◼ ► when you go to that disco than ever in history right there I say oh by the way someone got in touch the other day [TS]
◼ ► and said Do you realize you didn't invent the term humble brag it's been around for ages and there's a book [TS]
◼ ► We are well aware of that in fact the first time humbled brake came up was you pointing out the twitter of the person [TS]
◼ ► Yes For the record we just enjoy a good humble brag and we kind of we discuss that way too often. [TS]
◼ ► and this is called The Brag humble this is going to be trouble this is going to be trouble what is Ike first I quite [TS]
◼ ► like the name Brad Kumble because it's you know he's busy bragging humble like easy Breaking Bad so I think is he [TS]
◼ ► breaking humble sounds kind of code. But but the Bragg humble is the opposite of the humble brag. [TS]
◼ ► So first let's establish the humbug read all about bits of those for that for those who may have missed. [TS]
◼ ► What we need to throw more confusion into the thing a group of our. I feel like I'm already thanking you for this. [TS]
◼ ► The humble brag is about saying something that is a sensibly humble but your real intent is to brag. [TS]
◼ ► Right that's where your intent is in a humble brag is an OK brag. Right that's what you doing right. Do you agree. [TS]
◼ ► OK Let me give you an example as you know I was recently in California and I was mainly in Berkeley [TS]
◼ ► but one day I went to the other famous university in the area which is Stanford so I went I went [TS]
◼ ► and spent the night in a hotel because I had an early meeting got up early and you know I got prepared [TS]
◼ ► and made my way to a meeting with a really famous important person who I was who I can't believe I got to make because [TS]
◼ ► he rarely makes with people a girl called Don And in the world of computer science I am bragging right now. [TS]
◼ ► OK I get it you know I went to his house I spent hours with them when we filmed some things from number fall [TS]
◼ ► and computers are Had a GREAT had a great time with them it was fantastic. Me and don't connect the wow. [TS]
◼ ► And even at the end he even said I had a really good time I really enjoyed it and I felt like a million dollars. [TS]
◼ ► I then went to I went to another meeting in the form of the meeting I went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror [TS]
◼ ► and there was this huge white streak going from the corner of my mouth basically to all the way to my ear. [TS]
◼ ► Really like I was lucky like I was painted like you know like Indian War Paint it was so prominent [TS]
◼ ► and also what on earth is that what's happened. So I put my finger on it and tasted it because that's what I do. [TS]
◼ ► And luckily luckily it wasn't for what it was was a huge streak of toothpaste so clearly and I do remember that [TS]
◼ ► but I had run out of power so I brushed my teeth with like a normal tooth brush isn't a good idea [TS]
◼ ► and stuff so basically I spent I spent my morning with a great man a computer science you know having a fantastic time [TS]
◼ ► and he's too nice a guy to bring it up he was a total gentleman and I met his wife and everything [TS]
◼ ► That is Greg humble because because the intent to brag just increased the humbleness at the end. [TS]
◼ ► but more importantly I need to know how did you get the toothpaste in his streak going all the way up to your ear. [TS]
◼ ► and you dragged it all along the side of your face is this a scenario under which you had a streak of toothpaste [TS]
◼ ► Hey you know what happened but I think you know what happened I don't know what happened there. [TS]
◼ ► and then I thought I'm not humble bragging I'm bragging humble bragging humble because I could have told you that story [TS]
◼ ► But putting the braggin increased the humility do you know gray it makes it it makes it more embarrassing. [TS]
◼ ► I don't know if it makes it more humbling unfold on the Bragg humble I think I think he just going nuts with a [TS]
◼ ► but you know the more you say that the more I think it works the more you say yes it's made worse you know it increases [TS]
◼ ► One of the main things from the last conversation was how You Tube handles sending people notifications that new videos [TS]
◼ ► from the people they are subscribed to are out so happy how do people basically consume their You Tube [TS]
◼ ► and tons of people got in touch to tell me about how on youtube there is a section which is called. [TS]
◼ ► We still has the old behavior of You Tube which is where I think it just lists all of your channels [TS]
◼ ► and it shows which ones have new videos and which ones do not have new videos and I was very much aware of this [TS]
◼ ► but I just wanted to point out is as a little a little minor thing that whenever you're talking about stuff with [TS]
◼ ► computers you have to assume that the default action is basically what everybody does because so few people ever change [TS]
◼ ► but I read some some analysis from app creators about how many people ever change any of the settings in their apps [TS]
◼ ► and it is basically nobody has certain kinds of people are completely blown away by that information because I'm the [TS]
◼ ► sort of person who is that who I download a new app before I even see what it really does let me look at all of the [TS]
◼ ► settings What can I say how can I flip the switch is who maybe I want it this way maybe I want it that way [TS]
◼ ► And so the idea that most people just they go to You Tube and they never change any of the settings is sort of foreign. [TS]
◼ ► And for many. The people who are really into You Tube the power users that is also kind of foreign. [TS]
◼ ► But if something something is the default You just have to assume that that is what everybody uses [TS]
◼ ► and the people who don't use the defaults are vanishingly small percentage of the population so even if there is a [TS]
◼ ► solution on You Tube it is functionally irrelevant. So that was my only other piece of follow up. [TS]
◼ ► You will be surprised to hear that I'm more of a default kind of guy I am not surprised at all by the snow. [TS]
◼ ► I apologize. There's nothing to apologize for. You live a simpler and possibly better life less less frustrated life. [TS]
◼ ► and this I don't know where this fits into the show but I just want to tell you about it because it was on my mind. [TS]
◼ ► I had I had a lot of spare time while I was away so sitting alone in my hotel room watching take my stuff my face. [TS]
◼ ► And one of the things one of the things I did because I've heard it talked about so many times was [TS]
◼ ► when the first i Phone was launched over there you've never seen before. I had never seen it before. [TS]
◼ ► when you say you're not repressed to Steve Jobs before you go to slate. Yeah that's what my life is like now. [TS]
◼ ► I highly recommend to anyone to watch now because watching it now is so much better over the usual stuff Assad you know [TS]
◼ ► but the thing that's so funny is when he first takes it out and starts doing things like swiping the screen [TS]
◼ ► and like you know zooming in and zooming out with the pinch maneuver like no one had seen that before [TS]
◼ ► Gosh he says watch this and he like he swipes the screen and pictures and frames and the crowd like what have you done. [TS]
◼ ► This is amazing and like I had to say that now well you know even little kids do it to like T.V. [TS]
◼ ► and to see something so recent but to see people react that way made it made it all worthwhile. [TS]
◼ ► So you think OK So you think I haven't got much more to say about it just enjoy it and I recommend it [TS]
◼ ► and maybe you know yet if you don't want to watch The only thing I remember from that before he introduces this is [TS]
◼ ► but the thing that I think is interesting about that little section is that the crowd you can hear them respond very [TS]
◼ ► positively to the first two things the phone and the i Pod. But the Internet communicator part is a bit more muffled. [TS]
◼ ► Where people are not super excited about that and it's partly because you don't know the magic of this phone [TS]
◼ ► and you don't you don't know yet how your whole life is about to be transformed by the fact of this thing is connected [TS]
◼ ► But it's not it's not like it's not obvious at the time that the biggest deal is that last part it's not the first two [TS]
◼ ► but yeah that's my that's my only memory of the thing so you recommend it for people I will see if I can find a link [TS]
◼ ► but I've got plane crash going to follow up because a few people have sent me a little bit about this. [TS]
◼ ► And he talked about how that's a good thing because it makes the companies accountable for their wrongdoings [TS]
◼ ► and I did not know this was the case which makes me feel a bit silly because I'm supposedly a plane crash enthusiastic [TS]
◼ ► same's now which is a weird way to describe yourself anyway if you are you are a professional plane crash ANALYST I [TS]
◼ ► but what I have learned from people who are more knowledgeable than me is that it is a common practice [TS]
◼ ► or paint over their logo like on on like basically on the wreckage so that all the pictures and never Tivoli get taken. [TS]
◼ ► Wow And I've got I've got a link this was this was sent to us by a few people so apologies for not name checking it [TS]
◼ ► but you know this was a Thai Airways plane which skidded off a runway somewhere in Bangkok it appears [TS]
◼ ► and oh wow Khan There's a picture of this is a picture of the plane kind of you know on its belly looking you know [TS]
◼ ► looking a bit stricken and they've basically just painted it. It's been done in fact it looks fake. [TS]
◼ ► and then they go everywhere so that you know what this looks like is it is though someone has redacted the airplane. [TS]
◼ ► Someone has that in a black marker and just rushed right across the side and just scribbled over the tailfin. [TS]
◼ ► And as far as I'm concerned that should be illegal. This this should not be allowed to happen. Oh that is. [TS]
◼ ► Yes Yes Listen if you want to try to go over the name for this I think aircraft redaction is quite a cool sounding term. [TS]
◼ ► but all the rejection does have that as a you say maybe we need to come up with a different word I don't know the word [TS]
◼ ► action what is the other use for action Well you know a lot like rejection is in the you know with confidential [TS]
◼ ► documents I mean they can be good reasons to reject information you will put the link in the show so everyone can say [TS]
◼ ► this redacted plain. Yes I well I well nothing on especially black marks all over its name and logo. [TS]
◼ ► and that means having your logo plastered all over the Internet. Yeah that is really awful to see. [TS]
◼ ► I do it's all new you outraged I kind of thought you know I think it's pretty I think it's probably not right. [TS]
◼ ► Anyway have a look Paypal say what you think it's Christmas time and that can mean only one thing. [TS]
◼ ► But this year instead of some vacuum pack shaving kit with branding that looks like it was designed for a Michael Bay [TS]
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◼ ► Harry's kid myself and although I do support that designer stubble that drives the fans crazy. [TS]
◼ ► These blades are made in Germany so they must be good like B.M.W.'s never got some Christmas offers on their website if [TS]
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◼ ► That's Harry's dot com and the code H.-I holiday this offer expires on the fourteenth of December. [TS]
◼ ► and getting quick for that Christmas offer if you're listening to the podcast sometime after Christmas. [TS]
◼ ► Now another reason this may be a short is we have spent so much time together like that yes in fact in fact I would say [TS]
◼ ► well my sick of each other. I would I would never get sick if you Brady I never think of you. [TS]
◼ ► but I didn't ever do I assume that you didn't ever do it on my way back from California we went to Alabama [TS]
◼ ► and met with Destin from Smarter Every day. Henry. From Minute Physics and from various sets S.T.M. [TS]
◼ ► and I'm not I'm never going to stop doing that by the way. We met with Derek from very attached to him. [TS]
◼ ► and we obviously we we did this random acts of intelligence show which we may talk about shortly. [TS]
◼ ► Tell me about your trip over because I know you love a good I know you love talking about planes and travels [TS]
◼ ► and all the things that work you know how was your trip over do it do I love talking about that stuff I don't know. [TS]
◼ ► Usually stand by presumably yes I flew to stand by and I lucked out both times on this trip. [TS]
◼ ► I got the incredibly rare first class seat which is like an amazing space pod from the future so that was that was [TS]
◼ ► And if you ever fly first class it's almost sad when the flight is over even if it is a transatlantic flight. [TS]
◼ ► I feel like I could live in that first class cabin. I want to kick you in the shins Now that's very mature of you. [TS]
◼ ► Yeah a lucky man this is what makes all of the stress and anxiety of flying standby occasionally worth it [TS]
◼ ► but that is not exceedingly rare. I never upgrade may I'm always stuck in the back with all the cattle. [TS]
◼ ► but you have some miles programs I mean that's what I keep thinking I keep thinking they're going to come up to me [TS]
◼ ► and say Mr Heron you have been chosen. You get to go into the pointy end in the space probe with C.D.P. [TS]
◼ ► Gray but never happens ever never happens I think you you know it in the parable. Miles program I'm sorry. [TS]
◼ ► Or maybe they say that special over my face and say we can see that it is also quite possible. [TS]
◼ ► So was she tired after sitting in the space cause as much as it is possible to arrive bright eyed [TS]
◼ ► and bushy tailed because travel is terrible obviously and then on the way back leaving from D.C. Coming back to the U.K. [TS]
◼ ► and I was able to have a little sleep on the airplane which is very nice because that I don't occasionally think about [TS]
◼ ► how terrifying flying is if you're unconscious you don't it's a much shorter experience after flying first class was [TS]
◼ ► business class like a real comedown boy. Well I know I can't believe I have to fly business class. Oh disgusting. [TS]
◼ ► It wasn't I often think that first class is only for people for whom money just doesn't matter at all because first [TS]
◼ ► class is it's like if you look at the prices sometimes for a sale like a London to J.F.K. or London to D.C. Trip. [TS]
◼ ► But I am of the opinion that the first class seats are not that much better that the business class [TS]
◼ ► and I will pay tens of thousands of dollars to be very slightly more comfortable because money is just completely [TS]
◼ ► irrelevant to me. So even if you are like a millionaire first class doesn't necessarily make any financial sense. [TS]
◼ ► or have a company that doesn't mind just spending a crazy amount of money to fly first class so no business class [TS]
◼ ► or business class was not like some terrible comedown it was still great to be able to fly business class. [TS]
◼ ► I think the only way first class would be worthwhile was if I had. Scalia Hansen personally delivering me peanut M. [TS]
◼ ► Read my mind over the intercom to everyone I was on the plane. Then you would pay the thirty thousand. [TS]
◼ ► I would consider a Under those circumstances and those circumstances only. That's good to know. [TS]
◼ ► Well congratulations on your upgrade I'm sorry about saying I want to kick you in the shins I don't [TS]
◼ ► Meanwhile my flying experience involved him saying sorry your camera bags too big you going to have to check under the [TS]
◼ ► and I was unwilling to put all my camera equipment under the plan so I literally had to I had to take all my cameras [TS]
◼ ► and equipment out and just like hold it in my eye for the cradle like a baby I was I was cradling all these cameras [TS]
◼ ► So I didn't have such a nice flying experience but I'm sorry what else can you tell me about travel. [TS]
◼ ► I do have I do have a minor frustration which is kind of a follow up from I think the last episode I don't know one of [TS]
◼ ► and we both came to the conclusion that instruction manuals need to be presented in pictograph form that the [TS]
◼ ► or the instructions that came with the blue Yeti with little cartoon showing you how to use the microphone. [TS]
◼ ► but this is about what I will tolerate for acting after the kind of caveman proofs given proof Egyptian hieroglyphics. [TS]
◼ ► and that is the thing that irritates me at airports so I guess on this trip I had four airports in London North [TS]
◼ ► and I do not understand why particularly international airports don't have gigantic signs in the security area showing [TS]
◼ ► One of the things that you need to do because they're not the same everywhere for everyone who is traveling through a [TS]
◼ ► and I get annoyed that the security guards get annoyed that people don't just magically know what to do [TS]
◼ ► and they have instructions but they are usually tiny and they are very usually written instructions as well [TS]
◼ ► and I just think there needs to be on the back wall as big as you can possibly make it a picture of a person with their [TS]
◼ ► i Pad either in their backpack or out of their backpack. Right this is what we need to have just I have a crazy uncle. [TS]
◼ ► I don't know I don't know exactly where I stand on that. I people are at their dumbest in airports. [TS]
◼ ► That's why you need to help them with gigantic picture because it's like they've just like stepped off an alien [TS]
◼ ► The stand in stupid places and they're like I don't know what they're doing so people do need help [TS]
◼ ► but I don't know I don't know why because I don't know what the big picture grams will help I don't imagine that even [TS]
◼ ► but also the problem is like technology changes really quickly. I'm like Do I take my laptop out. [TS]
◼ ► Yes Do I take an i Pad out yesterday take a Kindle I know like and everything's you know and do I take my shoes off [TS]
◼ ► or don't lend themselves to pictograms just to tell everybody shoes off because it's going to be faster if everybody [TS]
◼ ► just take shoes off as opposed to oh me or no not me or are you sure I don't need to take the shoes off. [TS]
◼ ► That is just causes huge delays any kind of uncertainty to the she's going to try to they have to go on a different [TS]
◼ ► and like this is why I think if if you can't reduce the instructions to pictograph levels you cannot expect those [TS]
◼ ► instructions to happen so if you could have a picture of a dude taking his shoes off everybody takes their shoes off. [TS]
◼ ► I Pad in or out of the bag. Everybody's i Pad in or out of the bag any tablet like thing is in or out of the bag. [TS]
◼ ► And don't don't have the oh is it a Kindle is it not a Kindle question that just that is just terrible [TS]
◼ ► and I'm a total pariah that now though man you should say Me I'm amazing. One saying this movement. [TS]
◼ ► Like if you ever have an airport and they look stunned they're like oh I had no idea this is going to happen. [TS]
◼ ► I've been I've been watching a hundred people in front of me do it for the last ten minutes [TS]
◼ ► when you going through security is you need one of two things you need one either to be wearing a jacket that has [TS]
◼ ► pockets that you can zip up or you need an empty front pocket on your suitcase that also has a zipper [TS]
◼ ► and so I don't know yet one of those two things while you are on line you take everything out of your pockets [TS]
◼ ► and usually for me that's my jacket so just everything goes in the jacket zip up the pockets and put it through the X. [TS]
◼ ► Should have should have been the eleventh Commandment when Moses came down off the mountain because that is a good go. [TS]
◼ ► The in or out one because I asked several security agents and I got different answers about no of course not [TS]
◼ ► After the the rule change that they've just made about having electronics on during takeoff [TS]
◼ ► but it used to always be these that the big lie where it was like oh if anybody leaves their i Phone on this whole [TS]
◼ ► plane is going down right so everybody has to learn off all the electronic devices during takeoff [TS]
◼ ► Right the people don't even know how to turn off their i Phones I'm just people just don't so obviously it was OK [TS]
◼ ► But now we have this very confusing announcement which is it's something like please go away. [TS]
◼ ► All large electronic devices and small electronic devices can be used during land landing and take off. [TS]
◼ ► So where is the line here by the way like where does an i Pad Mini foal an i Pad and the Kindle and the. [TS]
◼ ► Well this is so the first time this happened to me I thought well look at me I'm here with an i Pad [TS]
◼ ► and i have the regular full i Pad Air size one and I thought Well clearly this is a large electronic device. [TS]
◼ ► And so the next couple of flights I had it out but I felt like I need to be kind of sneaky about it [TS]
◼ ► but the flight attendants never said anything so I thought OK I guess an i Pad counts as a small electronic device. [TS]
◼ ► Clearly doesn't seem like it should to me but that that announcement is not helpful. What is large What is small. [TS]
◼ ► I don't understand they should just say laptops away tablets are fine but I think that's a lot clearer. [TS]
◼ ► and love from the listenership as you talk about your problems with which electronic devices you can have out. [TS]
◼ ► First class from England to America. Well I only had my i Pad with me I didn't have anything. [TS]
◼ ► So while we've while we continue talking about your millionaire lifestyle I wish I see I see the next item a lot going [TS]
◼ ► and then I say I say that I think I see that while you were not while you were not sitting in the space [TS]
◼ ► but you were living it up in the airport. Kyle I need to explain myself now. You do the crime you do the time. [TS]
◼ ► Flying back from health care. Brothers up now when I was going to fly right by this one. No chance. [TS]
◼ ► Flying flying back from Alabama to London I had the downside of flying standby which is I left Alabama on Sunday night [TS]
◼ ► but I was not able to get on the plane Sunday night to take me home and though I was I was stranded in Washington D.C. [TS]
◼ ► And for those of you who know Washington Dulles Airport is one of the worst airports in the world. [TS]
◼ ► It's just the whole airport is designed to feel claustrophobic it is a single just unbelievably long tube [TS]
◼ ► and I swear the ceiling must be only seven feet from the ground. It's just it's awful and they have some problem. [TS]
◼ ► For years now I've come in and out of Dulles. They have some problem with the heating system in this gigantic airport. [TS]
◼ ► And so as you walk between sections of this endless column some of the sections it must be eighty five degrees [TS]
◼ ► and so you know we're in the airport is even remotely comfortable to be Plus there's the claustrophobia feeling [TS]
◼ ► It's just it's a terrible terrible airport I just I don't understand why it hasn't been burned to the ground [TS]
◼ ► So I was looking forward to about seven hours in one of my least favorite airports in the world. [TS]
◼ ► That's a long time it is a very long time because I'm not the panicky person that I am I'm not going to go do anything [TS]
◼ ► and things so I need to be near the airport anyway so I had a basically a full working day in the airport [TS]
◼ ► and I remembered a comment that you said on the last pod cast which wouldn't have crossed my mind otherwise. [TS]
◼ ► So I blame this entirely on you which is that some of the lounges at the airports you can pay to get into the lounge [TS]
◼ ► and you cannot do what I was confused about is you cannot do this with the first class lounges. [TS]
◼ ► and so I spent most of the day in a somewhat comatose state just sitting in front of a big window [TS]
◼ ► and watching the ground crew do stuff in a relatively comfortable environment so that was a little airport lounge [TS]
◼ ► experience. But I'm going to run because I would've done it if you hadn't mentioned it last time. I would not. [TS]
◼ ► or more hours at Dulles I would buy the pass again and I think that that is the point at which it makes sense. [TS]
◼ ► It starts becoming this is just like I'm not sure this is entirely worth it but this is really awful. [TS]
◼ ► So would also depend on how tolerant a feeling of the world in general but I think that that's the cutoff point. [TS]
◼ ► I know I was in inside of it and I hadn't put it on the plane. Fixing up the brakes or something. [TS]
◼ ► I mean it's already hard not to think about the black abyss of water that awaits for you below the airplane. [TS]
◼ ► It's extra difficult when you know you're on a plane that they just may be barely fixed a few hours ago [TS]
◼ ► and yeah I get vertigo sometimes just even thinking about what is beneath the airplane especially when it's over water. [TS]
◼ ► Nothing but death awaits you if you crash in the middle of the ocean that just is just over over if you're lucky. [TS]
◼ ► Sorry I didn't mean to be going on like that I was trying to so I thought I was the molded plane crash. [TS]
◼ ► Is this is it this is a personal fear you are interested in the deaths of others I am interested in avoiding my own [TS]
◼ ► Sometimes I find my mind wandering towards the pilots and thinking. I wonder if he got a lot of sleep last night. [TS]
◼ ► Or what if the pilot just had a divorce and he wants to kill himself and he's going to take all of us down with him. [TS]
◼ ► Not very much not very much at all and so you just you know you start thinking about all the worst case scenarios. [TS]
◼ ► Plus mechanical failure plus dying of exposure in the water. Anyway I hope you're enjoying your flight. [TS]
◼ ► How angry that makes him because they're like oh I was delayed for two hours and they get really moody and whiny [TS]
◼ ► and say to them you were flying like in achieve it hundreds of miles an hour through the sky [TS]
◼ ► That would have taken weeks or months in the past and then you're complaining about a few hours today [TS]
◼ ► and that has made me a little bit cautious at the moment about complaining about my four hour delay [TS]
◼ ► or something from the airline if I go to a Web site that I have not yet gone to. I should do that. [TS]
◼ ► That's that's exactly why they make you do a thing before the refund they know almost everybody doesn't do that thing. [TS]
◼ ► That's that's why you have to do a thing they don't just do that I must do that if I just came out [TS]
◼ ► and like just like gave you a few twenties going to be cool with it but that's not what they're going to do [TS]
◼ ► My my my my I had my best man changed his like family thing so he could fly him to my wedding. [TS]
◼ ► Who your designated person is yet is a whole bunch of limits on that and it's not going happen very well. [TS]
◼ ► and my parents are probably listening right now because I swear no actually no actually right now but yeah [TS]
◼ ► but listening to it listening to the recorded thing yeah I swear one of the most popular topics of conversation in the [TS]
◼ ► Then when a whole bunch of love for Brady and also a whole bunch of concern about Audrey and Lulu [TS]
◼ ► and they remember into how great Brady It was really it was a strange experience to be their son [TS]
◼ ► and like to say I love that little joke you made that was a really good point you made in the podcast. [TS]
◼ ► OK So to give you give you an example of the kind of comment that I had while I was home my mother said numerous times [TS]
◼ ► She's obviously not reading the Reddit comments she's reading this I think you've read the reviews on i Tunes which are [TS]
◼ ► and adore you so I may very well actually find myself without any standby tickets the next time I try flying because [TS]
◼ ► but I probably would for Stand by tickets for enough oh say you might have to cut this next bit because I'm going to [TS]
◼ ► and I know he will I know he made a big deal about it not being a big do because for those who don't know I can't get [TS]
◼ ► I'm not thank him or email him or do anything because it sounds like he's a pretty humble guy. [TS]
◼ ► I will take this moment to point out that there were no presents waiting for me when I came home. [TS]
◼ ► But here is the president as opposed to delivered to you just so my parents know how much I hate carrying extra stuff [TS]
◼ ► like this but this was you know no you need to bring these to Brady because we really like it [TS]
◼ ► and the second thing is that my my family we haven't really done gifts for birthdays and holidays for a very long time. [TS]
◼ ► As a whole family we're not a real we heart stuff kind of family we do we don't have a whole bunch of needs [TS]
◼ ► and so then trying to buy stuff for a bunch of other people who also don't want anything make for a difficult holiday [TS]
◼ ► when we decided you know what let's just get together instead of doing all of these things as a result of this if my [TS]
◼ ► parents do give a gift they'd feel like they don't want to burden the other person with having to now thank them. [TS]
◼ ► So that's why my father was very insistent that if I give you these razor blades I need to make it clear how things [TS]
◼ ► and that he will probably be slightly annoyed if you send him a thank you because you were in your time. [TS]
◼ ► Well I said I'm going to say Mr Gray I have no comments on those razor blades you sent whatsoever. [TS]
◼ ► I'm just going to I'm going to be silent on the matter. Although if your family has this kind of. [TS]
◼ ► If no one likes getting presents and gifts but these holidays exist as a sort of a gift giving time. [TS]
◼ ► I always want to think what my million subscriber button point gift from my parents I think we need to start setting [TS]
◼ ► It's a present from your family I think next maybe not maybe I'm pushing my luck this move on. [TS]
◼ ► Passport design was so that when I first saw some of the images for the redesign of the U.S. [TS]
◼ ► I did not think that they were real and what they made me think of was there's a section on Reddit called America. [TS]
◼ ► So it is a kind of jokey section where it's super hyper patriotic pretend place where people post Photo Shopped images [TS]
◼ ► of for example a blink in holding the U.S. Constitution while writing a bear on the moon and shooting space Nazis. [TS]
◼ ► Yeah yeah I'll just say Merica are across the top with a big exclamation mark so it is kind of making fun of a [TS]
◼ ► and they were playing in the national anthem they were showing like a fighting chance. On the screen on the T.V. [TS]
◼ ► Screen. So I was singing the national anthem looking at a fully laden missile carrying fighter jet Yaraka. [TS]
◼ ► Yes that's exactly right so so when I saw the redesign I honestly thought this looks like something from America. [TS]
◼ ► Like is this a prank that people are pulling to try to make it seem like this is the passport redesign because [TS]
◼ ► Now there are these full color pictures of all kinds of hyper patriotic American stuff and I think in fact you know. [TS]
◼ ► and I don't know if space rockets all kinds of America think one of them is Neil Armstrong on the moon. [TS]
◼ ► It's just it's too much it's chod island that you need to dial it down especially for a passport because it's been like [TS]
◼ ► and I think this really is why would why would you leave America I guess you would never leave America you see you know [TS]
◼ ► you just got to have it as an object of adoration or the worst one which is kind of makes me laugh [TS]
◼ ► Sound right like the screaming eagle sounds just like the birthday cards that open up and start playing music. [TS]
◼ ► I'm honestly surprised that they didn't put a little sound effect in there for when you open up the passport. [TS]
◼ ► but it is also like well I guess this is America you know America not known for her subtlety. Yeah. [TS]
◼ ► So I'm not a I'm not a huge fan of the redesigned passport but I got that one a few years ago [TS]
◼ ► and I think they have done exactly what the American passport has done except in a nice subtle way. [TS]
◼ ► So it's the same thing where on the passport stamp pages there are Irish designs seen from Irish history or. [TS]
◼ ► but they know how to do it because it's sort of two tone green where the pages are light green [TS]
◼ ► and then the designs are a slightly darker green maybe with a little blue tip to as an accent color [TS]
◼ ► but it looks like something that you could put a stamp on and then the stamp would be clearly visible. [TS]
◼ ► It doesn't look like the pages are supposed to be the thing like it does in the American passport so I really like it [TS]
◼ ► but it can't be done in a more dialed down why it doesn't you don't have to have it like full color paintings on the [TS]
◼ ► moon for fields of grain and I just order the Liberty Bell or you know I don't know it just [TS]
◼ ► but also just like an inevitable sigh like well I guess it couldn't be anything else could it I mean this is what it [TS]
◼ ► I mean this is not a good day to be talking to me about passports because I have not told you about the polis I have [TS]
◼ ► been through today involving passports. Oh yeah it was this is for you have been traveling for like five weeks. [TS]
◼ ► Well well I'm supposed today this is now in some doubt because basically I require a visa to go to India [TS]
◼ ► I love the people of India and I'm very thankful to any of them who watch my videos or listen to this podcast. [TS]
◼ ► Your bureaucracy is not one of my favorite things I have been a few times for it always causes problems [TS]
◼ ► and that has caused me tremendous problems today to the point where I doubt I will get my visa in time for the flight [TS]
◼ ► and I I think you know I'm going to end this before we even start I am not going to tell you the story because it's [TS]
◼ ► but there was one highlight which were the pay which I like that I like that whatever that I'm really curious like what [TS]
◼ ► is the story that is to first world problems for our podcast which is basically for his world. [TS]
◼ ► Well yeah I think that we all have to ask you offline about this like a curiosity now Peter. [TS]
◼ ► But the moment you will enjoy it was when I was in the I went to Birmingham City in the U.K. [TS]
◼ ► and we saw I had status for various reasons I was told I couldn't apply in Birmingham because I live in a part of [TS]
◼ ► and it turns out by chance I did have an address in another part of England that I could use [TS]
◼ ► and I couldn't I had to be typed in everything I couldn't just cross it out put a different address they said you going [TS]
◼ ► and they said well four blocks that way is a library you can go to so I was sent to this library. [TS]
◼ ► Like in the middle of nowhere where I then walked in and like had to book a computer and then sit down [TS]
◼ ► Thirty pence to printed out on my computer right operating walk walk back to the this center. [TS]
◼ ► Every time I went up to the counter there was some other little tiny piece of minutiae that had to be done on now we [TS]
◼ ► So I then had to go and get a scrap of paper and I hand write I am Brady Haran and I would take a can [TS]
◼ ► and say one hundred and three microphones and and in the end I gave them all these pieces of paper [TS]
◼ ► Can I can I pay you and extortionate amount of money to have you do it so you know and I will not. [TS]
◼ ► but you have to apply for a journalist visa because you will be filming something while you are there. [TS]
◼ ► There's no flexibility anywhere there's no and India is just so it's like the Indian bureaucracy in the U.K. [TS]
◼ ► Reflects India itself it's just huge and unwieldy and inflexible and and in the end I just walked out [TS]
◼ ► and said Well I'll try and post some strings which I've been trying to do today but. It's not going to happen. [TS]
◼ ► I'm not going to get this raise I'm not going to be on this plane I'm going to be letting a few people down I don't [TS]
◼ ► know what's going to happen but it was just I think it was Indian bureaucracy is letting a few people down. [TS]
◼ ► and trying to be super high tech So they're terribly designed a Web site that breaks all the time and [TS]
◼ ► and they're going through some transition at the moment and I know I've talked about it enough. [TS]
◼ ► It was it was a bad experience and it's always a bad experience and I love the people of India [TS]
◼ ► You are really bad at processing visas and make it very difficult to come and visit your country. [TS]
◼ ► Am I going to get the visa on Monday or Tuesday and go later and missed some of this conference. [TS]
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◼ ► This time I'm going to pick an old favorite of mine that I was actually rereading on this trip which is the Hobbit by J [TS]
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◼ ► Let's talk about a place that was easy to go to and that was Alabama where we went and hung out with our friends [TS]
◼ ► and had a fantastic time. Did we know have a great trip to Alabama. I have to say it was an amazing experience. [TS]
◼ ► It was I was I was very happy to go and I feel like the five of us. Are we get along very well. [TS]
◼ ► I feel like we've clicked since the very first time that we met up in up in Canada at the Perimeter Institute to a [TS]
◼ ► but that's what that's part of the cooking right is you can have an argument with somebody. [TS]
◼ ► Well he's the one doing the arguing so I hope he's not going back in the prime minister and he makes me look lovely. [TS]
◼ ► And I think I'm a pretty argumentative I think I think we're all argumentative in our own way. [TS]
◼ ► We're all we're all very particular in our own way but I like I still think we just get along really well [TS]
◼ ► and so that's why when Justin first arranged this it was like I I will come I will make time in my schedule for this. [TS]
◼ ► If Justin said oh you know I want to try to arrange this again for next month. I would be on board. [TS]
◼ ► Without a doubt if I were I would you know quite happily probably take me a week to recover from the trip. [TS]
◼ ► It was it was glorious. It was absolutely glorious. Do you know what's most exhausting about hanging out with you guys. [TS]
◼ ► Well and you are not as guilty of this as some of the others but this is just a thing you don't get away with anything. [TS]
◼ ► Like like if you miss spake or like mispronounce something or use a bit of hyperbole you should [TS]
◼ ► and they say something like And you know like you know they don't need correcting that because they don't need [TS]
◼ ► correcting or because they just misspoke. And they know the correct information. You just kind of let that go. [TS]
◼ ► You just don't say anything. That's what no pay for doing that doesn't happen when I get out. [TS]
◼ ► These are these are these are these are guys who enjoy accuracy. Yes that that is definitely true. [TS]
◼ ► Derek was right behind him with his i Phone fact checking the stories breaking so it's not like this [TS]
◼ ► and say oh that this place is fake this place is famous for being you know the the the told us the tallest tree south [TS]
◼ ► of the Mississippi or something and then Gary could be well actually there are a whole list [TS]
◼ ► and that same kind of personality trait is also why I just absolutely adore hanging out with you guys whenever I get [TS]
◼ ► Three minutes before all of us are having a conversation about how the highway numbering system works how the numbering [TS]
◼ ► But with them it's like you can almost guarantee that any conversation is going to turn both very interesting [TS]
◼ ► and you just you know among the five of us you just need someone to make an off handed comment and boom. [TS]
◼ ► We're in deep on how the highway numbering system works or where the editing rules for Wikipedia [TS]
◼ ► or just a numerous other topics that came up and that is why I absolutely love hanging out with you guys [TS]
◼ ► but it is it is kind of mentally exhausting after a whole week especially especially for someone like me who barely [TS]
◼ ► socializes who puts the socializing Leipold at the dimmest it can possibly be without being off [TS]
◼ ► and then to suddenly have six days in a row of eighteen hour days of talking to people is quite draining from my [TS]
◼ ► Now this is this is going to make people jealous because this is what I got to say while I was away with grey I got to [TS]
◼ ► We were doing all manner of guns hand guns and I K forty seven's and just firing those bad boys it targets [TS]
◼ ► Yes we we had a kind of special morning with Destin where Justin was asking Destin when he arranged this. [TS]
◼ ► Asked people various things that that they might want to do and so there was a whole bunch of options [TS]
◼ ► and one of those options was to learn how to fire a gun and I had never fired a gun in my whole life [TS]
◼ ► and I was thinking later it is quite possible that I had never touched an active firearm in my life. [TS]
◼ ► It was one of these things where I thought well I've never I've never done this before and I know [TS]
◼ ► and so I thought well I'm never going to go to a gun range just on my own and to have some dude I don't know. [TS]
◼ ► So when I looked at death and I thought that is the man I'm going to lose my gun virginity with [TS]
◼ ► and then he gave us a little safety briefing in H one and then basically he said go on that [TS]
◼ ► Firing specially those those those hand guns I don't see why there's anything amusing about that I don't know just like [TS]
◼ ► I don't know it was just the it was just a funny thought that the thing they have to say that was most surprising about [TS]
◼ ► or fifty meters away I don't know is that fair I have a hard time estimating just it depends on the story you're going [TS]
◼ ► and he said oh don't worry you're going to be hitting these little you know ten centimeter across targets in no time [TS]
◼ ► and I thought no way buddy. You know how far away that is it looks like a dot on my field of vision. [TS]
◼ ► Guns are designed to make it easy to shoot things accurately and you know as long as I'm not moving around too much [TS]
◼ ► and if I can line up the sights with the target I actually have a decent chance of hitting something that seems way too [TS]
◼ ► far away to actually hit so that it's not it's not like Angry Birds where you put a letter through the air the full [TS]
◼ ► Any straight line though honest to god that was kind of what I was thinking is like well you know it's going to take a [TS]
◼ ► and so if you if someone teaches you how to use it you can hit things relatively accurately. [TS]
◼ ► and gentlemen I'm going to show you the greats not that many of the targets over that's I mean I am surprised I hit any [TS]
◼ ► of that I there's no way we could be here for weeks before I would hit one of those targets [TS]
◼ ► That was that was a fun Alabama experience without it we have it. Did you have a favorite weapon. [TS]
◼ ► So I like the P twenty two handgun and I don't remember what the name of yours was but I liked lots of them. [TS]
◼ ► but you know the one I'm talking about it was like a six shooter one was a code something forty five special [TS]
◼ ► and will be screaming at his i Pod cast that right now I'm going to look at what it was a coat so I guess I did like [TS]
◼ ► That was pretty cool I was not that's not right because it's not calling out many pictures I don't know it was that [TS]
◼ ► revolver. Now I also like that one that will be fired. Dragon breath at the end had a real big kick to it. [TS]
◼ ► OK this is one of these things where it is difficult to describe but there were just so many guns. [TS]
◼ ► It's not like oh we can't remember the names of the two guns that we must've fired ten different kinds of guns at least [TS]
◼ ► and if you ever have to learn about gun safety I would highly recommend destine as the man to do it with he was very [TS]
◼ ► when I would do something dumb like try to shoot with the safety on you know other just idiotic things. [TS]
◼ ► He was excellent and in true stuff we did spend the hour driving to the sot talking about gun laws [TS]
◼ ► and stuff in the US so so we had this big like heated debate about the pros and cons of gun laws [TS]
◼ ► Yes we had a we had a we had a great dinner with these parents that not one of the wonderful people of his family that [TS]
◼ ► was so kind and nice and Terra his wife organizing everything and I was so good I feel really bad that I was [TS]
◼ ► and I can't imagine I could ever be that NASA host. Well this is this is exactly an eight I struggle to put into words. [TS]
◼ ► and it was it was honestly just overwhelming I always I always find it you know I come from a pretty small family I [TS]
◼ ► Quite an experience and we felt really welcome the whole time and it was I was just overwhelmed. [TS]
◼ ► and the one of the great discoveries from destines family was a delicacy that was prepared for us on multiple occasions [TS]
◼ ► And I'm not going to describe it because you will accuse me of exaggerating do you want to describe this delicacy which [TS]
◼ ► OK so this tray appears one of the evenings a huge tray is about the size of a dinner table. [TS]
◼ ► Yeah yeah appears and it looks like it is just strawberries on the top in a little bit of strawberry sauce.. [TS]
◼ ► But there is a surprise underneath which is that's like Jell-O. In Jell-O. Yeah yeah it's kind of like Jell-O. [TS]
◼ ► but underneath a layer of strawberries there is a layer of whipped cream which is like OK OK so far so good. [TS]
◼ ► but then the bottom layer is crunchy pratfalls which doesn't seem like it fits with the other two. [TS]
◼ ► but this really was like an hour of our evening was arguing over on a one to ten scale how delicious is this dessert [TS]
◼ ► Nine I never said ten and I was I was going nine and then I may be downgraded to just leave myself some wiggle room [TS]
◼ ► but the thing that disappointed me was some of the others were quite gave it to not buy something and the hotel. [TS]
◼ ► Hendry must have had three bottles of the stuff it was fantastic it was one of the real discoveries of my trip to [TS]
◼ ► Now as the listeners may guess I am a relatively picky eater I don't like to try new foods. [TS]
◼ ► But it's I have to say Alabama it was probably one of the only places on earth I have ever been raw felt like whatever [TS]
◼ ► One restaurant I even delegated the power of my order to Destine which is something I would never do. [TS]
◼ ► Anywhere on earth. I mean to her stance but I kind of like you know what I have been here for days. [TS]
◼ ► Everything is delicious. I don't have any idea what to order on this menu. You just do it dude. [TS]
◼ ► And he ordered a whole bunch of stuff like this is all delicious. Not amazing. So Alabama sums up on your food. [TS]
◼ ► but I could not live there because I would obviously die of some kind of obesity related disease if I spent two [TS]
◼ ► So excellent place to visit but I could not possibly live there because the food is too good. [TS]
◼ ► So I mean the main reason we went was just to hang out with friends and we we did this shooting [TS]
◼ ► But another big thing we did of course was the random acts of intelligence show at The Rocket Center with six hundred [TS]
◼ ► people came to you know to back this up to back this up I have a couple lessons about destiny the first time we've [TS]
◼ ► already mentioned on I think one of the extras to this podcast which is do not discuss potential titles for videos with [TS]
◼ ► If you have a full working day to give over to that project you will be engaged in this conversation for forever [TS]
◼ ► and the other lesson I learned on this trip is do not agree to do something with Destin on the premise that it is going [TS]
◼ ► to be small and destine can only do things all the way and so I went back and looked at the old emails [TS]
◼ ► and it started as OK Let's let's have this trip together in Alabama and we're just going to hang out [TS]
◼ ► And then over time it progressed to hey maybe we should have an informal meet up in a park with some people who might [TS]
◼ ► and then it was oh maybe we could do at a university like a little panel and then it kept ratcheting up in this way [TS]
◼ ► when I wasn't paying close enough attention to all of a sudden I felt like I did not understand the full scale of this [TS]
◼ ► thing until I was actually in Alabama and it was tomorrow like oh we have the Space and Rocket Center [TS]
◼ ► and there's going to be a Saturn five rocket above us and it's going to be six hundred people [TS]
◼ ► and we were like greeted by let the local authority figure it was like a big deer like the whole thing was just crazy. [TS]
◼ ► And I kept thinking I don't remember signing up for anything. I don't exactly know how I got here. [TS]
◼ ► If if if that had been presented to me at the start I would have said no way are you crazy I'm not going to do that. [TS]
◼ ► and suddenly you find yourself on stage in front of six hundred people for the first time so yeah [TS]
◼ ► but it was it was again it was a great event but it was surprising how much effort and was able to put into it [TS]
◼ ► and how well. He was able to pull off the whole thing when it started as just like oh maybe we'll do a thing. [TS]
◼ ► So yes you know how like I was joking before about how if I was flying first class I'd want Scalia Hanson give me pain [TS]
◼ ► and you said where do you want your stage to be Brady I would say All right here's the Stager one gray make this happen. [TS]
◼ ► Suspended from the ceiling and then I would say I want an Apollo a real Apollo lunar landing module [TS]
◼ ► and lunar rover to my left. I want a real Apollo return capture that brought men back from the moon to my right. [TS]
◼ ► In fact put a moon rock there as well while you're at it. I want I want Apollo memorabilia in every corner. [TS]
◼ ► Make that happen and you would laugh at me I would I would and that is exactly what we have. [TS]
◼ ► The only thing that would have a more amazing was if halfway through Scalia had said appeared [TS]
◼ ► and said give me pin evidence Speedmaster that's what they did what they did they did bring a slave master on stage for [TS]
◼ ► Yeah it really was the perfect Brady stage I have a hard time imagining that there will ever be a stage that you could [TS]
◼ ► So as is no this this was deliberately something we like you know didn't want to make a like a big recording all of [TS]
◼ ► sudden like it was it was this was a live show it wasn't a video so I don't think we're going to you know ramble on for [TS]
◼ ► when maybe would maybe this will happen again one day although I doubt it listening to them to something. [TS]
◼ ► but one thing that we should talk about because it's quite interesting is the fact that you were there you were on [TS]
◼ ► stage I mean you don't make a big deal about public appearances and plaster You're so full of your videos [TS]
◼ ► and I think I think a fair proportion of people who were there were quite curious about seeing you come out from your [TS]
◼ ► Yeah I think it's I think it felt it felt really natural I almost feel like we couldn't talk a lot about the night [TS]
◼ ► because from my perspective it went so fast it's a bit like it's bit like on one the previous pod cast I mentioned how [TS]
◼ ► and Rocket Center talk because obviously it was not as intense as my wedding was. That's a whole other level. [TS]
◼ ► But it was it was a very very intense evening still and so it felt like the thing just went by so fast [TS]
◼ ► and afterwards after the actual event itself we ended up all five of us ended up signing posters and T. [TS]
◼ ► and so that's something like what two hundred fifty people at a minimum maybe four hundred people at a maximum. [TS]
◼ ► So he so that was that was never that was I did not expect that to happen. I don't expect that to happen either. [TS]
◼ ► And so so one so the set up here is that after the show we went out into the kind of lobby of the Space [TS]
◼ ► And I ended up being in a corner with a kind of semicircle of people around me and just pulling people out [TS]
◼ ► and signing and saying hello and shaking hands and all the stuff I got went really well that that was really nice. [TS]
◼ ► and just to be clear this is with a pen with a marker on the back of the known on the X.-Ray i Phone Yeah on the on the [TS]
◼ ► Yeah I don't know if I can handle this but I did say OK if you know you look me in the eye of man [TS]
◼ ► and you tell me that you're really OK with this I'm going to do it and so he did and I signed it [TS]
◼ ► Black is nice and solid the pen moves nice and smoothly compared to signing something like a T. [TS]
◼ ► and then I ended up by my count signing for i Phones in total for that event because people like oh do you want to sign [TS]
◼ ► and i thought well once you have one you know you've broken through that isn't this terrifying barrier a sure sign [TS]
◼ ► everybody's i Phone This is a way better than signing posters I feel a bit bad about the one I signed because if you [TS]
◼ ► and just got them to sign things like a poster and stuff like that to have the collection of people who were there. [TS]
◼ ► and I was well aware that you know a lot of people were there not to say main fact more people. [TS]
◼ ► Other than to say you know the derricks in the distance because they are not big superstars in the C.G. [TS]
◼ ► Peak season this year at any any way that you make. OK that's all humility so close to military folks humility. [TS]
◼ ► and I think I was the first person I asked to do it because you obviously go up a whole bunch of others after you made [TS]
◼ ► and his so I was like oh OK yeah sure whereabouts and he sort of pointed vaguely to an area so I like I signed [TS]
◼ ► and it never occurred to me that he was going to take the phone to be signed by the rest of you which of course that [TS]
◼ ► should have occurred to me why would you just want me to sign it so later on when a picture was posted to Twitter [TS]
◼ ► or something of the phone signed by everyone there is kind of my signature in the middle and like this C.D.P. [TS]
◼ ► Grey and Derek investor no like you guys are all alike on the edges on the writing and everything [TS]
◼ ► Exactly I had I hope I hope you came to me first because he wanted me most because because I was a bit of. [TS]
◼ ► but it did give you a taste for a couple of hours of what it must be like to be like like a well known person [TS]
◼ ► and it made me realize what I loved I loved talking to all these people and doing this but I also like that after two [TS]
◼ ► Yes yes this is this is a topic you know very well I want to talk about more in detail at some point but yes I would. [TS]
◼ ► Has I guess it can be awesome for an afternoon if your whole life was like this. It's a nightmare. [TS]
◼ ► and even after that even after the two hours of signing We then went there was like an after after show at the Marriott [TS]
◼ ► but I highly value in my normal life being able to just go somewhere and people don't know me. [TS]
◼ ► but I did not know the reason why I want to shut you down before about people people you know just not coming to see [TS]
◼ ► and how they listened to the two of us and they really liked it and I found that very notable [TS]
◼ ► Hello Internet listener presence at the random acts of ant and I was just I thought that was really interesting [TS]
◼ ► and yeah it was that was that was a time I felt like oh this is this is really nice I'm glad people [TS]
◼ ► and good people want it so I would have preferred it that said like I don't to hear that that C.D.P. [TS]
◼ ► Great Joker is but I think I'm above the parody video is just awesome and it was it was it was fun. [TS]
◼ ► You obviously posed for loads of selfies and stuff like that. Yeah yeah which was and you know this is obviously these. [TS]
◼ ► So I'm going to just you know find their way around the places people share things like people you're cool with that [TS]
◼ ► you've got no problem with you know because you do value your privacy but you've just sort of said oh well there we go. [TS]
◼ ► Well so the thing the thing about this is as you might imagine I have thought about this kind of decision for a while. [TS]
◼ ► And yeah I was someone asked during the event if I was OK with pictures and I said Yeah you know obviously it's fine. [TS]
◼ ► I still recommend that you don't like I wrote that article about the faceless voices laying out my reasons for four [TS]
◼ ► and I have actually received more than a few e-mails from people saying that they have regretted their decision to go [TS]
◼ ► find out what I look like and I understand that I don't take that as as they're horrified by how perfectly ugly I am [TS]
◼ ► I get that I completely understand that feeling of it's kind of better when you when you don't know the person [TS]
◼ ► I noticed that I was starting to have a lot of anxiety about trying to keep my picture off of the Internet which of [TS]
◼ ► And also I am no fool you look at the trend lines of technology like we are not heading into a world that is more [TS]
◼ ► So if you are a person who does any kind of work in the public sphere you just can't have the same kind of control over [TS]
◼ ► your anonymity that you would as a normal person does even normal people have a difficult time with that so I guess. [TS]
◼ ► and I also also does want to say trying to keep pictures off the internet I was on that I was doing [TS]
◼ ► but there is also like there's a whole team of other people who I have interacted with over the years who have also [TS]
◼ ► but I do just want to say I like my ability to keep my picture off of the Internet was not a one man project there are [TS]
◼ ► or you know just just helped protect my anonymity in some way so I do want to say just a huge thanks to all of the [TS]
◼ ► After the million subscribers I could I could feel the tide changing on this that there were just there was just too [TS]
◼ ► and so the it's again it's like economics with the the stress of trying to maintain this was beginning to outweigh the [TS]
◼ ► when Dustin started talking about doing an event and I thought oh this this kind of works out perfectly [TS]
◼ ► and I have to say my experience now is that I am just hugely relieved to not be stressed out about this anymore because [TS]
◼ ► Like I don't think I'm going to be in my own videos I like. Doing the animations I think they work. [TS]
◼ ► And I probably won't put my own picture on my About page on my website I did find I mean I did have a brief experience [TS]
◼ ► with this a few weeks back with the with the PI modify video and there's obviously obviously you were there [TS]
◼ ► and I did decide do you want me to go through with a fine tooth comb and take you out and send CA [TS]
◼ ► and you'd obviously had reached this decision already and you just said to me Look just just labor. [TS]
◼ ► So obviously they I sold I told you that I know I wouldn't be there if it wasn't OK for me to be in background yeah [TS]
◼ ► but also a lot more funny that obviously people figured this out because we talked about the video on the podcast [TS]
◼ ► and the lengths people went on that video to sort of isolate like they would go through it like the credits of who was [TS]
◼ ► who was there and then like do this sort of process of elimination and they were taking screen grabs [TS]
◼ ► and they were using like aerial shots to figure out what your where it was like like C S I. Yeah and that. [TS]
◼ ► and even though the people are have the best intentions I'd like they just feel subjectively creepy [TS]
◼ ► and so yes I am very happy that for stuff like that in the future the conversation comes up [TS]
◼ ► or people go oh which one is C.D.P. Grey. So one can just link to one of the pictures on Twitter and go that's easy. [TS]
◼ ► but we don't have we don't have to start like tracking down everybody who's appeared in this video [TS]
◼ ► We've just now and it's fine so I'm happy to have that situation be different now. I love that you went for the. [TS]
◼ ► Called board in the strings like the very I'm in grey like well that's kind of that's the way crazy people look at [TS]
◼ ► movies you know that would have been like in three a day and there'd be strings all across the room [TS]
◼ ► and they would have to walk through the row because I've done it over like hero style although it is some people like [TS]
◼ ► and you said no I mean he jokingly said it was I think you said like it was your coming out of something that got like [TS]
◼ ► a nice laugh and yet some people are still posting pictures from the event like their selfies with you [TS]
◼ ► and they're like censoring out your face like they're putting something or maybe they don't like what you look like. [TS]
◼ ► and I saw a whole bunch of people do that exact same thing they posted the picture of them with me [TS]
◼ ► but they took that they put the stick figure over my face and it never occurred to me that people would do that [TS]
◼ ► and so I have to say I really got a big laugh out of that I really enjoyed that I think it's just thought it was really [TS]
◼ ► and took a picture of me holding like him next to me with a poster of like I'm not even sure what the point of this [TS]
◼ ► There were there were a few funny things like that so I have to say I I genuinely enjoyed the experience of of meeting [TS]
◼ ► everybody no matter how briefly in that signing section and just talking to fans of the show [TS]
◼ ► or people who like the videos like that was that was a much better experience than I expected it to be. [TS]
◼ ► and I hope it was fun for everybody who was there and for those who couldn't make it or would like to have made it. [TS]
◼ ► I'm sure one day something will happen where you too can take a phone. Grace face covered with a poster. [TS]
◼ ► Yeah I hope Justin arranges something I'm just delegated to destine to do what he would literally be held on the moon [TS]
◼ ► next time. You know the Rocket Center wasn't close enough to the lunar environment this time I want to go all the way. [TS]