Seattle podcast #1
Rodney: Hello? Hello? Is this on? Okay, so I think we're good. I'm Rodney, and, uh, welcome to episode one of "Rodney and Graeme's Seattle Podcast"! Um, except that Graeme hasn't moved to Seattle just yet, and even if he had he probably wouldn't be able to talk because of his recent tonsillectomy. So filling in today is our mutual friend, Kevin J.
Kevin: Hi.
Rodney: And just to make it feel like Graeme is here, Kevin will be throwing in a few of Graeme's familiar sayings. Isn't that right, Kevin?
Kevin: How endearing.
Rodney: It's "embarrassing", not "endearing." How embarrassing.
Kevin: Oh well, I'm still new at this whole Graeme thing.
Rodney: And we're recording this on my HP notebook running Windows XP. Ha, take that, you smug Mac users! Who really needs iLife, anyways? Okay, so, um, I'm drawing a blank here, Kevin. What were we going to talk about on our show today, besides bashing Apple?
Kevin: How about you share your story about coming down here on Saturday?
Rodney: That's a great idea! So, I was supposed to fly down on Friday, but the immigration lawyers couldn't get their act together in time. So, instead, I was hoping to take a direct Air Canada flight on Saturday morning, but the airline wouldn't let us change the ticket without a huge penalty, so I just ended up taking a United flight on Saturday afternoon, with a 2.5-hour stopover in Chicago.
Kevin: And how was the border? I've heard that those border guards are pretty ruthless.
Rodney: Well, I went to the inspection window at the airport, and I was immediately sent to secondary inspection, which is behind large, locked doors - presumably so that you can't escape once you're inside. So I waited for, like, a couple of minutes for the border guards to stop talking with each other, and I gave them a huge pile of documents and paper. And the guard says to me, "That doesn't look like nearly enough paperwork for a TN visa." In a really mean voice, too. I was pretty worried.
Kevin: Glad he's not my brother.
Rodney: It's "father", Kevin - not "brother." Anyways, so I waited for awhile, and then I got to talk to a different guard for a couple of minutes, and he was really nice. He'd call me up to ask a question or two, make me wait for 5-10 minutes, lather, rinse, repeat. So, after nearly an hour and a $50 processing fee, they finally let me go with my visa. The rest of the trip was uneventful - I ate at McDonald's in Chicago and arrived on-time in Seattle.
Kevin: Did you have much to do over the weekend?
Rodney: Well, after I arrived on Saturday it was 7:00pm by the time I got to my apartment, so I just walked a couple of blocks to buy some staple foods at the local Rite-Aid, and came back to heat up a frozen pizza for dinner. It was pretty good.
Kevin: The senile old food!
Rodney: Um, I think you mean "fool"? Anyways, on Sunday I laid low for most of the day, apart from making a trip to Safeway to pick up a bunch of groceries. I have enough food to last me the week, but I'm still missing a bunch of essentials - eggs, butter, rice.
Kevin: But how will you survive without any dill seasoning?
Rodney: Oh, don't worry. That was near the top of my list of things to buy; I even put some in my deluxe Kraft Dinner last night. What else did I do Sunday? Um, well, uh, oh! I made a trip around my apartment building where I'm staying for the month, and I found my mailbox and a swimming pool. And I watched a bunch of TV, too. I was kind of surprised by the nominations on "Big Brother 8."
Kevin: You know, you have a really boring life.
Rodney: Uhhh...what?
Kevin: Well, between buying food, watching TV, and looking for mailboxes, you seem to have done diddly-squat.
Rodney: Well, fine then. What have you been up to lately? What makes your life so much better?
Kevin: I have a girlfriend.
Rodney: Oh. {awkward pause} Um, anyways, I think that I forgot to mention that today's show is brought to you by Linksys routers. So easy to set up that you'll probably forget to secure it with a password.
Kevin: Yes. Today's show is brought to you by the letters W P and A, and the number 0. As in the amount of security that router has - none!
Rodney: Funny, Kevin. But seriously, though, thanks to whatever neighbour is inadvertently letting me use his internet until mine gets set up. So, alright. We were supposed to have a special guest call in , but, um, you know, I think I forgot to email him my phone number. Shoot.
Kevin: What the Spock?
Rodney: You know, maybe you should just drop Graeme's colloquialisms. So, um, Kevin, we've exhausted our list of topics. Actually, we've exhausted our list of topic, since we only came up with one idea. Anything else we can talk about?
Kevin: I dunno, how much time do we need to fill?
Rodney: Lemme check my lappy. Uh, what the... Well, it looks like Windows is going to restart itself in two minutes because it downloaded some software updates without asking me first. Stupid Windows - maybe those smug Mac users are onto something, after all. So I guess we're almost done. Uh, I want to make some shout-outs to my SPUC friends - I miss you guys. Um, yeah, I think that's all. Anything you want to say, Kev?
Kevin: You still owe me five bucks for helping you out on your show.
Rodney: So, that's the show then. I guess I'll talk to you guys again in the next podcast. Hopefully Graeme will be in Seattle by then. So, uh, later.
[dead air]
Rodney: That show was weak. Man, I suck at live radio.
Kevin: You know, we could edit this. It's not live...
[Windows shutdown music]
Kevin: Hi.
Rodney: And just to make it feel like Graeme is here, Kevin will be throwing in a few of Graeme's familiar sayings. Isn't that right, Kevin?
Kevin: How endearing.
Rodney: It's "embarrassing", not "endearing." How embarrassing.
Kevin: Oh well, I'm still new at this whole Graeme thing.
Rodney: And we're recording this on my HP notebook running Windows XP. Ha, take that, you smug Mac users! Who really needs iLife, anyways? Okay, so, um, I'm drawing a blank here, Kevin. What were we going to talk about on our show today, besides bashing Apple?
Kevin: How about you share your story about coming down here on Saturday?
Rodney: That's a great idea! So, I was supposed to fly down on Friday, but the immigration lawyers couldn't get their act together in time. So, instead, I was hoping to take a direct Air Canada flight on Saturday morning, but the airline wouldn't let us change the ticket without a huge penalty, so I just ended up taking a United flight on Saturday afternoon, with a 2.5-hour stopover in Chicago.
Kevin: And how was the border? I've heard that those border guards are pretty ruthless.
Rodney: Well, I went to the inspection window at the airport, and I was immediately sent to secondary inspection, which is behind large, locked doors - presumably so that you can't escape once you're inside. So I waited for, like, a couple of minutes for the border guards to stop talking with each other, and I gave them a huge pile of documents and paper. And the guard says to me, "That doesn't look like nearly enough paperwork for a TN visa." In a really mean voice, too. I was pretty worried.
Kevin: Glad he's not my brother.
Rodney: It's "father", Kevin - not "brother." Anyways, so I waited for awhile, and then I got to talk to a different guard for a couple of minutes, and he was really nice. He'd call me up to ask a question or two, make me wait for 5-10 minutes, lather, rinse, repeat. So, after nearly an hour and a $50 processing fee, they finally let me go with my visa. The rest of the trip was uneventful - I ate at McDonald's in Chicago and arrived on-time in Seattle.
Kevin: Did you have much to do over the weekend?
Rodney: Well, after I arrived on Saturday it was 7:00pm by the time I got to my apartment, so I just walked a couple of blocks to buy some staple foods at the local Rite-Aid, and came back to heat up a frozen pizza for dinner. It was pretty good.
Kevin: The senile old food!
Rodney: Um, I think you mean "fool"? Anyways, on Sunday I laid low for most of the day, apart from making a trip to Safeway to pick up a bunch of groceries. I have enough food to last me the week, but I'm still missing a bunch of essentials - eggs, butter, rice.
Kevin: But how will you survive without any dill seasoning?
Rodney: Oh, don't worry. That was near the top of my list of things to buy; I even put some in my deluxe Kraft Dinner last night. What else did I do Sunday? Um, well, uh, oh! I made a trip around my apartment building where I'm staying for the month, and I found my mailbox and a swimming pool. And I watched a bunch of TV, too. I was kind of surprised by the nominations on "Big Brother 8."
Kevin: You know, you have a really boring life.
Rodney: Uhhh...what?
Kevin: Well, between buying food, watching TV, and looking for mailboxes, you seem to have done diddly-squat.
Rodney: Well, fine then. What have you been up to lately? What makes your life so much better?
Kevin: I have a girlfriend.
Rodney: Oh. {awkward pause} Um, anyways, I think that I forgot to mention that today's show is brought to you by Linksys routers. So easy to set up that you'll probably forget to secure it with a password.
Kevin: Yes. Today's show is brought to you by the letters W P and A, and the number 0. As in the amount of security that router has - none!
Rodney: Funny, Kevin. But seriously, though, thanks to whatever neighbour is inadvertently letting me use his internet until mine gets set up. So, alright. We were supposed to have a special guest call in , but, um, you know, I think I forgot to email him my phone number. Shoot.
Kevin: What the Spock?
Rodney: You know, maybe you should just drop Graeme's colloquialisms. So, um, Kevin, we've exhausted our list of topics. Actually, we've exhausted our list of topic, since we only came up with one idea. Anything else we can talk about?
Kevin: I dunno, how much time do we need to fill?
Rodney: Lemme check my lappy. Uh, what the... Well, it looks like Windows is going to restart itself in two minutes because it downloaded some software updates without asking me first. Stupid Windows - maybe those smug Mac users are onto something, after all. So I guess we're almost done. Uh, I want to make some shout-outs to my SPUC friends - I miss you guys. Um, yeah, I think that's all. Anything you want to say, Kev?
Kevin: You still owe me five bucks for helping you out on your show.
Rodney: So, that's the show then. I guess I'll talk to you guys again in the next podcast. Hopefully Graeme will be in Seattle by then. So, uh, later.
[dead air]
Rodney: That show was weak. Man, I suck at live radio.
Kevin: You know, we could edit this. It's not live...
[Windows shutdown music]