Episode 199 - Samovar Teas [Discussion] [Archive]

klitzy

04-22-2009, 06:00 AM

New episode out. Filming at an awesome tea location.

Stories:
Kevin and Alex are drinking some deluxe teas at Samovar Tea Lounge in SF. Stories: Man Paid $2500 To Impregnate Neighbors Wife - Fails 72 Times, 6 Geniuses Who Saw Their Inventions Go Terribly Wrong, iPhoto Discovers Face in Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Where Are They Now? 25 Computer Products That Refuse to Die, The Worst Homemade Star Wars Costumes

Here's the site of their location...

http://samovarlife.com/

phil-mize

04-22-2009, 06:07 AM

is it me or did any of your guys find the waiter really annoying? I know she must have been awed from the camera's en such but i dunno she just struck me the wrong way... maybe she just reminds me of apple folk to pc owners as is a tea drinker to COFFEEE!!:D

Shadow125

04-22-2009, 06:21 AM

She didn't seem too annoying, she didn't really seem interested in being on camera or Diggnation at all lol. I kept laughing when Kevin was giving her looks behind her back.

Good episode however, some good stories and loved that it was at the Samovar tea lounge :D

I'm kind of afraid to think about next episode. Hopefully none of this rumor stuff is real.

number_01

04-22-2009, 07:25 AM

I love how Kevin took my suggestion and actually did it.

EVERYONE LOOK:
http://kevinrose.com/blogg/2009/3/13/topple-2.html#comments

I am also username Nickcast. I posted a comment on his blog like a few weeks ago.

How about shooting a Diggnation at the Samovar Tea Lounge in SF too, I was there and it was really cool. Would be fun to see Alex's reaction to teas and you could use it to sell teas as a cross promotion.

Suhweet please also follow up with places I suggested for Diggnation in L.A. , I have a bunch of promoters cards so I could probably get models to show up and a sweet club if you guys hit me up.

cybersleeper

04-22-2009, 08:25 AM

Not sure if I am one of the few, but as much as I enjoy seeing Kevin & Alex out in the public, I am really missing the way the earlier episodes were, couch, beer and geek stories. Can't put my finger on it, but it seems to me something is changing about the show.

I do however appreciate the comments Kevin & Alex have when it comes to beer, wine or tea tasting, I respect their opinions and have discovered some new products I haven't tried before. Looking forward to my order arriving from Samovar Tea.

I just downloaded the iLick app and it's, well, a cool idea Alex, but not for .99 cents. This should be a FREE app or better yet, shareware. Now, if there was some interaction with the app, then yes, I would pay for it.

I know I heard Kevin say that Sherry Duffy (the server at Samovar Tea Lounge), was hot, sic 'em Kevin, sic 'em :)

glugory

04-22-2009, 09:29 AM

Another shorter episode. This time we don't even get an email segment either. Awesome. What's next? Cutting Digg stories to make room for more sponsors talk? I kid... sort of.

Alright episode. Nice change of pace to see Kevin and Alex out an about. The first 10 minutes were really the best part though. Once they got into the stories they seemed to really be rushing to get through the stories. Guys, SLOW DOWN! We like the longer episodes. I remember getting excited when I'd see that an episode of Diggnation went longer than 50 minutes or so. Now it's getting rare for an episode to break the 35 minute mark.

runsoverfrogs

04-22-2009, 10:29 AM

LoL... I like how kevin tried a little flirting with the askign her favorite tea.. when they disagreed on chai, Kevin gives the camera a goofy look..

hahaha...

bet 10 bucks kevin is asking her out.

katrien

04-22-2009, 11:32 AM

32:30?

For fuck sakes... :eek:

Why is Diggnation such a rush now? A huge disappointment week after week after week.

badgrenola

04-22-2009, 01:13 PM

Awesome episode. Kevin disagreeing with the waitress was pretty darn funny. Plus you can't beat some good tea....I think.

derryquinn

04-22-2009, 05:17 PM

Anyone else think Kevin has the hots for the cute waitress?

anastazio

04-22-2009, 06:15 PM

Hi guys,

I didn't watch the whole episode yet...

But I thought that tattoo on Kevin's arm is pretty cool...
Does anyone know what it is or if there's a photo of it somewhere?

I know it sounds weird, but I 'm trying to get some inspiration...

Cheers!

tw12lve

04-22-2009, 07:14 PM

anyone else thinking that waitress wasn't as hot as kevin thought she was?

logant

04-22-2009, 07:24 PM

anyone else thinking that waitress wasn't as hot as kevin thought she was?

I think she was more adorable than hot. She has a nice sweet innocent cute look to her.

travislopes

04-22-2009, 08:54 PM

Wait? Was this Diggnation? I thought it was SamovarTeanation with some discussion in between.

pmm217

04-22-2009, 11:07 PM

The Diggnation we knew and loved died a long time back. The show is now Sponsornation and/or Teanation.

kyuubi

04-22-2009, 11:12 PM

Alex, you've been playing a rogue for too long. Maidens Anguish lol!

ipsophatso

04-22-2009, 11:48 PM

When Alex said, "Yeah it did. It punched me in the... in the vomit sack." I LOL'd for 5 minutes.

danhauk

04-23-2009, 12:52 AM

juicymoose

04-23-2009, 12:52 AM

I was a short but good episode. I agree with others that it was tooooo short though. Too much time spent on tea and sponsers. Alex so makes me laugh when he copies something Kevin is being serious about; like the tea slurping...LOL.

The waitress was cute but seemed like she would be more fun if she was drunk!

derryquinn

04-23-2009, 01:05 AM

The Diggnation we knew and loved died a long time back. The show is now Sponsornation and/or Teanation.

Okay! Lets just run the show off of this imaginary inward flow of money and do away with sponsors! Serving millions of viewers in many different file sizes and formats through many different distribution channels on a weekly basis is cheap as hell anyway!

joeyrock

04-23-2009, 01:19 AM

Yorkshire, PG tips, Tetley.... that is all.

reverend_cxt

04-23-2009, 01:35 AM

Forget about all that green slop, Yorkshire Gold FTW!.

+ dunked biscuits.

speed

04-23-2009, 03:03 AM

Decent episode, but it annoyed me how Alex kept saying "hurry up" and trying to rush the episode. Bring back the hour long episodes, and don't pull an Apple (i.e. when we ask for the second email, don't cut out the only email we had, like Apple did with buttons on the Macbook)

wayoutwest

04-23-2009, 04:13 AM

Other than the brevity, a good episode. Anyone else considering the tea set? I am. I have been eyeing different beginner tea sets for a while, though $32 shipped is a bit steep. The girl was also cute. I was a fan.

derfbwh

04-23-2009, 06:12 AM

I also thought this was a very good episode, with the exception of the lack of email. Am I the only one who, while I like all the location changes, thinks it's time for us to settle back down in Kevin or Alex's living room for a couple of episodes straight? Maybe putting them back in their comfort zone will continue this positive trend and enhance it.

rvissers

04-23-2009, 06:47 AM

Missed the email, liked the on location venue and totally thought Kevin had eyes for the waitress. I think this is her...

http://www.modelmayhem.com/642090

derfbwh

04-23-2009, 06:56 AM

Missed the email, liked the on location venue and totally thought Kevin had eyes for the waitress. I think this is her...

http://www.modelmayhem.com/642090
Okay, that's more than a little creepy. No, really.

iamiend

04-23-2009, 06:57 AM

That was one hell of an annoying and pretentious ep. Annoying because of the waitresses. And pretentious because the annoying waitress described in detail how to brew tea! SEVERAL TIMES! IN DETAIL!

It's like listening to wine snobery.

And lest you think I'm just a hater, let me just say that I'm a tea drinker and own most of the teas they drank, ( except for the green tea milkshake )

J

kellogg

04-23-2009, 08:59 AM

the guys seemed a little more upbeat. i enjoyed it. but alex, please quit rushing!

myketuna

04-23-2009, 09:06 AM

Okay, that's more than a little creepy. No, really.

lol. I don't think so. It's a bit creepy. If you Google her name *which they put up like at least 3 times during the show* that's the first result. She's pretty cute, though.

jedeye-sniv

04-23-2009, 06:38 PM

lmao, I was coming here to post the modelling link. She's very cute, I was laughing at Kevin's reactions to her, very funny.

ngower

04-23-2009, 07:34 PM

The comment earlier about the waitress being pretentious because she was explaining how to brew the tea is ridiculous. She is a "tea server" at a "tea lounge", what do you expect her to do?

Tea can be very delicate and depending on the amount used and the size of the vessel in which the tea is steeped, the time will vary.

I loved that they were in Samovar, even if the place itself is (in my opinion) overpriced. I love when they talk about tea and it was a great backdrop to some great stories.

I've never been a fan of the e-mail segments in Revision 3's shows. I like how iFanboy operate with a mailbag every now and then. That would be much better to use that as a filler episode if the guys need a break for a week. Shoot it after an episode and voila, two weeks off.

jsc315

04-24-2009, 01:07 AM

I agree with ngower. The only problem i had was that they had 8min of really nothing before even getting into a story and with the live reads the episode was very short.

magregerschaffer

04-24-2009, 02:08 AM

Loved the local' in this episode!! It was fun watching Kevin and Alex Sample different styles of tea. They never fail to make me lol

Shadow125

04-24-2009, 08:46 PM

Agreed :P

I thought it was funny when she was like "No. The Earl Grey."

dirtyhat

04-24-2009, 08:53 PM

There were times when I wish they would've continued with their tangents, but then the tea girl came to serve them and never got back to it. Agree that the first 10 min. were better than the rest of it. Hoping 200 is an improvement. If not, I may be out.

I was only able to watch the first 10 mins before class so I jumped on the forums real quick to see if the whole episode was going to be as good as the first 10 mins were... Sad to hear a couple people say the first 10 was the best... Oh well

unn0129

04-24-2009, 09:38 PM

you should drink beer on diggnation, no one cares about your green tea shakes, kevin rose, stop being lame

ajzzz

04-24-2009, 11:51 PM

I for one love Kevin's leching and Alex's embarrassingly unsubtle sexual innuendo.

jsc315

04-25-2009, 01:41 AM

you should drink beer on diggnation, no one cares about your green tea shakes, kevin rose, stop being lame

Yes because they should do the same thing every episode and not change anything ever! how about you stop posting stupid remarks and being a ass?

unn0129

04-25-2009, 02:02 AM

Yes because they should do the same thing every episode and not change anything ever! how about you stop posting stupid remarks and being a ass?

They used to drink a lot more beer than they do now. And they hardly ever get drunk anymore, it sucks. And I'll ignore the flaming side of your post.

heyseuss

04-25-2009, 05:47 AM

Anyone else think Kevin has the hots for the cute waitress?

... and I also secretly think the sun is hot too, shh, don't tell anyone, it's just between you and me.

*ring ring*

"Hello?"

"Hello, this is Captain Obvious calling for derryquinn"

Okay! Lets just run the show off of this imaginary inward flow of money and do away with sponsors! Serving millions of viewers in many different file sizes and formats through many different distribution channels on a weekly basis is cheap as hell anyway!

A 10 minute segment on sponsors is more effective in an hour long episode than a 30 mins episode.

heyseuss

04-25-2009, 05:53 AM

But I thought that tattoo on Kevin's arm is pretty cool...
Does anyone know what it is or if there's a photo of it somewhere?

It's a swastika, no wait, it's a picture of your mom's face with a line through it, no it's Bush's face with a halo.

How can you think it's cool if you don't even know what it is ?

Do you realise how sad that sounds ?

speed

04-26-2009, 04:47 AM

That was one hell of an annoying and pretentious ep. Annoying because of the waitresses. And pretentious because the annoying waitress described in detail how to brew tea! SEVERAL TIMES! IN DETAIL!

So if I work at an electronics store and explain to someone how the different electronics work, am I being pretentious? No, I'm doing my job. Same thing with a tea server explaining how to brew the tea. She explained it several times because it was different for each tea.

dirtyhat

04-26-2009, 06:08 AM

maxhdrm

04-26-2009, 09:24 PM

First diggnation is less of a rush and simply cutting out their life drama crap that I could care less about. The point of the show is to talk about user submitted stories not their own.

Second....Alex its not impotentce that both men suffer from but sterility. if they were impotent then they couldn't get it up.

I found the waitress very cute and unlike some audience members on live meet-ups, I was impressed that she wasn't trying to hog the camera time up.

maxhdrm

04-26-2009, 09:28 PM

So if I work at an electronics store and explain to someone how the different electronics work, am I being pretentious? No, I'm doing my job. Same thing with a tea server explaining how to brew the tea. She explained it several times because it was different for each tea.

I agree as well. I am degreed, very intelligent and love Computer/Software Tech. I know what I know... fact. That doesn't make me pretentious if I am trying to teach someone. That makes me confident of my abilities.

Being pretentious is when you snub your nose at someone because you think they are stupid for NOT knowing and refuse to explain it.

unn0129

04-27-2009, 03:43 PM

. I am degreed, very intelligent and love Computer/Software Tech..
Egotistical much? Having a degree isn't a huge deal, its basically your way of conforming to ideals that other people deem important.

tokenuser

04-27-2009, 04:11 PM

Egotistical much? Having a degree isn't a huge deal, its basically your way of conforming to ideals that other people deem important.Thats the argument made by people who feel they need to justify why they DON'T have a degree.

maxhdrm was saying that he knows what he knows. Tech is his area. If the waitresses thing is tea, then that is (part of) what she knows and is good at it.

Knowing your subject matter isn't pretentious - especially in a podcast where this episode was about tea, a little education on brewing the product correctly is fine.

dirtyhat

04-27-2009, 08:41 PM

Egotistical much? Having a degree isn't a huge deal, its basically your way of conforming to ideals that other people deem important.

This made me laugh... he may be egotistical but your are just ignorant.

sixsixty

04-29-2009, 12:15 AM

really? maiden's ecstasy over the Genghis Khan Super Horse 1206 AD? no way!!
the genghis khan is far superior, and what a name too.

http://shop.samovarlife.com/Genghis_Khan_Super_Horse_1206_Pu_erh_Tea_p/0501gen.htm

dirtyhat

04-29-2009, 12:20 AM

really? maiden's ecstasy over the Genghis Khan Super Horse 1206? no way!!
the genghis khan is far superior, and what a name too.

http://shop.samovarlife.com/Genghis_Khan_Super_Horse_1206_Pu_erh_Tea_p/0501gen.htm

I thought you were talking about some kind of ancient battle there for a second... clicked the link... oh just tea ;)