◼ ► Not making any promises about that. This could this could be cut and then that's the ultimate humiliation. [TS]
◼ ► It's always funny like we talked before the show and like I'm looking at you on the camera and it's like normal [TS]
◼ ► and then when we go into this blind mode and you're just a voice it's like you're a different person. [TS]
◼ ► Do you do you feel that it's a strange transition I think from oh we're just chatting about what we were just talking [TS]
◼ ► about your very handsome office a moment ago but now suddenly it feels like there are people here [TS]
◼ ► when we go into a star it feels like there are more people all of a sudden that's what that feeling is yes. [TS]
◼ ► Suddenly even though our physical surroundings have changed basically not at all except that I can no longer see you [TS]
◼ ► Anyway enough of this crisis follow I have something I'm going to call feedback on feedback on feedback with wow here [TS]
◼ ► I recently just put up the feedback on feedback episode so it's interesting to have this bit of a time delay for the [TS]
◼ ► and it's like Inception every time we talk about people commenting on videos that are commenting on bits of it yes it [TS]
◼ ► does and then try and trying to keep in mind that this is then going to be our conversation is going to pass through. [TS]
◼ ► or it's always very strange in that episode that is the episode where we talk about people who is the person who leaves [TS]
◼ ► a three star review that you only get five star reviews or three star reviews five star reviews or one star reviews [TS]
◼ ► but you don't get very many three star reviews and you get the people who hate people who do. [TS]
◼ ► but notice that since we put that up on You Tube That's the episode in which we're talking about reviews. [TS]
◼ ► and I read all of those I have a little program that actually aggregates the reviews from all over the world so I can [TS]
◼ ► see what you know what reviews people have left about the show because I'm very interested. [TS]
◼ ► I feel the need to officially tell people you don't need to leave a three star review just so that I will read it [TS]
◼ ► but we had a big spike in people leaving three star reviews saying whoa i totally love the show [TS]
◼ ► but Grace had that nobody leaves so he star reviews. So here's my three star review. Love the show. [TS]
◼ ► when you get I mean you probably don't get to say much because your videos get watched very quickly [TS]
◼ ► but on some of my slower channels you will get a point where you have a video that's been out for a while [TS]
◼ ► when he has never had a single dislike you dislike within half a second. Yes because someone just wants to. [TS]
◼ ► and you should you should tell you should tell people that you will only read the five star reviews with this [TS]
◼ ► So if people want to have that comment read by you personally in touch they have to lay the first no I will I will be [TS]
◼ ► Leaving a three star review is not the most helpful thing that you can do I promise I will read a bit of your view [TS]
◼ ► anyway so I don't you know I got my videos I don't like to say the end of the videos like that everyone does on You [TS]
◼ ► but since we've had people go out of their way to give us review lower than they normally would. [TS]
◼ ► Would you please leave a review that is actually reflective of the star that you think the show should get I would I [TS]
◼ ► would appreciate that. So this is my call. Second call for reviews and just to put that out there. I read them all. [TS]
◼ ► If it makes you feel bad my mom reads the reviews as well so she doesn't like to see people give me ramen you shouldn't [TS]
◼ ► and I don't think that you think they are trying to get people into it I think they try to be fair I think a ten year three [TS]
◼ ► and I always feel with these things that in the grand scheme of pod cast that are available for people to listen to. [TS]
◼ ► when you're talking about comparison to something like Radio Lab For example you know a five star pod cast no no doubt [TS]
◼ ► But it's again it's always with this kind of show it's about the reaction for the person listening to the people [TS]
◼ ► talking and so for some people they're really going to like it and for some people they're really going to not like it. [TS]
◼ ► My sigh was because I can both kind of agree with you but I look about it in a slightly different way. [TS]
◼ ► You took that way more seriously than you were supposed to it was just like a glib comment you know I really very fair. [TS]
◼ ► and I've listened to all the ones I want to listen to go check on one of those on hello internets [TS]
◼ ► but how do you find listening to the show because I mean I have I usually end up listening to it about three times [TS]
◼ ► but that's because I'm I'm editing it so yeah I mean how is it taking a little taking a little walk like how he enjoyed [TS]
◼ ► I always like the most recent one and think that one's aura and the outer ones I don't like [TS]
◼ ► If I watch I can watch my old videos which I still enjoy the most recent video I think it's pretty good. [TS]
◼ ► or their old stuff so is terribly contorting I do want to mention just before I forget one one more thing about the the [TS]
◼ ► feedback on feedback on feedback which is yeah I haven't done in a while is mention new countries where we have reviews [TS]
◼ ► and when I guess and that's of course because it's like as time goes on it's harder and harder to get new countries. [TS]
◼ ► Yes it's a it's a card game you have to like buy decks of cards but some of the cards are really rare [TS]
◼ ► and so if you are in a country that we haven't received a review from Yet you are basically like one of the rare Magic [TS]
◼ ► the Gathering cards that's or that's a look out here. It's like a sports guy the sports car. [TS]
◼ ► So that when I'm with you I do they vary the frequency of those get sometimes you get special cards [TS]
◼ ► So we have three that I just wanted to mention quickly I have not been to any of these places [TS]
◼ ► Since the last time I mentioned this a little while ago so thank you very much to the reviewers in those countries who [TS]
◼ ► You know Costa Rica's been awesome in the World Cup That's one of the moment I do not know that they were what they [TS]
◼ ► Yeah talk to me that kindles you had you had yet you had to be ever vigilant rant about candles in the last episode if [TS]
◼ ► No Well no I haven't gotten over it because I have to face the horrors that I discussed last time every day [TS]
◼ ► You sure can do every day I make a real attempt to try and read something long form every day [TS]
◼ ► but I do I do try to carve out time to say OK I'm going I am going to read some section of a book now [TS]
◼ ► when I'll do it like OK it's lunch now I'm going to try to carve out at least twenty minutes where I'm just going to [TS]
◼ ► sit here and I'm going to read you know section of a of a non-fiction book that I'm working my way through so. [TS]
◼ ► but I would say I do it most days of the week and I'm not going to be curious to know my hit rate is on this boat. [TS]
◼ ► Well it's usually like bedtime Sometimes I'll dislike it if I've got time I was going to write a chapter of a book. [TS]
◼ ► Or if I go on holidays or trips and planes and things like that I certainly don't have like. [TS]
◼ ► and read for twenty minutes is one of the items on there so I am happy when I can successfully check that check box. [TS]
◼ ► but you don't have to check that check box you realize you could just say I'm not going to do that today [TS]
◼ ► Don't make what makes what makes you obey the checklist because I wake up every morning thinking of all the things I [TS]
◼ ► want to do and I'm going to go to the gym and I'm going to do this and I'm going to pay those bills [TS]
◼ ► and it's like well actually I didn't do any of that because I got sidetracked. What makes you go by yourself. [TS]
◼ ► It's I have one particular checklist that I use which is the kind of ideal checklist that on an ideal day checklist I [TS]
◼ ► should say which is that a name has it got like a name saved and I called the work flow checklist [TS]
◼ ► So there's time that blocked out for different kinds of activities one of which happens to be the reading some of it [TS]
◼ ► but there is not maybe ten items on this which is the perfect day is hitting all of these items. [TS]
◼ ► How if there's any potential you can reel off the list for us now are not going to knock out its secret [TS]
◼ ► Yet there is nothing that forces me but it's it's an it's a nice way to keep track of how did I do [TS]
◼ ► and then I can be a little bit reflective at the end of the day which I can look at the checklist [TS]
◼ ► or you know look at that almost everything is checked off on this list like this is a very good day. [TS]
◼ ► The reading is on there because it's not important on any particular day but it's something that. [TS]
◼ ► Matters over the long run whether or not you read every day matters over a long time scale. [TS]
◼ ► And there's a few other items that are kind of like that stuff that it's not important today [TS]
◼ ► but it does matter over the longer term so I want to throw down a challenge to everyone he comments on Reddit on the [TS]
◼ ► when we eventually get access to that list in a future pod cast Lucy how I pay for work and be serious about it. [TS]
◼ ► Put silly things or read things. Yeah tell me internet out of this silly that's that's going to work. [TS]
◼ ► Yeah that's like ten of them. Freestyle reviews don't hurt my mother's feelings by leaving him in review. [TS]
◼ ► People were sending me all of this information I wanted to know why. Why Kendall do you do this horrific thing. [TS]
◼ ► and people sent me all of these answers saying how it's baked into the format of Kindle books that the books are [TS]
◼ ► specified that they're going to be fully justified as it is so I got some answers from people trying to speculate about [TS]
◼ ► but then I found out which is just made me even sadder about this whole situation which I did not think was possible [TS]
◼ ► that on the older model Kindles which maybe you have because as we found out last time you've no idea what Kindle you [TS]
◼ ► I said You even did I have to but I don't remember you commented that I had because it was on charge [TS]
◼ ► and you said you've never seen the uncharged SANDOVAL Oh I forgot about this yesterday but I think that's right. [TS]
◼ ► OK I should know what kind it is but you at least have a photo of it. You should know. I guess I do. [TS]
◼ ► That hasn't got a cable or a button. You did send me that thing. I just put that out of my mind. [TS]
◼ ► Oh OK so you have the same Kindle that I do you have OK for white. Yeah that's what you have Brady. Now you know. [TS]
◼ ► Yes So what I discovered that made me even more sad is that on the older model of Kindles there is a secret option that [TS]
◼ ► Here's why this is infuriating to me because this immediately invalidates all of the arguments that other people have [TS]
◼ ► Like there's some sort of technical reason there obviously isn't if there's a secret option on the older Kindles to be [TS]
◼ ► able to left align the text it is technically possible which which means I am being pushed into the belief. [TS]
◼ ► or vindictive with its choice to force fully fully justified text on the Kindle page there's a if it's technically [TS]
◼ ► possible if you used to let people do it if people who still have old Kindles can left justified the text then you're [TS]
◼ ► Again if if anybody listening to the sound of my workplace works at Amazon it's OK you can send me an anonymous email. [TS]
◼ ► I won't tell anyone I just need to know review that is what that that is what I want to review [TS]
◼ ► and then no one will know you just put to get that passed through on the code review for the next the next iteration. [TS]
◼ ► And you know make everybody happy but would be awesome if the way you accessed it was you had to type like C.G. [TS]
◼ ► Pay on some screen and be the best that would be the one that would because I'd be really excited about that [TS]
◼ ► I am even sadder after learning more about the situation which I did not think was possible. [TS]
◼ ► and e-mailing me over all the times they say in the word humbled being used in various books and articles [TS]
◼ ► and also as we record this it's the night after Brazil were dumped out of their own soccer World Cup. [TS]
◼ ► In traumatic circumstances for them they were beaten seven one by Germany which is an unprecedented result especially [TS]
◼ ► and indeed it was very traumatic for the people of Brazil with my condolences but I know it's only sport in Brazil. [TS]
◼ ► Well losing losing a semifinal of the World Cup in your own country after all that they would up in such a spectacular [TS]
◼ ► fashion. I feel their pain. And I don't I don't follow this very closely either but I can tell. [TS]
◼ ► or at the very least make it to the final round so I can definitely understand that it is very crushing. [TS]
◼ ► How do you feel the same way with the Olympics whoever's hosting the Olympics it feels like I really hope they get the [TS]
◼ ► I always think if you win a major major thing in your own country you've done it with the assistance of an advantage [TS]
◼ ► Controversial And I I don't know I mean it just seems too much of a coincidence that the host country suddenly wins [TS]
◼ ► Obviously they're they've got an advantage there is I spent all my life training to be the world's best at something [TS]
◼ ► and I got picked by someone from the home country who obviously got that extra bit of support from the craft. [TS]
◼ ► So what you're saying is that the Olympics or the World Cup should be held in a country that is not participating. [TS]
◼ ► and it's just I think that's what's hard it's just it's just part of the base that someone is going to have that [TS]
◼ ► advantage but I think this feeling that everyone wants their home country to win. I don't think that's fair. [TS]
◼ ► I think it's like I mean all the more glory to someone who can who can win against the home country on their home turf [TS]
◼ ► and it's good that Brazil got as far as they did because the more the people of the country are interested in the [TS]
◼ ► and may perceive a pretty handy soccer so you know they win their share of World Cups anyway [TS]
◼ ► but I think this home advantage thing I've always felt this you know I think there's more glory in winning something on [TS]
◼ ► but I still feel like I would I would have wanted Brazil to win even though I'm not invested in this that I would like [TS]
◼ ► I feel like if I was the architect of the universe I would want them to win but that seems that seems better. [TS]
◼ ► I feel a bit like well the best team didn't win but you know the best team didn't get to win I guess. [TS]
◼ ► but not saying is that I want whoever is hosting the game to happen to also have the best team that year. [TS]
◼ ► but that's what I want to I'm not going to sweat a Strat to host a big event I want to strive to win everything it's [TS]
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◼ ► and they have a ton of style options so you can create a unique web site for you or your business. [TS]
◼ ► And every design automatically includes a mobile experience that matches the overall style of your website so your [TS]
◼ ► but if you need help Squarespace has an amazing support team that works twenty four hours a day seven days a week [TS]
◼ ► and i Pad allows you to check site stats like page views unique visitors and social media followers while on the go. [TS]
◼ ► and for example one of the things that they don't mention in the standard read they give me is square space commerce. [TS]
◼ ► and you're trying to sell stuff they already have a tool that you can use to set up basically everything you need to [TS]
◼ ► It works with all the templates you can use stripe to collect payment they have simple pricing inventory management [TS]
◼ ► coupons and taxes and shipping an order for filament and mailing list integration and express check outs [TS]
◼ ► There's just a ton of stuff in here for you if you want to use your site to actually sell something on a business. [TS]
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◼ ► and includes a free domain name if you sign up for a year so start a trial with no credit card required today [TS]
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◼ ► but what I do you have is drum roll please the triumphant return of plane crash corner is that not one not like you have [TS]
◼ ► just made so many people happy New Year's Eve You gave me enough incentive there with that Romero and you. [TS]
◼ ► One is despite my sort of interest in aviation I've never really followed aviation Twitter streams [TS]
◼ ► I kind of remember they they sort of aviation gate so you know obviously sit at their computer [TS]
◼ ► and watch the live trackers of every plane in the world doing what they're doing. I really enjoy it. [TS]
◼ ► You get lots of great pictures and information about things happening in the world of aviation but and there is a [TS]
◼ ► but they do make flying. Suddenly same Much much unsafer than I previously thought because one of the. [TS]
◼ ► But I think it's the sort of False Alarm sort of thing I've learned is every time any plane decides it's got a problem [TS]
◼ ► This becomes huge breaking news for these traits of AIDS you know Flight seven four three has declared an emergency [TS]
◼ ► and is now heading to Paris and they've got these regular updates and you can click on links and follow it [TS]
◼ ► and you suddenly thinking oh my goodness a crush is going to happen this is amazing luck on another [TS]
◼ ► or you know I always always look in on board medical emergency or something it could be anything [TS]
◼ ► Following these Twitter streams does change your outlook on that and actually changes it falsely. [TS]
◼ ► Flying is to say that this sort of. So that's something that's something I'll send you some. [TS]
◼ ► and every single thing that happens in there in the town like you know Betty Jones had her pop pop pop stolen from [TS]
◼ ► house number three. Like makes it into the publication. Suddenly like Glee everything's like everyone's a plant. [TS]
◼ ► But there was a video posted just recently I don't know if you say it certainly everyone has sent it to me. [TS]
◼ ► but it was a plane a seven six seven plane coming in to land recently at the airport at Barcelona [TS]
◼ ► and as it came in to land another seven six seven was sort of crucial ing along on the ground [TS]
◼ ► and the two it looks like the two it would have would have hit on this plan that was coming into land sort of at the [TS]
◼ ► and pulls up at the very last minute and flies over the top of this plane slowly crawling across its runway. [TS]
◼ ► It's worth a watch you know it's really interesting to say you know if you get to say these things. [TS]
◼ ► So I'm sure you put them in can in the not so small plane crash in the near plane crash it's the you you tell me that [TS]
◼ ► or you decided I mean here I mean it's not us you know that they're not like you know rubbing paint off each other [TS]
◼ ► I just pulled up now have a little watch OK I know I know I complained about the question mark in this [TS]
◼ ► But you know with that you can definitely say looking at this video that they would have collided had the plane not [TS]
◼ ► pulled up at the last moment and it has sixteen million views as of as of this moment. Take it to the bank. [TS]
◼ ► but the thing is the thing to remember with those big planes today is like once it's like the Titanic you know it's one [TS]
◼ ► thing to say the iceberg in front of that evening going to do a few things and these things aren't as responsive [TS]
◼ ► But one interesting thing he said to me was all those things that got switched off on the plane all those that that the [TS]
◼ ► He flies commercial airliners said he wouldn't even know how to switch those things off if he was asked to do so it's [TS]
◼ ► or something like that someone for someone to switch those things off is a pretty strong chance they have planned well [TS]
◼ ► They were getting into conspiracy theory territory here is that you know you're the expert the expert not the expert. [TS]
◼ ► Shows of the two US You are the expert that is true to us. Right so there you go if you're on a plane at the moment. [TS]
◼ ► I see him on Twitter people requesting plane crash corner because they are going to the airport [TS]
◼ ► or because they have a flight I don't have hundreds Dechen says I'm I'm glad that people like it I'm glad the people it [TS]
◼ ► makes people happy. But I've I find that very strange. I don't I don't understand that mindset of yeah. [TS]
◼ ► but you also told me you watched as the plane crash shows on the airplane to now I don't I don't do that because I [TS]
◼ ► and as yet most airlines have not started showing air crash investigation as part of the in-flight entertainment. [TS]
◼ ► I just I'd love that if we ever fly somewhere together I don't want to sit next to you if you're going to be watching [TS]
◼ ► but I don't know I haven't I haven't someone out there probably has a spreadsheet of my upload schedule I have no idea. [TS]
◼ ► But yes I got this one out. Franticly and just barely in time for the July fourth deadline. [TS]
◼ ► but a few days after the American empire video went live. It's already passed a million views. [TS]
◼ ► Yes that has crossed over into my very successful categorization which is more views then subscribers within seven days [TS]
◼ ► I'm I'm pretty sure we talked about this before more so I came more season after remember that one I'll stop lying that [TS]
◼ ► and also because You Tube has a shall we say dramatically changed the way subscribers work since about a year ago my [TS]
◼ ► So take one third of that I should get more views then the third of my subscribers within seven days [TS]
◼ ► So that that was kind of my minimum threshold of of what counts as anything below that would be kind of a failure. [TS]
◼ ► But I may have to make life pretty miserable right now. Well it also depends on what kind of channel you're running. [TS]
◼ ► It's like you can't you have to look at OK what are comparable channels so I was looking at other channels that has [TS]
◼ ► like a low upload frequency but relatively successful videos but I haven't revised that number recently [TS]
◼ ► Those numbers mean less now than they used to so I think that estimate may be a little bit over optimistic [TS]
◼ ► but still I think a very successful video for me is more views than subscribers in seven days [TS]
◼ ► Explained video felt very much like that it was it was the it was the US version it was the video that was begging to [TS]
◼ ► be made. Yes yes that is exactly it and I have to say I have Jim Why the hell does it take so long to make it. [TS]
◼ ► and on my mind for a long time that somebody was going to beat me to this video because it seemed it seemed like the [TS]
◼ ► obvious thing to do and I don't know why nobody made it before I did so how do you how do you know nobody's made it [TS]
◼ ► Well I don't know that because I'm not You Tube omniscient I can't know if your hero is on the whole so I thought you [TS]
◼ ► Let's see on the scope of Knowability this is the other. You didn't stop me saying it a minute ago. [TS]
◼ ► But yes if you're if you are the if you are the listener who made the video that has seven views. [TS]
◼ ► I guess I'm sorry but that you know I was but I was I was anxious about getting kind of scooped on this one [TS]
◼ ► and what does it take so long because first let me say I love the video. I actually liked it more than the U.K. [TS]
◼ ► but watching it it didn't feel like a video that would take years of thinking and research. [TS]
◼ ► It felt like you know you just had to look the stuff up write a good script I mean you wrote a really good script [TS]
◼ ► and you know I can respect that would take some time but it still doesn't seem a lot more than a week or two's work [TS]
◼ ► Well that you know I don't I don't want to pick on you or anything because it's cool video. [TS]
◼ ► I always emotionally in times you know well first of all I have not been working on this for you here [TS]
◼ ► but that would be a really poor showing if that is like oh man you like you need some help. [TS]
◼ ► There are there are many things that are on my list which are in the cut and the back of my mind [TS]
◼ ► but it doesn't necessarily mean that I'm actively working on any of those projects I kind of keep my eyes open for [TS]
◼ ► but it doesn't necessarily mean I'm actively working on them. But that's also why I think I think it was a Q. [TS]
◼ ► and A video as I did I mentioned that it's I estimate it's about ten hours per minute on screen to make the videos [TS]
◼ ► and putting things away for a rainy day sort of. That's exactly it. Or I mean even just like we were talking. [TS]
◼ ► But in terms of I am going to make an American empire video I think I really settled on that probably about three [TS]
◼ ► and then I had to kind of switch because I didn't the other thing I realized was not going to be out in time [TS]
◼ ► And I settled on the America topic and I think I was about three or four weeks before. Well that was a cool video. [TS]
◼ ► Well done I enjoyed it. Thank you for making it and I'm glad you liked it. Are you unhappy with the video. [TS]
◼ ► I think would be fair to say whoa is me. This is terrible. My video is a mess it's going to be awful. [TS]
◼ ► Yeah and when so when I watched it and it was really good I was like well well well I'm only you were doing. [TS]
◼ ► and you were telling me how terrible your video was and all the problems as I knew it was going to be really good. [TS]
◼ ► First of all even if that's what I was doing that's not humble bragging that's lowering expectations humble bragging is [TS]
◼ ► but I do a humble checking to make any sense now I fumble jacking it's a word look at a point of addiction because I [TS]
◼ ► was humble jacking will be on urban dictionary before the day is that it's just just like I don't know if you if you [TS]
◼ ► and peck typing section there on their key article about keyboard typing and as of the hunt [TS]
◼ ► and I think you can see in the history there was this little edit war back and forth about whether [TS]
◼ ► and so forth for the listeners the background here is that you were trying to contact me we were possibly meeting up [TS]
◼ ► and you contacted me at the kind of need year of my moment of making this video which was I was at the very last minute [TS]
◼ ► very early in the morning on July third just wrapping up the animation trying to get it exported [TS]
◼ ► Well he is here's the way into this my feelings were genuine and I still look at that video [TS]
◼ ► but I think this is a great little time to talk about you can see the thing you brought up before the match is just off [TS]
◼ ► There's a frank ages ago when he was doing his Basically the thing that gave birth to modern blogs which is the show [TS]
◼ ► and actually Hank Green just did a blog where there's a video about the history of Internet video. [TS]
◼ ► I'll put the link in the show notes for people to check out this if you if you are a young person on the internet [TS]
◼ ► and want to hear like what it was like for us old timers for us grandpas to tell you stories about how the Internet was [TS]
◼ ► Go watch this video by Hank Green he mentions the show and kind of why it was important and very influential [TS]
◼ ► and Frank also currently has a You Tube channel which is doing very well. Put that in the description as well. [TS]
◼ ► But the show I was lucky enough to have found it when it was active and I used to watch it all the time [TS]
◼ ► and one of the actually I would probably say his best episode is this episode where he talks about the notion of brain [TS]
◼ ► and it's a very useful thing to think about it the idea is that what can happen sometimes if you make things that you [TS]
◼ ► What can happen is over time if you don't actually work on that thing you you start to think about how good it will be [TS]
◼ ► And I think this this American empire video is a case where I had a severe severe case of brain crack [TS]
◼ ► As well after I did that you can explain video there was there was a brief time I thought like oh this is just a one [TS]
◼ ► off thing and then I like Mike you can agree it was very by chance like I happened to make a couple more videos [TS]
◼ ► But but once I settled on oh let me try to make these kind of regularly. The idea of doing the U.K. [TS]
◼ ► Explained version but for America it was just so obvious it just so happened that basically for a year [TS]
◼ ► but the result is this thing had been brain cracking in my mind for maybe a year and a half. [TS]
◼ ► but awfulness because it's being compared to this abstract idea of how good it's going to be [TS]
◼ ► but you don't have any actual concrete thoughts about it it's just you know I don't know if you ever have this let's [TS]
◼ ► I thought you had to talk I looked for a mustard so I don't know if you ever have this expense that you have [TS]
◼ ► or you wake up from a dream and you have the feeling either that something in your dream was really funny [TS]
◼ ► or like oh I had a really great idea in my dream. Do you ever have that experience. It doesn't ring a bell. [TS]
◼ ► I can either remember what was in my dream and therefore all the associated emotions or a giant I fell from my cup [TS]
◼ ► OK well I know some people do this anyway but not so you will be able to sympathize with this [TS]
◼ ► or people of like why I had a really great idea in my dream but I can't remember what it was [TS]
◼ ► or something was really scary in my dream but I can't remember what it was when waking up with that kind of feeling [TS]
◼ ► And what's going on in your brain is the part of your brain that that recognizes good ideas [TS]
◼ ► or that recognizes something is funny is active even though there's no input to it it's just spinning so like you have [TS]
◼ ► and I think the brain crack thing is a kind of similar phenomenon that happens like this thing is in your mind [TS]
◼ ► and what ends up happening is that you're not really thinking about oh how am I going to make this thing. [TS]
◼ ► and that Europe is really in Europe a zillion footballer imagining what it's going to be like to hold the World Cup [TS]
◼ ► So in the end is a frank video. Can I just interrupt my thanks chief it was a cold brain crack. Oh sorry. [TS]
◼ ► His idea is that if you're not careful you become addicted to the brain crack that like thinking about how good the [TS]
◼ ► thing is going to be becomes better then doing the thing and you know kind of like not doing it [TS]
◼ ► and this is where I was leading with his conclusion is that the way to break this addiction is [TS]
◼ ► when you have ideas in your mind is to just don't think about how good they are just make them as soon as you can [TS]
◼ ► Well this is I don't follow that advice at all and it's partly because my production cycle is very long [TS]
◼ ► and I'm actually kind of glad that this thing happened because I'm working on something now that I will say I have [TS]
◼ ► Bring cracking for years this is a topic that I've been thinking about doing something on for a very very long time [TS]
◼ ► and it is a useful for me to remember because I want to try to get it up soon and I keep working on [TS]
◼ ► Don't concentrate on how bad you think it is because it is like an optical illusion going on here you've thought about [TS]
◼ ► it so long that you're not even really thinking about it you're just thinking about I want this thing to be great [TS]
◼ ► and I've actually diverted us from talking about it sometimes on the podcast because I want to save it for after the [TS]
◼ ► video goes up so anyway that is that is that is brain cracked that is why I was terribly sad about the video [TS]
◼ ► and I feel better about it now even though I still don't like it it's not one of my favorites there you know where as [TS]
◼ ► OK so we know she could probably tighten up that five or six minute video statutes already incredibly tough [TS]
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◼ ► and I thought oh here it is the worst thing to try to talk about on a podcast let me put up a voice up for talking [TS]
◼ ► about sex and flags and maps are two of my favorite things which is probably why I like your videos so much. [TS]
◼ ► What are your initial thoughts about this collection of flags What are your first impressions. [TS]
◼ ► Well my impression is that some of them are very similar to each other and some of them are very different [TS]
◼ ► but most of them or most of them seem to be blue with a with a roundish logo in the middle. [TS]
◼ ► I feel like I'm supposed to be saying something that I'm not I know I know you are you are not letting me down. [TS]
◼ ► but to give you any one impression not just a whole bunch of colorful flags I look at a page like this [TS]
◼ ► and this is just a train wreck of awful awful design I think maybe if I get it it's just it's hideous [TS]
◼ ► But that's the beauty of it is that they kind of got a science story and each is disappointing in its own special way. [TS]
◼ ► I don't expect necessarily to be cohesive but I just I look at these these these state flags [TS]
◼ ► and it generally once son of Brad had to go and you have share in Pennsylvania are all quite good. [TS]
◼ ► I mean they're just good solid data to confirm first of all first of all have to help out the people here who are [TS]
◼ ► driving. In the car or can't look at the other one of the lines of course they're on a plane. [TS]
◼ ► Look if you look at this train wreck of design look at the terrible thing that the U.S. State flags. [TS]
◼ ► These flags and almost all of them or an actual count of the the biggest chunk of the flags [TS]
◼ ► I like hey that's what I noticed so I was sort of on the right track. Yes. So Blue seals or seal in the center of blue. [TS]
◼ ► Idaho Kansas Kentucky sort of Louisiana not exactly Maine Michigan Minnesota Montana Nebraska Nevada manages to make it [TS]
◼ ► Now it is said he is trying to hold on wealth of North Dakota Oregon at least Oregon mixes up low [TS]
◼ ► It's OK for me to criticize my home state flag I don't make people upset over it if you're so the New York state flag [TS]
◼ ► is like so many others is particularly not great color blue either blue black background with a seal. [TS]
◼ ► It sounds so much nicer when I describe it than if you go look at it if you look at it I think it's hideous. [TS]
◼ ► I don't understand why that's there I think it's it's just hideous. And think about this New York is the Empire State. [TS]
◼ ► But here is a flag that just is an iconic and doesn't represent anything interesting about New York state [TS]
◼ ► and you know I know one lyric supposed to be iconic So it's not like people put the state flags on it it's not like the [TS]
◼ ► and the federal government even though we don't have a passport or anything just for the state [TS]
◼ ► So I think that the state flags they should be iconic partly because you often see them all shown together. [TS]
◼ ► Embassy here in London which is I'm going to give it the award for the most unfriendly most unwelcoming building in all [TS]
◼ ► Is that you look at the building and the building looks back and says. Go away. No no she's Betty. [TS]
◼ ► Yes and if you visit the USA embassy in London out in the front there are the fifty state flags [TS]
◼ ► and interestingly for anyone who goes there I leave it as an exercise to the viewer to figure out why the flags are in [TS]
◼ ► the order that they are in. Outside of the London embassy it's interesting we'll touch anyway. [TS]
◼ ► But now so many of them I mean a person who we had to the uses of these flags professionally like [TS]
◼ ► when I make a video about them there's no way I could win a guessing game of which flag is who's for almost all of them. [TS]
◼ ► but that's because business kinds of artists is classy little thing that in this car we have a little bit of [TS]
◼ ► information about that they're not they're not kind of you know supposed to scream Look at ME I'M AMAZING I'M iconic [TS]
◼ ► Understated moment of hey here's who I am buddy I mean but there are there are a lot there are awesome business cards. [TS]
◼ ► You've seen destines business cards that man has incredible business card OK You put me in a difficult situation now [TS]
◼ ► because you know I love destiny but I think having silly business is silly I think it depends on who you are [TS]
◼ ► I know I like a bit of the old fashion class and I think these old flags these nice blue flags with the Lakers on them. [TS]
◼ ► And Justin's business card by the way is not a business card it's more of a joke thing they're a fun thing he gives to [TS]
◼ ► but I think state flags like I think have a be a class you don't have to scream the loudest [TS]
◼ ► and say look at me you know I'm different from all the others why not just say hey I'm just cool calm guy with a class [TS]
◼ ► but I think none of these flags meet this requirement either. I think they're all just kind of hideous. [TS]
◼ ► and one of Alabama because I guarantee he's going to get in touch better than flag No I love the state. [TS]
◼ ► All right hold on let me let me let me take a look I don't think I was actually going to ask before I left. [TS]
◼ ► All right was it that if you had to pick the best flag on here what would you Carrick And I from my perspective there [TS]
◼ ► is only one decision to make you're one of these flags is great and it obviously stands out from the best. [TS]
◼ ► Oh look a few of them I mean fit for iconic ness Texas does well but I quite like those blue ones with. [TS]
◼ ► Alaska is my favorite because God Constellation on the Big Dipper one of the well you know there's a lot there are a [TS]
◼ ► lot there's a few I don't like. California's pretty Co I mean I like the ones I guess I'm most familiar with. [TS]
◼ ► And they invariably are the big famous states are and then put me out of my misery. OK if you have. [TS]
◼ ► No contest hands down number one winner goes to the great state of New Mexico New Mexico has the best flag by far [TS]
◼ ► and it's this red the symbol which is just sort of I don't know how to describe it sort of it's like a cross like a [TS]
◼ ► OK you have it looks like a corporate flag of a company that produces chemicals know how wrong it looks so in fact if I [TS]
◼ ► It doesn't look like it's from the past from history it looks like a belongs to some company called Synergy three [TS]
◼ ► Now New Mexico number one in my book I would say that that the that the logo in the center is the only native american [TS]
◼ ► and you know me I don't care at all about the history of these things I just care about how it looks. [TS]
◼ ► I'll pick another one that you that you mentioned that you mentioned Maryland as being terrible. [TS]
◼ ► Do you know what I'm really reluctant to say too much of this stuff because we're going to find out now it's like it [TS]
◼ ► Oh so if you're out driving back pedaling don't start backpedaling Listen I'm just worried that I don't know the [TS]
◼ ► Just double down on confidence and your ignorance. Fredricka is going to go with your plan straight ahead. [TS]
◼ ► So it's divided into quadrants on the top left in the top right or sort of red and white crosses [TS]
◼ ► I think there is nobody you could show the Maryland flag to who their first reaction wouldn't be this terrible plight. [TS]
◼ ► But here's a pile of the America that the Maryland flag to me is one of these things in life sometimes something is so [TS]
◼ ► hideous it like wraps around the spectrum of like we imagine this line is like good and bad. [TS]
◼ ► Like an old fashioned video games where if you go too far to one side you end up popping back up on the other side [TS]
◼ ► and to me that's not the flag of Maryland has accomplished I don't think they have quite wrapped around him [TS]
◼ ► and if it's so awful that I totally love it never change Maryland has been just the greatest. [TS]
◼ ► Actually I don't know if we have I don't know if I knew this because this would disappoint you even more. [TS]
◼ ► but I don't remember them off the top of my head having to scroll down to states and mainland territories. [TS]
◼ ► and ignore the two that are a bit different because they're not states anyway. Is a C.T. In the Northern Territory. [TS]
◼ ► and I like that I now do uniformity NOW NOW NOW NOW for the listener again what we have here for the Australian states [TS]
◼ ► and then each of the states has a little. Different seal that's in the kind of other half of the of the flag. [TS]
◼ ► No what it what have we got here one of one of them is like the with the George lying with the cross [TS]
◼ ► That's my state that censorious out of trying to ensure that a piping Shrike piping Shrike means just what it is that [TS]
◼ ► and oh sorry sorry wasn't Western Australia almost forgot you. We have a black swan on the yellow circle. [TS]
◼ ► and over again with a slight tweak each time does this offend you if you aren't good I give two thumbs up to Australia [TS]
◼ ► and I would have no problem with the American states if they all did something similar where they OK everybody OK [TS]
◼ ► and everybody does a variation on that template and that that I would be one hundred percent OK with [TS]
◼ ► but I think that the American states are just the worst because even the ones that look similar they've all chosen a [TS]
◼ ► different colour blue and it's all it's like guys use the same blue don't use slightly different blues [TS]
◼ ► The when I so when I make the country girls I have to take the flag in kind of fitted onto the skirt [TS]
◼ ► Now you would not believe how poorly almost every flag in the world maps onto a triangle you need to make more videos [TS]
◼ ► Might just change the shape of the skirt I think is what I would do for that would be cocoa [TS]
◼ ► and shrink it down so that it is still identifiable in a triangular shape because all the mags are designed to be a [TS]
◼ ► rectangle and I usually spend some time trying to figure out the way to make it look the best [TS]
◼ ► and one of the things that I do if you pay a lot of attention is your nose a lot of the flags are kind of off centered [TS]
◼ ► from the from the triangle I think they end up looking a lot better when they're just a little bit knocked one way [TS]
◼ ► but that the Side Story I don't I think are getting some insight into what it takes so many weeks you have just come [TS]
◼ ► out. I do not want to know how many hours I spent trying to make the state girl's skirts not look just disastrous. [TS]
◼ ► And on a bunch like on the New York one I zoomed in all the way to get rid of almost the entirety of the flag [TS]
◼ ► and that's why this is on my mind as I was like I was dealing with a horrible design of the state flags [TS]
◼ ► and it was just there was just one of the things I just going to keep going on this I'm sorry. Looking at the flags. [TS]
◼ ► And you give it to me for feedback like I'm greeting it like I'm the teacher here if you have to write the name of your [TS]
◼ ► That seal might be really nice but if you have to write Montana up across the top fail Oklahoma Oklahoma. [TS]
◼ ► You're so close to a kind of awesome flag I mean you need to change the blue background obviously [TS]
◼ ► but your central logo is great but then you're right Oklahoma across the bottom fail state of Oregon fail. Ah. [TS]
◼ ► Kansas sale Illinois failing high school things don't know enough and they look at the Arkansas fail. [TS]
◼ ► Ice just that instant fell and what one of the ones one of the ones which is it just hurts me deeply. [TS]
◼ ► and I know I know you want to do this because you were for about a week you were a republic sort of depending on how [TS]
◼ ► Go with the bear and make the bear bigger make the bear is scarier. But then you're a California Republican. [TS]
◼ ► They does what it says on the tin with America like they're not there's no there's no subtlety Oh go now there's none [TS]
◼ ► Like if some of these state designers had made the American flag it would just say USA Stars [TS]
◼ ► and Stripes everywhere it would be written like the means are with impact font you know maybe an exclamation mark [TS]
◼ ► and then like many of these states do they also have to write the date to say USA seven hundred seventy six for ever [TS]
◼ ► write like exclamation marks. That's what if that's what it would be and it's just I don't know if it makes me sad. [TS]
◼ ► So some of them are the ones I don't know of Wisconsin as well as constant eight hundred forty eight one the ones that [TS]
◼ ► really get me are the ones that are so close like the California one it bothers me more because it's almost great [TS]
◼ ► American buffalo in the middle has a nice bold colors it's got the red and the blue and white [TS]
◼ ► Looks a little bit good it's like a picture frame and you have the American Buffalo right in the center. [TS]
◼ ► Outlined very cool and you have to ruin it by like cramming in this seal which says the great state of Wyoming. [TS]
◼ ► and not immediately think I'll be so much better if they just took out the seal how iconic would this be how cool is [TS]
◼ ► And actually this is what's happened in most of these flags you can tell is they're suffering from being designed by [TS]
◼ ► Now I know that this coat sleeve the bear and the other guy's going you know I'm really proud of the name and [TS]
◼ ► and that's where a lot of ace of stuff it's been a group of people who've been required to approve it. [TS]
◼ ► Let me start over there just as we could do a house show that the state thinks well I'm going to keep going because I [TS]
◼ ► am as you are because you can't be stopped. I give it up and I'll do the edit. Yes it's true. [TS]
◼ ► Also it's the ones that I just again I'm deeply disappointed in Utah Utah can you so if you tied blue as a seal on it. [TS]
◼ ► Now one of the things I like with flags is we think OK could you could you could you have picked a worse topic for a [TS]
◼ ► and they just have the wikipedia article for the state flags open so they can follow along. [TS]
◼ ► and this notion of industry as a kind of central themes of the state as is like OK OK that's great. Go with the B.S. [TS]
◼ ► Right make your flag about bees or industry like it's very easy to imagine in dust like an industrious image [TS]
◼ ► but no shrink is down so it's so small and it's just barely in the logo and at a glance you can't possibly tell it [TS]
◼ ► and then you think it's just eight hundred ninety six written across the bottom like are just B.S. [TS]
◼ ► It just seems it seems I don't have to throw in this giant eagle an American giant as like to hide the thing that makes [TS]
◼ ► I mean your wanting to design a modern corporate logo here. You know thinking flag you're thinking corporately owned. [TS]
◼ ► OK OK Here's here's an example I'm going to go if you mention Texas before something you like. [TS]
◼ ► but it's blue bar on the left hand side white star and then two stripes the top one is white and the bottom one is red. [TS]
◼ ► but it's the kind of thing where you can because it's abstract you can map your feelings of Texas onto it at that [TS]
◼ ► but that's a different way to go. And Texas is a state with an incredibly strong identity anyway. [TS]
◼ ► And you then project your feelings onto that Texas flag and you can do so because it's a relatively abstract flag. [TS]
◼ ► And I actually feel the same way like I think a similar kind of flag is. Right next door to it is a flag for Tennessee. [TS]
◼ ► Mostly red the blue circle in the center three white stars and a little blue stripe on the side. [TS]
◼ ► Again that is abstract and so Tennessee that you can project your feelings about Tennessee onto that flag [TS]
◼ ► and that flag is also it's identifiable in a way that so many of these these SEAL flags are not with us in Alaska was [TS]
◼ ► It's definitely it's definitely I don't you know I should i should I should feel what I should actually do is genuinely [TS]
◼ ► But I should I should at least try to group them. Who gets who gets aides who gets B.'s who gets fees. [TS]
◼ ► I feel like Alaska is solid B. Maybe B. Plus you know I know and everybody with words. F F immediately. [TS]
◼ ► So you're giving California an F. I'll keep California but I think you have to think about that I don't know. [TS]
◼ ► but I love that you're so passionate about it I love flags I love so if I wasn't who couldn't I hadn't I had the flags [TS]
◼ ► and I spent so many hours just staring at that it's a lot of it is still quite ingrained on Mark. [TS]
◼ ► I was surprised myself by how many fags I can identify just like from from from boyhood couldn't look at them anymore. [TS]
◼ ► and I think one of the reasons why I feel so passionate about this is I think that a flag is a really interesting [TS]
◼ ► or breaking expectations like the flag that have crazy shapes or I think there's just so much here [TS]
◼ ► and there's so much potential which is not a finite thing that we think these are so important [TS]
◼ ► And yet flags these abstract things attach to states you know compete you know going to stop you talking about you [TS]
◼ ► can't you putting words in my mouth which is important. Does it is this is this an important issue. [TS]
◼ ► I mean obviously the hideous way that most of the states have left their flags for hundreds of years. [TS]
◼ ► So it's hard to say that it's important and I wouldn't say that but that's why I used the word interesting. [TS]
◼ ► I think this is this is very this is very interesting how to how to solve this problem in Arizona. [TS]
◼ ► I think good job Arizona like that no I don't Arizona the stars with the with the sunshine coming out of it the oh how [TS]
◼ ► could I how I would I would go amiss if I didn't mention this the flag of Hawaii you know my my wife is from Illinois. [TS]
◼ ► As the flag of Maryland which is kind of hideous but also wraps around into you know what I like it [TS]
◼ ► when you look at the British flag does not line up with the stripes if you are a person who has tremendous O.C.D. [TS]
◼ ► but I think that also wraps around I like the the flag of Hawaii I also think it's it's at least in this crowd a very [TS]
◼ ► Yes and it's a different it's a different aspect ratio. But seriously we're going to move on right now. [TS]
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◼ ► Very kind of it's not really it was something I would necessarily expect from you in some ways I don't mean to put you [TS]
◼ ► How how would you try to summarize this for the listener what would you say that this is about. [TS]
◼ ► It's same today the message saying today that we away as humans we are always changing over time. [TS]
◼ ► Physically and mentally and the person you were sometime ago is completely different from the person you are now [TS]
◼ ► and that person shouldn't be considered the same as you and they're like you can't you can't judge them [TS]
◼ ► or compare them to the person you are now it's like a whole different person. Is that right. [TS]
◼ ► Yeah I think this is sort of the gist of it. One of the thing I'm not sure but it does have a fee. [TS]
◼ ► So has a few flaws maybe doesn't have flaws. It's a nice thought but it does beg a few questions. [TS]
◼ ► Oh I think it definitely definitely back some question this is something that I have I have found true in the way that [TS]
◼ ► and I think that it is it's a useful tool for other people to keep in mind which is that you are not. [TS]
◼ ► and the easy way to think of this is as the the like the child version of you said I think the kid who went to middle [TS]
◼ ► If there is enough time separating the two of you and I threw out a number just because I needed to pick a number [TS]
◼ ► Basically if you go back ten years that's a long enough period of time that you are a different person from that person. [TS]
◼ ► And I'm I start out the article by using this example where my wife and I we were having dinner [TS]
◼ ► And as we discussed it we said like we feel that the people who met both of us have changed a lot [TS]
◼ ► We feel kind of grateful to them because their decisions led to our current life. But we don't feel like we are them. [TS]
◼ ► and then you end up you if you start affecting each other in a way that you were different people before [TS]
◼ ► and now you're married and so you. You naturally affect each other to people your personalities. [TS]
◼ ► But even if you don't get married just living life going on in life there's a constant change that's happening [TS]
◼ ► but I think people sometimes get it get hampered by thinking of themselves as a continuous person I just think has a [TS]
◼ ► hamper them. What problems does it cause if you think in that way. Well yeah you're right there. [TS]
◼ ► Well OK OK one of the one of the I would say what prompted me to write this is something has been on my mind for a long [TS]
◼ ► and I was really aware of his being different from my own life which is that the kids I taught all grew up in a world [TS]
◼ ► Get off my lawn moment here this is this is just a wondering thing I'm not saying this is bad I'm just saying I wonder. [TS]
◼ ► and I just wonder about this if this is fact where with things like Facebook that people end up kind of carrying around [TS]
◼ ► ambient influences from their former selves in unhelpful ways. And one of the one of the things that came. [TS]
◼ ► When the discussion on Reddit which I thought was a good example was people talking about how [TS]
◼ ► and visit their parents for holidays that they feel themselves like sliding back into the role of what they were like [TS]
◼ ► I try I don't I don't know why I think I wouldn't describe how you described it but it is different. [TS]
◼ ► Yes I remember you know I I go into lots of environments you know that maybe should be intimidating that I come to [TS]
◼ ► and I can't explain why it was a really anxious experience. Also probably because school is a time of great anxiety. [TS]
◼ ► and the threat of the principal's office looms constant ninety percent of the divine I remember. [TS]
◼ ► Yeah yeah I mean there are differently when you go back to your old haunts you get strange feelings beyond nostalgia. [TS]
◼ ► I have very rarely been back to the place where I grew up and that's why I didn't have a bad childhood or anything [TS]
◼ ► and did not like this feeling of like somebody else grew up here and I'm not that person anymore [TS]
◼ ► but who still end up kind of framing events in their life through the lens of their childhood experiences I think is [TS]
◼ ► Can you give us a practical example of a benefit for example people saying things like Oh I am I was in a very popular [TS]
◼ ► and then kind of viewing all of their adult interactions in the same way feeling like oh I was always just the [TS]
◼ ► I feel like I have died many article Times article as it is a bit like you don't always have to be the person that you [TS]
◼ ► I think you look you look forward in your life and things things in your past can positively affect your future. [TS]
◼ ► But they are done they are over and they only have the amount of importance that you continue to give them. [TS]
◼ ► but I don't know if I feel like people have kind of invisible anchors that keep them being the person that they always [TS]
◼ ► More strongly because I had such a sharp break going to college and maybe it's a little too personal [TS]
◼ ► and I had a little group of friends but I wasn't like most teenagers I like a very mopey person. [TS]
◼ ► when I went to my college orientation which was like preparing we're not starting college isn't starting now [TS]
◼ ► I remember very strongly going to orientation and looking around and realizing like oh. Nobody here knows who I am. [TS]
◼ ► It's also means nobody has any reason to care about me like my friends from high school we've known each other for a [TS]
◼ ► when you just show up to college nobody knows you you have to learn really fast how to not be like a mopey miserable [TS]
◼ ► and in some ways like what what what it what that does is it's like look you have spent your whole life being one way [TS]
◼ ► And for me that was a very very positive experience and I had a similar kind of thing happen again sort of [TS]
◼ ► and it was a sense that I'm intentionally choosing to move to a place I don't know anyone at all [TS]
◼ ► and the way that they Yeah yeah I am good in that huge. We in favor of these kinds of fresh starts. [TS]
◼ ► But I think it's like it's like a value multiplier if you consciously think of it as I am a different [TS]
◼ ► and I the thing I speculate about a little bit in the article is is I worry about kids these days growing up [TS]
◼ ► and kind of always having immediate access to the circle of friends they happen to have when [TS]
◼ ► or just even even for adults as you know there's this kind of affected everybody knows on online [TS]
◼ ► OK First of all it's just a small group of friends and then it's friends and then some family and then some family [TS]
◼ ► and some co-workers and then suddenly like on Facebook the classic thing like your Facebook friends with your mom [TS]
◼ ► and your boss. Yeah. Suddenly you're very constrained and. If you don't it just it changes your actions. [TS]
◼ ► If you're constantly thinking about all of these people in your life I don't know I think maybe I was wandering off a [TS]
◼ ► but you know I mean I I mean I'm still friends with some people from SCO you know who are very dear to me [TS]
◼ ► Yeah I'm not that long ago I kind of shared a contact with some school people partly because it was a reunion going on [TS]
◼ ► and partly just curiosity you know within the FI wakes it was like you know I wish them over all the best in the world [TS]
◼ ► but they would just like complete strangers to me it was like did I even know these people. [TS]
◼ ► and doing in the life they're leading it was like oh my goodness it's just like Congress becoming friends with complete [TS]
◼ ► and utter strangers who just happen to know my name and I sort of and in the end kind of drifted away from that [TS]
◼ ► but it was a first for a while it was a strange experience it was like you know I could never go to a school reunion I [TS]
◼ ► think for that reason. MAN Yeah. I've been I've been invited to school reunions and I feel the same way. [TS]
◼ ► I can't imagine ever going to reunion for the similar reason that it is like a stranger Party is basically what it is. [TS]
◼ ► And now this is just an arbitrary gathering of people whose past people used to knew each other. [TS]
◼ ► Practice like that's not why it's very very strange. So yes I have not gone to my high school ever intend to. [TS]
◼ ► I think this is why I found you I have died many times article quite strange experience to rate I've only read it once [TS]
◼ ► but another part of it seemed a kind of new agey and you know the old me and the new me and I have died [TS]
◼ ► and it was kind of a little not religious but it was kind of a little bit new agey is the way I would describe it [TS]
◼ ► and not a new age kind of person I know I can totally understand it from reading the article it can kind of sound a bit [TS]
◼ ► new agey but I don't know I have been thinking very consciously for years in terms of days past me and Future Me [TS]
◼ ► The only you know the only you you have is like present you and pasturage doesn't exist anymore [TS]
◼ ► but it is also very helpful to consider future you as though he's a different person. So what. [TS]
◼ ► What decisions would you make on behalf of a different person who you don't know yet who you don't know [TS]
◼ ► and in this case you're probably understanding why I thought this whole thing was making this in the most not new agey [TS]
◼ ► and this is also one of the reasons why it's you know again my my my wife and I talk about this because [TS]
◼ ► Don't try to presume that you will know all of the preferences of you from in ten years from now and [TS]
◼ ► and so I think that that is helpful sometimes especially when you can see like irreversible decisions. [TS]
◼ ► You know if you want to be careful about not necessarily presuming that the future you are going to be exactly like the [TS]
◼ ► and I talk about in the article is like is there anything you would agree on with the teenager version of you I mean I [TS]
◼ ► but I don't feel like I could order a big can of honey roasted cashews that's for future may and he'd be pretty good. [TS]
◼ ► Well yes that's what and this is the one thing that I was entirely unable to communicate in the article [TS]
◼ ► and is this notion of I don't mean to imply that the future is a totally different person like it [TS]
◼ ► but it's a hard to write an article that expresses both of these thoughts at the same time you know like there are [TS]
◼ ► and it's actually funny because shortly after I publish this I happened to be talking to my parents on video chat [TS]
◼ ► This is again this is one of these things where I feel this most strongly sometimes like my parents will show me some [TS]
◼ ► picture of me as a kid and they'll be like oh look at you here and I feel like I'm not sure that's me. [TS]
◼ ► Now that I'm a grown up and you know my own subjective experience is is very much different from that. [TS]
◼ ► but I don't know that there's any Well my people can decide what I think about what you said [TS]
◼ ► But yes I think it's it's going to I'm not sure it's the clearest but it's there anyway. So that's that. [TS]
◼ ► So you've got here something in the next about democracy three and I have no idea what that Eva Mendes. [TS]
◼ ► but now I'll talk more about the flag so you don't you cut me off with the flag that was that was that was just because [TS]
◼ ► and I thought if I didn't stop you really would we would talk more about Flags In other words democracy three. [TS]
◼ ► Democracy three is a video game that I had of my i Pad And this is it's a video that's why I warned you you're going to [TS]
◼ ► but I think I would actually be pleased about that I thought it was going to be some boring kind of you know paper [TS]
◼ ► someone had written about the future of democracy in games potentially is more interesting. [TS]
◼ ► Potentially from a bout of the rethink so this was I had this with a game I had saved for after my last. [TS]
◼ ► Video so many American video went up I was like OK for any little bit of downtime what am I going to do [TS]
◼ ► And now this game is the most perfect example of what I said before I tend to play games that are basically work [TS]
◼ ► and this game game is in quotation marks. It is basically a spreadsheet is the way to describe this game in game form. [TS]
◼ ► Can you redesign the flag or are you stuck with what I've got now you stuck with what they've got [TS]
◼ ► but also put a link to the screenshot for just people who want to take a look at it. We get in close to the game. [TS]
◼ ► All it is is a whole list as a whole picture of bubbles each of which represents either some kind of problem in your [TS]
◼ ► or lower you can say am I going to have corporation tax is there going to be a cigarette tax. [TS]
◼ ► Are we going to have a National Health Service how much are we going to fund it how much are we going to fund the [TS]
◼ ► military all the rest of this and there is there must be two hundred things that you can pick from [TS]
◼ ► and all of them have effects on the voters in this pretend country here so there's a basic premise. [TS]
◼ ► What made me kind of laugh out loud is it puts you in a scenario where you have to think very differently [TS]
◼ ► and it's one of the reasons why I really like videogames as a kind of cultural thing. There's plenty of mindless game. [TS]
◼ ► Like Call of Duty I'm just trying to kill all the foreigners in a horrible way like Call of Duty games are terrible. [TS]
◼ ► and democracy three is set up in a way so that basically there's almost nothing you that you can do that's not going to [TS]
◼ ► and you put into all of these no win situations where you just you just can't make everybody happy [TS]
◼ ► and you have to try to keep the budget balanced so that there are these big things that you're trying to do to keep the [TS]
◼ ► country on track let's not default on our debt. Let's not have crime just go crazy in the streets. [TS]
◼ ► But there's a million other policies just like in the real world that people care about and. [TS]
◼ ► I'm playing the game immediately. Immediately your mind goes toward God you know group X. The unions are unhappy. [TS]
◼ ► You can search for that this is exactly right like is there some is there something that I can do in this game to just [TS]
◼ ► but this is why I thought the game was a great example of really kind of showing you look like I know this in the [TS]
◼ ► abstract it's one of reasons why I don't follow the particulars of politics very closely is because [TS]
◼ ► and mirrors exactly about this like issues that maybe necessarily don't affect lots of things [TS]
◼ ► and it is how much money are you going to put towards welfare fraud investigations. And like in the U.S. [TS]
◼ ► Yes people love this people want to hear that you have some huge program that you know investigating welfare fraud [TS]
◼ ► Almost certainly the amount of money that you put into welfare fraud investigation is going to be more than you say [TS]
◼ ► But people love the welfare fraud investigation even in the game it's like on an intellectual level I'm completely [TS]
◼ ► There is the idea of the game is to get reelected is it what you have or the country successfully. [TS]
◼ ► but I think a well designed game can make you feel it really instinctually in a way that you can never quite [TS]
◼ ► Sounds good but you can also you can see how if someone goes into politics and they've never been in politics before [TS]
◼ ► and then you realize in politics OK what do you actually spend most of your time doing fund raising. [TS]
◼ ► Well what are you worried about. Angry voters you know kicking you out of office so what can you throw their way. [TS]
◼ ► It doesn't actually cause. Thank you very much money or impact the things you're really trying to do. [TS]
◼ ► If you're doing that for a long period of time you can see how like the I have died many times think you're kind of a [TS]
◼ ► different person at the end of that I'm not necessarily saying you're a worse person I think the politics example [TS]
◼ ► sounds worse but just because on a daily basis you're thinking about things in a different way. [TS]
◼ ► and then I'm making like this is my first adult job now making adult decisions in an adult world [TS]
◼ ► and all of this feeds back into kind of changing who you are over time but I don't think you'd be a good politician [TS]
◼ ► or a political leader. Well according to the game I get assassinated very quickly very alike. Yeah. [TS]
◼ ► It's if if you have one group that particularly doesn't like you there's a non-zero chance that you will be [TS]
◼ ► So it's interesting because on paper you should be good because you struck you quite moral You're very logical you do [TS]
◼ ► think about what's good for the the greatest good you know efficient very efficient paper you should be OK to latish [TS]
◼ ► Let me just let me just say that right now this is not something you really want particularly in the IT WERE some of [TS]
◼ ► the real world like like I would never ever want to be a politician and I think I would be. [TS]
◼ ► and being able to negotiate under certain sort of certain situations and you've got a nice voice. [TS]
◼ ► and particularly in the United States if you ever dig into the numbers of how politicians spend it they basically spend [TS]
◼ ► when they're not doing that they're trying to work out deals with other politicians to get particular pet projects [TS]
◼ ► through to make somebody in their district happy so actual politics. I would have no interest in ever doing that. [TS]
◼ ► And then. This kind of theoretical position where I am elected king somehow and have absolute powers. [TS]
◼ ► That's not that's not a good situation because I agree with you that my my overriding thought if I was actually in [TS]
◼ ► I am very concerned about the welfare of my people and I will do things for the greater good. [TS]
◼ ► So you know just because that's the way I would think about it doesn't mean that people would be happy about it at all. [TS]
◼ ► I'd say if you don't do not vote for me that's my recommendation. Some city any good still. [TS]
◼ ► I keep I keep thinking I want to play Sim City again and download it because that would be my escape [TS]
◼ ► or have things moved on is that no Electronic Arts the worst video game company in the world currently owns similarly [TS]
◼ ► and has run it into the ground in it in a terrible manner I did rate something on its Electronic Arts is awful. [TS]
◼ ► I'm sorry but you should feel bad that your company buys great independent game companies and then crushes them [TS]
◼ ► and drinks their blood and turns it into money and it's an awful awful company so no I cannot I cannot recommend it [TS]
◼ ► but it's funny that you mention it because actually Sim City was my very first experience with this as a kid the very [TS]
◼ ► first Sim City I left there I remember it so clearly they had light movement of I mean some said he was so simple [TS]
◼ ► when I was raise taxes to pay for the parks just just that intuitive feeling I think is very interesting that the games [TS]
◼ ► and it was my first real experience of that of oh this is teaching me to to think in a different way than I normally do. [TS]
◼ ► I've been looking for a good Sim City simulator game for the mac but I cannot say that I have found one yet so sorry. [TS]
◼ ► OK if you like making a video of you start playing video games you will be making as many videos [TS]
◼ ► and people would be sent. Yeah so I think we actually have other stuff to talk about but I do think we have to stop. [TS]
◼ ► Did I get sidetracked or or I think you did I hear you do that off before fully expressing all of my very interesting. [TS]
◼ ► Was there a big payoff that I didn't let you get the pay off was more complaining that's what the payoff was I think [TS]
◼ ► and I was like a detail could take probably would have if you hadn't stopped me we were going to talk about a movie [TS]
◼ ► but I think you have to say that for both say that there's a movie that we're going to talk about [TS]
◼ ► Actually I wonder should we tell people what the movie is so it can be like a homework assignment [TS]
◼ ► Actually this is this is also a good a good time to mention something else that we were mentioning as we get it will [TS]
◼ ► mention moving now we want to talk about the movie her with I can never be the guy's name the chain looking paintings [TS]
◼ ► and we're going to talk about that next time so maybe this is a homework assignment people can watch the movie [TS]
◼ ► and then then listen to the episodes so that they are prepared. My my advice I'll talk about this more next time. [TS]
◼ ► But my advice always with movies is just watch it. Don't try to find out a whole bunch about it. [TS]
◼ ► but I will just mention we have links in the show notes and people should be aware that those are affiliate links. [TS]
◼ ► and you buy something through that link. Hello Internet does get a very small percentage of that. [TS]
◼ ► So I've gotten a lot of requests from people which I really appreciate where they said oh I have all of the websites [TS]
◼ ► Other way that I could support the show and so if we mention something that you happen to be interested in you [TS]
◼ ► and you click the link that's another way that you can support the show if if you want the no obligation which is just [TS]
◼ ► But yes some some people have all the audio books and websites and razors they could possibly want. [TS]