00:00SPEAKERMy daughter is almost nine. We started watching The Simpsons.
00:03SPEAKERWhoa. How old was she when The Simpsons debuted?
00:07SPEAKERNegative 30 something.
00:09SPEAKERNegative, wow. Geez, is it really that old?
00:12SPEAKERThey're on the 38th season, I believe now.
00:14SPEAKERYou can't be serious. That is not a real number as pertains to seasons of television.
00:19SPEAKERI am pretty sure that The Simpsons, I think I saw a notification in Disney when I was
00:24SPEAKERwatching The Simpsons with her, the 33 seasons.
00:27SPEAKERThat's still too many. I mean, hey, no, you know,
00:30SPEAKERnothing against anybody who still enjoys The Simpsons, but that's kind of a lot of Simpsons.
00:34SPEAKERWe started at the beginning.
00:35SPEAKEROkay, wow, really?
00:36SPEAKERWell, we didn't start at Tracy Ellman Show because they're too hard to find,
00:38SPEAKERbut we started at the first episode.
00:40SPEAKERNo kidding. The Santa's Little Helper, the racetrack,
00:43SPEAKERthe Homer spent, the families, the gift money.
00:46SPEAKERYeah. We had to skip that one because of stuff.
00:49SPEAKERAt the racetrack.
00:50SPEAKEROkay.
00:51SPEAKERWe started the second episode, that's technically then.
00:54SPEAKERWhat is that one?
00:56SPEAKERIs it part of the general maybe?
00:58SPEAKERIt's one of those early ones. Look, we've been doing this for a while now.
01:02SPEAKERSo like we're, I don't know, we're starting the second midway through the second season
01:07SPEAKERat this point, I guess.
01:08SPEAKEROkay. How's she taken to it? Because in my mind, I mean, I love the early Simpsons, but
01:12SPEAKERit's probably pretty dated at this point.
01:15SPEAKEROkay. So there are some pretty horny episodes early on, like the one where Marge dates,
01:20SPEAKERlike goes out with the bowling instructor, the Homer bowling ball one.
01:23SPEAKERWhat?
01:24SPEAKERYeah. Remember Homer gets Marge, Homer wakes up in the morning, forgets it's Marge's birthday,
01:28SPEAKERgoes out and buys a bowling ball, has Homer inscribed in the bowling ball.
01:32SPEAKEROkay. Yes.
01:34SPEAKERAnd then she meets the French bowling instructor.
01:37SPEAKERI had to explain some shit there.
01:38SPEAKERI'm sure.
01:39SPEAKERYeah.
01:41SPEAKERI'm going to go and tell you when I say, "Hey, kiddo, do you want to watch the Simpsons?"
01:44SPEAKERThe answer always, yes.
01:46SPEAKERThis doesn't mean that mommy or daddy or the bowling ball love you any less.
01:50SPEAKERUh-huh. It holds up. Okay. So there's some stuff. There's some weird sexist stuff
01:57SPEAKERthat's around what it was like to work in a blue collar job, like a shop job in the '80s and '90s.
02:05SPEAKEROkay. Not self-aware.
02:07SPEAKERNot self-aware. It's not funny. It's like Homer looking at a scantily clad woman in a magazine
02:14SPEAKERwhile he's sitting at the lunch counter at the nuclear power plant going, "Ooga."
02:17SPEAKERAnd he doesn't have the wolf eyes, but it's close.
02:20SPEAKERHe was always portrayed as pretty boorish though, right?
02:24SPEAKERBut the later depictions are less that kind of boorish and more...
02:32SPEAKERHe transforms from boorish to buffoon midway through the second season, it seems like.
02:38SPEAKERYeah. What about... Are there just rotary phones everywhere, phone booths?
02:41SPEAKERLike, I'm trying to... Why is everything about a phone?
02:43SPEAKERBut I'm trying to think CRTs, like what...
02:46SPEAKEROh, yeah. It's all CRTs, of course.
02:47SPEAKERI know. I'm just trying to think what your daughter might be baffled by.
02:52SPEAKERBrad, my daughter had to go to the office at school and call to come home the other
02:55SPEAKERday from school because she wasn't feeling well. She'd never used a phone that was
02:59SPEAKERattached to a thing on the desk before.
03:01SPEAKERWhat?
03:02SPEAKERYeah. She was like, "I didn't know how to use it at first. Patty had to show me."
03:07SPEAKERShe said what kind of phone it was, like Touch Tone?
03:09SPEAKERIt's like your... You remember you had a phone at your desk at work?
03:13SPEAKERIt's one of those. It's like a corporate PBX phone.
03:15SPEAKERYes. Okay.
03:16SPEAKERYeah. Second episode is Bart the Genius. Which, actually, thinking back now about what the
03:23SPEAKERgifted program was like in my school, at least, really spoke to me in a way that she didn't
03:30SPEAKERunderstand because they don't do that stuff anymore.
03:31SPEAKERDo they not really?
03:32SPEAKERNo. There's no... If you're a smart kid in your classroom, the teacher just gives you
03:39SPEAKERmore stuff to do in the classroom. They don't send you to a special prison for the smart, weird kids.
03:46SPEAKERBut anyway, Simpsons is good.
04:16SPEAKERWelcome to Brad and Will Made a Tech Pod. I'm Will.
04:19SPEAKERI am Brad. Hello, Will.
04:21SPEAKERHello, Brad.
04:22SPEAKERHi.
04:23SPEAKERSo this is gonna be a weird episode. Let me just say it up front.
04:26SPEAKERWait. Dude, you can't pull back the curtain. What are you doing?
04:28SPEAKERWhat? No. The people in the Discord know. We told them this morning.
04:32SPEAKERYeah, but they're on the inside.
04:34SPEAKEROkay. Okay.
04:35SPEAKERThey're the VIPs, the insiders. They've got the forbidden knowledge about how this particular
04:40SPEAKERsausage is made. Can't tell the world, though.
04:43SPEAKERLook, this is gonna be a perfectly normal episode. Okay.
04:46SPEAKERWe definitely have...
04:46SPEAKERNothing strange at all. Everything's gonna be fine.
04:49SPEAKERDefinitely have this topic in mind for at least two weeks and have planned for it.
04:52SPEAKERLook, in reality, this topic has been lingering over my head for the... I moved into this house
05:02SPEAKERin 2007.
05:03SPEAKEROkay.
05:05SPEAKERThis is the longest I've lived anywhere that wasn't the house that I grew up in as a child.
05:08SPEAKERThat was a... Hang on, I'm trying to think. 2008, man, that was a hell of a time to acquire a home.
05:15SPEAKERI bought a house at a real bad time, it turns out.
05:17SPEAKERI guess we won't get into that, but man, that was... Boy.
05:19SPEAKERLet me put it this way. My house was worth significantly less than I paid for it
05:23SPEAKERright up until the time we sold Whiskey Media.
05:25SPEAKERThat was about the time I got back out from underwater.
05:28SPEAKERYeah, I was gonna say, they call that underwater. I bet that was a fun time.
05:32SPEAKERIt was not great. I was paying a lot for a loan. I had a terrible interest rate,
05:35SPEAKERand I didn't know how to get my money back ever. So yeah.
05:38SPEAKERWell, you just have to have faith though, right? That it will rebound eventually.
05:43SPEAKERYou say that, but when you're in a market... Literally, the only thing that saved us was
05:50SPEAKERthe house didn't show well, the people who had... They didn't pay for staging,
05:55SPEAKERwhich you have to do here apparently, and it didn't show well. And as a result,
05:58SPEAKERI came in and we were the only people that had made an offer that was real for a long time,
06:03SPEAKERand we offered 100 grand under what they were asking and that saved us.
06:06SPEAKERUnder?
06:06SPEAKERYeah, under.
06:07SPEAKERWow, man.
06:08SPEAKERIt's a different time in 2000.
06:09SPEAKERI was gonna say, yeah, that's... What is... Is staging literally just gussying up
06:13SPEAKERthe property to make it show well?
06:14SPEAKERNo, staging... It depends. Here, staging means they take all of your shit out and
06:20SPEAKERput it in storage and they put in shit that people are gonna wanna... That makes
06:23SPEAKERpeople wanna buy the house. Aspirational furniture.
06:27SPEAKERYeah, yeah.
06:28SPEAKERBut they also do things... I feel like they also do things that are really weird,
06:31SPEAKERlike use slightly smaller beds and stuff like that, so the rooms look bigger.
06:36SPEAKERIt's a Potemkin house.
06:38SPEAKERYeah, it's a house of lies, exactly. Anyway, yeah, so the problem is California houses
06:45SPEAKERdon't have storage. There's no closets. There's the minimum number of closets required by law
06:51SPEAKERto be counted as a bedroom, usually.
06:54SPEAKERWait, that factors into what counts as a bedroom?
06:57SPEAKERYeah, bedrooms have to have windows and closets.
06:59SPEAKERThere's closet legislation in California?
07:01SPEAKERIt's zoning, but yeah.
07:02SPEAKEROkay.
07:03SPEAKERSo in order for a room to count as a bedroom, it has to have a closet, it has to have a window.
07:08SPEAKERIt has two points of egress. I guess it could have two doors, but usually it has a closet
07:12SPEAKERand a window. So without that closet, not a bedroom. It's just an extra room that is
07:17SPEAKERvalueless for your home's valuation. So what ends up happening is you have a bunch of...
07:27SPEAKEREach of the rooms in our house has a closet that's about three feet wide, goes from floor
07:31SPEAKERto ceiling. It's got stuff to hang. And then there's some shelves above that go all the
07:37SPEAKERway back to the back wall and are almost impossible to use. So for example, the ones in my office
07:42SPEAKERare full of board games, which is great. It's a good place to put board games. It's a little
07:46SPEAKERhard to get to.
07:47SPEAKERSo I'm guessing the depth of these closets is about the width of a shirt?
07:52SPEAKERYeah, the depth of these closets is the width of a hanger plus a little bit.
07:56SPEAKERAnd also because these houses were built, the house that we live in specifically is built
07:59SPEAKERin the 50s. Most of the interior walls are single wall construction. So that means instead
08:05SPEAKERof it being like a stud and some sheet rock and some more sheet rock, it's just a stud
08:12SPEAKERand some sheet rock. And then you can see the stud when you're inside the closet.
08:16SPEAKERWow.
08:17SPEAKERIt's real weird.
08:18SPEAKERHuh. Okay.
08:19SPEAKERYeah. I'd never seen anything like this before when we bought this house. So anyway.
08:23SPEAKERYeah. What's the upshot of all this is?
08:25SPEAKERThe upshot is we've accumulated a lot of crap. And when my daughter was born, we got rid
08:29SPEAKERof a lot. We were like, we need to clear every as much out as we can. And we decluttered.
08:34SPEAKERWe got rid of a bunch of stuff. The room that is her room now had bookshelves, tons of bookshelves
08:41SPEAKERin it. We had every book we'd ever bought, I think, probably in there minus some college
08:45SPEAKERtextbooks.
08:46SPEAKERIt was a library.
08:47SPEAKERIt's a library. It had the guest futon that haunted me for years until we gave it away.
08:53SPEAKERIt's my wife's futon when I met her. Awful. And it was Chloe's room. It was the dog's
08:58SPEAKERroom. She had her crate was in there and that was where she would go. And she wanted a little
09:01SPEAKERquiet time. We donated all the books to the San Francisco public library where people
09:06SPEAKERall around the Bay area bought them in used book sales to fund the library, which was
09:10SPEAKERgreat. Chloe's crate is folded up in the garage because Chloe let loose the mortal coil a
09:17SPEAKERcouple of years ago, rip Chloe. And we gave the futon to our cleaning lady who was very
09:23SPEAKERexcited about it and did not realize that it was going to be a boondoggle for several
09:27SPEAKERyears at least.
09:28SPEAKERIs the futon cursed?
09:30SPEAKERI mean, okay. It's a really nice futon. And if you know what a really nice, what that
09:35SPEAKERmeans is it means that the mattress weighs about a million pounds and has absolutely
09:40SPEAKERno structure whatsoever. It's just really, really dense and hard to move. And if you
09:46SPEAKERhave to wash the cover one time, Chloe peed on the futon cause she didn't like the futon
09:50SPEAKEReither. So we had to take it off, take the cover off. And like, like that was, that was
09:57SPEAKERlook, I have a, I feel like my marriage is pretty healthy. We get along with each other
10:01SPEAKERreally well. That was one of the main sources of stress. That futon was one of the main
10:05SPEAKERsources of stress and stress in our relationship for a long time.
10:08SPEAKERThe peeing, the peeing incident was a low point.
10:10SPEAKERThe peeing, having to take the cover off, wash the cover, the cover shrank a little
10:14SPEAKERbit. So getting it back on was much harder. I'm going to say I was so happy when that
10:20SPEAKERfucking futon left the house. It was a very good day for me. So I'm channeling that day.
10:27SPEAKERAnd I want to get rid of some stuff.
10:29SPEAKERAll right. I was just going to say, I think futons always seem like a good idea. And then
10:32SPEAKERyou get one.
10:34SPEAKERI mean, in Gina's defense, when she bought the futon, she was like 18 years old. So like,
10:37SPEAKERyes, it wasn't. Yeah.
10:39SPEAKERIt's that age. There are some uses for futon anyway.
10:42SPEAKERWell, it's nice to have it. Like you think, man, it's going to be great to have a bed
10:46SPEAKERthat converts into a sofa. That's fantastic for a guest room because I have a place to
10:49SPEAKERgo hang out and lay down and read. The problem is it's not, it's an awful sofa.
10:52SPEAKERYes. It's yes. It's a Jack of Jack of both trades, master of neither.
10:56SPEAKERYeah. And it's not a particularly comfortable bed usually. So anyway.
11:00SPEAKERYes. Never buy combo anything. No TV VCRs.
11:05SPEAKERNope. No combos.
11:06SPEAKERNo couch beds.
11:07SPEAKERWas that, did your dad, my dad was adamant that you never buy combo, combo stuff.
11:13SPEAKERNo, we never had them, but I don't think it was a philosophy. I don't think my parents
11:16SPEAKERthought about it that much. We just luckily avoided them.
11:19SPEAKERLike I wasn't, I wasn't allowed, but I wanted a hi-fi. I wasn't allowed to get one of those
11:22SPEAKERall in one units with like the CD player and the record player and the tape. I had to get
11:26SPEAKERthe individual components.
11:27SPEAKERThat's smart. That's spoken like someone who is used to repairing their things.
11:32SPEAKERMaybe. Maybe. So yeah, like the bad thing about this is that you having gotten rid of
11:38SPEAKERnow of a chair and some monitors are the best person I know at getting rid of things.
11:42SPEAKERAre you baiting me?
11:43SPEAKERWhat? I wouldn't do that.
11:44SPEAKERWas that bait?
11:45SPEAKERNo, why would I, why would you suggest that? That's a horrible thing to say.
11:48SPEAKERThe chair is gone. The chair has been gone for the better part of a month.
11:52SPEAKEROkay. Congratulations.
11:53SPEAKERThank you.
11:54SPEAKERWhat about the monitors are gone though too, right?
11:55SPEAKERMonitors. Oh no.
11:57SPEAKERI want, we talked about this. I want the monitors to be gone. I just, I don't want them to go
12:02SPEAKERto waste and I don't want them to be waste. If that makes sense.
12:05SPEAKERI gave you a three step plan.
12:07SPEAKERYeah.
12:09SPEAKERStep one, pick them up. Step two, carry them downstairs. Step three, set them on the sidewalk.
12:13SPEAKERNo, I mean, obviously that's the, that's the easy route. That's the coward's way out.
12:16SPEAKERThat's, that's, that's what we call electronics waste recycling here.
12:19SPEAKERDid I tell you, I was on a walk like a month ago, three weeks ago coming back about a block
12:25SPEAKERaway from my house. Somebody was doing exactly that. They were dumping a bunch of stuff on
12:29SPEAKERthe sidewalk. One of the things they dumped was an original Pentium, like a full PC.
12:34SPEAKERWow. Did you grab it?
12:35SPEAKERIt had, I almost did. I wish I had, it had the side off so I could look in
12:38SPEAKERthere and see exactly what it was.
12:39SPEAKERDid it have a heat sink?
12:41SPEAKERNo, it was one of the, it was one of the original ceramic package Pentiums.
12:45SPEAKERSo it's like a 60 or 75.
12:47SPEAKERProbably, maybe a 90, maybe a hundred.
12:49SPEAKERI think the nineties had heat sinks, didn't they?
12:51SPEAKERAh, you might be right.
12:54SPEAKEROh man. You should have gotten that and put DOS on it. The X-wing on that thing.
12:57SPEAKERRight. We had a 75 and it did not have, it was one of these ceramics. So.
13:01SPEAKERDid they have a monitor too?
13:02SPEAKERNo, it was literally a case without the side, just laying there on the sidewalk. Like I
13:06SPEAKERthought about it. There's no guarantee it would work.
13:09SPEAKERYou just put it back on the sidewalk.
13:10SPEAKERAlso, like a really, I mean, that's kind of what this episode is about though. I don't
13:14SPEAKERneed to bring more things into the house. We're here to talk about taking things out of the house
13:18SPEAKERand never seeing them again.
13:21SPEAKERYeah. So like as, as I'm embarking on this process again, I was thinking about how good
13:29SPEAKERit felt. Like I'm, I liked the way I got rid of my books. Like I loved my books and I loved
13:33SPEAKERreading, but realistically we don't have a place for them. And I wasn't, I didn't want
13:38SPEAKERto spend money to store them. Cause that's you like really quickly. I would have ended
13:41SPEAKERup getting back to the purchase price. And realistically I bought everything that I wanted
13:45SPEAKERto read on digital. That was in that early collection that I wanted to read it. So like,
13:50SPEAKERI have, I bought, re-bought Neuromancer. I re-bought my Stevenson books and the stuff
13:54SPEAKERthat I tend to revisit. So it felt good to send them off someplace where other people
14:00SPEAKERwould use them and that the, the, that, that process would benefit the library. And I'm,
14:05SPEAKERI'm curious, like, I'm curious from the audience, if there are other places like
14:09SPEAKERthat, that I can do with like electronic, like I have a bunch of electronic stuff that's
14:13SPEAKERof value to someone I'm sure, but it's like, I don't need it. And like, can I, can I,
14:20SPEAKERis there someplace, is there a good home for my cable box?
14:26SPEAKERYou know, we all have them, right? I have a big Tupperware Rubbermaid bin.
14:31SPEAKERThat's just like, Hey man, here are some cables.
14:34SPEAKERIf you had said, Oh, Oh, that kind of cable box. I'm sorry. I was, I thought you were
14:37SPEAKERtalking about like the cable box from your cable company that you get TV through.
14:41SPEAKERNo, they yell at you until you bring that back.
14:43SPEAKERYes. That's me how I know.
14:44SPEAKERThat's fair. Oh, cables compress well enough. I think you shouldn't. Cables fall into that
14:49SPEAKERcategory for me of, I might need these someday. And there's actual value in that as opposed
14:54SPEAKERto, I might need these someday and there's no way that's actually going to happen.
14:58SPEAKERLet me introduce you to this. There's a website it's called amazon.com.
15:02SPEAKERIn about six hours, you can get any cable you want to leave your house.
15:07SPEAKERIf you can organize and compress those cables sufficiently. I think there's an argument for
15:11SPEAKERhaving it on hand as opposed to waiting like in the, in the, in the most extravagant shipping
15:18SPEAKERscenario possible, you might be able to get it same day, but like that's, there's all
15:21SPEAKERkinds of ethical considerations around using Amazon that way, let alone that probably 90%
15:26SPEAKERof their customer base doesn't even have that option. Like, sometimes being able to reach
15:30SPEAKERinto the drawer and finding like a HDMI to DVI adapter right then and there is superior
15:38SPEAKERto waiting until tomorrow.
15:39SPEAKEROkay. So let's make let's let's so here's my, here's my question to you then. Can we
15:44SPEAKERmake a list of the cables that I need to keep on hand? Like the onesies, the like one or
15:50SPEAKERtwo of each, right? Like HDMI, right? USB A to USB C. Well, yeah, like A to all of the
16:02SPEAKERend points, right? A to wide A.
16:05SPEAKERI would say I would, I hadn't really ever thought this through before, but I'm starting
16:09SPEAKERto realize I might have kind of a Noah's Ark perspective on this whole thing, which is
16:12SPEAKERthat you should have two of each kind, like let's say, yes, no, I'm not trying to breed
16:18SPEAKERUSB cables. I promise. But yeah, I would say like, you know, micro to A, mini to A, USB
16:27SPEAKERC to A, like those kinds of configurations, I would say like have two of each of those
16:31SPEAKERat least.
16:32SPEAKERWell, I mean, so those are still an active use around the house, maybe less than mini
16:36SPEAKERat this point, but the micro and the C are definitely in regular use. So I feel like
16:41SPEAKERthat there's definitely some around because like I have a charging stations at three places
16:45SPEAKERin the house with like a micro and a lightning cable and a C cable.
16:49SPEAKERYeah, but don't write out standards that you haven't used in say five to 10 years because
16:53SPEAKERlike, for example, mini USB, like the PlayStation Move controller still use that.
16:57SPEAKERI have a PlayStation Move controller dock that I just set those in when I needed to charge
17:01SPEAKERthem.
17:01SPEAKEROkay, well, if you want to get fancy.
17:03SPEAKERI mean, also, when was the last time you used your PlayStation Move controllers, Brad?
17:09SPEAKERAh, it's like the PlayStation VR is still a thing.
17:12SPEAKEREvery time I need a Move controller, pretty much I have to replace the battery in one.
17:16SPEAKERThat's fair.
17:16SPEAKERThat's been my experience with the Move controllers. But I do keep minis because my Wii U Pro controller
17:23SPEAKERuses the mini micro.
17:28SPEAKERSo I have three drawers. This would play better if we had video, but I've got an audio drawer,
17:33SPEAKERa video/USB drawer, and a power drawer. That's my cable situation.
17:38SPEAKERThat's exactly, I have the same drawer situation.
17:40SPEAKERWow.
17:41SPEAKERWell, I have one for XLR cables too.
17:42SPEAKERGreat minds, I suppose. Wait, those go in the audio drawer.
17:45SPEAKERWell, they're too big for the audio drawer because they're long.
17:49SPEAKERI have two 20-foot XLR cables that just like lay flat and they take up a whole drawer.
17:54SPEAKERCables, I don't know, cables almost feel like a separate conversation here because they
17:58SPEAKERdo have so much utility when you end up in one of those weird situations where you need them.
18:02SPEAKERBut like, do you have RCA cables still?
18:04SPEAKERI've got a couple sets, yeah.
18:06SPEAKEROkay, what about S-video?
18:08SPEAKERJust in case.
18:08SPEAKERYeah, I've got a couple S-video cables.
18:10SPEAKERYou got a SCART?
18:11SPEAKERNo. Well, SCART was never a big thing here, so.
18:14SPEAKERYou got components? I mean, they're just RCA cables.
18:17SPEAKERYes. Yeah, but when you're talking about consoles, those were mostly proprietary.
18:21SPEAKERWhat about a VGA to BNC component?
18:24SPEAKERI absolutely do.
18:26SPEAKERYeah, I have one of those too.
18:27SPEAKERThat one I'm probably not going to get rid of because they're really hard to get.
18:30SPEAKERThose are like genuinely like probably kind of expensive and rare.
18:34SPEAKERBut I have the CRT monitor that use BNC connectors is in my parents' basement and
18:38SPEAKERone day I will reunite that cable and that monitor.
18:42SPEAKERI have a 19-inch CRT in my garage.
18:47SPEAKERNot sure what I should do about that.
18:50SPEAKERI feel like I should not get rid of that. That feels like a thing I'm going to want.
18:53SPEAKERThe moment I get rid of it.
18:54SPEAKERIf you have any capacity to hang on to a CRT at this point, I would say do it.
18:59SPEAKERI mean, that speaks to my hobbyists proclivities, I guess, because I'm into old games a lot.
19:06SPEAKERBut we talked to Mike Micah about it last year, right?
19:09SPEAKERLike CRTs are not getting more common.
19:13SPEAKERThere's a finite supply of CRTs in the world.
19:15SPEAKERYeah. One day they'll all be gone.
19:17SPEAKERGranted, like probably not that hard to get your hands on other CRTs.
19:20SPEAKERLike there's still plenty of them just being given away.
19:22SPEAKERThat's true.
19:23SPEAKERBut if you've got a decent one, what is it?
19:26SPEAKERIt's like a sharp. It's nothing great, but it's fine.
19:28SPEAKERIt's like a sharp 19 inch TV.
19:30SPEAKEROh, it's a TV?
19:32SPEAKERSDTV.
19:32SPEAKERLike what era are we talking?
19:34SPEAKERMid 90s.
19:35SPEAKEROkay. That's probably a good Mr. Console. I mean, good Mr. TV.
19:40SPEAKERIt is the TV on which I played SNES and NES games in college.
19:46SPEAKER19 inch is pretty small.
19:48SPEAKERYou know, you say that and you think 19 inch is pretty small, but it takes up a shelf.
19:53SPEAKERIt goes deep.
19:56SPEAKERMaybe you're not the right person to talk about how to get rid of stuff, Brad.
19:59SPEAKERThat's what I'm beginning to consider.
20:01SPEAKERI've gotten rid of a lot of stuff.
20:02SPEAKERSo what do you do with paperwork?
20:04SPEAKERDo you keep like tax stuff?
20:06SPEAKERLike do you have a file cabinet someplace?
20:08SPEAKERDo you keep that stuff?
20:09SPEAKERI have kind of like a file box, like a big plastic file box.
20:12SPEAKERYou can kind of hang folders inside of it.
20:14SPEAKERYeah. Is it all nicely organized?
20:15SPEAKERYou just kind of chuck stuff in there when you have a keeper?
20:18SPEAKERLike it's got probably 10, 15 years worth of paperwork in it.
20:21SPEAKERBut like at a certain point, like I don't have paper tax returns anymore, right?
20:25SPEAKERLike I file all that stuff digitally.
20:26SPEAKERSo yeah.
20:27SPEAKERSo you have my PDFs someplace.
20:28SPEAKERI have PDFs from the last several years of tax returns.
20:31SPEAKERAlso, like what's the IRS recommendation?
20:33SPEAKERI think it was seven, four or five, seven, something like that.
20:36SPEAKERFor businesses, it's four, but I don't know what the personal recommendation is.
20:40SPEAKERYou could probably lose most of that stuff.
20:42SPEAKERYeah.
20:43SPEAKERI'm kind of thinking about it, right?
20:44SPEAKERLike, like, I mean, I need to keep the car titles probably.
20:47SPEAKERThat seems important.
20:48SPEAKERYes.
20:49SPEAKERCar titles like house deed insurance.
20:52SPEAKERNo, I don't have the house deed.
20:53SPEAKEROh, does that have a mortgage?
20:54SPEAKERYeah, does deed not live with you?
20:56SPEAKERI don't think you get the deed.
20:57SPEAKERI'll tell you.
20:58SPEAKERI don't know.
20:58SPEAKERMaybe.
20:59SPEAKEROkay.
20:59SPEAKERInteresting.
21:00SPEAKERThese are things I should probably know.
21:01SPEAKERWhat do I know?
21:02SPEAKERTrust me, I don't know jack about buying a house.
21:05SPEAKERAnd insurance stuff is based on the way things are going.
21:08SPEAKERInsurance stuff we keep that's in the fire safe.
21:11SPEAKEROkay.
21:12SPEAKERBut then like, I also have a bunch of weird stuff.
21:14SPEAKERLike I have an old camcorder.
21:15SPEAKERIt's actually not that old.
21:16SPEAKERI bought it when I started streaming because I wanted something better than a webcam.
21:19SPEAKERAnd it was before we had like fancy streaming webcams or and mirrorless cameras were still
21:26SPEAKERtoo expensive.
21:27SPEAKERSo it's like a pretty good 1080p handy cam.
21:30SPEAKERI'll give that to my daughter.
21:31SPEAKERMaybe she let her make skate movies or something.
21:33SPEAKERYou probably have enough old iPhones around that are better than that camcorder for her
21:37SPEAKERto use, right?
21:38SPEAKERNo, well, this is another thing I realized a few years ago is that I always think, oh,
21:44SPEAKERI'm going to sell this iPhone and then I start looking at Craigslist and like the mortal
21:50SPEAKERperil that comes with selling a phone on Craigslist is such a lot.
21:54SPEAKERI do.
21:54SPEAKERI would not even want to.
21:56SPEAKERWell, and then I did the math on the iPhone upgrade bullshit.
21:59SPEAKERAnd it's just, it ends up being basically you end up even like, because if you sell
22:04SPEAKERan old phone for five or 600 bucks a year old phone, then that's what they give you
22:08SPEAKERin the trade in every year.
22:09SPEAKERAnd you might as well just do the upgrade program and pay it off, pay the thing.
22:14SPEAKERAnyway.
22:16SPEAKERCell phones are a bad one.
22:17SPEAKEROh, wow.
22:19SPEAKERThat's a spat stack.
22:20SPEAKERIs that a Windows phone in there?
22:21SPEAKERYes, that is.
22:22SPEAKERThat's the Windows phone you gave me.
22:23SPEAKEROh yeah.
22:24SPEAKERAnd there's an iPhone 3GS in there, a 3G in there, it looked like.
22:26SPEAKERYes, there was a 3G.
22:28SPEAKERI like the plastic back on that one.
22:30SPEAKERThat Windows phone is on its last attempt for me to put the security code into it before
22:35SPEAKERit wipes itself.
22:37SPEAKERWhy, why would, what happens if it wipes itself?
22:40SPEAKEROh, I mean, I have a lot of stuff on there.
22:41SPEAKERI don't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't have minded getting in there and seeing what was on there
22:46SPEAKERbefore I got rid of it or retired it.
22:49SPEAKERI'm not going to ask that question.
22:50SPEAKERI was going to ask if you don't use the same passcode on everything, but that tells something
22:53SPEAKERimportant about the passcodes I use.
22:55SPEAKERThat wouldn't, yeah.
22:56SPEAKERMaybe the less said about that, the better.
22:58SPEAKERThat one I had set to a shape, like a geometric pattern, not a number.
23:04SPEAKERSo yeah, that'll get you.
23:07SPEAKERThat data is probably gone.
23:09SPEAKERWhatever's on that phone is probably lost to time.
23:12SPEAKERYou know what though?
23:12SPEAKERIf you wait a few more years, probably somebody like the GPU power is increasing at such a
23:18SPEAKERrate that they'll probably just people to decrypt it in like 10 years.
23:20SPEAKERYeah.
23:21SPEAKERYou know, I, I cracked the password on an old zip file a year or two ago.
23:25SPEAKERYeah.
23:26SPEAKERTurned out to be like shockingly easy.
23:28SPEAKERYeah.
23:28SPEAKERIt turns out I can't, I don't remember the name of the utility I used to do it.
23:34SPEAKERAnd then there was some stuff involved with generating a dictionary, I think off of it
23:38SPEAKERor something like that.
23:39SPEAKERWas it like a brute force thing or did it just break the encryption?
23:41SPEAKERI think it was, I think it was maybe cracked is not the right word.
23:44SPEAKERI think it was a brute force.
23:45SPEAKEROkay.
23:46SPEAKEROh, that's cool.
23:47SPEAKERIt was like, I mean, granted this is a zip file from like 2001 or something, but it was
23:53SPEAKERlike shockingly fast how fast, how quickly it came up with the password.
23:56SPEAKERIt may have hashed it from something.
23:58SPEAKERMaybe it wasn't a brute force.
23:59SPEAKERI actually can't remember.
24:00SPEAKERSo, so anyway, like I went through and pulled all of my media, like all of my physical discs
24:09SPEAKERand I got rid of all the jewel cases and sleeves because that, that compresses like you can
24:15SPEAKERturn five boxes of Xbox games into like, you know, a briefcase size thing.
24:22SPEAKERIf you, if you just throw out all the manuals and the, and the boxes, sorry, video game
24:26SPEAKERpreservationists.
24:28SPEAKERConsolidating media, I think is the first step.
24:31SPEAKERDigitize everything you can, you know, throughout packaging.
24:35SPEAKERLike, do you have any video with that camcorder that you care about or is it just the camcorder
24:39SPEAKERitself?
24:39SPEAKERI literally just, I don't think I've ever recorded anything on that camcorder.
24:42SPEAKEROh, okay then.
24:44SPEAKERIt was just hooked up to a capture card for like two years.
24:47SPEAKERI see.
24:47SPEAKEROkay.
24:48SPEAKERCause I was going to say like stuff like, I think I've mentioned this before, stuff
24:51SPEAKERlike family and home movies, like old, old media, personal media on stuff like that.
24:56SPEAKERPrime candidate for digitizing and backing up somewhere.
24:59SPEAKERYeah, I did that.
25:00SPEAKERI did that a few years ago.
25:02SPEAKERI borrowed a camcorder from a friend and hooked up to the capture card and just ripped everything
25:08SPEAKERthat was on all the gold tapes, except I haven't been able to find a VHS-C to VHS adapter.
25:16SPEAKERThat was a price I was willing to pay.
25:17SPEAKERWhat is VHS-C?
25:18SPEAKERIt's like a half size.
25:19SPEAKERIt's like a compact VHS tape that was for palm size camcorders in the mid to late nineties.
25:25SPEAKERWow.
25:25SPEAKERI've never heard of that.
25:26SPEAKERThat's not as different for mini DV.
25:28SPEAKERIt's the same size.
25:29SPEAKERIt's the same thickness tape as VHS, but the cartridge is a lot smaller and holds less tape.
25:33SPEAKERInteresting.
25:34SPEAKERI've never heard of such a thing.
25:35SPEAKERYeah.
25:36SPEAKERAnd it's mechanically compatible with VHS.
25:38SPEAKERIf you put, you just put the, you put the tape in like a little, like you have a VHS
25:43SPEAKERtape looking thing that has a door in it.
25:44SPEAKERYou jam the desk in there.
25:45SPEAKERI see that.
25:46SPEAKERThat's weird.
25:48SPEAKERIt's like a VHS tape with a trap door in it.
25:51SPEAKERYeah.
25:51SPEAKERI think, I think Gina is in my trip to Chichen Itza is on that tape.
25:54SPEAKERAnd you know, I'm sure it's a lot of dark.
25:59SPEAKERIt was the first time I'd ever had a camcorder and I'm sure there's a lot of like climbing
26:04SPEAKERup dark moist stairways inside pyramids in the dark.
26:09SPEAKERTrying not to wipe out like, like that place was really, it wasn't OSHA compatible.
26:15SPEAKERNo, those staircases are really scary.
26:17SPEAKERWhat era is that from?
26:19SPEAKERLike mid nineties.
26:20SPEAKERNo, no, no.
26:20SPEAKERI mean, I mean, oh, Chichen Itza, the structures.
26:23SPEAKERThe Mayans built it, I think.
26:24SPEAKEROkay.
26:25SPEAKERSo, you know, pre, pre Western trips to, yeah.
26:31SPEAKERAnd as I recall, they built a pyramid on top of a pyramid.
26:35SPEAKERSo like when you, when we went up the, the, the tunnel inside the one pyramid, we were
26:40SPEAKERactually walking up the outside of an older pyramid that had been built underneath.
26:44SPEAKERThat was fascinating.
26:44SPEAKERBut it had been built on top of a previous civilization or.
26:48SPEAKERI think it was just the Mayans.
26:49SPEAKERI don't know.
26:49SPEAKERIt was like, I feel like a lot of that stuff was unclear the last time I looked at it.
26:53SPEAKERI don't know.
26:53SPEAKERSure.
26:54SPEAKERWell, that's a, you know, that's a piece of your history.
26:56SPEAKERYou don't want to lose that.
26:57SPEAKERYeah, no, I'd like to get that.
26:58SPEAKERLike I've saved that tape.
26:59SPEAKERYeah.
26:59SPEAKERDigitize everything you can and then burn the media.
27:03SPEAKERReally?
27:03SPEAKERBurn it?
27:03SPEAKERI feel like fumes, you know, not literally.
27:07SPEAKEROh, dispose of it in an ethical, environmentally friendly manner.
27:10SPEAKEROkay.
27:10SPEAKERSo then what do you do about bigger stuff?
27:12SPEAKERLike, what do you do about like, you know, like I have a bunch of Lego.
27:18SPEAKERHmm.
27:19SPEAKERYeah.
27:19SPEAKERYou have a Saturn five that I'm very jealous of.
27:21SPEAKERIt's Saturn fives up above the living room TV right now.
27:24SPEAKERThat one's assembled.
27:25SPEAKERBut like, like our thing on Lego is we'll build it and then we'll leave it up for a
27:29SPEAKERlittle bit where we look at it and kind of like the kiddo wants to play with it.
27:32SPEAKERShe can.
27:33SPEAKEROtherwise we just like, after like a month, we'll dust it off and take it apart, put it
27:37SPEAKERback in the box and put it in a Ziploc and put it in a box.
27:40SPEAKERI mean, I don't know.
27:42SPEAKERAsk yourself, like, what is the practical use of keeping that stuff around?
27:45SPEAKERIf you're not going to have it out on display.
27:46SPEAKERIf you don't think you're going to build it again.
27:48SPEAKEROh no, we build it again.
27:49SPEAKERWe go back and we revisit the builds.
27:52SPEAKERYeah.
27:53SPEAKERAs, as not a Lego person, I didn't realize, I guess that's kind of the point, right?
27:56SPEAKERLike the, yeah.
27:58SPEAKERIt's not like it's on the destination.
27:59SPEAKERIt's the building.
28:01SPEAKERYeah.
28:01SPEAKERLike it's so like for me, I like to do Lego for me is like, like doing a puzzle on a Saturday
28:06SPEAKERafternoon, right?
28:07SPEAKERLike you, it's a thing you can sit down with a group of people and people can kind of drop
28:10SPEAKERin and drop out and work together or not, whatever.
28:15SPEAKERAnd then at the end you have a cool thing you can kind of noodle around with for a little
28:18SPEAKERbit.
28:18SPEAKERYeah. I am super not acquainted with modern Lego.
28:21SPEAKERAnd so when I saw that Saturn five over your TV, I was like, I mean, it doesn't look like
28:25SPEAKERa toy.
28:25SPEAKERIt looks like a nice piece of decor.
28:27SPEAKERKind of like, I was shocked how much it just looks like a model of the Saturn five and
28:31SPEAKERnot like, like a chancy, like toy Lego version of it.
28:34SPEAKEROh dude, you should, you should, you, you, I think would really love like sitting down
28:40SPEAKERat the kitchen table and just putting some stuff together.
28:43SPEAKERLike it's, it is very satisfying in a, here's a thing that I can do with like, you know,
28:48SPEAKERwhen, when I didn't get this until Norman Gary years ago, like when we were, when we
28:52SPEAKERwere still in the basement at whiskey, we're like, Hey, you should come over.
28:56SPEAKERWe're going to build Lego at Gary's house.
28:57SPEAKERAnd I was like, Oh, I'm 35 years old.
29:00SPEAKEROh boy.
29:02SPEAKERAnd I went over cause you know, you know, fun social activity.
29:08SPEAKERAnd it was, it was awesome.
29:09SPEAKERLike it was just, it's just like it, your brain turns off for a little bit and it gives
29:13SPEAKERyou something to do with your hands.
29:14SPEAKERThe only problem with his Lego is kind of expensive, but yes, it sure is.
29:17SPEAKERI was going to get to that, but I'm sure I could see it.
29:19SPEAKERThat's kind of one of those flow state activities like painting or something.
29:21SPEAKERRight.
29:21SPEAKERWhere you just kind of like your mind kind of relaxes and you just get lost in the thing.
29:25SPEAKERYeah.
29:26SPEAKERYou just, you just kind of keep turning pages and you keep building or you build something
29:29SPEAKERoff the, off the book, whatever, whatever floats your boat.
29:32SPEAKERTurned that into content eventually.
29:33SPEAKERDidn't you?
29:34SPEAKEROh, look, everything's turning content eventually, Brad.
29:36SPEAKERYes.
29:36SPEAKERI know we've been over that.
29:38SPEAKERDid you ever, is it possible to do any of those builds without the instructions?
29:42SPEAKERDo people like try to fly blind and figure it out or is it that basically not feasible?
29:46SPEAKERUm, well, okay.
29:47SPEAKERThere are people definitely build stuff without the instructions to recreate one of the existing
29:52SPEAKERprojects.
29:53SPEAKERLike there, there are a few things that I've built enough times.
29:55SPEAKERProbably like I could probably, if you put me in front of a bag of TIE fighter parts,
30:00SPEAKERI could probably put the TIE fighter together.
30:01SPEAKERIf it was the one I'd done before, um, it would take me a while to figure out and it
30:06SPEAKERwould probably be wrong.
30:07SPEAKERLike, you know, air quoting wrong, but like it would not be following the manual, but
30:11SPEAKERlike it's not that hard.
30:13SPEAKEROkay.
30:14SPEAKEROkay.
30:14SPEAKERSome of them are really hard, like the R2D2 one, the one that's like the, the foot and
30:18SPEAKERa half tall sculpture of R2D2 is, uh, would be impossible because it's all white bricks
30:23SPEAKERand like, I'd have like, I don't, I don't, I, yeah, that one would be challenging for
30:27SPEAKERme.
30:27SPEAKERYeah.
30:28SPEAKERDid you see, oh, I'm sorry.
30:29SPEAKERI was gonna say when we did Lego, we had a couple of people who are actually like Lego
30:33SPEAKERbuilders come in over the years, like that work, work in Denmark at Tested.
30:38SPEAKERAnd one of those guys could like assemble like the, like the little, the little one
30:43SPEAKERpouch kits that are often like freebies at the, when you buy enough at the store or whatever,
30:47SPEAKERhe could put those together while they were in the bag.
30:49SPEAKERWhat?
30:50SPEAKERYeah.
30:50SPEAKERSo this is what, like, this is the thing that they do at Lego for fun is they'll do races
30:55SPEAKERwhere they take a bag that's unopened and they assemble the kit while it's inside the
30:59SPEAKERbag.
31:00SPEAKERHuh.
31:00SPEAKERYeah.
31:01SPEAKERI bet working at Lego is all right.
31:04SPEAKERUh, I've never met anybody who worked there that was not happy working there.
31:07SPEAKERI could see, I could definitely see that.
31:09SPEAKERIt could be that they kill them if they, if they're unhappy.
31:12SPEAKERSo Lego has a dark side.
31:14SPEAKERWell, I mean the Danes, Danes have a rich history of, uh, of, uh, Bloodsport.
31:20SPEAKERSo, you know.
31:20SPEAKERYeah.
31:21SPEAKERSpeaking of expensive Lego, before we move on from Lego, did you see the announcement
31:25SPEAKERof the Lego Titanic set?
31:26SPEAKERMost, most, most elaborate and expensive Lego set to date.
31:30SPEAKERCan you build it both ways?
31:31SPEAKERI, what?
31:33SPEAKERCan you build it like it's still assembled and then you can do a post iceberg where the
31:36SPEAKERtwo pieces are broken in half and Jack and Rose are hanging on the side?
31:39SPEAKERI feel like that would maybe be a little crass, but that does not in that exact way,
31:44SPEAKERbut it does separate in the middle.
31:45SPEAKERSo you can see a cross section of like the boiler rooms and stuff like that.
31:49SPEAKERThat's cool.
31:49SPEAKERI don't think they quite meant it in the same way, but it kind of does look like that when
31:52SPEAKERit's pulled apart.
31:54SPEAKERUm, I, I want the, uh, the Nintendo, uh, super Mario kit that came out last year, uh, is
32:03SPEAKERsuper cool.
32:04SPEAKERDo they, do they make all that stuff in like a limited run fashion?
32:06SPEAKERLike, cause you kind of have to get it and then it's gone.
32:09SPEAKERUh, it's complicated.
32:11SPEAKERSo some, some stuff that is really popular stays around forever ish.
32:15SPEAKERLike for example, the Lego death star play set, which was one of the bigger Lego Star
32:19SPEAKERWars Lego sets.
32:21SPEAKERThe way it's the one that I built when Norman, I did the race that tested like 10 years ago.
32:26SPEAKERAnd that one stayed on sale for a really long time, like multiple, multiple years.
32:31SPEAKERMost stuff comes in and goes after like three to six months.
32:35SPEAKEROh, wow.
32:36SPEAKERUm, some stuff stays longer, some stuff is around forever, but yeah, they cycle the product
32:41SPEAKERline pretty constant.
32:42SPEAKERLike that, that my guess is like the Simpson stuff when they did the Simpson stuff a few
32:46SPEAKERyears ago, that, that lasted for like a year or two.
32:50SPEAKERAnd then those all went away.
32:52SPEAKERUm, some of it's based on licensing.
32:54SPEAKERSome of it is, uh, uh, some of it is, it seems like it's just because it like, you know,
33:00SPEAKERlike, uh, the, the one thing is like the Minecraft generic kit that the one that's not like build
33:05SPEAKERa, build a, build the guest or whatever.
33:08SPEAKERLike the ones that's just, here's a bunch of bricks that are Minecraft bricks.
33:11SPEAKERYou can use to build whatever you want.
33:12SPEAKERThat one stays around forever.
33:14SPEAKERLike the all white bricks architectures that stayed around for a really long time.
33:18SPEAKERUm, the ones that are specific models tend to come in, come and go.
33:22SPEAKEROkay.
33:22SPEAKERThis, uh, if you want something, usually you have to buy it within like six or eight months.
33:25SPEAKERThat's right.
33:27SPEAKERYeah.
33:27SPEAKERThis is this Lego Titanic set.
33:29SPEAKER$630.
33:31SPEAKERHow many pieces is it?
33:32SPEAKERLike 4,000.
33:33SPEAKER9,090.
33:34SPEAKERJesus, that is a, that's why it made news.
33:36SPEAKERI mean, besides the price, but it made news because it was, it was the highest piece count
33:40SPEAKERfor one of their sets to date.
33:42SPEAKERSo like the, the way you tell if a Lego set is a good deal, I liked, we're having a Lego
33:48SPEAKERinterlude in the middle.
33:49SPEAKERThat's I I've, I've read the comments on a strong news story about that.
33:52SPEAKERAnd a bunch of people were complaining about the price and the defenders of this thing
33:55SPEAKERwere literally citing the price per piece as being in line with, with their other sets.
34:01SPEAKERYeah.
34:01SPEAKERSo if it's a licensed set, you're looking at 10 or 15 cents per brick.
34:06SPEAKERIf you are anything around anything below 10, I think is pretty good.
34:11SPEAKEROkay.
34:12SPEAKERThis, I think this was like 7 cents a piece, something like that.
34:14SPEAKERI haven't done the math here.
34:15SPEAKERIf they're licensed like seven, seven to 10 cents is pretty good.
34:20SPEAKERI don't know.
34:20SPEAKERI actually don't know if this is licensed.
34:23SPEAKERIt's not, it's not.
34:24SPEAKERWho would you license it with?
34:24SPEAKERIt's not like they're James Cameron for that.
34:26SPEAKERNo, I mean, there is an RMS Titanic incorporated.
34:29SPEAKERYeah, but I don't think they have any, I don't think they have any claim to the design.
34:32SPEAKERYeah, no, that's that is.
34:34SPEAKERI can tell you the ship builder.
34:36SPEAKERI've been on a weird Titanic kick lately.
34:37SPEAKERI will just throw that out there.
34:39SPEAKERGo down weird history rabbit holes here and there.
34:41SPEAKERIt was the ship builder Wolf and somebody.
34:45SPEAKERBut they wouldn't know they wouldn't own the design either.
34:47SPEAKERWould they?
34:48SPEAKERNo.
34:49SPEAKERHarland and Wolf was the ship builder.
34:53SPEAKERAnyway.
34:53SPEAKERWhatever.
34:55SPEAKERSo for example, the Millennium Falcon, the Lego Millennium Falcon,
34:58SPEAKERwhich is around the same size is I think 800 bucks.
35:01SPEAKERThe super duper big.
35:02SPEAKEROh, wow.
35:04SPEAKERYeah.
35:04SPEAKERShe's it's, but that's like the size of your, like literally when people build those, they
35:08SPEAKERput it under it.
35:09SPEAKERLike people I've, I've seen on the Lego subreddit, there are a ton of people who build like coffee
35:13SPEAKERtables around that so that like they have like a glass top coffee table that's square.
35:17SPEAKERAnd then the Lego Millennium Falcon is sealed up underneath it.
35:20SPEAKERWow.
35:20SPEAKERThe, the big challenge with displaying Lego is that it collects dust in a way that makes
35:25SPEAKERit really hard to clean.
35:26SPEAKERI could see that like blow that dust off, but I don't know.
35:30SPEAKERI think you've convinced me though, but it's like, if you intend to rebuild them periodically,
35:34SPEAKERif they are nice for display and crucially, if they are limited edition and hard to get,
35:38SPEAKERI think you should hang on to them.
35:39SPEAKERYeah.
35:40SPEAKERLike, so it's funny, Gina and I, a few months ago, went back and when we were cleaning out
35:43SPEAKERthe garage and we're like, what is all this stuff worth?
35:46SPEAKERAnd literally it all has appreciated.
35:49SPEAKERCause like we have some that are like, they, they, you know, they have different product
35:52SPEAKERlines and some of them are, some of them are really hard to get now, apparently.
35:57SPEAKERYou should, you should absolutely hang on to all that Lego stuff.
36:00SPEAKERYeah.
36:00SPEAKERI just let the kiddo play with it.
36:02SPEAKERSo like, she's got the Simpsons house set up on our Lego table right now.
36:05SPEAKERAnd I'm going to have, it's going to take me months to find all the pieces for that,
36:09SPEAKERbut that's fine.
36:11SPEAKEROkay.
36:11SPEAKERSo Lego stays so far, we've gotten rid of two lightning cables.
36:17SPEAKERThat's kind of the problem with this stuff.
36:19SPEAKERThat's how cleaning goes, right?
36:21SPEAKERYou have to spend the first two days just going through everything and remembering stuff
36:24SPEAKERand playing with it and then putting it back and going like, huh, maybe I'll keep that.
36:28SPEAKERWell, like, like, so here's the thing I did.
36:29SPEAKERI had to do some little soldering work the other day.
36:31SPEAKERAnd here on my desk is, this is this I've had for like dusty and gross, but look, this
36:37SPEAKERis, this is why Jeff went through his garage last earlier this year.
36:41SPEAKERSo it's an assorted heat shrink tubing kit.
36:44SPEAKERIt's got 127 pieces.
36:47SPEAKERI don't think I could make this smaller.
36:49SPEAKERAnd like the problem is this is pretty much the smallest amount of heat shrink tubing
36:53SPEAKERyou can buy.
36:53SPEAKERThat's going to be useful.
36:54SPEAKERYes.
36:55SPEAKERI went through the same thing when I needed some nylon standoffs for my mister.
36:59SPEAKERYeah.
37:00SPEAKERYou got to get a shitload of them.
37:01SPEAKERAnd I needed, I think I eat.
37:03SPEAKERYeah.
37:04SPEAKERThat's eight of them.
37:05SPEAKERYeah.
37:05SPEAKERSo I have something like 292 more standoffs in a box because that's the least you can
37:11SPEAKERget.
37:12SPEAKERYeah.
37:12SPEAKERI don't know what to do.
37:14SPEAKERI need a bigger house.
37:15SPEAKERMaybe I should just move.
37:16SPEAKERYeah.
37:17SPEAKERGood. Just go find a gigantic and go find a McMansion somewhere.
37:20SPEAKERAnd you can have an entire room for cables and, and large quantity parts boxes.
37:26SPEAKERSomebody posted their gaming basement in Indiana, someplace in one of the Tiskords I'm in
37:32SPEAKERyesterday.
37:33SPEAKERWas it bigger than your house?
37:34SPEAKEROh God.
37:35SPEAKERIt was like, they had two TVs.
37:38SPEAKERThey had like a regular normal human LCD TV.
37:40SPEAKERAnd then next to it, they had like a 20 inch CRT with all their old consoles hooked up
37:44SPEAKERto it.
37:45SPEAKERMan.
37:46SPEAKERAnd I was like, man, that looks so cool.
37:49SPEAKERYou realize that illustrates the single biggest problem with California housing.
37:52SPEAKERNo basement.
37:53SPEAKERNo basement.
37:54SPEAKERI mean, I, I've thought about digging a basement because wait, can you do that?
37:59SPEAKERI mean, you can do whatever you want.
38:01SPEAKERWell, that seems dodgy.
38:06SPEAKERWell, I mean, you have to be careful.
38:08SPEAKERLike you dig out around in the center and you bring the dirt out.
38:12SPEAKERI don't know what you do with the dirt.
38:13SPEAKERThat's that's a phase two problem.
38:15SPEAKERSomebody else's problem.
38:16SPEAKERWell, I mean, I think maybe do the, the, the great escape thing and you put it in your
38:20SPEAKERpants pockets and just spread around the yard as you're walking around during your yard
38:23SPEAKERtime every day.
38:25SPEAKERAnd then I think you have to dig out under the wall.
38:27SPEAKERSo I have a friend who did this in Virginia and what he did was he dug down and then he
38:35SPEAKERpoured when he got to the bottom, he dug out the dirt five feet down, six feet down under
38:43SPEAKERthe foundation and poured a concrete footer around where the foundation was going to go
38:48SPEAKERand then built up cinder blocks to support the foundation.
38:53SPEAKERNow he doesn't live in an earthquake zone.
38:56SPEAKEROkay.
38:56SPEAKERYeah.
38:56SPEAKERSo I was going to say also, I just want to interject that this sounds like a Minecraft
39:00SPEAKERproblem.
39:00SPEAKERThis sounds like something you would do in Minecraft.
39:02SPEAKEROh, this is, this is a Minecraftian solution to a real world problem.
39:06SPEAKERLook, the, the, the ultimate problem with his basement is that it's only good for people
39:10SPEAKERwho are under like six feet, right?
39:13SPEAKEREven then it's a little claustrophobic.
39:14SPEAKERYikes.
39:16SPEAKERBut a lot of storage.
39:18SPEAKERThat's so that's the thing.
39:19SPEAKERLike the basement is the natural resting place of everything we were talking about here.
39:23SPEAKERWell, the, but the problem with the basement though, is if it rains, it floods, it can
39:27SPEAKERflood ask Benny and I don't want that.
39:30SPEAKERI don't, I don't know.
39:31SPEAKERMaybe I should just get rid of everything.
39:32SPEAKERMaybe we should just, I'm not sure how that.
39:35SPEAKERWell, my parents have a basement and it never flooded for as long as I live there and it
39:39SPEAKERrained all the time.
39:40SPEAKERAnd I don't know how they live in a mountain.
39:41SPEAKERThat's yes, they are on the side of a hill.
39:43SPEAKERYeah.
39:44SPEAKERWe don't, we don't have that benefit here.
39:46SPEAKERYeah.
39:46SPEAKERI don't know.
39:47SPEAKERI don't have any good solutions.
39:48SPEAKERYou don't really want a basement in earthquake prone, right?
39:53SPEAKERI mean, I assume I don't.
39:56SPEAKERIsn't that the whole reason that they don't dig them here?
39:59SPEAKERYou know, I used to think that, but I don't know if they don't dig them because they just
40:02SPEAKERnever dug them.
40:04SPEAKEROr if they don't dig them because it's a bad idea or because it gets, it floods in the,
40:09SPEAKERwhen we get so much rain, when it rains here, it rains a lot.
40:13SPEAKERLike that's the, I, my guess is that that's the problem.
40:16SPEAKERYeah.
40:16SPEAKERAlso you're, I mean, you're at sea level, right?
40:19SPEAKERWe're like 20 feet up.
40:20SPEAKERIt'll be fine.
40:21SPEAKERProbably fine.
40:22SPEAKERWhere's that water?
40:22SPEAKERI can dig a two layer basement.
40:24SPEAKERWhere's the water table?
40:25SPEAKERI don't know.
40:26SPEAKERYeah.
40:26SPEAKERIt's probably okay.
40:27SPEAKERI don't know.
40:28SPEAKERThis episode is kind of a rambling mess.
40:30SPEAKERI apologize.
40:31SPEAKERIt's yes.
40:31SPEAKERWe came to this one a little late this week.
40:34SPEAKERApologies.
40:34SPEAKERApologies if this is terrible.
40:36SPEAKERYeah.
40:36SPEAKERWe were, we, this week was really busy at work for I think both of us.
40:39SPEAKERSo all right.
40:44SPEAKERSo you can't get rid of the monitors.
40:45SPEAKERYou can just keep them.
40:46SPEAKERLike maybe you should do an art installation, put them up behind you on the, on, so that
40:50SPEAKERwhen you're on camera that you have, like, you know, you can put stuff there.
40:52SPEAKERI mean, the primary reasons I still have them are a, I don't want to, I don't want to dispose
40:56SPEAKERof them in an irresponsible way.
40:58SPEAKERThe, I would like for them to go to the use, you know, in a new home, I would like for
41:02SPEAKERsomebody to find something to do with them as opposed to just like E wasting them.
41:06SPEAKERI saw some on the side of the road the other day.
41:07SPEAKERThey were just like the ones you have.
41:10SPEAKERBut the third, the third order reason that I still have them is like, they're kind of
41:14SPEAKERa piece of tech pod lore at this point.
41:16SPEAKERLike, no, I feel like I should, what if somebody on the discord wants them?
41:21SPEAKERWhat if like, should I photograph them and make a t-shirt?
41:24SPEAKERLike what if there's a use for them?
41:26SPEAKERYou should photograph them and make a t-shirt.
41:28SPEAKERThat is a, in terms of the first tech pod merch, that's pretty good.
41:35SPEAKERSo these are the kinds of hang ups I have about getting rid of things.
41:38SPEAKERWe could also just pay somebody to draw them and on the chair, like put them on the chair.
41:42SPEAKERI see that's the thing.
41:44SPEAKERI should have combined the monitors and the chair.
41:46SPEAKERSomebody dug up a, I knew this was out there.
41:49SPEAKERSomebody dug up a video from GameSpot on the discord from 2003 when I moved here.
41:56SPEAKERIt was like, we used to do little videos about the editors and, you know, just sort of like
42:00SPEAKERbehind the scenes type stuff.
42:01SPEAKERAnd this one is, I was like three weeks into the job.
42:04SPEAKERAnd so somebody from GameSpot Live went to my house and recorded in my bedroom because
42:08SPEAKERI didn't have any furniture yet.
42:11SPEAKERAll I had was a TV and a sleeping bag and my consoles basically.
42:14SPEAKERAnd I was just like sitting on the floor reviewing video games and sleeping in a sleeping bag
42:19SPEAKERbecause I hadn't gotten furniture yet, but I had bought an office chair and somebody
42:25SPEAKERposted a screenshot from that video in the discord saying, is this the chair?
42:30SPEAKERAnd I was like, it sure is.
42:32SPEAKERSo, so that was, yes.
42:33SPEAKERI think you say, you say 18 year old office chair and the number just rolls off people's
42:38SPEAKERbacks, but when they see a video of it from when you were 23, like, yes.
42:45SPEAKERYes.
42:46SPEAKERSo the, the funny, the reason this is funny to me especially is because when I was working
42:51SPEAKERat future, that happened so many times that somebody would move to work at a job at one
42:56SPEAKERof the gaming magazines and the schedules on those magazines were so bad and they, we
43:02SPEAKERpaid people so badly that like they would move out and they'd get here and be like,
43:06SPEAKERshit, everything's really expensive.
43:07SPEAKERI can't afford furniture.
43:09SPEAKERYou'd have to like wait until you found some, some good cheap furniture on like yard sales
43:13SPEAKERand sell garage sales and stuff like that.
43:17SPEAKERSo I won't name names, but I know of at least three other editors at the, who were future
43:24SPEAKERpeople who had that same exact, like they ran a one bed, they'd run a bedroom in somebody
43:28SPEAKERelse's apartment, they'd get there and then they wouldn't have a bed for a year or they
43:33SPEAKERjust, their bed would just be a mattress on the ground or an air mattress or something.
43:37SPEAKERBecause that's, that's the, that's the tech press.
43:39SPEAKERLike these video games aren't going to review themselves.
43:42SPEAKERLike I got these things I've got to get played.
43:44SPEAKERYep.
43:45SPEAKERWe would, we would like, I had, when I moved out here, I stayed with a friend for the first
43:50SPEAKERmonth and a half or two months.
43:52SPEAKERAnd it was right when, it's funny, it was when Diablo two came out and I slept on his,
43:57SPEAKERthe most uncomfortable pullout couch I've ever seen in my life.
44:02SPEAKERLike it was one of those ones where you didn't know if it was better to sleep with it on
44:04SPEAKERthe couch mode or fold it out.
44:06SPEAKERCause both were equally uncomfortable.
44:10SPEAKERAnd basically I would just stay up until like two or three o'clock in the morning playing
44:13SPEAKERDiablo two all night.
44:15SPEAKERAnd then I would go sleep for three or four hours and go to work.
44:17SPEAKERAnd then I'd come back home and play Diablo two.
44:19SPEAKERI'd go to bars at night and then we'd come back from that and play Diablo two.
44:22SPEAKERIt's not a great way to live.
44:23SPEAKEROh, that sounds very fun there.
44:25SPEAKERThere's some legendary stories around the games press from back then of like six editors
44:29SPEAKERfrom different outlets, all crammed into the same like two bedroom apartment or whatever.
44:33SPEAKERYeah.
44:34SPEAKERThere were, there were a couple of apartments.
44:36SPEAKERSo Gina moved out shortly after I moved, she moved out like a month and a half or two months
44:39SPEAKERafter I moved out.
44:41SPEAKERBut there were a bunch of people that lived together before anybody got married.
44:45SPEAKERAnd it was, it was, it was, I mean, like norm manner was the classy version of that.
44:52SPEAKERBut like the, yeah, there were some real scungy apartments.
44:57SPEAKERAnyway.
44:58SPEAKEROh, so, so gross.
44:59SPEAKERYou've just introduced me to a new word.
45:01SPEAKERI've never heard scungy before.
45:02SPEAKERYou've never heard scungy?
45:04SPEAKEROh, you're welcome.
45:06SPEAKERThat is a word that sounds exactly like what it means.
45:09SPEAKERI don't know if it's a word, but yeah, I use it.
45:11SPEAKERI like it.
45:12SPEAKERWhat is now that's that such as our power.
45:14SPEAKERUm, I don't know.
45:15SPEAKERLike I've been consolidating over the last several years and getting rid of stuff.
45:18SPEAKERAnd generally my rubric is if it's useful like cables, like I said, just condense it
45:24SPEAKERdown as much as you can to what is reasonable.
45:26SPEAKERAnd like I said, I've got each of those categories of cables are in a drawer at this
45:30SPEAKERpoint, which I feel is pretty.
45:32SPEAKERWhat's your drawer sets?
45:33SPEAKERDo you have like, I bought some cheap Ikea drawers a few years ago that have been pretty
45:36SPEAKERgood.
45:36SPEAKERYeah.
45:37SPEAKERThey're kind of like, these are, these are kind of like Rubbermaid drawers.
45:40SPEAKERThey're actually sort of free floating.
45:42SPEAKERI pulled them out of an old Rubbermaid set, tossed the frame years ago, but I've got the,
45:47SPEAKERand they fit into like a little Ikea shelving thing I've got, but so they're pretty, they're
45:51SPEAKERpretty deep.
45:51SPEAKERLike they're pretty big drawers, but like they're out of sight, they're in a closet.
45:54SPEAKERAnd beyond that, like everything I keep, other than like what's functional is what's
45:59SPEAKERsentimental, right?
46:00SPEAKERYeah.
46:00SPEAKERSo like I've got my old games consoles.
46:02SPEAKERI've got like memorabilia from different games, press jobs.
46:08SPEAKERThat's about it.
46:11SPEAKERI don't know what else you got.
46:13SPEAKERI mean, you're looking, you're looking off the side of the camera in a pensive way.
46:17SPEAKERWell, like, so like I have a bunch of weird stuff that people made over the years that
46:22SPEAKERI love.
46:22SPEAKERLike homemade stuff is a no brainer.
46:24SPEAKERLike anything, anything that's irreplaceable, like that definitely falls into the sentimental
46:27SPEAKERcategory for me.
46:28SPEAKERLike if it's, if it's handmade, if it's one of a kind, if it's like rare or something
46:32SPEAKERthat can't be replaced easily, like you've got, you've got, you've got approval to hang
46:37SPEAKERon to that.
46:38SPEAKERThe Lego competitors.
46:39SPEAKERYou remember the blockheads?
46:41SPEAKERVaguely the, you know, the, the Cal buzz click made that the awesome like square isometric
46:49SPEAKERillustrations for Norman.
46:50SPEAKERI still got one of those t-shirts.
46:52SPEAKERYeah.
46:52SPEAKERWe used to use them.
46:53SPEAKERWe ended up using when even it was the one piece of branding that went after we switched
46:58SPEAKERover to working with Adam and Jamie.
47:01SPEAKERCause they liked them too.
47:03SPEAKERAnd then like the brick brick link people made norm and I, those like somebody there
47:09SPEAKERworked there was a fan and they sent us like with made with their bricks, Norman me heads.
47:15SPEAKERYeah, dude.
47:16SPEAKERLike somebody, somebody makes you in a Lego S capacity.
47:20SPEAKERYou have to keep that.
47:21SPEAKERLike why possibly consider getting rid of something like that?
47:24SPEAKERNo, no, no, no.
47:25SPEAKERI wouldn't get rid of that.
47:26SPEAKERI have yeah.
47:29SPEAKERI mean, I don't know.
47:30SPEAKERIt's just a lot of stuff.
47:32SPEAKERYou accumulate stuff.
47:33SPEAKERTry not to accumulate stuff.
47:34SPEAKERThat's my advice.
47:35SPEAKERIt's much easier to not accumulate stuff than it is to get rid of it.
47:37SPEAKEROnce you have it.
47:38SPEAKEREverybody says that, but I don't think I know anybody who practices it.
47:41SPEAKERWell, that's cause I think everybody that we know personally are probably hoarders.
47:47SPEAKERHere's a bag.
47:49SPEAKERI think I should just do the thing that Jeff did.
47:51SPEAKERHere's a bag with four inch cable ties.
47:54SPEAKERThere are a hundred millimeters, four inches each.
47:57SPEAKERThere's a thousand of them in here.
47:59SPEAKERWhy did I buy a thousand cable ties?
48:01SPEAKERThat's way too many cable ties.
48:02SPEAKERAgain, that's probably the fewest you could get.
48:04SPEAKERIt might've been, it was probably a good deal.
48:06SPEAKERIt was probably three 99.
48:07SPEAKERHey, look, you know what?
48:08SPEAKERListen.
48:09SPEAKEROkay.
48:09SPEAKERWhen it's safe for me to enter your house.
48:11SPEAKERYeah.
48:12SPEAKERIf you want to get out all of your stuff like that, I'll do it.
48:15SPEAKERI'll do you a favor.
48:16SPEAKERYou'll help.
48:17SPEAKERYou'll take it.
48:17SPEAKERWe'll take some stuff off your hands.
48:19SPEAKERI don't have any cable ties.
48:20SPEAKERI mean, look, we could split up the cable ties.
48:22SPEAKERThat's that's a good point.
48:24SPEAKEROkay.
48:24SPEAKERI'll bring my nylon standoffs over.
48:26SPEAKERYou get your cable ties.
48:26SPEAKERI don't know.
48:28SPEAKERI can laser cut those out of acrylic.
48:30SPEAKERIt's no problem.
48:32SPEAKEROkay.
48:33SPEAKERI think, I think we've, I don't know that I have anything else to add to this.
48:36SPEAKERThis thing that we've done here today, just this qualify as a podcast episode.
48:41SPEAKERI mean, I feel like it does.
48:43SPEAKEROkay.
48:44SPEAKERWe're going to do the thing at the end where we think our patrons.
48:46SPEAKEROkay.
48:47SPEAKERYeah.
48:47SPEAKEROkay.
48:48SPEAKERJust incubate digit.
48:49SPEAKERI'm sorry.
48:49SPEAKERNo, I'm just going to just to summarize, just to digitize everything you can.
48:53SPEAKERYeah.
48:53SPEAKERDigitizing ordering data.
48:55SPEAKERPretty awesome.
48:58SPEAKERData doesn't take up any space.
48:59SPEAKERIt doesn't take up much space.
49:01SPEAKERHard drives take up space, but we should, I mean, we talked about M disc recently.
49:04SPEAKERI have been staring at tape backup as well.
49:09SPEAKERWe should probably not get into that right now.
49:11SPEAKEROh God.
49:11SPEAKERTape backup is a no.
49:13SPEAKERLike look, one of my first jobs was dealing with a giant tape backup robot that held a
49:18SPEAKERbazillion tapes and had a robot arm and two tape readers in it.
49:21SPEAKERIt's got those little robot arms.
49:23SPEAKEROh man.
49:24SPEAKERCould you, could you just get like a small, like single tape thing that you could just
49:29SPEAKERswap them in and out?
49:30SPEAKERI think that's how it starts.
49:31SPEAKERDon't they make them in like optical drive, like drive bay, like five and a quarter drive
49:35SPEAKERbay format?
49:36SPEAKERYeah.
49:37SPEAKERI don't have a five and a quarter drive bay anymore.
49:39SPEAKERI have one, but there's already a blue ray drive in it.
49:42SPEAKERYeah.
49:42SPEAKERAnyway, the point is ripping blue rays was great.
49:46SPEAKERYes.
49:47SPEAKERMore data, not objects if you can.
49:49SPEAKERYeah.
49:49SPEAKERI need more hard drives cause that's phase that, that, that is coming due soon.
49:53SPEAKERThe NAS is almost full again, which is bad.
49:59SPEAKERYeah.
49:59SPEAKERYeah.
50:00SPEAKERThat's been, I don't know.
50:00SPEAKERI think you're trying to end this episode, but I'll just say hard drive pricing has been
50:04SPEAKERa topic of frequent discussion on the discord lately.
50:06SPEAKERWe're not, we're not in the best spot on that stuff.
50:08SPEAKERNo, it's bad.
50:09SPEAKERI'm hoping Black Friday is kind to us.
50:11SPEAKERIt's pretty expensive.
50:12SPEAKERIf you're, if you're, if you're willing to shuck, there have been some decent deals on
50:16SPEAKERshuckable drives recently, but.
50:18SPEAKERWell, I mean, the thing is I need, I need, like I have, I think six or eight terabyte
50:23SPEAKERdrives in right now and I don't have that many, I don't have that many SATA slots.
50:27SPEAKERSo like I realistically need like 12 or 14 gig drives and it's going to make an impact.
50:33SPEAKERYeah.
50:34SPEAKERSo anyway.
50:35SPEAKERTime to, time to get, time to get that host bus adapter.
50:37SPEAKERI'm thinking about, this is, people are going to be really upset when I say this,
50:40SPEAKERbut I'm thinking about pulling board games out of boxes and putting them in bags.
50:44SPEAKEROoh boy.
50:46SPEAKERHanging, filing them.
50:47SPEAKERI have zero opinion on that cause I'm not a big board game player, but I bet I could
50:51SPEAKERsee some people getting very upset about that.
50:53SPEAKERI think people are, I did that with like with dominion cards.
50:55SPEAKERI did that years ago and we put them in like card files, like, like really collectible
50:59SPEAKERcard holder thingies.
51:02SPEAKERSo like we were able to fit like three or four dominion boxes in the space that one
51:06SPEAKERnormally fit in.
51:07SPEAKERYeah, that, that felt good.
51:09SPEAKERBut the other board games, it's more complicated.
51:12SPEAKERI don't know.
51:13SPEAKERI don't know.
51:13SPEAKERMaybe the solution is just to move into a bigger house.
51:16SPEAKERI think that's probably the right way to do this.
51:18SPEAKERJust run screaming from your home and let somebody else deal with it.
51:20SPEAKERJust be like, hey movers.
51:22SPEAKERJust walk out the door and into the wilderness.
51:24SPEAKERAnd we'll leave it all behind.
51:27SPEAKERI have the beard for that.
51:28SPEAKERI'm ready to go.
51:28SPEAKERIt's true.
51:30SPEAKERBut anyway, yeah, this is the part where we thank the patrons.
51:33SPEAKERThank you, patrons.
51:33SPEAKERThank you, patrons for putting up with whatever this has been.
51:37SPEAKERWe have a plan for next week.
51:38SPEAKERIt was just this week.
51:39SPEAKERWe didn't have a plan.
51:40SPEAKERI'm sorry.
51:41SPEAKERYeah.
51:41SPEAKERWe're, we're behind on planning.
51:42SPEAKERWe have been better in the past about planning out episodes than we are currently, let's
51:47SPEAKERsay.
51:48SPEAKERYes.
51:50SPEAKERBut this week we would like to thank as always all of our patrons.
51:53SPEAKEREverybody who is active in the discord.
51:55SPEAKEREverybody who just chucks in a couple of bucks a month and everybody who lets people know
52:00SPEAKERabout the show on the Twitter or whatever your social network of choice is.
52:04SPEAKERI haven't seen any tech pod related TikToks yet.
52:07SPEAKERI'm a little disappointed in that.
52:08SPEAKERI don't spend much or let's say any time on TikTok.
52:12SPEAKERAnd I don't know if that's good or bad.
52:13SPEAKERDude, I love TikTok.
52:14SPEAKERYeah.
52:15SPEAKERHave we not talked about this?
52:17SPEAKERTikTok's awesome.
52:17SPEAKERA bit.
52:18SPEAKERI don't have anything against it.
52:19SPEAKERI just, I may have aged out.
52:21SPEAKERNo, no, no, no, no.
52:22SPEAKERHere's the thing.
52:24SPEAKERThink about TikTok.
52:25SPEAKERWell, we'll be back to thinking patrons in a minute.
52:26SPEAKERSo, so don't go anywhere.
52:27SPEAKERThe thing about TikTok is it is the social network for when you want to feel like Twitter
52:32SPEAKERis the social network for when you want to feel bad about everything.
52:35SPEAKERIf you want to get real into climate change and like fascism in America, Twitter is perfect
52:40SPEAKERfor that.
52:40SPEAKEROh yeah.
52:41SPEAKERBut if you want to, if you want to spend some time like watching puppies do cute stuff and
52:46SPEAKERseeing people dance and have fun and like enjoy life, TikTok is there for you.
52:51SPEAKERHuh?
52:51SPEAKEROkay.
52:52SPEAKERYou're making a pretty strong argument here.
52:54SPEAKERAnd here's, okay.
52:55SPEAKERSo there's a dark side to TikTok, which is if you start watching bad stuff on TikTok,
52:59SPEAKERlike TikTok doesn't care about likes or any of that stuff.
53:01SPEAKERTikTok cares how many times you watch stuff.
53:03SPEAKERYeah.
53:03SPEAKERAnd if you start watching stuff that's a bummer, you're going to get a lot more bummers.
53:06SPEAKERSo you've got to avoid bummers really, really strong on TikTok.
53:09SPEAKERI mean, the algorithms will get you no matter what platform you go to.
53:12SPEAKERWell, the algorithm of TikTok is crafty.
53:14SPEAKERLike the other algorithms are chuckleheads compared to TikTok's algorithm.
53:18SPEAKERBut yeah, TikTok, I love TikTok.
53:20SPEAKERBig fan, big fan of their work.
53:22SPEAKERAlso a big fan of our patrons, especially the executive producer tier patrons
53:26SPEAKERincluding Paddle Creek Games, the makers of Fractured Veil, Andrew Slosky,
53:30SPEAKERThe Bunny Fiend, Jacob Chappell, Joel Koska, Twinkle Twinkie, David Allen, and James Kamik.
53:35SPEAKERThank you all so much for your support.
53:37SPEAKERThank you.
53:38SPEAKERSorry.
53:38SPEAKERAgain.
53:40SPEAKERI don't think we have to apologize, but maybe...
53:43SPEAKERSorry.
53:44SPEAKERI don't know.
53:44SPEAKERI feel like I should have said it again.
53:46SPEAKERI think, I think, I mean, somebody suggested this in the Discord room.
53:50SPEAKERWe're talking about what we could talk about today.
53:52SPEAKERAnd it's a thing that I constantly struggle with.
53:54SPEAKERAnd maybe I should just stop worrying about it and accept that,
53:58SPEAKERexcept maybe buy a bunch of shelves and just like turn the back half of my office into like
54:03SPEAKERordered road shelving, like in the end of Indiana Jones where I just pile shit up
54:09SPEAKERin an organized fashion instead of a disorganized fashion.
54:12SPEAKERAnd then I'll feel better about it.
54:13SPEAKERI don't know.
54:14SPEAKERI would love to hear suggestions as long as everything is arranged in right angles.
54:17SPEAKERYou'll feel fine.
54:18SPEAKERIt'll look great.
54:19SPEAKERI kind of want hanging shelves like in that Animal Crossing video yesterday.
54:24SPEAKERI feel like then that I'm drilling holes in ceilings and stuff and I don't want to get into that.
54:28SPEAKERSounds like based on the construction of your house,
54:30SPEAKERmaybe drilling things into the wall is not the best idea.
54:33SPEAKERThe walls are bad.
54:34SPEAKERCeiling's strong.
54:34SPEAKERCeiling's real good.
54:36SPEAKERWe'll see you all next week.
54:37SPEAKERThanks for listening everybody.
54:38SPEAKERBye.
54:38SPEAKERBye-bye.
54:39SPEAKERBye-bye.
54:40SPEAKERBye-bye.