telling you
to check out this
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It's the official podcast for
the new Sony film.

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This Christmas starring Chris
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Short,

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You can exchange gifts, but you
can't exchange family.

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This Christmas is truly the next
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See it in theaters on November
21st,

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and please check us out at this
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I like to think I'm flying into
this christmaspodcast.com, it's
Adam Curry.

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[ Music ]

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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.

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Tears don't last forever.

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If I'm looking at their page
here on the Pod State Music
Network, influences, yeah,

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no kidding, the Beatles, Green
Day, Led Zeppelin, Otis Redding,
Sam Cook.

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Fanta, one of these guys is
still around, no new tracks in
November 29th of 2006, great

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music to kick off at Tuesday on
your daily source code, episode
number 690.

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Well, actually, turns out I
somehow skipped two episodes.

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Someone pointed this out to me,
yes, the only one person emailed
me about it.

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I posted show number 689
yesterday and indeed, looking
back on Friday, it was show 686.

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So 8687 and 689 are MIA, which
means I think I'm just going to
continue the count from

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690 and then somewhere we'll do
two secret episodes.

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I don't want to mess up people
who have a perfect collection,
then you have stuff coming

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out in the wrong order.

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So, sorry about that.

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Ha, must smoke less crack.

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Hey, another a dreary day here
in the UK, it's gray outside,
it's wet and, of course, I'm

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going to go into the city,
battle the traffic, battle the
new expanded congestion zone,

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which has screwed everything up
and let all kinds of people from
Chelsea into the city

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for almost zero cost.

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Ah, so it goes.

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Yeah, we've done some cool shit.

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You know, we launched a new show
on Monday here in the UK, it's
called Spirit Messenger

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with Gordon Smith.

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Gordon Smith is a guy who's been
getting a lot of attention here
in the UK in the past

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couple weeks, and maybe even
months, he's a psychic, or as we
call him a spirit messenger.

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He's a medium quite well known,
used to be known as the psychic
barber in the UK.

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I think he's trying to change
that image.

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I stumbled across him through
super agent Keith Bishop several
months ago, and we

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kept talking about, you know, we
really got to do a show and then
finally we just sat down

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and we just did a show and his
great spirit messenger dot
podshow dot com.

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This guy is pretty unbelievable
and he does it in in under 10
minutes, at least that's

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what's that's the show that
we're making with him.

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I don't see why you have to have
a spirit show that's longer than
10 minutes.

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Get to the point, help these
people.

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He's actually, he doesn't do a
private reading and readings
anymore, or even public readings

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for that matter.

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He's written several books and
he's now in the field of grief
counseling.

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So the entire point of the show
is there are people who have
lost their loved ones and

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they missed them dearly and he
helps get in touch with them and
counsels them as a medium

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he passes on the messages from
the spirit world.

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It's funny because we've got a
couple of people at the office
who just don't believe

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in this.

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They're working on the show and
they're at, you know, really
trying to say, you know,

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this is just not real and even
the biggest critics are now
like, well, shit looks

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pretty damn real.

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Sounds pretty good.

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Ah, let's see, trolling the
voicemail line.

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You know, I haven't played the
voicemail lines in quite a such
a time.

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Actually, it turned out that
there were more people calling
in on the UK voicemail number

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today than the US number.

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So I'm going to give you a shot
at both for a second.

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Here's one for the Yankee
Doodles.

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Oh, what the hell was that?

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Let's try that again.

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Now, of course, here's the first
message that came through.

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All right, I'll write a random
fuck you.

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Adam Curry.

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Stop talking about that.

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I'm not.

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All right.

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And I'm going to buy it.

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I just bought the N95 and now I
have to buy this, you like, to
thank you, have a nice day

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and fuck you.

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I don't buy it yet, man.

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I haven't received it.

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I haven't been able to do a full
test yet, so I don't know if
it's really going to rock

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that hard.

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Actually, I do.

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I know it's going to be awesome.

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I've been waiting for this one.

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This is the device I've been
waiting for.

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Finally, I think all the pieces
are coming together.

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I've come together and it's a
great intermediary between my
cell phone and my computer.

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Yeah, I got a page at curry.com.

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Then keep your eye on a daily
source code.com for a great deal
on the N810.

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But first, let's wait until I
get my device.

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And because if it sucks, if I
don't like it, I'm not going to
be

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hawking it to you.

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Trust me, no matter what anyone
else does.

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But I have a feeling I'm going
to like it very much.

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I've been spending even more
time with my N800 recently.

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Last night, I think the, I
wonder how long the battery, how
many

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rechargees you can get on one of
these batteries.

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They use a standard cell phone
battery so that it really lasts
a long time

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depending on what you're doing.

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But I don't know if I just don't
know how long the last.

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I wonder how long have I had the
N800 a year or so?

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I should just look that up.

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Yeah, I think it's been almost a
year.

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And let me see, it's still
holding in charge.

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I'll check today.

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I'm going to load it full up
today.

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And then hopefully tomorrow, if
I can eat a show out tomorrow,

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let you know how many hours it
lasted.

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But it does do a pretty good
job, which is one of the big,
big advantages of this over

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any other portable device.

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That was really the bummer with
the iPhone.

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It's combined with the web
surfing I do, which I do a lot
of, you know,

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just checking me email and
looking at other things, Google
reader.

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I use a lot, I use the phone a
lot.

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And a seven hour day is just not
enough.

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I mean, maybe enough for people
in Cupertino, but it's not
enough for me.

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Ah, let's check in with our
European Congress.

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Come on, come on, strip.

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Come on, strip.

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Come on, strip.

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Come on, strip.

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Come on, strip.

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Come on, strip.

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Come on, strip.

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Come on, strip.

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Come on, strip.

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Come on, strip.

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Come on, strip.

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Fancy a carry in a carry.

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Mr. Adam Curry.

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Hiya, here is CSB, your EU
correspondent.

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So England gets closer to
Europe.

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Last week on Wednesday, Europe
start trains from England to
France.

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And to Belgium are leaving, not
from the shameful water load
station.

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You know, French is where I'm
meeting at Waterloo.

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But from Renewed,
Saint-Pavent-Cath station.

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Yeah, what's up with that?

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Wait a minute, I thought it came
in the Waterloo station, or at
least on the Euro rail side,

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the Euro Star side of the
Waterloo station, which is quite
nice compared to Waterloo

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station itself, which is my
station.

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I thought they were going in
there.

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Now, travel to England, from
England to Europe, short ends by
20 minutes.

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And after 2012, it will be even
possible to go from England to
Germany, from which

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original Anglo-Saxons came from
anyway.

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So happy on the road to you,
Adam.

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You.

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Ha ha.

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Happy Emery to you, to my
friend.

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Although the pound has lost a
little bit against the Euro on
the dollar recently, which

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is in a way kind of nice.

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I still have lots of Euro, so
that works for me.

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Forget getting dollars.

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That's just the sad state of
affairs.

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Yeah, this high-speed train
stuff is pretty cool.

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And I think it's a lot more
convenient than the airports
these day.

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Well, of course, you know, with
the Delta Shira, with my own
craft, it's the easiest of

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all.

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But yeah, it seems like, in
fact, the girls were talking to
me about going to Disneyland

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Paris just before the Christmas
holiday, which I think is a
great idea.

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I do, I am a sucker for
Disneyland, I have to say, and
you particularly when
everything's

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just right.

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So that's what they do with
Disney.

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Everything's just kind of right.

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It's the way you expect it to
be.

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And it's only like two hours or
something like that by train,
and so it's going to go

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to Germany as well.

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This is cool.

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This is very cool.

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Right now, I would say flying
out of Heathrow or Gattwick is
just not worth it.

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You know, it's, yeah, I mean,
sure, if you have to go to
Finland, then you can't get

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there by train easily, just yet.

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Of course, the French and the
Germans are striking.

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So the German real workers of
striking, I don't know if that
affects the Euro star.

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And the French, if it's Tuesday,
of course, they're striking.

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They always strike on Tuesday.

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So they can get the maximum
benefit of having the rest of
the week off or almost as good

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as the rest of the week off.

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Speaking of strikes, New Story
came out yesterday that the CBS
news writers are now

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having now approved a strike,
which they would do to support
the writers' guild of America

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strike, which is going on there.

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It's still going on in what it's
third week now in California.

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Let me see, I got the, it's a
market watch story.

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Let me see what I've got here.

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Yeah.

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So here it comes.

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CBS news writers voted to Spurn,
CBS has contract offer in
November of last year since

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then the network has refused to
put forth any new proposals.

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It looks like they're going to
go on strike.

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And then, of course, there's the
non-scripted drama, a better
known as reality writers.

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They aren't in the guild.

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There is no guild for that.

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So expect to see a lot more
reality shows in the coming few
weeks, because I don't believe

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they're going to work this out.

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In fact, I think it's very
difficult to work out this
writer's strike because, well,
quite

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honestly, it's very complicated
to make money online with video.

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No one's really making any,
we're making money.

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It's costing a lot still to do
it, but look at YouTube, I don't
even see any ads.

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Let alone a few.

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Just look at many other sites
out there.

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The no one is really making a
lot of money.

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And of course, if there's not a
lot of money to be made, then
there's no profit to be

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divvyed out.

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And of course, that's not what
the writers are going for.

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The writers are going for a
piece of the gross proceeds,
which is just, it's Hollywood.

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It's the movie business.

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You're never going to be able to
figure that out.

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I feel really bad for him.

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I don't know.

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I still like Jack Myers.

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If you haven't ever seen Jack
Myers column, he's a media
analyst.

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Jack Myers.com.

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And his suggestion was that the
advertiser should create a pool
of money that should

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be divvy out to the writers.

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So any money that is spent on
interactive advertising, instead
of getting it from the

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recipient of that money, which
is the studios and the
producers, he's suggesting, why
not

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do it at the source and just
have, whatever the budgets are,
whatever budgets any of these

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agencies, who, of course,
collect 15% agency commission
over any media buy they do.

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So it would technically come out
of their pocket and not out of
the advertisers, that

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1% should go to this pool and
that should be divvyed up
amongst the writers.

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But of course, there's a lot of
other unions that will pop up,
who also work on these and

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probably don't get residuals
either.

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So tough.

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I think that's called a
conundrum.

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I got this awesome email from,
who do I get that from?

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This is, man, this is almost
something I want to hear this.

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Of course, Alexander, he sent me
a link and I'm going to post
this in the show notes

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of dailysourcecode.com of
private contractors that have US
government contracts in Iraq

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and Afghanistan between 2004 and
2006.

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This is essentially where our
tax dollars are going to fight
to terror in those regions.

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And what's interesting is, and,
you know, this, he has links to
public integrity.org.

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And at the top of the list,
there's 20 billion, actually
$20.4 billion going to
unidentified

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foreign entities.

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So that's just $20 billion that
is not identifiable as to what,
what our money was spent

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on.

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Number two is KBR with $16
billion in two years time.

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Of course, KBR formerly known as
Kellogg Brown and Ruit, a fine
halibut in subsidiary.

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Then it's Dine Corp
International through Veritas
Capital with $1 billion, boy,
it's a big

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drop.

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Washington Group International
Inc.

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Another billion.

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And then IAP Worldwide Services
Inc, a division of service
service, I guess, service
capital

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management.

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This is, let me just see if
there's any recognizable names,
Blackwater USA, 485 million

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Lockheed Martin, that mall makes
sense, that's all.

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What I'm not seeing, oh, Tyco
International, Boeing Corp,
Zapata Engineering, these are
all

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pretty new well-known companies.

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I'm looking for, because when I
was in Bosra in 2004, was that
2003 at the Air Base,

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which, of course, has been, has
been a lot of crap going on in
Bosra in the past year.

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It was a Burger King and was it
a Burger King in a Pizza Hut or
Macdonald?

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No, I think it was a Burger King
in a Pizza Hut.

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So I'm wondering if they show up
here, wouldn't that be funny?

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This is only the top 100 with
the number 100 company being ODB
construction company,

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receiving 8 million, oh, only a
poultry, 8 million, oh, there's
a fine Dutch company

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there.

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SHV Holdings and V, let's find
out what they do.

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Well, second, I'm going to go to
this public integrity.org
website, let's see, Defense
Logistics

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Agency, Contract SP0600411D,
full and open competition after
exclusion of sources.

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They provide converters of the
electrical non-rotating kind for
$17 million, nice, nice job.

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If you can get it, let's get
into the spirit, shall we, since
our government is giving

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away all of our money, why don't
we think about giving away some
money in the form of

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presence and think of the horror
they see as in?

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Bull hay, everyone, this is Ed
Roberts from the Looking Out the
Window Music podcast.

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It's that time of the year, time
to ring in the Christmas season,
time to ring in another

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season of Pods' Safe Christmas.

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Every day between Thanksgiving
and Christmas will roll out
three or four great Pods' Safe
Christmas

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tracks to get you into the
Christmas season.

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Visit PodsafeChristmas.com and
look forward to having you join
me here in this Christmas

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[ Music ]

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be here again, my friends, when
we all gather around the fire,
hope to find your sweetheart

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of the mistletoe, it's
Christmas, and we're wishing you
a podsafe for you.

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Mindy Smith, Santa will find
you, I guess.

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This is a crazy story that came
across my spectrum this morning,
there's now a drug that

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lengthens eyelashes, this of
course is what Revlon and others
have been claiming for years

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to be able to do with the pure
mascara, which of course is
horseshorshit and they even got

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in trouble for using stick-on
lashes, false eyelashes and the
commercials, which of course

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is something the lady Patricia
has been calling out for years
and years, but now there's

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this glaucoma drug called
Lumagon, Lumagon, I guess, and
turns out that if you apply

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this to your eyelashes, it
actually makes your eyelashes
grow longer.

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So BIMA TOPROST is the active
ingredient in Lumagon and others
like it is a commonly

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found in glaucoma drugs, it
looks like mascara tube has a
brush or tip for applying the
product

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along the base of the lashes and
typically sells for $14260 in
spas and doctors' offices.

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So of course this is going to be
a big news story because it's
irrelevant, so be on the

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lookout for it and it'll be top
of the news everyone's going to
be talking about it.

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Even though we're spending
billions on commercial companies
fighting a non-existent

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and well not a non-existent, an
invisible enemy, a poorly
defined enemy, namely terror.

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Which is everywhere, it's on the
roller coasters.

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I'm not in college today, that's
all I can say.

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Hey Adam, you're Germany.

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Hey you?

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Hope all as well.

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Yes.

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It's been here to be 689
chilling out, nice couple herbal
tea, if you know what I mean,
and really enjoying

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it.

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I read this awesome book over
the weekend.

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You probably know when it's
called Mr. Nice.

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No, yeah.

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It's written by Howard Knox and
this guy's something else man.

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I think he was one of the
biggest smugglers of Mario Wana
while back a couple years ago.

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And he wrote this book in which
he describes exactly how he
smuggled and what he did to
boost

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the government and to get
everything across the borders.

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Great book.

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I really enjoyed reading it.

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I think he's also definitely a
red pill guy.

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I go a little bit, but it seems
that he's pretty open to doing
some to do an interview.

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So you might even get him on the
other day in the source.

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That would be really nice.

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See you, bye.

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Yeah, interesting suggestion.

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And I'm always looking for
someone interesting to talk to
on the Charlie.

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I read the book, Mr. Nice, about
Howard Marx, which was actually
should have been my first clue

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that my, one of my old business
partners in Holland who later
fled the country.

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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.

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I fled to Cambodia of all
places.

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It turned out, I mean, it's a
long, as a really stupid story.

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Not a very happy ending to that
one.

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But he recommended I read this
book.

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And of course, Howard Marx,
famous for smuggling huge
quantities of mainly marijuana.

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And later, ecstasy, I believe,
as that started to gain
popularity towards the end of
his quote,

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career.

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They would smuggle it in cases
for amplifiers with bands
traveling around Europe.

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And quite interesting, big
companies that are behind all
this.

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You know, hundreds of millions
of euros in this trade.

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And yeah, it's like, it's an
interesting book.

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It's maybe a bit of a
glorification of the drug
smuggling trade.

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Yeah, he's a red pill, but I
don't know.

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I just don't find the story that
interesting.

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But it is a good read for sure.

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If you want to know more about
smuggling drugs,

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I can't miss their nice.

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Ah, you know what?

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I'll put a link in the show
notes to the book at Amazon.com.

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So you can buy that.

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I also grew a year older over
the weekend.

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Or it felt like 10 years older.

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My daughter started her first
driving lesson ever.

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Oh, yeah, boy.

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Of course, they don't have
drivers at here in Europe or in
the UK.

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So it's not quite like the
States where, you know, 15 or
16.

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They're already taken drivers
at.

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And it's kind of a part of the
schooling process.

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And here it's a separate deal.

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She had a great lesson, though.

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She said she's really well.

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She used to drive the tractor
when she was a 10 or 11.

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10, 11, 12.

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No, when she was more like,
yeah, 12, 12, 13.

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When we had the castle, we had a
little mini tractor, which is
cool.

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And she was good.

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She could do the clutch and
shift and all that.

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So, you know, she's got a lot of
that baked in.

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But still, just kind of makes
you feel like, oh, you know,
crab.

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Get old.

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Hey, Adam.

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Alan, person's also here.

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Okay.

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Now it's just on my way home.

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Listen to my agenda.

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Got to say, together, PG6.

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You've got to be drinking.

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You'll succeed.

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It's got to be the best thing we
could get in the UK.

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Anyway, try it out.

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Well, follow the rectal.

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Okay.

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Yep.

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Cheers.

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Well, let's end reference to the
conversation.

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I have with John C. Dvorak on no
agenda.

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Talking about what's the real.

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I didn't know that he was a big
tea guy.

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He's just a, anything you can
put in your mouth.

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He's into.

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Yes, that too.

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I'm sure.

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The wine food, tea coffees.

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He loves it all.

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And I was saying that, you know,
we typically drink PG tips.

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But this Yorkshire stuff.

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Okay.

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I'll try that out.

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I presume I can get that at
Sainsbury's, which is where we
shop.

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All right.

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Well, you know what?

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I'm just going to really slow.

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You know, have you ever had
those moments where you just
like to stop the world?

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I think these moments are
important, by the way, because
we go so fast.

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We're whirling around through
the universe.

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But hundreds of thousands of
miles an hour, we're sending our
bits, you know,

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in packet form across the, the
interwebs on an hourly minute,
second basis.

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Sometimes you're just going to
slow everything down and just
say,

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I need to stop, stop the world,
slow down, relax, and listen to
a piece of music

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from the soundtrack to my life.

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Thank you.

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[ Music ]

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.