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Speaker 1: how stuff works dot com. Hey the everyone, and welcome

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Speaker 1: to tech Stuff. I'm John and I'm Lauren Folk Obama.

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Speaker 1: Happy six hundred episode that champagne which we don't have,

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Speaker 1: we do not have at all. So Lauren and I

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Speaker 1: we've really wrestled over, figuratively wrestled over what we were

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Speaker 1: going to do with this episode. We really weren't sure

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Speaker 1: how we wanted to commemorate six hundred episodes of Tech

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Speaker 1: Stuff because that's a whole bunch And it means that

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Speaker 1: I've been with the show for over a hundred episodes now,

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Speaker 1: which is also pretty exciting. I've also been with the

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's a big deal for me. Really,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sounded like I'm being real dismissed every whatever.

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Speaker 1: a lot to me that we have so many listeners

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Speaker 1: who are very supportive and when we say hey, if

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Speaker 1: You guys respond, and we've had some amazing episodes come

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Speaker 1: out of suggestions from listeners. So we thought, hey, how

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Speaker 1: the social media. Social media is yeah, as is the

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Speaker 1: we decided, all right, we'll do that. Now we have

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Speaker 1: talked about tech stuff before. We went a lot in

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Speaker 1: we'll give a quick overview of how this whole thing

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what our meetings are like. Yeah, he also

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Speaker 1: sure we are that it's going to be a short

429
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,840
Speaker 1: and sweet episode, the longer the episode winds up being,

430
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:06,600
Speaker 1: and the harder it is to research. Yeah. Absolutely, Um,

431
00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:08,760
Speaker 1: although you know that there are we are benefited by

432
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Speaker 1: the fact that Jonathan, you have been working for How

433
00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,760
Speaker 1: Stuff Works for so long and you have literally written

434
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Speaker 1: the book, the article on a lot of the topics

435
00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:19,480
Speaker 1: that we talk about. Yeah, sometimes I forget that I

436
00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:23,320
Speaker 1: wrote them. I certainly have forgotten that I've recorded podcasts

437
00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:25,479
Speaker 1: where I tell Lauren, hey, we should do this, and

438
00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,720
Speaker 1: you tell me, hey, you did that already. That's happened

439
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,840
Speaker 1: more than once. All right, Well, our next question comes

440
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:35,320
Speaker 1: from the Pencil to Be on Twitter, who asks what

441
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Speaker 1: is the average time of day that you guys record

442
00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:40,159
Speaker 1: and it's not usually an average because we have a

443
00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:43,320
Speaker 1: studio schedule because there are enough people coming in of

444
00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:46,560
Speaker 1: vying again not not literally, but but vying for a

445
00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:50,280
Speaker 1: studio time and space. I will loom. Uh, this is

446
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:54,080
Speaker 1: totally true. I will loom if the podcast that records

447
00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:56,439
Speaker 1: immediately before us, which by the way, in case you're wondering,

448
00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,840
Speaker 1: is car Stuff with with Ben Bolan and Scott Benjamin,

449
00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,040
Speaker 1: they will they record immediately before us. Their recording schedule

450
00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:05,880
Speaker 1: is from one pm to three pm on Thursdays. We

451
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:08,720
Speaker 1: begin at three pm on Thursdays and technically we're supposed

452
00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:12,640
Speaker 1: to end at five right right now, it's about five. Yeah,

453
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 1: we go over. That is being really nice. Nol Noel

454
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,880
Speaker 1: has been a saint and has sat in for long

455
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 1: episodes on multiple occasions, and very occasionally will tell us

456
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:27,000
Speaker 1: how to stop the recording when we're done and leave early. Yeah,

457
00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:29,400
Speaker 1: because we don't want to keep him here longer than

458
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Speaker 1: he absolutely has to be. So yeah, three pm on

459
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,720
Speaker 1: Thursdays is typically when we record, which, by the way,

460
00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:38,919
Speaker 1: is prime time to be on fire or committing a

461
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Speaker 1: crime in Atlanta. We we know this because as as

462
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Speaker 1: we may or may not have said earlier. Our our

463
00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:49,880
Speaker 1: podcast studio is has one for one wall, a window

464
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 1: that looks out over a busy roadway and a trainway. Yeah,

465
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Speaker 1: we're we're near for those in Atlanta or who are

466
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Speaker 1: familiar with Atlanta, we overlook Peach Tree. There's also Highway

467
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Speaker 1: four hundred that's just under our building and UM and

468
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Speaker 1: also one of the market tracks, so we get we

469
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Speaker 1: get some traffic noise occasionally. So yeah, but anyway, that's

470
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Speaker 1: UM that's when we record. So next from Aaron on Twitter.

471
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Speaker 1: Do you guys still write articles or mostly focused on

472
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Speaker 1: the podcasts? Which do you prefer to do? This is

473
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,439
Speaker 1: a great question because when I started podcasting, I was

474
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Speaker 1: writing an article a week plus a short piece. Yeah,

475
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Speaker 1: there was an article of a week and I kind

476
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Speaker 1: of question of the day style article, which are our

477
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,960
Speaker 1: shorter pieces on how stuff Works dot com right, and

478
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:40,320
Speaker 1: then doing two podcasts. I was never a writer for

479
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,480
Speaker 1: How Stuff Works. Actually, I was an editor when I

480
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:46,439
Speaker 1: first joined up UM and then didn't start podcasting until

481
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Speaker 1: about a year and a half or two years into

482
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Speaker 1: my tenure here. So uh, eventually I got to the

483
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Speaker 1: point where I was writing two full articles a week

484
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Speaker 1: plus recording two podcasts. Uh, then I got to the

485
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Speaker 1: point where I was shooting video and right two articles

486
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,440
Speaker 1: a week and doing two podcasts. These days, I don't

487
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,160
Speaker 1: really write articles anymore. I haven't written a brand new

488
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:11,439
Speaker 1: article from start to finish since two thousand twelve. Okay,

489
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:15,360
Speaker 1: we just did an update on the how Google Glass

490
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Speaker 1: works article just earlier this month, which Jonathan had originally written,

491
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 1: and he did a revision on it, and I was

492
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Speaker 1: his editor, standing in for Mr Chris Pollette, who was

493
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 1: always previously your editor. Right right, You did an excellent

494
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Speaker 1: job Because I've had I've had lots of editors here

495
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 1: at Hell Stuff Works. I go through them pretty regularly.

496
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,679
Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, it's it's it's interesting because everyone has

497
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,920
Speaker 1: a different way of working with people. But this was seamless.

498
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,359
Speaker 1: For one thing, I think it helped that we had

499
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Speaker 1: been sitting down at the same table and talking every Thursday.

500
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:50,440
Speaker 1: We also do I mean, we technically edit each other's

501
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:53,360
Speaker 1: work all the time because of the way that we

502
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 1: that we do. Yeah. So, anyway, um to ask about

503
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:02,520
Speaker 1: do you prefer to podcast over writing articles? I miss

504
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: writing articles, to be perfectly honest, I really do miss

505
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,119
Speaker 1: the the art of researching putting together an article and

506
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 1: writing it. However, uh, from the day when I really

507
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 1: felt like I had a handle on podcasting. Moving forward,

508
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:20,719
Speaker 1: I've always enjoyed podcasting a little more. I like both,

509
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:24,359
Speaker 1: but podcasting for one thing. Anyone who's talked to me knows,

510
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 1: I'm a you know, I'm a chatterbox. You're you're fond,

511
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:30,160
Speaker 1: You're fond of speaking aloud. I do. I do well,

512
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,560
Speaker 1: because if I don't speak aloud, all of this happens

513
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,120
Speaker 1: in my head. Lauren, I have to let it out.

514
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 1: You're right, that's terrifying. Yeah. So anyway, what about you,

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Speaker 1: I mean you, you You did not come from a

516
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,680
Speaker 1: podcasting background, and I would think that you're a little

517
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 1: more introverted than I am a tiny bit. Um And

518
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:49,719
Speaker 1: then again, I think like Liberacci is a little bit

519
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 1: more introverted than you are. Technically, Um no, no, well

520
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:56,879
Speaker 1: you know, I um, I do miss editing. Editing is

521
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,199
Speaker 1: honestly my passion in life. If that is not the

522
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:03,639
Speaker 1: geekiest thing you've ever heard. I really love working with

523
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: an author to figure out, um, not not only what

524
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 1: they've said, but what they were trying to say, and

525
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: try to, you know, merge the two into a completely

526
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 1: perfect universe of of just the best way for them

527
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 1: to express what they were trying to express. I love

528
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: that process and and I especially love working with it

529
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 1: with weird technical articles about strange things that I've never

530
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,359
Speaker 1: gotten to to learn about before. So uh so I

531
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:32,119
Speaker 1: missed that, but I do. I do also love this,

532
00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:34,480
Speaker 1: this crazy thing, this and and and It's been a

533
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 1: terrific opportunity for me to to expand myself. I never

534
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 1: thought that I could do this kind of performance, and

535
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,400
Speaker 1: I'm enjoying it very much. That's great. That's great because

536
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: if you were to say, like I despise every moment

537
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,199
Speaker 1: that I come into this room and I don't want

538
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:49,879
Speaker 1: to talk to you again, I do feel like I

539
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 1: need to, like like head boop a kitten or eat

540
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: large quantities of chocolate every time that I leave. But

541
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: I've been told that that's an adrenaline saying yeah, you

542
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: get you can you can feel little tired afterward if

543
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,440
Speaker 1: you're on performance mode for too long. So next from

544
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 1: Emial on Twitter, does Jonathan use puns off the air

545
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 1: as often as he does on the show, Emil No,

546
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 1: I do not use puns as often off the air

547
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 1: as I do on the show. I use them way more. Actually,

548
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: I would say that you you reserve your best puns

549
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 1: for the show. Well, what's best is that they're concentrated.

550
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 1: Will actually put in for a lot of them. I'll

551
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: put in the pause and then the pun, which is

552
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,439
Speaker 1: like it's really just the warning here it comes and

553
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: then boom. Just really because I want to I want

554
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,679
Speaker 1: to pause and remind myself. You need to look at

555
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: Lauren now to watch her reaction. So, uh yeah, because

556
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 1: my my reactions. Hey look, look our next question from

557
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 1: Dawn on Twitter. How often does Lauren roll her eyes

558
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: at Jonathan at least twice an episode? I'd say that's

559
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 1: probably a pretty good average. I've been keeping track and

560
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 1: so far it's three. I'll um, I'll update you guys

561
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: at the end of this episode. Yeah. Uh So, before

562
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: we go on, I want to take a quick moment

563
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 1: to allow one of our fellow podcast groups to say something.

564
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 1: I believe Car Stuff has something they wanted to say.

565
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: Hey Jonathan, Hey Lauren, it's a car Stuff. I'm Ben Scott,

566
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 1: and we just wanted to tell you and all of

567
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 1: your fans that we're huge Tech stuff fans. We have

568
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 1: an argument sometimes about what the most important thing that

569
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Speaker 1: happened on a June tenth ever was right, Yeah, that's right,

570
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 1: And I think we've got it pretty well narrowed down,

571
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 1: don't we. Yeah, Like it was between the Spirit Rover,

572
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 1: which launched on June tenth, Equal Pay Act signed in

573
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 1: the law. First, the one of the first female Saints

574
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: of Lebanon canonized on June tenth. But then there was

575
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: something else. Yeah, something that happened on June tenth, two

576
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: thousand eight, and it was a big, big deal. It

577
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 1: was the very first episode of tech Stuff and the

578
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 1: world has never been the same. Congratulations on your six

579
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 1: hundredth episode, guy, it's a big milestone. Congratulations. Wow. I

580
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 1: haven't heard what they said yet, but I assumed that

581
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 1: it was amazing and that when I listened back to

582
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 1: this podcast, my heart is going to grow three sizes.

583
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 1: That's that's the effect that Scott Benjamin has on me

584
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 1: every day. And to be fair, we haven't heard. We

585
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 1: know that they recorded something. In fact, that's the case

586
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 1: for all of the ones, with one exception, so we'll

587
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: find out now. I want to know how you would

588
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 1: say the next name, because I keep dividing it up

589
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 1: in different ways, and I'm not sure that any of

590
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 1: them are right. I actually asked, and I don't think

591
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 1: that the human person in question had a chance to

592
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 1: get back to me. Um, this is a question from

593
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Speaker 1: tumbler um, and I'm going to assume it's the mathist tree. Okay,

594
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 1: that makes sense more since than them apes tree, which

595
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 1: is what I was thinking. Yes, but the tumbler being

596
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Speaker 1: what it is, UM, I didn't have immediate access to

597
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Speaker 1: the person's name, so the mapistry on tumbler um asked

598
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Speaker 1: do you to name the office equipment? And to do

599
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: either of you have your own microphone cover? I've heard

600
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 1: that they can get nasty. I have not named any

601
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 1: office equipment. I'm not one to actually give names to

602
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: um inanimate objects in general. I find it amusing when

603
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 1: other people do. I do understand that lots of folks

604
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 1: name their cars. I don't do that either. So well,

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00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 1: you don't have a car, to be fair, Well, no,

606
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: but technically I have a car, I just don't drive it. Uh,

607
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: but do you name any of the office equipment? I don't.

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00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 1: I don't think I have, but now that you mentioned it,

609
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 1: I feel like we should. Usually I reserved names for

610
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: things that like for inanimate objects, I'll reserve a name

611
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 1: for something that that tasks me wrath of con style.

612
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: So you see, this would be even better than I

613
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 1: mean if we if we named stuff around the office,

614
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 1: especially like after our co workers, just to sow discord. Okay,

615
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 1: but yeah, things like if the copier we're being particularly difficult,

616
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: I might name it to therefore direct my ire in

617
00:31:56,040 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 1: a more focused way. But everything here works pretty well,

618
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 1: with one notable exception until recently, the air conditioning in

619
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Speaker 1: this podcast studio, which I have referred to at least

620
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Speaker 1: one other time in this Yes, but no I do not.

621
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Speaker 1: And as for the the own microphone cover, I use

622
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: the one that's already in here. I do as well. Um,

623
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 1: I believe I could be wrong about this that Chuck

624
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 1: is the only person who brings in his own microphone cover.

625
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: Nol Is is nodding to us from behind his safety wall. Chuck.

626
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: Chuck will remove the microphone cover and often leave it off.

627
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: So sometimes when we come into record, not not this show,

628
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: but when we record Forward Thinking, which follows stuff you

629
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: should know on Tuesdays. Yes, then often we will come

630
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: in and Lauren's microphone will be sans cover and we

631
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 1: have to check it down. So if you want to

632
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: write to Chuck and ask him to be more more thoughtful,

633
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: it's not a big deal. No, I mean, Lauren, it's

634
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: usually like right there. It usually takes Yeah, she pointed,

635
00:32:57,920 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: by the way, in case you were wondering what that was,

636
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 1: I think they figured it out. Yeah. Well, here's a

637
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 1: neat surprise. We've got our friends from Stuff to Blow

638
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: your mind, Robert and Julie, who wanted to say something

639
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: to us. So here we go, Lauren and Jonathan, we

640
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: have a message for you. We've really enjoyed your episodes

641
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 1: about technologies impact on our lives, and we really like

642
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: your jokes and puns. They've never once given us hives.

643
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: And by the way, from the podcast Factor, bow your mind. Wow,

644
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 1: I hear there was singing involved. I honestly don't know

645
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 1: yet because I haven't listened to it, but I am

646
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 1: sure that it was amazing because both Robert and Julie

647
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 1: are amazing podcasters and amazing singers. They mostly communicate around

648
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: the office through chanting they do. In fact, it's eldritch chanting,

649
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 1: which is what really makes me jibber. So thanks guys.

650
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 1: So next for Prosaic Paradise on Tumblr. What's up with

651
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: the app not showing the current hosts? Excellent question. We

652
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 1: want to know the same thing, or actually we do

653
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: know the same thing and uh and basically the the

654
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: answer is that UM that the company that developed the

655
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 1: app for how Stuff Works UM is no longer under

656
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 1: contract with with How Stuff Works. Yeah, that means that

657
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 1: changing it it's outside of our area, right. We don't

658
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 1: have anyone in How Stuff Works who does app developments,

659
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: so we can't We can't do it well. And and furthermore,

660
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: we don't own the code for it, and they own

661
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 1: the code for it, so we can't really go in

662
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 1: and change it ourselves from a legal standpoint. So that

663
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:42,760
Speaker 1: is why the even though I've been with the show

664
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: for over a year, my picture is not on there

665
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: and my name is not on there. That This is

666
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 1: a frustration shared by several of the podcast teams. UM

667
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:52,320
Speaker 1: stuff you missed in history class has gone through changes,

668
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: forward thinking isn't even on there. So so we're trying

669
00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: very hard. I know that we have top men working

670
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,919
Speaker 1: on it. We do not have a timeline for when

671
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 1: that will be addressed, but trust us, it frustrates us

672
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: as well. We would much prefer it to reflect um

673
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: the current state. So next we've got a five part questions.

674
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 1: So before we go into the five part question, I

675
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 1: wanted to take another quick moment. I hear that there's

676
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 1: this conspiratorial podcast that wanted to say something. Yeah, they

677
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: kind of creeped me out, but let's go ahead. Could

678
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: it be trueban have the prophecy has been fulfilled? The

679
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:40,280
Speaker 1: signs are there, Matthew six, it's the mark. We've waited

680
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 1: so long. Now it's here. The time has come. I

681
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:49,719
Speaker 1: would say congratulations to Lauren and Jonathan if you know

682
00:35:49,800 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: what happens next. I'm going to assume that that was

683
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 1: a cheerful hello and congratulations for six D episodes. I

684
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 1: have not listened to that one either. I'm going to

685
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:19,360
Speaker 1: assume that it wasn't full of nothing but audible spiders. Yeah. Yeah,

686
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 1: here's hoping it wasn't just a number station right, just

687
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 1: twenty seven sevent three? Yeah, you never know with those guys.

688
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,879
Speaker 1: So next we have our old friend on Tricks who

689
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: from Facebook, and I do apologize if I've mispronounced your name.

690
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,479
Speaker 1: He had five different questions for us. So the first

691
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: one is which studio slash recording room has been the

692
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,760
Speaker 1: best so far. I know you guys and gals have moved,

693
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 1: boy have we? Um? So, I have been in three

694
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: different podcast studios in the year that I've been here, Jonathan,

695
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 1: Were there others besides that? Or was it there was

696
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 1: one more? Okay, oh, that's right, because they stuck you

697
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 1: guys in the really creepy little booth first. Didn't think well, first,

698
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 1: there was a room. It was similar to the one

699
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: that we ended up in. You remember, the one that

700
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 1: had the alcove was the audio recording studio that had

701
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: an alcove and a little curtain that blocked the alcove

702
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 1: off from the rest of the studio, right and the

703
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: larger part of the studio being used for for video video. Now,

704
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 1: originally we weren't doing videos, so the audio room was

705
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 1: just one giant room. So with all that acoustics bouncing

706
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 1: around him. Yep, you had the producers sitting there in

707
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: full view, kind of sort of the way we do

708
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: now if the phone barrier were taken down, Um and

709
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: joke about that. No, we we don't. We're turning into

710
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:37,399
Speaker 1: Welcome to night Vale. Uh So, the yeah, we we

711
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: had a one big room there. Then we moved into

712
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 1: the model where we are. Well, first we were in

713
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,799
Speaker 1: a corner office, the same no, not the same corner office,

714
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: a different corner office than we were in the last time,

715
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 1: which of course was not ideal because we had a

716
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 1: lot of outside noise that came in. We did that

717
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 1: for a while while they did construction and added the

718
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 1: alcove into our production studio. So then we went moved

719
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 1: back into that room, except now it was a different

720
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 1: kind of style room. It had been laid out in

721
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 1: a different way, and it had the specific outcode that

722
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: was just big enough to have one of these small

723
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 1: round tables that we set across, and it was about

724
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 1: the size of a of a kitchenette. Yeah, yeah, it's

725
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 1: pretty much it. And then we have that little curtain

726
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 1: that would divide off. So once we closed the curtain,

727
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 1: we could never really be sure that our producer was

728
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 1: still sitting at the computer or had and just wandered

729
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 1: off somewhere. I generally assumed that Tyler was our was

730
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 1: our producer, editor or or predator as I really prefer

731
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 1: to use for him specifically, because he was also doing

732
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 1: some work and and um in one of those anti

733
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: suits as an invisible character. If you've ever seen any

734
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 1: of the Invisible Man videos, usually Tyler, Yeah almost so,

735
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 1: I mean really he's I mean, he's a predator, he

736
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 1: can turn invisible. Yeah. He also uh, he also does

737
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 1: that weird laugh thing. Uh. Then we moved over into

738
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: an office that was not meant to be a podcast

739
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 1: studio either, but we needed to do that for a while.

740
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: And that was again again a corner office overlooking highways. Yep.

741
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 1: And then uh, and that was because we had gotten

742
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 1: into video production quite a bit, and then so that

743
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: we could not afford to shut down video every time

744
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: we needed to record audio and vice versa. Yeah, there

745
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 1: were too many conflicts, right, You'd have some people in

746
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 1: shooting video while other people needed to record podcasts, and

747
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 1: we only had one space to do both. So that's

748
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 1: why we had to convert an office into a podcast studio.

749
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: Then we moved office locations, moving within the same building

750
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 1: but down a couple of floors, and now we have

751
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:37,839
Speaker 1: a really pretty nice set up. It's a larger room. Uh,

752
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: it's got plenty of space for for the predator to

753
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 1: sit at. Uh. Then we've got our tiny little table

754
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,360
Speaker 1: with our our three microphones set up. The table is

755
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: actually way smaller than what this room could could have

756
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 1: in it, So we do plan on replacing the table

757
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 1: at some point so that three people can sit around

758
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,760
Speaker 1: it and not feel like they're sitting in each other's laps.

759
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: We have one window that faces into the office. That

760
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 1: that's the window that I like to stand at and

761
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 1: stare through when a car stuff is going too long?

762
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: He creep, he creeps on it. I do. And then

763
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 1: of course all the walls are pretty much covered in foam.

764
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,240
Speaker 1: Uh that that solid film we were talking about earlier.

765
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 1: And um, yeah, there was a while where this podcast

766
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:24,720
Speaker 1: was our least favorite podcast studio because of the heat problem.

767
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, for for a while we thought it was

768
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: broken and there was a duck tissue. Um. It turned

769
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:31,880
Speaker 1: out the entire time that the thermostat was on a

770
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 1: different side of the office and that the people there

771
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 1: would would get really cold, and so crank the thermstat

772
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 1: up to high. Uh, and the thermstat was controlling our room,

773
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 1: not their room. So they were like, why is this

774
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: still cold? Turn it up a little more. Meanwhile, Lauren

775
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 1: and I are in here thinking we're turning into puddles. Yeah,

776
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,760
Speaker 1: that there was definitely some some sweating. I actually wants

777
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: um in complete earnesty said to Jonathan and all, I

778
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:59,439
Speaker 1: can't work like this. Yeah, and I meant it so much,

779
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 1: and I still are you guys cookies for that thing? Oh?

780
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: You know, ultimately, if you had sat through it and

781
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 1: tried to do a podcast in that mood, it would

782
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 1: have been the either the greatest podcast ever recorded but

783
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 1: for the wrong reasons, or the worst podcast ever recorded.

784
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:16,320
Speaker 1: So I'm glad that we we cut it at that point.

785
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 1: So then the next part of the question is do

786
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,360
Speaker 1: the podcasters face each other or sit side by side?

787
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 1: And where does the producer sit. I feel Jonathan can

788
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:26,239
Speaker 1: illustrate all this with his voice very well. All right,

789
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 1: journey with me, folks. So if you were to walk

790
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 1: into the door, that would hurt. But if you open

791
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: the door and walked into the room, you would see first,

792
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:37,319
Speaker 1: you'd be staring at the back of Lauren's head. She's

793
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:40,360
Speaker 1: she's keeping a tally. Uh. So you would see the

794
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: back of Lauren's head because she's facing with her back

795
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 1: to the door. I, as the paranoid person who's always

796
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 1: aware of my situation, refused to have my back to

797
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 1: the door. He doesn't in restaurants too, he won't sit

798
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 1: with his back facing any door. This is actually true.

799
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:57,439
Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm sitting towards the corner of the room,

800
00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 1: and we've got this little round table in the middle,

801
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 1: and we are facing in one another, so I'm looking

802
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 1: directly at Lauren. I can see the door behind her.

803
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 1: The little window into the office is behind her. To

804
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: my left. To Lauren's right is the desk and the

805
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 1: protective foam barrier where we have the computer where you know,

806
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: the mac that all this audio is flowing into. On

807
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:19,799
Speaker 1: the other side that mac is Noel. I assume he's

808
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:23,840
Speaker 1: still there. I'm seeing a glare. I made eye contact,

809
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:27,840
Speaker 1: all right. Well, anyway, behind Nol is the window. We

810
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: talk about the window that faces out toward the street

811
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: a right, not the small window, the inter office window.

812
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:37,280
Speaker 1: It is coated with foam and a large heavy curtain

813
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 1: that's meant to muffle sound, which it does pretty well.

814
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: The average traffic sounds we don't really hear. It's when

815
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 1: sirens or a very heavy truck or someone who wants

816
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 1: to be a drag racer is going up and down

817
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 1: the street, or you know, it's a marta train. Those

818
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:54,319
Speaker 1: are the times when we can actually hear it right.

819
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,800
Speaker 1: Next question was the studio and the stuff you should

820
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: know TV show your actual studio. The answer is not

821
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 1: at all, Um, that was that was a set um

822
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 1: that was not on location here at the office. It

823
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 1: was elsewhere. Um. Although briefly some staffers got to come

824
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:16,840
Speaker 1: in and uh and and create desks for the fictional

825
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 1: staffers that we're going to to be on the show.

826
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:22,839
Speaker 1: And I believe in the original pilot, Um, you had

827
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,840
Speaker 1: a cameo, I have a walk by, Yeah, see me

828
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,359
Speaker 1: walking by and one of the shots. Yeah that And

829
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: in fact, the pilot episode was shot in a different

830
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: set than the rest of the episodes were. But yeah,

831
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 1: that's set dressing and everything that was all created for

832
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: the show. None of that is really what. Some of

833
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 1: it came from our office. They actually took some pieces

834
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:43,879
Speaker 1: from our office. But our office is not quite as

835
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: eclectic as that, not not quite and and not quite

836
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 1: as open an airy and capable of putting large camera

837
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 1: rigs through, although we do still have some of the

838
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: red foam um forming our protective phone barriers barrier exactly. Yeah,

839
00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:00,040
Speaker 1: all right, Next, we have what gadgets do both of

840
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:04,920
Speaker 1: you use in your daily lives? Um, I personally, I

841
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:08,280
Speaker 1: mean I mean daily. I've got an iPhone for fitbit

842
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 1: Force and a MacBook Pro that I I'm looking at

843
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: one of these screens basically any time that I'm off

844
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: of work. Yeah, I've got Nexus four smartphone, my Pebble

845
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 1: smart watch, which everyone who knows me knows I've talked

846
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 1: about a billion times. I've got I pretty much used

847
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: my Xbox at least once every single day, whether it's

848
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 1: to play a game or to watch video on I

849
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:33,319
Speaker 1: use it as a media player as well. Um. I've

850
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 1: got a Nexus seven tablet, which I occasionally used, mostly

851
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 1: to play goofy games that I don't want on my phone.

852
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 1: Um And then on top of that, then I've got

853
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: you know, some other random things. I used to be

854
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: the person who carried uh an iPod with me wherever

855
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 1: I went because I didn't really want to use up

856
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 1: my phone battery for for playing m P three's as

857
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: I used to use an HTC G one, which was

858
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 1: great except the battery life was terrible. But the next

859
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 1: is four battery life is actually quite good. And now

860
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:06,959
Speaker 1: I've gotten to the point where it took a while

861
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 1: to wean me off of it. But I've gotten to

862
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 1: the point now where I just rely on that. I

863
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:11,800
Speaker 1: used that to listen to podcasts, I used it to

864
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 1: listen to streaming audio, and I use it as my phone.

865
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: So um oh and I and I really rely on

866
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 1: a gift that was given to all of us here

867
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:23,919
Speaker 1: at how Stuff Works, that battery charger that as well.

868
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 1: That's a big one that was not given to all

869
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:28,800
Speaker 1: of us. That was that was that was a major award.

870
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:31,720
Speaker 1: Thank you. No I was thinking of the Beats Audio

871
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 1: head guns, which this is not obviously this episode not

872
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 1: sponsored by them, but that was a gift because we

873
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 1: were moving to an open office environment and there was

874
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:41,839
Speaker 1: a concern that would be too much noise, so they

875
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,440
Speaker 1: gave all of us Beats Audio headphones. But they have

876
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 1: like a little microphone on them. They're that kind of headphones.

877
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 1: So I used them with my phone so that way

878
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:53,759
Speaker 1: when I get calls, I can take the calls and

879
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 1: still have the headphones on and I actually hear the

880
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 1: call better because my hearing is not great, guys, and

881
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 1: my hearing has been I've been losing my hearing slowly

882
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 1: over the last few years, so uh, yeah, and I

883
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:05,920
Speaker 1: guess I also do use that kindle pretty frequently. There

884
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 1: we go. Cool, So what's next? This is the last

885
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 1: question from him. What online service slash app? Can you

886
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 1: not live without? Uh? Dash Lane, which is my password manager. Oh, yeah,

887
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:20,759
Speaker 1: that's right, that's right. You talked about that one all

888
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:22,840
Speaker 1: the time. Yeah, that one. Uh, I use that that.

889
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:26,479
Speaker 1: It has a desktop app, it has a smartphone app,

890
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:29,360
Speaker 1: but it also has a web interface. So if I

891
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:32,480
Speaker 1: were to use someone else's computer, I can navigate to

892
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:36,439
Speaker 1: the dash Lane website, use my master password to log

893
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:38,840
Speaker 1: into my dash Lane account, and then from there I

894
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 1: could log into whatever account I needed to And I

895
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 1: don't even need to know what the password is. So

896
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: I used d ash Lane to generate strong passwords that

897
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:49,880
Speaker 1: I could never remember on my own, because I'm not

898
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:53,759
Speaker 1: someone who's gonna be like lower case X seven uppercase

899
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 1: G like I'm not going to remember that. But because

900
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 1: I can use this one master password to access everything,

901
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: I don't have to. Sure, UM, I I am going

902
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:07,320
Speaker 1: to say Space Team. Um. This is this is a game. Um.

903
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: It was developed by Henry Smith, formerly of bio Ware,

904
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:14,239
Speaker 1: and UH, basically it turns it's a it's a team game,

905
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 1: and so you hook a bunch of phones into this

906
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 1: game all at the same time. It's it's for two

907
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 1: to four players, or with an expansion, four to eight

908
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:24,759
Speaker 1: and uh, it's it turns your phone into into like

909
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:26,839
Speaker 1: the bridge of the Star Trek Enterprise. And so you've

910
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: got these weird little nonsense buttons, and everyone else has

911
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:31,879
Speaker 1: different nonsense buttons. So you have to shout at your

912
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 1: friends to do different stuff in order to make the

913
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 1: ship fly. So it'll be all like, toggle the shock crane,

914
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:42,320
Speaker 1: set the alpha fluid to zero, test the hypothesis, boil

915
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 1: the kettle, and it's it's the best fund that I've

916
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 1: ever had in my entire life. I might have to

917
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:49,919
Speaker 1: try that now. I wasn't familiar with that. It's great,

918
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:51,879
Speaker 1: all right, Well, before we move on to our next question,

919
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 1: we do have quite a few more. Let's take a

920
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 1: quick break. I think stuff Mom Never Told You wanted

921
00:47:56,640 --> 00:48:02,320
Speaker 1: to say something. Oh, hey Jonathan, and hey Lauren, happy

922
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:06,319
Speaker 1: six hundred Tech Stuff episode. This is Kristen and this

923
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 1: is Caroline from Stuff Mom Never Told You. And hey,

924
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 1: even though we don't have six hundred episodes yet, we'll

925
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:14,279
Speaker 1: get there, right Caroline, I'm getting there. We're working on

926
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 1: it every week, every week. So thanks for you know,

927
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:24,360
Speaker 1: showing us up. Yeah always, thanks ladies. That was awesome.

928
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:27,239
Speaker 1: I still haven't listened to it yet, so I'm I'm

929
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 1: making assumptions. It's pretty safe when it comes to Kristen

930
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: and Caroline though they're they're awesome people. They are their

931
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: stand up humans. Yeah. And by the way, every single

932
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:38,000
Speaker 1: one of these shows, if you're not familiar with them,

933
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 1: go check out a few episodes, because honestly, our co

934
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 1: workers are incredible people. We talked about that earlier. We

935
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: really mean it. Their shows are amazing and they really are.

936
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:49,440
Speaker 1: And in the coming days and weeks, I'm going to

937
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 1: try to share some specifically tech relevant episodes because we

938
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:54,879
Speaker 1: all have a little bit of overlap here and there

939
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:57,840
Speaker 1: in our show content, um and and trying to recommend

940
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:00,839
Speaker 1: a few things that you guys would really like soly so.

941
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:03,759
Speaker 1: Next is from Cody on Facebook, who said, if you

942
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 1: have children, how adept are they with current technology? My

943
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 1: three year old daughter thought she could swipe to the

944
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 1: next picture in her book L O L made me

945
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:16,439
Speaker 1: feel old. Well, neither of us have kids. We've had

946
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: limited interaction with children because they frightened us. But some

947
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: of our friends have children, and we do have pets,

948
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 1: not saying that pets are exactly like having children, because

949
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:32,520
Speaker 1: that's terrible. Also, my dog is terrible at any technology.

950
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 1: Yeah that my my dog also not And it's not

951
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 1: even fun having a dog because you don't even have

952
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:38,840
Speaker 1: good like iPad games for dogs because the dog is

953
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 1: kind of like, I just want to chew that thing.

954
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:43,520
Speaker 1: There was a time where my dog was fascinated by

955
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:45,799
Speaker 1: any dog that appeared on the television, but he has

956
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 1: since stopped caring. So the the only time that my

957
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 1: dog has ever reacted to anything going on on a

958
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:55,400
Speaker 1: screen was, Um, do you remember that that squeaky frog video?

959
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:59,720
Speaker 1: There was this really cute, kind of like inflatable looking frog.

960
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 1: It's called the Namaqua rain frog. It's from South Africa.

961
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:07,600
Speaker 1: It has this squeaky distress call like defense mechanism. Um,

962
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:09,439
Speaker 1: if you guys, if you guys, just google squeaky frog,

963
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:11,560
Speaker 1: you'll you'll find it. But um, but it's this very

964
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:15,440
Speaker 1: high pitched like upset kitten or puppy dog kind of

965
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 1: noise that this frog makes in order to discourage things

966
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 1: from eating it. And upon playing this video, my dog

967
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:25,279
Speaker 1: freaked out, And this is like a thirteen year old dog,

968
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:28,120
Speaker 1: like she doesn't really freak out about stuff unless it's

969
00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:31,160
Speaker 1: absolutely necessary. Right, this is this is clearly freak out

970
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:36,800
Speaker 1: Defcon one. But yeah, I will be having a niece soon,

971
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:40,359
Speaker 1: so I will experiment on my niece and find out

972
00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:42,560
Speaker 1: what kind of technology I can get her addicted to

973
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:45,840
Speaker 1: and then laugh at my sister and brother in law.

974
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 1: So we'll we'll see next. We have from Kyle on

975
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 1: Facebook several questions, So, what is the technology that you

976
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:56,400
Speaker 1: covered that you still struggle to fully understand. This is

977
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:59,319
Speaker 1: a great question because there are times when we go

978
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 1: into the podcast studio and you know, most of the

979
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 1: time you'll hear me say like, I have to be honest,

980
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:07,239
Speaker 1: there's parts here that are beyond me. But this is

981
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: my understanding of it. Um large Hadron collider, I think

982
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:15,240
Speaker 1: leaps to mind. I think the thing with particle physics

983
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 1: is that no one really understand I mean, any particle

984
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:19,879
Speaker 1: physicist and we talked to is probably going to say

985
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:22,480
Speaker 1: that they're like, there comes a point where you're just like, well,

986
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:26,880
Speaker 1: this is what happens. I don't understand it. Yeah, for me, honestly,

987
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:30,720
Speaker 1: energy systems get really difficult to understand, Like, like like anything

988
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:34,879
Speaker 1: having to do with electron flow intrinsically confuses me. Um.

989
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:38,240
Speaker 1: I mean, because it's like I totally get that it works,

990
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 1: but I really can't convince my brain that it should work. Well.

991
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:46,960
Speaker 1: It doesn't help that the earliest descriptions of electricity we're

992
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: talking about positively charged elements moving along a current or

993
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:57,879
Speaker 1: moving along a circuit rather and therefore, uh, everything that

994
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: followed is intrinsically backwards because it turns out it's negatively

995
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 1: charged particles. However, I mean, like like photon behavior and

996
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:10,880
Speaker 1: the quantum mechanics tend to make perfect sense to me

997
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,840
Speaker 1: that I follow along perfectly. My brain has no problems

998
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 1: mincing that kind of stuff. So to be fair, Lauren

999
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:21,000
Speaker 1: often finds herself entangled and in super position, so I

1000
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:25,879
Speaker 1: that cannot be more true. Next, Kyle asks, are there

1001
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 1: any shows that you have recorded but not aired or

1002
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:31,520
Speaker 1: shows you rerecorded because the first take was not up

1003
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 1: to snuff? Okay, yeah, so we recorded. We sat down

1004
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:38,319
Speaker 1: and did a full recording. Full episode had to be

1005
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:42,760
Speaker 1: an hour long. Easy about the Ultima series, the video

1006
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:45,440
Speaker 1: game series. Yeah, the computer game series that started with

1007
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:50,040
Speaker 1: Richard Garriott, starting with al Calabeth technically and then moving

1008
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:53,040
Speaker 1: all the way through Ultima. Uh. Once we were done,

1009
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:55,719
Speaker 1: I didn't feel great about it as soon as we

1010
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:58,839
Speaker 1: left the studio, and that that feeling stuck with me,

1011
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:03,240
Speaker 1: and I felt that we really that this really falls

1012
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 1: on my shoulders, that I really didn't do a very

1013
00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:07,799
Speaker 1: good job with it, that that it didn't feel like

1014
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 1: it was much more than what you would have gotten

1015
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:13,919
Speaker 1: if you had stood at a store shelf and all

1016
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 1: of the games were in front of you and you

1017
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:19,279
Speaker 1: just read the backs of the games. Was like that.

1018
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:22,399
Speaker 1: It was. It was very early in my podcast days here,

1019
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:25,520
Speaker 1: and um, and I was having an off week. I

1020
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:27,719
Speaker 1: think that honestly, you were having an off week and

1021
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 1: and it just turned out to yeata to not be

1022
00:53:30,239 --> 00:53:32,439
Speaker 1: It could have used some editing going in. I could

1023
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 1: have stood to have added some more notes, and I

1024
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 1: wasn't being extremely talkative in the studio that day, so

1025
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:42,480
Speaker 1: so overall, um, it turned into not a great episode

1026
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:46,480
Speaker 1: that we wound up scrapping, and we we haven't recorded. Yeah,

1027
00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:48,239
Speaker 1: we we haven't gone back. I mean, one of these

1028
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 1: days we should really face our fears and tackle it again. Yeah. Well,

1029
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:53,799
Speaker 1: we'll go back. I mean, I love that series, so

1030
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 1: I do want to do it justice. But yeah, that

1031
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:58,920
Speaker 1: particular episode. Now, if you go back further, Uh, there

1032
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:01,160
Speaker 1: was an episode that I re warded with Chris Palette

1033
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:05,080
Speaker 1: ages ago about who Invented the Radio? And Chris and

1034
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:07,680
Speaker 1: I sat down and we had a forty five minute

1035
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 1: discussion and as soon as we finished, we just stared

1036
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:15,880
Speaker 1: at each other for a good probably fifteen seconds, and

1037
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:19,239
Speaker 1: then I said, yeah, that was awful and and and

1038
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 1: he said, you know that was terrible. I said, do

1039
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 1: you want to do it again? And he looked at

1040
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:25,680
Speaker 1: me and he's like, I don't want to do it again,

1041
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:27,719
Speaker 1: but we need to do it again. And we re

1042
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:30,480
Speaker 1: recorded it at that time, like we as soon as

1043
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 1: we had finished, because there was no one coming into

1044
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:34,640
Speaker 1: the studio after us on that day, and this was

1045
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:37,360
Speaker 1: eleven in the morning. We had been around the studio

1046
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:40,040
Speaker 1: for two hours, and so we started it up again.

1047
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:41,719
Speaker 1: So if you go back and listen to that who

1048
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 1: Invented the Radio podcast, which still is out there, that's

1049
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:48,080
Speaker 1: the re recorded one. And it was amazing. It was

1050
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:50,279
Speaker 1: easily one of the best episodes we did that year.

1051
00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 1: But we had to go through some terrible, terrible times

1052
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:57,840
Speaker 1: to get there. So can we hear some outtakes or

1053
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:04,200
Speaker 1: unfiltered pre post recording BA, No, you cannot. You cannot, Uh,

1054
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:07,560
Speaker 1: you cannot. We we do have some, but it's almost

1055
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 1: all either uninteresting. Yeah I can. I mean basically, what happens,

1056
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:18,200
Speaker 1: UM that you don't hear is us mispronouncing words or names,

1057
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:23,719
Speaker 1: sometimes our own names, coughing, making weird mouth noises, UM,

1058
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:28,560
Speaker 1: drinking tea. I laugh a lot, you guys. There's also UM.

1059
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:33,200
Speaker 1: There's also occasionally some swearing that happens. Yeah, it's not comic.

1060
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:37,279
Speaker 1: It's just when something really frustrating happens. Uh. You know,

1061
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:41,319
Speaker 1: we're not um, we're not always the you know, both

1062
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:44,960
Speaker 1: of us have dropped some some interesting colorful metaphors, as

1063
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:47,319
Speaker 1: they would say in Star Trek. That that is, that

1064
00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:50,239
Speaker 1: is correct, but not at each other, by the way, No,

1065
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:52,080
Speaker 1: I don't mean that we yell at each other. Whether

1066
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:55,160
Speaker 1: it's more because there's something that's gone wrong that has

1067
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:57,840
Speaker 1: you know, we thought we were ready to go and

1068
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:00,320
Speaker 1: something has gone wrong and it and it makes everything

1069
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:03,799
Speaker 1: go pear shaped. Yes, also depending on how punchy I am,

1070
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:07,560
Speaker 1: I'll just kind of pepper anytime. Anytime I mess up

1071
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:11,560
Speaker 1: a line, I'll toss a few interesting words in their

1072
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:15,240
Speaker 1: footnell to cut out and black Man material takes aren't

1073
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 1: really terribly interesting. It's usually like it's something where we've

1074
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:21,319
Speaker 1: stumbled over a sentence and we've gone back and to

1075
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:23,600
Speaker 1: try to say the sense again. Like that little stumble

1076
00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:25,799
Speaker 1: I just had. That could be an example. It's not

1077
00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:29,839
Speaker 1: entertaining really. Next, what kind of technology does Jonathan used

1078
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:33,799
Speaker 1: to shave his head. It's called a razor. I like

1079
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:36,960
Speaker 1: a straight razor. I mean, like like a straight razor.

1080
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:40,360
Speaker 1: He's a safety razor. I'm not insane. I'm not Sweeney Todd.

1081
00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:44,279
Speaker 1: Are you are? You know I can't talk about that,

1082
00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:47,560
Speaker 1: not without the chorus. Uh, they have to back me up. No,

1083
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 1: I use I use a safety razor. I'm actually part

1084
00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:53,240
Speaker 1: of they don't sponsor the show, but I'm probably Men's

1085
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 1: Shave Club. Men's Shave Club, I remember, I remember a

1086
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:58,480
Speaker 1: lot of about that. I'm a member of that. I

1087
00:56:58,560 --> 00:57:01,120
Speaker 1: love it because I just subscribe and then I get

1088
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:05,040
Speaker 1: razors sent to me and I'm it's fantastic. So I

1089
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:08,840
Speaker 1: use that al right. Next, what technological brand best sums

1090
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:11,279
Speaker 1: up your co host and why do we really want

1091
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 1: to go here? All right, so we have to decide

1092
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:17,080
Speaker 1: what what what brand. I'm gonna have Lauren go first,

1093
00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:20,920
Speaker 1: because that will determine how how I answer, whether whether

1094
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:24,040
Speaker 1: I'm nice or snarky. All right, Um, well, I was

1095
00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:27,360
Speaker 1: I was gonna say. I was gonna say Android because

1096
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:29,920
Speaker 1: because you've got a sense of humor, um, perhaps a

1097
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:32,840
Speaker 1: fixation on dessert. And uh and you do a lot

1098
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 1: of cross branding. That's fair. Okay, that's good. That was

1099
00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 1: very sweet. Crap as I got to back off alright

1100
00:57:39,040 --> 00:57:42,959
Speaker 1: because I was gonna say Ferbie. Um oh, okay. Really

1101
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 1: is just that that, you know, you speak gibberish and

1102
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:48,880
Speaker 1: I can't understand anything you say. No, that's I'm totally kidding.

1103
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 1: I'm totally kidding. Uh. You know it's interesting. I'm gonna

1104
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: and this is gonna sound weird, and it's not because

1105
00:57:56,880 --> 00:57:59,240
Speaker 1: this is the gaming console you have. But I'm gonna

1106
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:02,000
Speaker 1: say Xbox the reason. And I'm talking about like Xbox

1107
00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 1: three sixty to be specific. All right, I'm being really

1108
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:08,360
Speaker 1: specific because Xbox three sixty because one, you're awesome, you know,

1109
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:11,880
Speaker 1: I love the Xbox three sixty. Uh. Two, when you

1110
00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:14,400
Speaker 1: make a mistake. You own up to it, because that's

1111
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:17,280
Speaker 1: what Microsoft did with Xbox three sixty quite a few times.

1112
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 1: Sometimes it take took them a while, is never taken Lauren, Well,

1113
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:23,080
Speaker 1: she's in fact, she's way too hard on herself most

1114
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:28,360
Speaker 1: of the time. And uh, also, UM, I can't tell

1115
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 1: you say Lauren, turn off and you turn off. It

1116
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:33,680
Speaker 1: doesn't work because you're not Xbox one, You're an Xbox

1117
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:36,960
Speaker 1: three sixty. So that's also true. That's very true. All right.

1118
00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:39,640
Speaker 1: Well then now that's all of Kyle's questions. You know,

1119
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:44,760
Speaker 1: we got another got another notification here. Uh turns out that, um,

1120
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:48,200
Speaker 1: this is the show called Forward Thinking wants to say something. Yeah, yeah,

1121
00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:54,240
Speaker 1: let's let's hear from Let's hear from them. Hey, there,

1122
00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:57,320
Speaker 1: tech Stuff, this is Forward Thinking, the podcast that looks

1123
00:58:57,320 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 1: at the future and says, I am the madron man

1124
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 1: in I'm Jonathan Strickland, I'm Lauren Vogelba, and I'm Joe McCormick,

1125
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:07,000
Speaker 1: and I am the only member of Forward Thinking who

1126
00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:10,720
Speaker 1: is not also a member of tech Stuff. So here

1127
00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 1: we are saying a great shout out to tech Stuff.

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00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 1: Congratulations on your six hundred episodes. Thank you so many.

1129
00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:23,320
Speaker 1: Congratulations Yeah, we're so happy. Yeah, we're great. Joe, did

1130
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:26,560
Speaker 1: you you said that you had like a listener suggestion

1131
00:59:26,600 --> 00:59:29,520
Speaker 1: for us. I have a suggestion, as just coming as

1132
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 1: a fan of tech stuff. I think you should do

1133
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 1: a year of Event Horizon, which is just one solid

1134
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:39,320
Speaker 1: year of episodes that are only about Event Horizon. The

1135
00:59:39,360 --> 00:59:43,760
Speaker 1: technology of Event Horizon. Um, well, it's tech stuff, so

1136
00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:47,720
Speaker 1: would basically just be the technology, I guess. So. So, Joe,

1137
00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:51,600
Speaker 1: were you aware that we we did an episode about

1138
00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:55,040
Speaker 1: event Horizon? One is not enough? Oh I see, I see,

1139
00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:58,000
Speaker 1: that's the whole point. We will We will definitely take

1140
00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:02,400
Speaker 1: that under advisement and put that in our good idea pile,

1141
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:05,480
Speaker 1: won't we? Lauren h that was all I had in

1142
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 1: my good idea pile to begin with. So I'm not

1143
01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:11,320
Speaker 1: sure are we working off of different piles. I'm so lone.

1144
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:16,880
Speaker 1: You know, two out of those three hosts sounded really awesome.

1145
01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:22,960
Speaker 1: The third host sounded even better. Joe, You're amazing. So

1146
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 1: that was that was a lot of fun for us

1147
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:27,280
Speaker 1: to do. That was the one of these these little

1148
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:30,280
Speaker 1: shout outs that we've actually heard before. So, um, next

1149
01:00:30,320 --> 01:00:33,760
Speaker 1: we have from Ricardo on Facebook. Why is your research process.

1150
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:36,000
Speaker 1: On every podcast, we've kind of covered that, but we'll

1151
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:38,120
Speaker 1: talk a little bit more. Is your research limited to

1152
01:00:38,160 --> 01:00:40,600
Speaker 1: surfing the internet, or do you guys do some investigative

1153
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:44,040
Speaker 1: or journalism work to become knowledgeable or maybe you guys

1154
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:48,520
Speaker 1: are just walking encyclopedias. We are not walking encyclopedias, Jonathan

1155
01:00:48,640 --> 01:00:51,640
Speaker 1: is a tiny tiny bit um more like a walking

1156
01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:55,280
Speaker 1: like really old farmer's almanac. That's about as close as

1157
01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:58,400
Speaker 1: I can get. That's fair. Most of our research is online.

1158
01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:02,080
Speaker 1: Very occasionally we will consult a book, but it is

1159
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:05,120
Speaker 1: usually a book that has been scanned into Google ducts. Yeah.

1160
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:07,960
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's really rare that we ever go outside that.

1161
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:10,880
Speaker 1: I mean, it's we've done on tech stuff in the past,

1162
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:13,480
Speaker 1: Ages and Ages Ago, a couple of interview episodes, but

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01:01:13,560 --> 01:01:17,280
Speaker 1: mostly it's online. We don't tend to do any investigative

1164
01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:20,600
Speaker 1: oral journalism work in that sense and the traditional journalism work,

1165
01:01:20,640 --> 01:01:24,120
Speaker 1: because that's not our training. We're not trained as as

1166
01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:27,480
Speaker 1: investigative journalists. I technically am a little bit, but um,

1167
01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:30,480
Speaker 1: I got out of that field because I really dislike it.

1168
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:33,000
Speaker 1: Um but uh but but but yeah, no, I mean

1169
01:01:33,040 --> 01:01:35,000
Speaker 1: also that's not yeah, that's not really what we're going

1170
01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:37,800
Speaker 1: for with this show. UM, I would love it if

1171
01:01:37,840 --> 01:01:40,880
Speaker 1: we could um do more interviews in the future and

1172
01:01:40,920 --> 01:01:42,920
Speaker 1: have have people join us on the show. I know

1173
01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:45,680
Speaker 1: a bunch of our our sister podcasts do that, and

1174
01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:48,080
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty awesome. Yeah. Well, well certainly, And

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01:01:48,120 --> 01:01:50,120
Speaker 1: if you guys have a wish list of folks that

1176
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:52,400
Speaker 1: you think we should interview, definitely send them in because

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01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:55,000
Speaker 1: we'll be happy to at least put out feelers out there.

1178
01:01:55,640 --> 01:01:58,600
Speaker 1: And especially if any of you guys know anyone who

1179
01:01:58,760 --> 01:02:01,400
Speaker 1: is awesome who you think we should talk to, then

1180
01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:05,240
Speaker 1: you know, give us a hook up. And next, Ricardo says,

1181
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:08,080
Speaker 1: and do you guys sell a tire like shirts and sweatshirts?

1182
01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:11,520
Speaker 1: Thanks for the show, I'm your biggest fan. We do not. Um.

1183
01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:14,320
Speaker 1: There is how Stuff Works merchandise that you can find

1184
01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:18,120
Speaker 1: by going to store dot Discovery dot com and searching

1185
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:21,440
Speaker 1: for how Stuff Works. UM. Also Josh and Chuck of

1186
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 1: Stuff you Should Know have their own line of shirts

1187
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:26,640
Speaker 1: that I believe you can access through Stuff you Should

1188
01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:29,600
Speaker 1: Know dot com. But if all of you out there

1189
01:02:29,720 --> 01:02:33,000
Speaker 1: have been dying for tech stuff merchandise, let us know, well,

1190
01:02:33,080 --> 01:02:36,320
Speaker 1: will at least let people know about it, and you know,

1191
01:02:36,360 --> 01:02:39,600
Speaker 1: we can't make any promises, but I mean, come on, guys,

1192
01:02:39,640 --> 01:02:41,080
Speaker 1: you know me, I'm not going to be upset if

1193
01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:44,280
Speaker 1: my face is plastered on shirts out there. I don't

1194
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:45,760
Speaker 1: I don't know if I want my face on a

1195
01:02:45,800 --> 01:02:48,800
Speaker 1: shirt not. Okay, that's that way. It could be like

1196
01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:50,760
Speaker 1: a picture, as if someone were standing in the doorway

1197
01:02:50,760 --> 01:02:56,200
Speaker 1: and taking a photo of the podcast room. Alright, So well,

1198
01:02:56,240 --> 01:02:58,600
Speaker 1: you know we've got one last pair of questions. But

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01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:01,200
Speaker 1: before we get to that, I think a certain Josh

1200
01:03:01,200 --> 01:03:03,400
Speaker 1: and Chuck wanted to say something. Yeah, speaking to those

1201
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:07,880
Speaker 1: crazy kids. Hey, this is Josh from Stuff. You should know.

1202
01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:10,600
Speaker 1: Chuck can't be here, but he asked me to speak

1203
01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:12,800
Speaker 1: on his behalf as well, which I'm happy to do.

1204
01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:15,600
Speaker 1: And we just want to throw in our two cents

1205
01:03:15,640 --> 01:03:19,520
Speaker 1: about how grateful we are to tex Stuff for even

1206
01:03:19,560 --> 01:03:23,280
Speaker 1: being in existence. I remember back in the days when

1207
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:26,240
Speaker 1: it was Jonathan and Chris and that was wonderful, and

1208
01:03:26,280 --> 01:03:30,680
Speaker 1: then now it's Jonathan and Lauren and it's just better

1209
01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:33,680
Speaker 1: than ever. You guys are doing so great, uh, and

1210
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:36,720
Speaker 1: we are just so thankful to you guys. You know,

1211
01:03:36,800 --> 01:03:40,800
Speaker 1: before tech stuff came along, Chuck thought everything was magic.

1212
01:03:41,240 --> 01:03:44,360
Speaker 1: He used to refer to his phone as his little

1213
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:48,040
Speaker 1: magic box, and he's quite serious at the time. Um Me,

1214
01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:51,880
Speaker 1: being married to a woman of Japanese descent, I'm familiarush

1215
01:03:52,160 --> 01:03:55,120
Speaker 1: with technology and I realized it's not magic. But I

1216
01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:59,440
Speaker 1: never realized just how intricate our modern world is until

1217
01:03:59,840 --> 01:04:05,160
Speaker 1: I was introduced to tech stuff and everything changed. So um,

1218
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:07,680
Speaker 1: thank you very much, you guys. And also I want

1219
01:04:07,680 --> 01:04:11,240
Speaker 1: to point out I don't think it's necessarily a coincidence.

1220
01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:14,240
Speaker 1: Do you that before tech stuff came along, there was

1221
01:04:14,280 --> 01:04:16,760
Speaker 1: no such thing as the iPhone. There was no such

1222
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:19,720
Speaker 1: thing as three D printing. Really, uh, there is no

1223
01:04:19,800 --> 01:04:23,560
Speaker 1: such thing as four K definition television. If some may

1224
01:04:23,600 --> 01:04:26,840
Speaker 1: say that they just happened to not really be correlated,

1225
01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:31,120
Speaker 1: but I would say that they are definitely correlated, if

1226
01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:34,320
Speaker 1: not cause aided, which is a word. But thank you

1227
01:04:34,320 --> 01:04:38,440
Speaker 1: you guys, and congratulations, this is fantastic. Congratulations on your

1228
01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 1: six hundredth episode. Celebrate it, relaship, enjoy it. Congratulations guys,

1229
01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:49,400
Speaker 1: Thanks guys. Now Josh and Chuck, of course they had

1230
01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:52,240
Speaker 1: their six hundredth episode already. They Stuff, you should know,

1231
01:04:52,760 --> 01:04:55,760
Speaker 1: started recording before tech Stuff did a couple of months before,

1232
01:04:56,160 --> 01:04:59,000
Speaker 1: so they're ahead of us quite a bit in more

1233
01:04:59,040 --> 01:05:02,120
Speaker 1: ways than one, but they are. They're amazing guys. And

1234
01:05:02,160 --> 01:05:04,120
Speaker 1: if you have not listened to stuff, you should know

1235
01:05:04,760 --> 01:05:07,040
Speaker 1: you've got to listen to it. Then you really do.

1236
01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:09,440
Speaker 1: First of all, I don't know what rock you have

1237
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:12,480
Speaker 1: been living under, but um, it's probably been a fabulous vacation.

1238
01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:14,000
Speaker 1: But it's time. It's time to listen to that show.

1239
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:16,160
Speaker 1: It's great and and they are genuinely just two of

1240
01:05:16,200 --> 01:05:19,600
Speaker 1: the nicest Rattus dudes. Um. When Jonathan and I took

1241
01:05:19,600 --> 01:05:22,320
Speaker 1: a took a work trip up to Discovery corporate headquarters,

1242
01:05:22,440 --> 01:05:26,720
Speaker 1: Chuck was very much my ambassador through through that very

1243
01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:30,280
Speaker 1: strange experience, and and he was just awesome the entire time.

1244
01:05:30,520 --> 01:05:32,480
Speaker 1: Not that Josh wasn't, but I didn't have as much

1245
01:05:32,480 --> 01:05:36,320
Speaker 1: personal contact. The neat thing is they're very laid back,

1246
01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:40,760
Speaker 1: very relaxed. Uh, And they're relaxed whether they're interacting with fans,

1247
01:05:40,880 --> 01:05:44,480
Speaker 1: with their coworkers or with celebrities. I mean, they've got

1248
01:05:44,480 --> 01:05:48,400
Speaker 1: celebrity fans that they've met and hung out with, and

1249
01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:50,560
Speaker 1: they're really cool guys. I don't know if we have

1250
01:05:50,600 --> 01:05:52,680
Speaker 1: any celebrity fans, but to me. You guys are all

1251
01:05:52,720 --> 01:05:56,840
Speaker 1: celebrities because you're awesome. So whether whether you have a

1252
01:05:56,920 --> 01:05:59,760
Speaker 1: show or you just like to listen to them, we

1253
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:03,320
Speaker 1: love you. And finally, from Rogilio on Facebook, we have

1254
01:06:03,360 --> 01:06:06,439
Speaker 1: our our last question. What is the most exciting part

1255
01:06:06,480 --> 01:06:11,800
Speaker 1: of the recording process? I think when I say, um,

1256
01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:14,520
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you again really soon, and we hear

1257
01:06:14,640 --> 01:06:18,120
Speaker 1: the little clicking button from KNOWL saying that the recording

1258
01:06:18,160 --> 01:06:20,560
Speaker 1: has stopped and we have finished our final recording of

1259
01:06:20,600 --> 01:06:23,680
Speaker 1: the day, and it means we can leave, that might

1260
01:06:23,760 --> 01:06:26,400
Speaker 1: be it. Yeah, it depends on your on your definition

1261
01:06:26,520 --> 01:06:30,320
Speaker 1: of the word exciting. Um, I mean, if you're talking

1262
01:06:30,360 --> 01:06:35,480
Speaker 1: about like terror of performance, that's pretty exciting. Oh I do.

1263
01:06:35,640 --> 01:06:37,600
Speaker 1: I do. It's I mean not not like every day

1264
01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:41,400
Speaker 1: and not the same like kind of physically shaking terror

1265
01:06:41,400 --> 01:06:44,280
Speaker 1: that that I got for the first couple of weeks there.

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Speaker 1: But but you know, I still get nervous basically every

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Speaker 1: It'll it'll gradually wear off. But but no, I mean

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Speaker 1: it's like like I was saying kind of near the

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Speaker 1: top of the episode, UM, just just getting to learn

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Speaker 1: stuff that I never even knew existed, let alone how

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Speaker 1: it worked, and then getting to share that with all

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Speaker 1: of you guys, and furthermore getting to hear back from you,

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Speaker 1: um is amazing and beautiful. Yeah, they they to be

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Speaker 1: really honest about exciting. The thing I find really exciting

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Speaker 1: is when we have a topic that neither of us

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Speaker 1: really good, fascinating and multi tiered and yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: even stuff that on the surface seems simple and you're like,

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Speaker 1: how are we going to make how refrigerators work an

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Speaker 1: interesting podcast? But as you start talking about like, no,

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Speaker 1: this this physics stuff, it's amazing you started to learn

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Speaker 1: elegant and beautiful system learning how the universe works and

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Speaker 1: how we work within it is uh constantly a really

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Speaker 1: high motivator for us, so as is our interaction with

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Speaker 1: you guys. So that leads us to our question for you,

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Speaker 1: which is that, now that we've done six hundred episodes,

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Speaker 1: wants something you would like to see from us in

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Speaker 1: the future. Are their particular style shows that you've always

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Speaker 1: wanted us to do but maybe we haven't. Maybe that

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Speaker 1: interview style show is something you've always wanted, Or maybe

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Speaker 1: there's some other form of topic that we've never tackled

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Speaker 1: that you think is right for a tech Stuff episode.

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Speaker 1: Or maybe you're just saying, look, we want the Jonathan

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Speaker 1: and Lauren t shirts already. Let us know, send us

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Speaker 1: a message. You can let us know on email or

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Speaker 1: addresses tech Stuff at Discovery dot com, or drops a

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Speaker 1: line on Facebook, Twitter or Tumbler or handle it. All

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Speaker 1: three is tech stuff hs W and Lauren and I

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Speaker 1: will talk to you again, who knows, maybe another six

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Speaker 1: hundred times really soon for more on this and bathands

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Speaker 1: of other topics, because it has staff works dot com