Transcript: Breakfast with Sam Sethi and the London geeks

This transcript is from a PodTech.net podcast at:
http://www.podtech.net/home/technology/1689/breakfast-with-sam-sethi-and-the-london-geeks

Guest: Sam Sethi
Guest: Phil Wilkinson
Guest: Nick Brisbon
Guest: Alan Patrick - Broadsight
Host: Robert Scoble - ScobleShow

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
Where are we anyways?

Phil Wilkinson
Where are we? We're in a club somewhere in (Inaudible) Marady (ph) balloons.

Sam Sethi
We're in the Home House, which is in (Inaudible).

Phil Wilkinson
That's where I went this morning.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
Who are you.

Sam Sethi
Hi, I'm Sam Sethi and I...

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
Don't talk to the camera, the camera is not here

Sam Sethi
I'm Sam Sethi, and yeah, I do some work for TechCrunch.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
I heard about that, TechCrunch UK.

Sam Sethi
Indeed, yeah.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
It's good way from Mike Arrington's TechCrunch, right?

Sam Sethi
Yeah, we write longer poses.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
Longer...

Phil Wilkinson
We got like (Inaudible). You've certainly done that, right?

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
Now, who are these guys and why are we all here?

Sam Sethi
Okay.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
Because you're the one who invited.

Sam Sethi
We decided to take breakfast after a hangover of last night, it's quite a nice thing to do. We went out last night, one too many party drinks and tonight's a bacon butty morning, chilling out.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
We're in London, so this is not Silicon Valley. The parties and the hangovers are similar though. We're going to the Firefox party tonight.

Sam Sethi
Then we've got another one after that.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
Oh wow, so many parties.

Sam Sethi
Back to the venue

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
It's just like San Francisco, two party night.

Phil Wilkinson
So I'll tell my parson (ph).

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
So who are you, since you're talking.

Phil Wilkinson
Imagine this, I just want to be on the film, imagine, everyone can see the list.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
Everything goes on film.

Phil Wilkinson
You don't even talk through the list, you're basically going to do a note of this. So I'd go, hi, I'm Phil Wilkinson, I'm co-founder (Inaudible). My wish to Mr. Christmas is quite game-oriented, it's a little bit geeky, but I really would like a Nintendo Wii and the PS2 to do lots of funky things for a party.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
PS2, that's so old school.

Phil Wilkinson
I know, but it's a party game. So we have guitar here, and sing star karaoke, so we rang Christmas with the family, we can jam a few cheers and laugh at each other singing and get screwed. So mine is a social Christmas experience.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
So who else...

Phil Wilkinson
This was a really quick (Inaudible). a little bit on than that.

Speaker
So you've got the right way for it.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
All right, now you got to be quiet. One guy at a time, the mike can -- it's not like the human ear.

Nick Brisbon
Cool! So I'm Nick Brisbon (ph), its pretty (Inaudible). My Christmas is looking at the table in fact and maybe a bit lonely. So, what I want is, one of the great (Inaudible) from my PC, so I can switch it down to the lounge downstairs, need a Slingbox and I need a big TV as well.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
Slingbox HD?

Nick Brisbon
Slingbox HD.

Speaker
That's what I want.

Nick Brisbon
Then I'll need 52 inch plasma as well next month.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
No, it's 70, you can't have those, big enough (Voice Overlap).

Nick Brisbon
We have little houses in London.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
Take us the whole off. Tell a wife to get a beer house.

Nick Brisbon
Sure. That's all about me, there you go.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
Cool. It's getting noisy in here. So, who are you?

Alan Patrick - Broadsight
Hi, I'm Alan Patrick.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
Well, let's see if the batteries last.

Alan Patrick - Broadsight
Famous for 15 people.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
We're not back at (Inaudible).

Speaker
Okay, quiet down.

Alan Patrick - Broadsight
Hi, I'm Alan Patrick, I'm a co-founder of Broadsight, we're a specialist consultancy in the broadband media world. What do I want for Christmas? I would really like to build up the Web TV system we've started building, its really cool to watch, and there's lots of other geeky stuff I'd love to attach to it.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
Rocketboom or porn?

Alan Patrick - Broadsight
(Voice Overlap) I love 70's music, and there's some that you just can't buy today in the shops, whereas you can get it in all sorts of interesting videos on the Internet.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
Yeah, that's true. YouTube, where crappie old music comes back to life, right?

Sam Sethi
Can I have what I don't want for Christmas?

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
Sure.

Sam Sethi
Okay. I don't want a Zune, I don't want an Xbox 360, I don't want Vista...

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
You already have all this.

Sam Sethi
No. I don't want to try and make them all work together, because they don't. That's what I don't want for Christmas. I think that's fair enough, isn't it, because I think I've got everything else really.

Phil Wilkinson
Paul (Inaudible) how he's not (Inaudible). So Paul, your top five items for Christmas.

Speaker
I'm not (Inaudible) about top five list I can think for, sorry.

Phil Wilkinson
I love the (Voice Overlap) five MTI (ph) (Voice Overlap).

Speaker
I know you're talking about (Inaudible) but I'm not, that's the answer.

Speaker
Humbug, we've found Scrooge.

Speaker
(Inaudible)

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
I don't have plans yet. I don't know what I want.

Phil Wilkinson
Turn around, let's film you.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
I don't know what I want.

Speaker
Let's turn the camera.

Speaker
What do you want for Christmas, Robert?

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
I already have a big screen HD. I need a PlayStation3, but I didn't want to wait in line for 48 hours to get one. So I'm not going to get one.

Speaker
Even if you could just smash it up in the (Inaudible).

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
I need better microphones. I need a microphone, so I can put four microphones on four different people, and have them all automatically work without me paying attention to them, and without them breaking. That doesn't work, because I broke one yesterday. What else do I want?

Speaker
Battery pack.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
Battery pack, you cannot die with enough batteries.

Speaker
Do you want a big fluffy microphone, where you can hang other people's heads.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
Well, that would be a -- that's what I have to play with, it's doing the boom kind of mike and something.

Speaker
You need a (Inaudible) system.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
That's it. I need somebody to do my email, I hate email.

Speaker
The rivers of data doesn't quite (Inaudible).

Speaker
I think we have to introduce Robert to Robert Locks, Brazilian assistance.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
What's this Brazilian assistance?

Speaker
You'll meet them tonight Robert.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
Okay, all right. That's enough for me.

Speaker
That's a video I think on Matt alone.

Alan Patrick - Broadsight
So keep some battery for that.

Phil Wilkinson
Excellent, cheers guys.

Robert Scoble - ScobleShow
Thanks for having breakfast.