0:00:19 | Cold in UK, foggy in California; ACC on both making tea, “perfect married gay couple”; JCD irked by “up and about” and Carly Fiorina’s “by and large” |
0:03:09 | BBC’s Global Business with “Nagra-carrying” Peter Day interview with Tony Perkins |
0:04:30 | Jonathan Coulton Podsafe Christmas “Adam Curry, Skyping in from a helicopter flying somewhere above your golden palace”, If Every Day Were Christmas; music lawyer Alan Grubman |
0:09:54 | National Geographic “Super Ship Saturday”, Cunard refuses to allow JCD on board Queen Mary 2, too wide for Panama Canal |
0:15:11 | ACC’s DHS hassles continue, “lookout list” generated ATS Automatic Targeting System from Department of Treasury, 40-year data retention, the death of “welcome home”, “why would today be any different?”, Soviet-style secondary room, stuttering interrogator, met by CBP at the jetway in Chicago, 2003 trip to Iraq, ACC: “or maybe just because I keep saying on my show skullfuck the rotting corpse of the TSA?” |
0:28:14 | Idiotic TSA CLEAR biometric program, confiscating expensive perfume, no journalists infiltrating, electronics get bag never gets opened |
0:33:13 | Central banks put up month-long $10bn loan blind auction, JCD: “I’m guessing that during that story that you just told, five to six listeners committed suicide” |
0:39:06 | Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital to buy Clear Channel, rumors of Bloomberg presidential run, Ross Perot threatened out of race; political ads on JCD’s blog, Romney and Treat Williams |
0:50:16 | ACC’s enjoyable flight to the South Coast; JCD on white wine vinegar with tarragon |
0:51:50 | Barefoot Doctor one-minute holiday tips, JCD one minute computer tips idea; pen-based Apple tablet insider tip; JCD’s geezer blogger network, humiliatingly low Google Ads revenue |
1:06:13 | ACC recommends Michael Crichton’s Next; inane autobiographies at airport bookstores |
1:07:51 | Outro |