WEBVTT - Back to Back to the Future II, Part One 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:07.200 Brought to you by Toyota. Let's go places. Welcome to 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:14.320 Forward Thinking. He's welcome to rid Thinking, the podcast that 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:16.760 looks of the future and says, tell me, doctor, where 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:20.279 are we going this time? I'm Jonathan Strickland LA, and 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:26.680 I'm Griff McCormick. Hey, Griff, Hey, So guys, happy two, 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:30.800 Thank you. Yeah, this is the first podcast episode that 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:33.960 we are recording in Yeah. So it's it's a brand 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:36.200 new year. And it's not just a brand new year, 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:40.839 it's a very important year for the future. According to 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:44.680 the documentary series Back to the Future, you know, I 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.200 thought Back to the Future just did not have enough 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:49.720 future in it. It's all about the fifties. Yeah, exactly. 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.320 Well that's because he has to go back to the future. 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:58.160 Oh that's right. But it's really really rectified that deficiency 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:01.000 in the sequel. Yes, well they only partially did, because 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:04.400 most of the sequel still takes place in the nineteen 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.000 fifties and the nineteen eighties, and and honestly, when you 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.800 spend some time in the future, you're thankful for that. 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:15.880 The future is stupendous. According to nineteen eighty nine, uh 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:19.640 this this nine nine movie? Um yeah, yeah, back Back 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.200 to the Future Part two was was released in nineteen 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.559 eighty nine. That's four years after Back to the Future 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:27.360 Part one, Right, And as many people have pointed out 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.319 on Twitter at the beginning of this year, hey, we're 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.319 now in the Back to the Future two year. Yeah, yeah, 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.200 that the year that they go forward to from Back 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:40.600 to the Future too is uh, they in fact land 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:46.679 on four at four pm on October one, right, and uh. 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:49.920 One of the people who actually mentioned that this is 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:52.920 the year of Back to the Future to future was me, 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:56.480 And it was on our forward Thinking page that I 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:58.720 did post that. Yeah. It was one of those things 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.680 where I got hired of seeing the meme. I'm sure 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:05.040 you guys have seen it too, where multiple times over 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:09.400 the last few years, people have posted a photoshopped version 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:14.280 of the time machine that the time yeah, exactly from 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:17.800 the DeLorean and had the date change so that it 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.959 reflected whatever the current date was that day and say, 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.840 today's the day that Murty move Fly traveled to the future. 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.080 And I kept thinking, no, it was two thousand fifteen. 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.920 And it's easy to It's easy to prove one because 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:32.240 you can go see the movie. But two, they he 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:35.080 traveled in thirty year increments. He traveled thirty years to 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:39.880 his past and thirty years to his future, approximately a 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.239 generation gap, which is kind of the point of the 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:46.160 storyline exactly. So I mean that you know that when 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.160 I kept seeing it back in two thousand twelve was 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:49.840 a bad year for it. I think I saw it 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.840 three or four times in two thousand twelve. But now 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:56.120 we're finally in that year. We're not quite at that time, because, 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.200 like you said, Lauren, it's October that we're looking at. Yeah, 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.920 I think that we can suck up any inconsistencies in 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.160 the movie with the fact that it's not October yet. 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:06.160 I think that by the time it is October, all 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:08.640 of these things will have come to pass. There's gonna 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:11.720 be some pretty dramatic things to happen this year in 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.560 order for that to happen. Well, since we're here at 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.160 the outset of the year, I think it would be 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.280 great to do a couple of episodes looking at all 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:25.280 of the fantastic predictions about the year made by the 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.079 movie Back to the Future too, and see see how 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:31.200 we stack up against reality. Honestly, a lot of them 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.880 were really clever. I just watched the movie again last night, Um, 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:38.280 it had been maybe twelve years since I had seen it, 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.119 like a like a good chunk of time. Um. But 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.320 I mean a lot of the predictions that it makes, 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:46.520 and I made little air quotes because those work really 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.480 well on radio when I said predictions, Uh, A lot 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.440 of their predictions are for the sake of kind of 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:57.080 silly jokes, most of them delivered by Christopher Lloyd. Um. 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:59.560 But that being said, a lot of the little details 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.960 in the movie were actually very canny in terms of 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.640 telling us what our world was going to look like, right, 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:09.560 especially considering that you know, nineteen five, that's a year 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.600 or nineteen nine when this movie was made. That's a 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:18.400 year before cell phones became a regular thing that normal 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:22.320 people were in possession of, Right. I mean there were 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:27.359 some cellular telephones, but they were pretty rare. Um. And uh, 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:29.560 you know you think about that in that context, like 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:32.359 even today, it's hard for us to predict what the 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.560 future is going to look like. Go back ten years, 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.040 and everyone thought that cell phones were just gonna keep 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.520 getting smaller and smaller, to the point where that became 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.720 a joke, like it was a status symbol how small 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:46.320 your cell phone was. But then we had the transformation 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:49.240 of being able to watch things like video on our phones. 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:53.719 Now it's important to have a large phone. Actually. Um, 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.400 In fact, I'm gonna give a little visual visual aid. 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.120 I have a new phone that's approximately the size of 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:03.880 a truck. Yeah, I've I've met bears that are smaller 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.440 than that phone. This is this is. I'm holding up 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.360 the next to six that I just got yesterday, and 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:13.640 it is. It is ginormous. So uh. Anyway, the point 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.359 I'm trying to make is that they were even further 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:20.840 removed from the wondrous future than we were by definition, 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:25.359 and yet some of their predictions are pretty prescient, not 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.080 all of them, obviously, and they were all meant as 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.760 kind of a tongue in cheek sort of jokey way 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:34.360 of looking at the future. Well, as I alluded to earlier, 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:37.560 there are so many things that predicts that we decided 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.120 we should break this up into two episodes. Today is 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:43.359 going to be part one of Back to the Future. 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:48.080 Part Two's predictions, right, and that's pretty much gonna be 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:51.120 the title, right. No, Okay, so we're gonna moving ahead. Okay, Okay, 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.800 let's let's set the scene, all right. You're you're, you're 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:57.919 young Michael J. Fox. I am a young Michael J. Fox. 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:01.400 You often, I often mistake you for Michael J. Fox. Right, 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:05.360 you hop out of your dolory and just having traveled 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.320 forward thirty years from from your comfortable home in the 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:12.200 nineteen eighties, and what are some of the things you 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.200 see in the world around you in the southern California 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:19.000 of Well, there's tons of stuff to cover. Let's start 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:21.080 with the clothing, because that was one of the first 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:23.600 things that we get to see in the film. Yeah. 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.760 Of course, any time that you time travel, you have 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:27.760 to I mean, assuming that you're not in the Doctor 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:30.839 Who universe, in which no one really cares, you have 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.400 to immediately find some kind of clothing so that you 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.640 can fit in with a local population. Right, So you 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.039 find somebody about your build, you knock them out, and 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:41.000 you steal their clothes and leave them naked. That's that's standard, 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:43.880 m O. Yeah, or Doc Brown happens to have gone 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:45.920 shopping for you and just gives you a bunch of stuff. 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:50.400 How convenient. So so Doc gives a few things to 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.480 Marty McFly so that he can he can blend in. 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:57.280 Actually he's essentially posing as his own son who looks 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.000 exactly like him. Yeah, because everyone in that universe looks 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:04.640 exactly like their ancestors or descendants. I say, again, how convenient. Yeah, well, 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.320 you know whatever. So o, no, no, no, hold on. 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.760 I remember one big piece of clothing from this, okay, 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:14.360 which is the automatic lace up shoes. Yeah. Yeah, you 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.920 put these on and uh they they seem like they're 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.520 kind of not quite fitting you. But then all of 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:24.160 a sudden, the little Nike symbol lights up and the 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:29.840 laces conformed to your feet. Yea, power laces. Yeah, yeah, 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:33.520 it sounds it sounds neumatic. Yeah. Well, obviously there's nothing 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.000 like this in reality, right, not yet, but there's gonna 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:39.600 be this year. Nike is in fact working on it. Yeah, 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:43.200 they announced this previously that at some point in two 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:46.560 thousand and fifteen they will begin selling shoes that will 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.760 in fact have power laces. Now, they've had mock ups, 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.800 like like shoes that look like the ones Marty McFly war. 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:54.800 They've offered that a few times over the years, the 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.840 most recent I think being two thousand eleven, and it 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.400 even lights up, like they have shoes that light up 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:04.920 and they look, you know, cosmetically like that thing exactly. 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.800 But they didn't have the power. Leases all of that 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:12.960 changes this year, so that technology is actually coming true. Okay, 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:15.840 so self lacing shoes actually coming out this year. I 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.200 can't wait till we see them and we can talk 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:20.760 about this, like talk about how cool they are or 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.120 how disappointing they are. Right, I get the feeling it 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:25.840 will be one way or the other. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:31.560 But how about the jacket that dries itself off? Yeah? Yeah, Well, 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.080 I mean when you first when he first puts on 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.000 this jacket, uh, the arms are way too long, and 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:41.280 then it goes up self adjusting and and the arms 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:43.960 makes some kind of weird pneumatic noise I'm not sure why, 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.520 and they retract to be properly fitting. You're right, it's 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:50.880 not just drying. It's it's also self adjusting. Yeah. Um. 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:52.680 And then later in the in the film, we find 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:54.800 out that it is also self drying, like if you, 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:58.280 for example, fall into a pond off of your hoverboard, 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:00.520 then it can it can just kind of go, wouldn't, 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.199 And all of a sudden it's perfect. It's like it's 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:06.160 like it's filled with hair dryer. Suddenly. I don't want 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:09.040 to be a naysayer, but I really again don't think 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.280 I want this technology. I mean, I wouldn't want a 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:16.000 jacket that had heating elements, and I wouldn't worry too much, Joe, 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.680 not unless it was for a very specified cold weather 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:23.080 expedition kind of purpose that I could I could see 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.440 that maybe that would be useful. Yeah, I could see 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.320 like there'd be some sort of heating element allah, an 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:32.080 electric blanket kind of thing chad into a jacket like that, 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.840 but not one that would be you know, I have 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:36.880 a motor in it that would that would turn a 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.760 fan so that it could blow and blow dry your 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:43.800 your outfit while you're wearing it. That doesn't seem terribly practical. Again, 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:45.800 it was one of those elements I think thrown in 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:51.199 there as uh like a fanciful science fiction e humorous. 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:53.440 It was more a joke than anything else. Um that 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.880 the self adjusting part though, and I believe we've talked 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.960 about this on the show way back in the day, 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.839 perhaps when we for started out the podcast. But people 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.960 are working on creating materials that can go into clothing 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:08.559 that will allow that clothing to to to fit your 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:13.839 form better by either um using using kinetic energy from 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:17.319 when you move to to form the to fit the 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:22.760 fabric to the contours of your body or um or otherwise. Uh, 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.520 you know, just just creating, especially through three D printing 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:31.600 more customizable clothes. So and at ces, I saw BELTI belt. 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:36.199 It is a It's a belt that adjusts itself to you. 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.720 So if you are wearing loose pants, it'll it'll adjust 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:43.080 so it's snug on you. And then if you start 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.160 eating a big meal, it'll let itself out a notch 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:50.480 all on its own. That sounds like a very friendly snake. Okay, yeah, 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.040 you gotta think of it. Think of it as like 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.040 I think of it as like the belt itself is 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:58.800 fed through a system that uses rollers to either tighten 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.719 it or loosen it. The buckle is huge, is not 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.800 like a tiny thing. Um and Joe and I already 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:08.520 had discussion about what might happen should the absolute worst occur, 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:10.760 and you're just thinking this is just way too tight. 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:14.400 It's getting worse. Yeah, I wouldn't. My fear of being 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:18.320 popped like a grape is greater than my desire to 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.320 not have to fiddle with my own belt. Now we 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:25.080 have we have seen some advances in textiles and in codings, 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:29.120 for textiles that would prevent clothing from getting wet where 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.240 the you know where water and oils will just roll 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.400 right off. Some of the stain proof clothing that we've 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.840 seen that's treated by this stuff or has its actual 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:42.040 structure made in such a way where liquids will just 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:45.520 roll right off, we've seen that. But that's obviously different 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:49.680 from something that will dry itself once it's already become wet. 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.400 But still we thought that would be an interesting one. Um, 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.280 you've got another element. Here's something I don't actually remember 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.880 this from the movie. Yeah, okay, So so there were 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.679 several like small personal gadgets that I wanted to kind 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.480 of toss into this category. Um. One is a pair 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.560 of digital binoculars that Doc Brown uses again early on 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:08.560 in the film. They're the size of kind of like 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:12.880 a small polaroid camera, and they can report, uh, you know, 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.280 in their little display, they report like your distance from 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.400 the subject. Um. They can auto focus on human subjects, 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:21.280 and it will also give you a little like x 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:25.120 y z coordinate range that I guess is related to 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.920 like global positioning or something, but it's I mean, it's 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.040 not It's up on the screen for like three seconds. 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:33.120 I imagine that must be Biff using it to spy 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:37.079 on Doc Brown is using it to spy on young Marty. 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.880 Oh okay, all right, so um, as it turns out, 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:43.280 we do have digital binoculars. UH. Generally speaking, they tend 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.800 to be cameras and displays that are built into a 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.760 binocular form factor. So you'll get a pair of cameras, 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:53.080 you get that stereoscopic effect that way. Um, they can 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:56.160 look pretty far, and you know, I can imagine building 0:12:56.240 --> 0:13:00.680 in uh systems including things like GPS and a compass 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.000 and that sort of thing where you could get readouts 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:06.480 that would tell you approximate information about this kind of stuff. 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:10.160 I don't know that why anybody really want that in binoculars. 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:13.840 I mean, I could see it if it were a 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:17.480 pair of binoculars that also acted as an actual camera 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.000 so that you're taking pictures or video, and then you 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:22.120 want the GEO tag to be in there as well, 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.400 so I could see it for that. You know, there 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:27.320 are I'm seeing more and more apps now that are 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:31.240 about being able to map your real life experience to 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.280 an app so you can share it more easily on 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:36.880 social media or even like if you're out in the 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.640 wilderness and you say, oh, hey, I want to go 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.880 to that peak over there. How far away is it? Um? Right? 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:46.640 Then you know it would be useful to have the coordinates. Yeah, exactly. Uh, 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.920 now I do remember this next one, just spying on people. 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.640 I agree, it's a little bit over. Yeah. No, if 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.920 you're if all you're doing is just trying to clandestinely 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.280 watch someone, they're easier ways unless you're playing D and 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.240 D and you need to know the number of fat 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:03.280 You know whether or not you can walk to them 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.880 in a single action. How many grid squares? I could 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.440 estimate it, or I could just lift up this handy 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:11.320 dandy para binocular. Now, Jonathan, you're not about to steal 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:14.040 my thunder on my favorite item. That's just Which is 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:19.360 the next one, right, the robotic extending baseball Okay, you 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:25.720 already said it, the robotic telescoping baseball bat. I remember this, 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.320 and this, I think is what the future is really 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:32.600 all about, is about baseball bats that start off short 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:37.200 but extend because that's useful. Yeah, I mean, you say 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:40.840 you want to store five DD baseball bats in a box, 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:45.240 so we're talking on typical Wednesday. You can't store them 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.880 all in the box. If they're all long to begin with, 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:50.400 so you got to shrink them, and then when you 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.320 want to use them, you just press the telescoping extension 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:56.520 button and the bat slides on out. As it turns out, 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.000 the use case scenario that Joe is suggesting has not 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:03.560 been compelling enough for anyone to actually develop a robotic 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:09.800 telescoping baseball bat. I've seen yet. Now is it, Lauren? 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:11.680 I have a question about the movie. Is it? Is 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:15.040 it Griff in the movie who uses the bat? He 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.920 pulls it out menacingly as if you hit Marty with it, 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.680 he has it behind his back. In fact, and uh 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:24.320 and and while he is menacing Marty or Marty Jr. 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:28.040 I forget which the bat kind of again, there's this 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:32.560 terrific pneumatic sound they keep using for everything, so inaccurate 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.160 to how anything would actually function. I guess it could 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.520 be just a normal robotic I think it'd be hilarious 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.160 if you if you saw every single gadget, every single 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:43.520 piece of clothing was actually connected via two to its 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:47.880 enormous pneumatic That's what I imagine this had to be 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:49.200 in order to make that noise. But yeah, so he's 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.200 holding it behind his back and it kind of telescopes out. 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:53.920 You might be useful also to have a smart bat 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.960 so that it knows when to extend on its own 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.280 to tell it. Now, that's not good because if anyone 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.280 has smart bat and they wanted to menace me, that 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.640 bat would be like, I just can't. There's I can't 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.400 extend long enough for you to beat This guy needs 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:10.320 really seriously to be beaten up. Okay, how about some 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:15.600 other menacing mischief gadgets? Yeah, another item that I think 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.960 Griff has It could be one of his gang members. Uh, 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.440 is kind of like a digital soundboard, because when he 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:25.000 calls Marty a chicken, you get this great little digital 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:29.120 sound bite. Yeah yeah, yeah, except that but way more digitized. 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:30.960 Oh yeah, one of his little one of his little 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.320 toady's presses a button. Okay, I'm not I'm not sure. 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:37.320 I'm not sure. I didn't catch it, but yeah, yeah, 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:42.840 do we have that amazing capacity today? Shocker? Yes, Let's 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:46.440 go to YouTube and watch some soundboard prank calls. I've 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:50.600 seen people just like grab the like things out of 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.600 greeting cards where you would be able to record your 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.800 own message and a greeting card and essentially do that. 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.560 I mean, we've got tons of tech like that, and 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.680 we even of the soundtrack shirt from Think Geek. Did 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:04.520 you guys remember when that that was one of that 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.880 was one of their April Fools jokes one year where 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.240 got so much attention that they decided to actually make 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.440 that shirt exactly. They've done this several times where they 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.840 put out a product that they might be thinking about doing, 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.359 but they haven't actually decided yet, and they want to 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:21.800 see what the reaction is for April Fools and then 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:23.800 they go ahead and do it. The video they had 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.399 for their April Fools shirt was amazing, where you know, 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:28.600 it's a guy just kind of going through his daily life, 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.040 but whenever he's in a particular situation, he uses his 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:36.600 soundtrack shirt to add the the cinematic feel um that 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.960 is appropriate for whatever situation he's in. So he's being chased, 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.320 he's got like chase music playing, he sees a he 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:44.960 sees a young lady, and he presses the romantic music 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.880 that kind of thing. So this is stuff that we 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.960 obviously have incorporated into all different parts of our lives. 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.919 Most of us don't carry around a soundboard, but he 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:57.440 certainly could you could you could use your phone. Yeah. 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:00.280 And that's the thing is that again, this this movie 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:03.200 didn't predict the era of the smartphone, where a lot 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.360 of the stuff that that people do in the future 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:08.480 is that there are things that are handled by a 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:10.960 mobile device these days. Yeah. Well, I think one of 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:14.240 the big holes in this movie's vision of the future, 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.560 and and most movies frankly, is the lack of the Internet. 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:23.160 I mean, yeah, yeah, the pervasiveness of the Internet and smartphone. 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.280 That's why. I mean even the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:30.760 they envisioned the encyclopedia, encyclopedia that you would carry. The 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:34.879 actual guide was a self contained thing. It wasn't it 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:38.280 wasn't connected to some sort of network. In the original one, 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:40.560 it was all all that information was stored in this 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:43.800 handheld device. And the interesting thing is now we have 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:48.560 access to the equivalent of that, but it's through network connections. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:51.560 and because because it couldn't be updated in Hitchhiker's Guy, right, right, 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:53.719 it was all a stable format until a new one 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:56.480 was published. Right. That's what Ford Prefect was doing on Earth, 0:18:56.560 --> 0:19:00.399 was he was gathering research so that he could update 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.720 the entry on Earth for the next edition of The 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:07.200 Guy Right. Okay, Um, but actually, before we move on 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:12.760 from Griff's gangs gadgets, say that five times fast. Um, 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:15.639 I wanted to mention that one thing that will that 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:19.359 will be possible in this incredible future of today is 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:23.840 that women can be part of your crappy high school gang. Yeah. Yeah, 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:26.320 for the first time in the series, we see they're 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:28.560 not allowed to speak. Oh no, no, she has speaking 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:32.600 like do because she has like a claude one finger 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:37.199 and and it's it's a detachable clause. It's not like 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:39.480 her finger is a claw. And she and she threatens 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:43.840 Marty or something. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, I remember her. 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.920 He's got like a really high ponytail. Yeah. For the 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:51.239 sake of equality, I'm all four female bullies. Well, I mean, 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:53.560 I guess we've always had female bullies for for a 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:57.920 society in which females feel okay about bullying males. Yeah, 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:02.080 there you go the future indeed, So continuing on this 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:06.199 bright future and various gadgets, Okay, this this next device 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:09.280 shows up a couple of places in the movie. Um. First, 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:12.240 relatively early on, when Marty is approached by someone looking 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:16.040 for donations UM for the clock tower, which as always 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:20.919 is in need of repair. UM. And secondly when um, 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:24.440 when someone pays for a cab ride later on UH. 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:28.600 And and that is a little handheld digital credit pad 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:31.560 that that can be access to using a thumb print, 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:34.240 Like you press your thumb into it and it knows 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:36.920 who you are and it just deducts whatever you want 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:40.040 to give from your bank account. Biometric payment, and we've 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:42.560 talked about that so many times on the show. And 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:46.359 while we don't really see a lot of implementations of 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:50.240 that directly, it is something that we've seen indirectly used. 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:55.120 For example, Apple pay using using an iPhone to pay 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:57.720 for something through NFC, which is in the iPhone, but 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:00.919 you use you might use your thumb print as the 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:04.680 way of identifying yourself so that you acknowledge the payment 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:07.440 going through. So it's not we haven't reached a point 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:11.000 where our fingerprints are directly tied to our bank accounts, 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:12.720 which I think a lot of people are thankful for. 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:18.040 But we've definitely reached this point where we can have 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:24.560 the credit card or currency free monetary exchange these days. Yeah, 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:27.720 and we can we can certainly have like mobile payments anywhere, 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:31.879 even without biometrics for through things like like Square or 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:35.879 other little credit dongles. Yeah, yep, so that that one's 0:21:35.960 --> 0:21:39.439 uh well, well, the implementation is different today than what 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:41.560 we see in the film. It's still more or less 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:44.520 i'd say, I'd say, in the same spirit. So that 0:21:44.560 --> 0:21:48.399 one's pretty good. Yeah, yeah, Um. They also featured a 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:50.919 some kind of I D technique, and I believe it 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:52.960 was also through a thumb print, though it might have 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:55.560 been off screen. I have to admit to you, guys, 0:21:55.560 --> 0:21:58.720