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Ben is quarantined on the moon, so we try out having him on by Skype. I try not having any booze (and making up for it by having a huge sugary “energy” drink). The show is a train wreck almost before it starts. We talk about all the big news from 2010, but frankly at this time of year I’m more interested in sharing my own flights of fancy about airport design than talking about anything real. We also talk about our holidays, John Key, Phil ‘the wet blanket’ Goff (apparently Ben doesn’t know what literally means), taking photos from kites, construction delaying taniwha, changing the New Zealand flag, how long have Māori been in NZ, and why are historians so dumb? (Is it because they’re not scientists?) Lonely people are lonely so maybe we should all be a bit friendlier to one another, and there’s a small penis rule but it’s not what you think, and Apple is big, while PC laptops sell far more but are full of crap software because PC manufacturers hate their customers, women are so very happy about their salads, and so very very much more.
Show notes
- What are symptoms of caffeine withdrawal?
- train wreck (Urban Dictionary)
- Top 10 world news stories of 2010 (NZ Herald)
- 2010’s top news discussions (NZ Herald)
- Rangitoto Island Scenic Reserve (Department of Conservation)
- Discourse Guest: Mark Derricutt
- Sea Shepherd
- Whale Wars (Wikipedia)
- F$%k yeah, Julian Assange
- NZFlag.com
- Māori origins (Wikipedia)
- Young Earth creationism (Wikipedia)
- Eyjafjallajökull (Wikipedia)
- Jakarta Incident/British Airways Flight 9 (Wikipedia)
- Why are airports are so dull?
- New Year break == holiday time in NZ
- Spirits Bay (Wikipedia)
- Matakana Coast Wine Country
- Ascension Wine Estate
- Opononi (Wikitravel)
- Tane Mahuta Track (Department of Conservation)
- Trapped and Angry on a Highway of Hell (NZ Herald)
- Monster halts highway construction (TVNZ)
- Taniwha (Wikipedia)
- Key to quite if National loses election (3 News)
- Phil Goff is not literally a wet blanket, only in every other sense.
- Kite aerial photography (Wikipedia)
- Many adults chronically lonely (Futurity)
- Small penis rule (Wikipedia)
- Consumer Electronics Show (Wikipedia)
- Manufacturers Turn to Smart TV After 3-D Disappoints (The Wall Street Journal)
- Apple: Actually, $50 Billion Isn’t Cool Either. You Know What’s Cool? $300 Billion. (TechCrunch)
- iTunes Sucks – Top 5 Reasons
- Why iTunes Sucks
- Users’ Anger Over iPhone Alarm Glitch (Sky News)
- Alarms on some iPhones fail for third day (Montreal Gazette)
- ninite.com
- Acer TimelineX
- Crapware (Wikipedia)
- Intel to Buy McAfee for $7.68 Billion to Add Software (Bloomberg)
- Intel’s purchase of McAfee is a head scratcher (Computerworld Blogs)
- Microsoft Security Essentials (Microsoft)
- The New Speed of Money, Reshaping Markets (The New York Times)
- Arbitrage (Wikipedia)
- Women Laughing Alone With Salad (The Hairpin)
- iStockphoto.com
- ‘woman salad smiling’ (iStockPhoto)
- The Discourse Weekly Show Urban Dictionary Word of the Week
- Tonya Harding (Wikipedia)
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Good stuff, but any chance you could get some compression or something in the mix to even out the volume etc of the guests/hosts (and even the ‘announcer’). I usually listen to podcasts in the car and found myself having to crank the volume up when Morgan was talking so I could hear him, and then getting blasted when Ben laughed or spoke up.
Cheers
Sorry about that Rik, I’ll try to make it more even. (I do already do quite a bit of post processing, but perhaps I need to do more.)