December 21, 2005
The President's iPod
Somehow it doesn't surprise me that Brit Hume ended up asking George W. Bush about what's on his iPod. (Apparently they just ran out of important topics to discuss.) What followed was downright painful. A transcript, courtesy of the Washington Post:
Bush: Beach Boys, Beatles, let's see, Alan Jackson, Alan Jackson, Alejandro, Alison Krauss, the Angels, the Archies, Aretha Franklin, the Beatles, Dan McLean. Remember him?
Hume: Don McLean.
Bush: I mean, Don McLean.
Hume: Does "American Pie," right?
Bush: Great song.
Hume: Yes, yes, great song.
Unidentified male: . . . which ones do you play?
Bush: All of these. I put it on shuffle. Dwight Yoakam. I've got the Shuffle, the, what is it called? The little.
Hume: Shuffle.
Bush: It looks like.
Hume: The Shuffle. That is the name of one of the models.
Bush: Yes, the Shuffle.
Hume: Called the Shuffle.
Bush: Lightweight, and crank it on, and you shuffle the Shuffle.
Hume: So you -- it plays . . .
Bush: Put it in my pocket, got the ear things on.
Hume: So it plays them in a random order.
Bush: Yes.
Hume: So you don't know what you're going to going to get.
Bush: No.
Hume: But you know --
Bush: And if you don't like it, you have got your little advance button. It's pretty high-tech stuff.
Hume: . . . be good to have one of those at home, wouldn't it?
Bush: Oh?
Hume: Yes, hit the button and whatever it is that's in your head -- gone.
Bush: . . . it's a bad day, just say, get out of here.
Hume: Well, that probably is pretty . . .
Bush: That works, too. ( Laughter )
Hume: Yes, right.
It reminds me a bit of my parents. My dad won an iPod mini, but I don't think he uses it very much because he complains about having to put his glasses on to read the display (see the picture of Bush). My mom actually loves her iPod and uses it all the time, mostly to listen to audiobooks from Audible. But I'm pretty sure if I interviewed either of them about it, they would sound a lot like Hume and Bush.
21 Dec 1:09 | Link | Category: Humor, Music, Technology & Computing