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Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera.

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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff You Should Know?

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Speaker 1: From House Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W Chuck Bryant.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Future of the Internet. It's called Stuff

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Speaker 1: you Should Know. We have the past, the present, in

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Speaker 1: the future of my friend choke on that haters. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so that's what we're talking about today, and I'm hoping

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Speaker 1: you have some awesome cool story about, you know, the

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Speaker 1: future or the Internet. You'd think I would no intro

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Speaker 1: on this one. No, there's a surprising um dearth of

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Speaker 1: stuff out there about the future of the Internet. I

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Speaker 1: found that a lot of people are really really nervous

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Speaker 1: about putting their neck out because we finally reached a

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Speaker 1: point in time where you can build a career based

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Speaker 1: on successfully and accurately predicting the next move right, So

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Speaker 1: everybody is kind of confident about what's coming five years

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Speaker 1: from now, seven years from now, and if we haven't

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Speaker 1: by the time this thing comes out, uh put it

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Speaker 1: on the actual name of this episode. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: go ahead and put what is the future of the

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Speaker 1: Internet parentheses seven years from now, because that's really what

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Speaker 1: it's about, unless you want to start talking trans humanism, chuck,

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Speaker 1: which I'm prepared to I like trans humanism, not on

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Speaker 1: this one though, Okay, but um, if you unless you're

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Speaker 1: prepared to talk about that. It's basically like, what's it

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Speaker 1: going to be like seven years from now? And there's

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Speaker 1: some pretty good guesses. Uh. And one of the people

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Speaker 1: who's not too shabby at guessing is um one of

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Speaker 1: our coworkers colleagues. His name is John Strickland, and if

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Speaker 1: you don't follow him on Twitter, you're missing out strick

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Speaker 1: of tex stuff. Yeah, his Twitter handles John Strickland, j

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Speaker 1: o in Strickland obviously one word, no other anything in between. Well,

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Speaker 1: Josh and LOUI of an interesting story from you that

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Speaker 1: is the opposite is supportive? No, no, no, we should

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Speaker 1: totally support him. I always do. I love straight even

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Speaker 1: like to think exists, I know it's. Uh in lieu

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Speaker 1: of a great story, then how about I have a

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Speaker 1: might be. How does that sound. Um, here's a nice infographic.

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Speaker 1: These all come from the Pew Research Institute Research Center

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Speaker 1: for People in the Press specifically, that's US Pew the press.

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Speaker 1: Are we yeah, technically good journalists? Internet adoption. This is

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Speaker 1: just a little infographic. In June, about four of American

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Speaker 1: adults eighteen and over adopted an internet used the Internet.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy? What year is that sounds right? Not

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Speaker 1: was a it was a web server? Was browsing I

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Speaker 1: So between June and November one and went from fourteen

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Speaker 1: seventy seven percent. That's staggering to me. Sent Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: Where the Net's going to be going. That's right. Net neutrality, Josh,

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Speaker 1: but like we had to to to to know the

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Speaker 1: right answer to something before we had to know it,

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Speaker 1: and now we don't have to know it because we

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Speaker 1: have a repository that anybody can access through their phone

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Speaker 1: now to go get the answer. So it's like a

429
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Speaker 1: giant collective brain that we're coming to rely on, exactly.

430
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Speaker 1: But what happens when that brain malfunctions or that brain

431
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Speaker 1: is being fed certain information that's false, that's false, or

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Speaker 1: that's you know. I'm not saying it's gonna be like

433
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Speaker 1: but dumbed down if it net neutrality, if the government

434
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Speaker 1: gets more involved and all of a sudden, I mean,

435
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Speaker 1: look at what's already going on in China. They're being

436
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Speaker 1: fed specific information and that could one day be our

437
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Speaker 1: truth in reality. Man, that was dystopian. Yeah, with my

438
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 1: my um concern about it, it's kind of closer to yours.

439
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 1: But it's more that, like my brain is literally being

440
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Speaker 1: restructured physically through plasticity, that instead of being able to

441
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Speaker 1: absorb something deeply, I'm getting the bits of information I

442
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 1: need out of something very quickly. And then you know,

443
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Speaker 1: when that brings up another question, I just opened a

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Speaker 1: new tab swarch for that question. Start putting stuff together,

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Speaker 1: so I'm able to connect seemingly disparate ideas into a

446
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Speaker 1: third hybrid idea. But at the same time, I'm not

447
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Speaker 1: necessarily getting it that you know, when something clicks, it's

448
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,920
Speaker 1: things don't click anymore, But though those are such beautiful

449
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:33,160
Speaker 1: moments when they do click, the tip of the tongue

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Speaker 1: moments when you finally think that thing, it's such a

451
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Speaker 1: rewarding experience. And that's going away to a large degree. Yeah,

452
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Speaker 1: when things just clicking, when you know it is that

453
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Speaker 1: what you mean, that's not what you're saying. Is it clicking?

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00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 1: You know? What I'm saying is like the tip of

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Speaker 1: the tongue moment, like when you can't think of something

456
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Speaker 1: like oh, what was it? What was it? And when

457
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Speaker 1: you finally think of it two hours later, it's so great.

458
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Speaker 1: But that can't happen anymore because I'm dummy, won't even

459
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Speaker 1: give you the chance to think of it. It's just here.

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Speaker 1: It was the Jackie Chan We actually at Max foncan

461
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Speaker 1: at um Uh the after party in Hodgeman's room. He

462
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 1: was about twelve folks hanging out and he'd said, this

463
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Speaker 1: is a Google free evening. He said, no one touch

464
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Speaker 1: your phone, leave in your pocket. And we spent three

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Speaker 1: hours talking and many things came up that people were like, oh,

466
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Speaker 1: what was that? What was that? And it was it

467
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: was like no one like it was like the old

468
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,959
Speaker 1: days six years ago when you would have these awesome

469
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Speaker 1: conversations and not be able to think of something and

470
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Speaker 1: be like, oh man, And then the next day you

471
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: would see one of those people and say, dude, I

472
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Speaker 1: thought of what that was? And uh, I don't know.

473
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Speaker 1: I think the smartphones are ruining things in a lot

474
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Speaker 1: of ways. Yeah, there's a lot of problems they're not

475
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Speaker 1: connecting people like they're kind of putting up walls in

476
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Speaker 1: a lot of ways as they also connect. It's a conundrum.

477
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Speaker 1: I read something once. I think we should end on this. UM.

478
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: There's a rule of thumb out there that if it's

479
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Speaker 1: basically ETIQUETTEUM, when you can use your phone in a

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Speaker 1: social situation where I feel like, if you follow it,

481
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Speaker 1: you can still be a normal person. But if you wouldn't,

482
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Speaker 1: if you wouldn't pull out a crossword puzzle and start

483
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 1: doing it in the social situation, you shouldn't pull out

484
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Speaker 1: your fun right, It's pretty much the same thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah, Yeah, I'm gonna just go over

486
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Speaker 1: a few of these. UM. Sarah Kessler at Mashable road. Oh, yeah,

487
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 1: these are a cool thing. UM. Six web pioneers on

488
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Speaker 1: what the Internet of the future will look like. Chuck

489
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: found five satisfactory, and so we'll this briefly go over

490
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Speaker 1: a couple of these. UM. Verry Glick, founder of map Quest,

491
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 1: you know the glixter. He says, uh, kind of what

492
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Speaker 1: we were talking about earlier. He said, right now, the

493
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Speaker 1: internet has been very computer oriented and that's the association.

494
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Speaker 1: You need a computer to connect. He said, that's going

495
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Speaker 1: away of course already. But basically he sees the future

496
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Speaker 1: of there being no boundaries. The Internet is just this

497
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Speaker 1: invisible present power supply, and all you will have is

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Speaker 1: uh access devices. There will be no more television, there

499
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: will be no more telephone. You'll just have these devices,

500
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Speaker 1: everything crammed into one that tap into the brain of

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Speaker 1: the earth. Interesting, you came up with the brain of

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Speaker 1: the earth thing, right, do you want to read? Uh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I liked UM. Jeremy Stoppelman, who is the CEO of Yelp,

504
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Speaker 1: and he talked about augmented augmented reality, which kind of

505
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: UM dovetails with his business because of his applications. Well,

506
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Speaker 1: there's an app for Atlanta I read about recently where

507
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: it's like you hold up your phone, this Matt feature

508
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: UM pops up like augmented reality on all the stuff

509
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Speaker 1: that's showing up on your phone of the area around you,

510
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 1: Like here's this restaurant special today, or um, this is

511
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Speaker 1: a great place to go dancing if that's your kind

512
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Speaker 1: of thing. But I don't think the augmented reality says

513
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 1: that part. But it's UM. I mean, it's already here.

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Speaker 1: That's that's I think extremely interesting to me that it's

515
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: like this. Do you remember those um, the human body

516
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 1: and like the little celluloid. Yeah, you could peel back

517
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 1: right and it was like the skin and then you

518
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: peel back the skin and there's like all the muscles.

519
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: You peel that back, there's the organs and the nerves

520
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: and all that. It's kind of like laying one of

521
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 1: those over real life. I just it's really cool. I

522
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 1: think if you peel back the final one of those

523
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 1: books that just should have your face like the right

524
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Speaker 1: around the abdomen, but it but it's dead. It's like rotting.

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00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 1: U that's horrifying. Actually, Ryan osamec president of Open Source Matter,

526
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 1: sees more and more focused on the cloud. Yeah, well yeah,

527
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: I yeah, obviously yeah. Um, I mean, like I said,

528
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: these guys aren't exactly going out on a limb uh

529
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: dries uh by a tart of the founder of Drupele

530
00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: thinks more websites within a single organization, more different devices

531
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 1: that need to consume those websites with different experiences, and

532
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: more social things. So basically more of what's going on

533
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: is what he thinks exactly more of the same. Interesting.

534
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: So I guess I want to say if anybody wants

535
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: to uh to tell us what we got wrong, that's fine,

536
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: or speculate on what you think. Ye, we'd love to

537
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 1: hear you stick your neck out, so send us an email.

538
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: We'll give you the email address when we're finished. But

539
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: if you want to learn more about the future of

540
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: the Internet, uh, type in future Internet in the search bar,

541
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: how stuff works dot com and that brings up what

542
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 1: chuck uh Facebook as Josh and Chuck feature. Let me

543
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: call us something different every time? All right, we did

544
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 1: this that these are running concurrently on the previous show

545
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: where we post on Facebook. Ask us whatever. We'll buzz

546
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: through as many as we can. Some are funny, some

547
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: are serious, and we will treat them bestlie, We'll treat

548
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: them all funny. H Alex Embre You do you guys

549
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: prepare what you say together or by yourselves before your record? Alex,

550
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: We've answered this before, but for new listeners, we do

551
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: not prepare. We do not go over stuff. We try

552
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: to just prepare separately and have a conversation. Yeah, and

553
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 1: record it pretty simple, That is it. That's the mojo.

554
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: Um I got one have we ever met Jad and

555
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 1: Robert from Radio Lab. I have not, but Robert Lamb

556
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: of Stuff to Blow Your Mind has interviewed him one

557
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 1: of the guys on the phone. Yeah, he's a big

558
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 1: fan of this. Yeah, I am too a huge fan. Uh.

559
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 1: What you gotta Chuck? Uh? What music are you listening

560
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 1: to right now? Attending any concerts this summer? I'm hopefully

561
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: going to attend here you, Louise, I'm listening to the

562
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: new Bonnie Bear. It's good, new My Morning Jacket, New

563
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 1: p J. Harvey Tyler the Creator. Have you heard this kid? No,

564
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 1: it's your rapper. He's a part of that group DH

565
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 1: Future Will Destroy or the Earth or something like that.

566
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 1: They're there's just like nineteen year old kids out of

567
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 1: l A and it's just crazy. I'll check it out.

568
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: It's really good and it's very creepy to like there.

569
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: I wouldn't kids shouldn't go listen to this stuff. No, yeah,

570
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 1: they think about some pretty awful stuff that the snakes. Yeah. Uh,

571
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 1: I'm listening to Herb Albert and Chuck Mangione. Two days

572
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 1: that I've been listening to you. I am going to

573
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: see Dylan in a couple of weeks. Are you Fred Dylan,

574
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 1: Matt Dylan, my morning Jacket and with Niko ka is

575
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 1: going to see them in a month or so. Oh

576
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 1: that's a good uh mash up? Yeah, good twosome. Yeah.

577
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 1: So that's all I have on the concert schedule. Tapes

578
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: and tapes actually in a few months too, Steve Mountain

579
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: as he's coming to and you saw, Um, I saw

580
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 1: a dinosaur Jr. Recently? Oh yeah, how's that? It was good?

581
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 1: James mask Us at the airport. Yeah, he was not

582
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 1: looking good. He was He was probably looking exactly the

583
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 1: same as when I saw him, a little haggard. Still,

584
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: it's a good show. Loud there, I said it was loud.

585
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: That's what you can say about dinosaurs Jr. Um Let's see,

586
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: what's my drink of choice, Chuck, what's your drink of choice?

587
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 1: Like a good gin tonic or a good bourbon on

588
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 1: the rocks on the gin and tonic. Right now, I'm

589
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: on this one called Guadalajara Sour. It's awesome. Really. I

590
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 1: make a modified version of it that I'm not going

591
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 1: to give the secret away, okay, but um it's it's

592
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: good stuff. Lately, I've been by Decatur has a craft

593
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: beer store called Ale. Yeah, yeah, and they have they

594
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,959
Speaker 1: sell growlers, So you buy your growler for like five bucks,

595
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,400
Speaker 1: and then you just go up there and they have

596
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 1: like eight beers on tap and you can fill it

597
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:45,800
Speaker 1: up for Can you ride off with it on your bike? Ah? Sure.

598
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:52,280
Speaker 1: There's a there's a little uh market by Dead's garage

599
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: that has like a wine island, and it's like they

600
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 1: sell it by this measured amount and that you go

601
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: get a little prepaid car and you slap your card

602
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 1: in there and you stay in the middle of this

603
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: market and drink your wine start laughing at people after

604
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: a couple of glasses. That's right next to in we shot.

605
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to check that out. No, no, no,

606
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: not indicator. It's um Dead's garage. Okay. I was thinking

607
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Speaker 1: Bush Bush Yeah, and him and part Yes, Brian TBone Perkins,

608
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 1: Donald Duck versus Daffy Duck, Tim Boom Perkins, t Bone Perkins.

609
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:29,280
Speaker 1: You have Ryan Tibon Perkins, Donald Duck or Daffy Duck. Um,

610
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:30,879
Speaker 1: he says in a sing off. But I'm just gonna

611
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 1: say in general, easy Daffy Duck, Like that's who you

612
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: rather here, dude, No question. I was I was Looney

613
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 1: Tunes all the way. I was not a Disney kid.

614
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: I like Donald Duck. I heard when I was the

615
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 1: Kids that he was banned from like Sweden or something

616
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:51,399
Speaker 1: like that for not wearing pain. You know, we heard

617
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 1: that in the podcast. I heard it a long time ago,

618
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,760
Speaker 1: but the lady confirmed it in the podcast in a comic.

619
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 1: I think it was Sweden. Yeah, that's right, she did

620
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 1: send the calm. Yeah, what was that like two years ago?

621
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 1: It was a long time ago. You got any more?

622
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: You want to do one more each? Yeah? One more each? Um.

623
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: Let's see. How was Nick Cage an Academy Award winner

624
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: because of raising Arizona. That's not what he went for that.

625
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. He won because leaving Las Vegas. He

626
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: was awesome in that, and the competition that he was

627
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 1: pretty weak. The depressing movie Richard Dreyfuss and Mr Hollins

628
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: Opus was that year. Anthony Hopkins, Is Nixon, Massimo Troy

629
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Speaker 1: c and Il Postino. I thought bank I won. Now

630
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:39,799
Speaker 1: you're thinking of roberta be Eating No, No, I know,

631
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: but Il Postino was like the Just and then the

632
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: other actually Sean Penn and Dead Men Walking. That was

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