{"id":667,"date":"2009-07-31T17:22:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T01:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danklass.com\/pill\/?p=667"},"modified":"2009-07-31T17:22:59","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T01:22:59","slug":"181-shooting-hot-lava-death-the-cablecard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/2009\/07\/31\/181-shooting-hot-lava-death-the-cablecard\/","title":{"rendered":"#181: Shooting Hot Lava Death &amp; the CableCARD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, something went horribly wrong with my car, while <a title=\"Tim Coyne\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodpodcast.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Maverick<\/a> and I were on our way to a professional event in Hollywood.\u00a0 Great timing.\u00a0 So, we&#8217;re supposed to be at <a title=\"UWINK\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uwink.com\/restaurants\" target=\"_blank\">Uwink<\/a> in our shirts and slacks, and we&#8217;re actually at a gas station wondering if Studio VW is about to catch fire.\u00a0 Not only were we overheating, but we were stuck in combo <a title=\"Br\u00fcno Trailer on YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fAGpmNb2xfQ\" target=\"_blank\">Br\u00fcno<\/a> \/ Michael Jackson traffic.<\/p>\n<p>People were gathering at Michael Jackson&#8217;s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame to mourn his passing.\u00a0 Problem was, many of them were at the WRONG star.\u00a0 <a title=\"KABC's Michael Jackson has a star too\" href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2009\/06\/michael-jackson-7.html\" target=\"_blank\">Turns out there is a star for the former KABC radio personality Michael Jackson, AND the former porcelain pop idol Michael Jackson.<\/a> Nice going, kids, but you&#8217;re crying over a British talk-show host who is still very much alive.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I got a new <a title=\"Tivo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tivo.com\" target=\"_blank\">TiVo<\/a>, which means I was able to trade my cable box in for a &#8220;<a title=\"CableCARD\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CableCARD\" target=\"_blank\">CableCARD<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 Now, if only the people at the cable company knew how to get the damned thing to work&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>This episode is currently only available to Premium Pill subscribers.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t worry, it&#8217;s not that great an episode anyway.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, something went horribly wrong with my car, while The Maverick and I were on our way to a professional event in Hollywood.\u00a0 Great timing.\u00a0 So, we&#8217;re supposed to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-premium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}