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A Couch In St. Louis

Friday, February 29th, 2008 – running time 48:10
A Couch In St. Louis
Dubai Architecture, Rejected Star Wars Promotional Crap, Dell Salesman Goes Insane, Do You Dress Like a Douchebag?, Recharge Your iPod with your Shirt, Elmo Live, 50% of all BitTorrent is TV shows.

Recorded on the couch of the hotel in St. Louis, Kevin and Alex are drinking some fantastic tea from Adagio. Head over to adagio.com/diggnation to find out how you can buy your very own Diggnation tea flavors. And a special for the Diggnation audience, get 5% off your order when you order from adagio.com/diggnation

Dubai Architecture is nuts.. Because there is such a surge in construction, they have 15% of the world's cranes. Kevin doesn't quite understand who goes to Dubai.
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Some genius products - Rejected Star Wars Promotional Crap. Alex is a little sad that these don't exist, as he'd love a Han Frozen in Carbonite mini-fridge. The best concept of them all is the Death Star grill.
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This leaked recording of a Dell Call Center Salesman Going Insane makes Alex giggle, even though this could be a fake phone call, but even though it's done really well.
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In some urgent news, we find out if You dress like a douchebag?. Alex appreciates that it's a flow chart. While they guys aren't currently dressed like a douchebag, Kevin does like to wear stripes, which makes him a douchebag. Tragic.
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Some very cool tech news as someone has invented a way to recharge your ipod with your shirt Oddly enough, Kevin kinda had a dream about a similar use of technology.
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With some funky moves, it's the First Video of Elmo Live, Singing and Dancing. This blew Kevin's mind, despite the creepy guy in the background. Digg This Story

In some impressive stats, 50% Of All BitTorrent Downloads are TV-Shows. Kevin and Alex discuss how downloading TV shows via BitTorrent just makes sense.
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mari1ee

Started discussion: February 29, 2008 @ 4:00pm GMT

Episode 139 - A Couch In St. Louis [Discussion]

Dubai Architecture, Rejected Star Wars Promotional Crap, Dell Salesman Goes Insane, Do You Dress Like a Douchebag?, Recharge Your iPod with your Shirt, Elmo Live, 50% of all BitTorrent is TV shows.

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jmp2071
about 1 year ago
Well Hello, mari1ee.
XHPrime
about 1 year ago
I like how Alex conveniently skipped over the "Is your collar popped?" question on the flowchart.
bvanhaun
about 1 year ago
ummm, anyone else having trouble downloading this episode? none of the links will work for me. :/

edit: nm, itunes is working
neutrino15
about 1 year ago
DUDE KEVIN PATENT THAT SHIT..

This happens to me all the time.. I think of shit, then a few years later it comes out. I have a whole freeking notebook full of ideas.. Literally HALF of them get done by other people. I started to think there was a spy in my family... ...... :( ..... ::sports tinfoil hat:: ....

But seriously, if digg is any example, just get out there and DO IT. Make little shirts for blades of grass, there will be some VC out there willing to throw bails of money at you. You are Kevin Rose.. You can pull it off..
DagoSN
about 1 year ago

Awesome

Perpetual Motion Elmo!!! Genius. Great show, even if it was a week old.

PS The return of Poindexter to Tiki Bar TV, episode 34. Gratz Kevin.
Murphy1d
about 1 year ago
In reply to neutrino15:
DUDE KEVIN PATENT THAT SHIT..

This happens to me all the time.. I think of shit, then a few years later it comes out. I have a whole freeking notebook full of ideas.. Literally HALF of them get done by other people. I started to think there was a spy in my family... ...... :( ..... ::sports tinfoil hat:: ....

But seriously, if digg is any example, just get out there and DO IT. Make little shirts for blades of grass, there will be some VC out there willing to throw bails of money at you. You are Kevin Rose.. You can pull it off..


OK, read Atlas Shrugged. Don't want to give it away,but the whole "harnessing static electricity" thing was thought of years ago. BUT, no one thought of shirts for grass, so Kudos!
brucebeh
about 1 year ago
LOL, i loved the intro sponsor for Yahoo L..i..Ve
bthug7
about 1 year ago
Not gonna lie, when the episode started I was kinda bummed about how (noticeably-St. Louis-) long ago it was filmed. It didn't disappoint though. It had a very tangible element to it, making it more personal. (Was the camera zoomed in more than usual?) Anyway, the content of the episode was great, I truly believe my grand kids are gonna read about Kevin Rose right along with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs on their e-papers in history class. Honestly, Kevin is some sort of walking entrepreneurial machine. I would totally start gambling online if it was at diggcasino.com or something of that nature. It was great to see also how both Alex and Kevin are not superfluous in their spending, even with their relative fame. (The best part of the George Foreman Grill and chicken cutlets is the price, refurbished DVR, not to mention the dancing elmo distributing psuedo company.) I love how they freely admit to torrenting. I was starting to think Kevin and Alex might be becoming a little more disjoint from their audience as time went on. The early episodes were great because they didn't have the security of establishment (that said, as a whole, newer episodes are more entertaining).



In reply to Murphy1d:
OK, read Atlas Shrugged. Don't want to give it away,but the whole "harnessing static electricity" thing was thought of years ago. BUT, no one thought of shirts for grass, so Kudos!

A little bit of topic but I wanted to share I recently finished The Fountainhead and have Anthem and Atlas Shrugged sitting on my desk right now. Nice to see fellow objectivists being drawn to Revision3!
speer360
about 1 year ago

A mooon base

Noooo it a spaacce port

haha alex squealing like a pre-adolescent boy haha
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