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00:00:00 ◼   ► great for this episode of this episode [TS]

00:00:01 ◼   ► only em will you call me dr. heron last [TS]

00:00:11 ◼   ► time we spoke we talked about brexit and [TS]

00:00:14 ◼   ► at that point in time we had no Prime [TS]

00:00:16 ◼   ► Minister and no idea of what might or [TS]

00:00:19 ◼   ► might not happen and now we do have a [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► prime minister things have moved along [TS]

00:00:24 ◼   ► in the world but i am still of the [TS]

00:00:27 ◼   ► opinion that I think it seems unlikely [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► the maximum breakfast is going to occur [TS]

00:00:32 ◼   ► I've been following the news like ever [TS]

00:00:34 ◼   ► so slightly and I just keep seeing a [TS]

00:00:36 ◼   ► whole bunch of like mustn't be so hasty [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► news with regard to brexit just [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► yesterday even saw a headline which was [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► the new prime minister announcing [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► something like we will not do article 15 [TS]

00:00:47 ◼   ► until the beginning of 2017 at the [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► earliest so I feel like the campaign to [TS]

00:00:52 ◼   ► push this back has begun [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► that's my feelings on what the current [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► state of players with brexit I have to [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► say I'm so upset about bricks for so [TS]

00:01:01 ◼   ► many reasons but one of the main ones is [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► I've never been one of those people [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► that's that into politics em and i [TS]

00:01:07 ◼   ► always find people who are like really [TS]

00:01:08 ◼   ► into politics and talking about all the [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► time a little bit annoying [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► yes like when people talk about sports [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► okay yeah fair enough for me politics [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► was that annoying thing and I've become [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► one of those people lately like I find [TS]

00:01:19 ◼   ► myself at dinner parties talking about [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► politics and I go out with people i talk [TS]

00:01:23 ◼   ► about politics number are no I've become [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► that annoying person better and 'iblame [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► breaks it so I'm really fighting against [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► fighting and I don't want to be that guy [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► because I know politics is well I mean [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► I'm not gonna say it's boring because [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► everyone finds different things [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► interesting and like you say I find [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► sport interesting [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► yes I'm not gonna say politics is boring [TS]

00:01:42 ◼   ► but politics is usually a disagreeable [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► thing to talk about a lot you know they [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► say it's one of those topics you [TS]

00:01:47 ◼   ► shouldn't bring up i need to tone that [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► down its politics be so interesting [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► lately though breaks or no breaks it's [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► just triggered such interesting stuff in [TS]

00:01:55 ◼   ► the political parties as they're all [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► sort of turned on themselves it's like [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► The Hunger Games you can't stop watching [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► it's funny I kind of agree that for a [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► long long time I was avoiding following [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► any of the brexit news and i'm still not [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► hugely following it now [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► but just around when we recorded our [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► last show I finally realized like oh [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► there is something interesting to talk [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► about here and I keep feeling like this [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► has given us the most perfect dilemma [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► for a representative democracy ever i'm [TS]

00:02:26 ◼   ► never super interested in the particular [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► details of the in party fighting or [TS]

00:02:30 ◼   ► who's doing what I do find the bigger [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► picture quite interesting now that if [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► I'm right the conservatives don't really [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► want to do this then I think it is like [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► this quandary of what is a [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► representative democracy to do and so I [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► think that's really interesting but [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► again as far as i can tell it looks like [TS]

00:02:49 ◼   ► they're just totally stalling for as [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► long as they possibly can i thought your [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► brakes a video was quite good too it was [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► a nice sort of crystallization of what [TS]

00:02:58 ◼   ► we discussed in the last episode I [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► thought it was a nice return to form [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► after a couple of bollocks videos you [TS]

00:03:02 ◼   ► can lightly so that's what I thank you I [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► really appreciate that [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► yeah every backhanded compliment I've [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► also found like you that it is [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► absolutely unavoidable to discuss brexit [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► with almost everybody in the whole of [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► the UK for the past couple weeks like it [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► since I came back from America and since [TS]

00:03:22 ◼   ► I've been here it's like literally [TS]

00:03:23 ◼   ► everybody wants to talk brexit you go to [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► like a dinner party you end up talking [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► brexit offense it up like just in cafes [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► like the person giving me the coffee [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► wants to talk breaks it like this [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► doesn't seem like an appropriate venue [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► for this budget is clearly on [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► everybody's mind is unavoidable dude [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► it's worse in America [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► well if you're the british guy like a [TS]

00:03:41 ◼   ► few the British in quotation marks [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► because because every party to go to [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► every day you go to every conversation [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► is all anyone wants to ask you about [TS]

00:03:49 ◼   ► it's like what the hell happened man [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► what's going on [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► explain to me and and being someone who [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► didn't vote for breakfast i'm having to [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► sort of try and explain what's going on [TS]

00:03:58 ◼   ► and I'm like putting a really difficult [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► situation but I feel like sort of the [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► freak in the room all the time so I was [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► glad to get out and no longer have to [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► answer questions about it we are again [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► going to be passing each other because [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► you have just recently gotten back to [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► the UK and i am going back to America [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► again tomorrow so we keep flipping [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► continents so you're back here you don't [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► have to keep explaining to people [TS]

00:04:20 ◼   ► what's going on you're not the [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► representative of the whole of the UK as [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► the australian guy and [TS]

00:04:25 ◼   ► anyway having done the video i mean [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► obviously we talked about on the podcast [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► but it's another order of magnitude when [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► you do a video on something [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► did you find you sort of your inboxes [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► and the ways that people try to get to [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► use to get sort of more demand than [TS]

00:04:38 ◼   ► usual or did you manage to show yourself [TS]

00:04:40 ◼   ► from all the hordes it was a hugely [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► hugely active discussion on the reddit I [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► sort of have a whole bunch of ways now [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► to filter out my email so that it [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► doesn't get exploded when this occurs [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► anymore which is useful [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► yeah but yeah there was a whole bunch of [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► discussion about it and as always [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► youtube comments aside at least on the [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► reddit comments I've found you know for [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► the most part people were pretty civil [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► in their disagreements and discussions [TS]

00:05:05 ◼   ► on what ya wise be a touchy topic [TS]

00:05:07 ◼   ► your people are passionate but I think [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► that's fair i think generally people are [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► more civil about it and some other [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► topics i do have some advice for people [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► that I mean people are obviously aware [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► that one of the places they could get [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► the attention of grey or to a lesser [TS]

00:05:18 ◼   ► extent myself is to go into our [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► subreddits I don't know if this is true [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► for you grab it is true for me if you do [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► want me to read your comment and reply [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► to it you can keep it sure is my [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► recommendation if you say here's what i [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► have to say and I see like 19 sentences [TS]

00:05:34 ◼   ► who you are wasting your time and I [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► think you probably wasting your time for [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► anyone to read it's just like posting up [TS]

00:05:40 ◼   ► five-minute youtube video versus a [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► 40-minute youtube video people don't [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► even start when they see how long it is [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► from the start [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► Candace ice is k even if you've got a [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► lot to say you've got to think no just [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► say one thing because that's the only [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► chance anyone rate up [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► I feel sorry for these people that write [TS]

00:05:56 ◼   ► these big long essays like I've got [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► something to say and I want your [TS]

00:05:59 ◼   ► alternator and then you see this like [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► eight pages of text [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► it's like dude no one's reading that I [TS]

00:06:04 ◼   ► hope you realize it [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► yeah that's what they call the wall of [TS]

00:06:07 ◼   ► text right here is the giant wall of [TS]

00:06:09 ◼   ► text and you feel like am I going to [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► climb over this wall of text [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► no i'm not totally aware of that same [TS]

00:06:15 ◼   ► thing every once in awhile i read it i [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► think perhaps the time in my life when I [TS]

00:06:21 ◼   ► read the most biggest longest walls of [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► text ever was the great guns germs and [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► steel debate i did read like all of that [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► stuff but in a regular reddit thread [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► when someone leaves one of those just [TS]

00:06:31 ◼   ► like forget it i'm not going to read [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► this my other personal annoyance is when [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► people try to put two different things [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► in [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► single comments i always feel like you [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► have multiple things to say leave [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► multiple comments so that the thread [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► structure is really clear i always get [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► annoyed when people try to have like two [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► totally separate unrelated ideas in a [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► comment keep it clean people nice and [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► simple one idea proposed every post very [TS]

00:06:54 ◼   ► short there's only a finite amount of [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► attention in the world and you need [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► strategies to get people's attention [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► it's totally drew it without a doubt [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► that is the case i think i've said [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► before some point on this podcast but i [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► really do think that in the modern [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► internet interconnected info dense world [TS]

00:07:13 ◼   ► that the tension is a kind of currency [TS]

00:07:17 ◼   ► yeah that this is a thing that you have [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► to be mindful of and collecting up a [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► bunch of people's attention is a [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► valuable thing and how you spend your [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► own attention is a valuable thing and [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► then that rolls into what you're saying [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► here of how do you attempt to get the [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► attention of somebody else you have to [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► be strategic about it i mean the people [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► who are most successful on YouTube [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► people like yourself I mean I think your [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► greatest skill is the curation and [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► management of people's attention much [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► more than the quality of the video which [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► you make with your good but I think your [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► kin eNOS with a managing people's [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► attention is your greatest asset in many [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► ways [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► what do you mean by that I think you put [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► lots and lots of thought and strategy [TS]

00:07:59 ◼   ► into how to get people's attention and [TS]

00:08:05 ◼   ► sort of keep them interested in what [TS]

00:08:07 ◼   ► you're doing and engaged with you as a [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► creator [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► I think you think about it a lot more [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► than I do i think if i was going for [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► maximum amount of attention more lists [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► videos [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► no no but in some ways I I imagined you [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► as someone who ways that up [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► ways up the clickbait eNOS of you know a [TS]

00:08:24 ◼   ► list video or attention-grabbing [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► thumbnail versus the goodwill and [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► respect and longer-term attention of [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► someone who has more credibility and is [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► a bit more proper about such things I I [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► think you think about all these things a [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► lot because there's a downside to list [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► videos as well I can imagine you [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► thinking do I make a list video here's [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► what would be good about it would have a [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► lot of short-term upside but it might [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► have downside in the longer [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► and I made you as someone who thinks [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► about all this stuff I think you're very [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► canny is trying to do you think about [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► that stuff and actually just yesterday I [TS]

00:09:00 ◼   ► came up with I thought was a really good [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► idea for a list video so not against [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► this video's in principle it just [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► depends on on if it works but actually [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► since you bring this up i have a [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► question for you which is this is one of [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► those times where I feel like I don't [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► know if I'm having a subjective [TS]

00:09:13 ◼   ► experience you like you tune into with [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► thing and then there's just a whole [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► bunch of confirmation bias about the [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► thing or not but I feel like the cliq [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► babyness of headlines and thumbnails on [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► youtube has really gone up in the last [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► six months titles that are just [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► ambiguous or they have very clickbait [TS]

00:09:31 ◼   ► style thumbnails i don't know i have a [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► feeling like some switch got turned [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► somewhere in YouTube when they got even [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► better about a/b testing what it is [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► the humans will click on youtube but [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► maybe this is just my own subjective [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► experience of this i don't know i think [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► it's possible certainly I think a number [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► of people creating content on YouTube [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► obviously is going out but i think it's [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► going up exponentially who and I think [TS]

00:09:55 ◼   ► every man and their dog now considers [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► themself like a YouTube which is fine i [TS]

00:09:59 ◼   ► can be but it's inevitably going to [TS]

00:10:02 ◼   ► result in arms war when it comes to [TS]

00:10:05 ◼   ► attention seeking yeah well that's why [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► it's on my mind because I've been aware [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► for the last couple of videos and some [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► of the things that I'm trying to work on [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► now I've had this feeling like has this [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► arms war gotten strong enough that I [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► kind of have to give in and do more [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► click baby titles or more click baby [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► thumbnails because I generally don't [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► like kind of clickbait stuff it doesn't [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► just sit well with me but I've been [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► wondering if I'm just being foolish at a [TS]

00:10:33 ◼   ► certain point and maybe it's because I'm [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► thinking about that i am now more [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► sensitive to super click me any kind of [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► stuff on YouTube but interesting might [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► come up later on because if we talk [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► about when your videos later we'll talk [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► about cgpgrey bait [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► ok alright good talk about that later [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► go say saying we're doing follow-up we [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► better not go too far down the rabbit [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► hole emojis what's going on here [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► yes so we were discussing the emoji [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► flags last time [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► who-should-date-who should not get emoji [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► flags i believe i had a rock-solid [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► unmovable arguments about how the new [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► flags regenerated I think that's that my [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► memory of how it went [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► basically anything American or that you [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► fancy yeah i think that might have been [TS]

00:11:20 ◼   ► another conclusion that we came to I [TS]

00:11:23 ◼   ► wondered aloud in that episode of [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► Vatican City had a flag and the answer [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► is yes Vatican City does have a flag or [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► really did someone get back to you on [TS]

00:11:30 ◼   ► that day I only got a thousand messages [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► about i think every resident of Vatican [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► City must have said something about it [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► because i got at least that many emails [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► yeah there's one from the Pope right [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► listen and let us know i use the vatican [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► city or do flag every day at the team [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► the third yeah of course yes there was a [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► lot of feedback about that but what I [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► really like is a couple people pointed [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► out some of the more unusual flags that [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► are already in there so these include [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► places like western sahara which is sort [TS]

00:12:02 ◼   ► of ambiguous but not really a country [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► has a flag the I don't know how to [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► pronounce I think it's åland islands [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► has a flag french polynesia has a flag [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► the british indian ocean territory has a [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► flag this bunch of just funny places [TS]

00:12:18 ◼   ► like Greenland and Kirk cow Kirko I [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► never have to say it even though I said [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► in a video once so they're already a [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► bunch of places that are sort of semi [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► sovereign independent places like [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► gibraltar like guernsey like Jersey like [TS]

00:12:34 ◼   ► the Isle of Man so there's already in [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► this list of country flags in the emoji [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► standard there's just a ton of weirdness [TS]

00:12:43 ◼   ► already and I just I thought that was [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► interesting the Isle of Man has a emoji [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► and Scotland doesn't that's correct that [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► is nuts right isn't it all i can think [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► of is how did someone sit down and make [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► this letter like I love man [TS]

00:12:55 ◼   ► yes Frank gibraltar yes Scotland [TS]

00:12:59 ◼   ► no no Scotland perfect that like what is [TS]

00:13:01 ◼   ► the reasoning for this also i thought [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► you might enjoy [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► have you seen the nopal emoji there we [TS]

00:13:08 ◼   ► go hunt know that had bit of a problem [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► with the Department every night to [TS]

00:13:11 ◼   ► describe what has gone wrong with the [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► nopal emerging obviously the proposed [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► not a rectangular flag is these two sort [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► of triangle stacked on top of each other [TS]

00:13:19 ◼   ► but what they're basically done for the [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► emojis had an all white rectangular flag [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► and then just put the pole triangles off [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► to the left hand side so it looks like [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► it's the triangle set on a white [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► background [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► yeah that is a bit of a disaster and the [TS]

00:13:32 ◼   ► thing that I find strange about that is [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► it's not as though emojis are required [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► to be rectangular right now Jesus come [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► in all kinds of crazy shapes but for [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► some reason to Paul when they have to [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► put a little white background on it like [TS]

00:13:46 ◼   ► oh no this is terrible you know there's [TS]

00:13:49 ◼   ► gonna be a technical reason great old [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► Flags have to be standardized and you're [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► gonna have like a nerd ever let your [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► people explaining why now there is no [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► reason why they have to be standardized [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► I've no but I bet there's a raising the [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► flags do for some reason it's been [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► decided all the flags must be the same [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► shape for some silly reason look like [TS]

00:14:05 ◼   ► all software stuff some human made it [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► this way you could make it a different [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► way you can have the nopal one just be a [TS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► special one right [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► they have the bizarre like businessman [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► floating over a whole shape emoji which [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► I don't understand at all like I don't [TS]

00:14:19 ◼   ► get that one if they can do that than [TS]

00:14:21 ◼   ► appalled one it can just be the two [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► triangles [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► yeah but there was some reason that I [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► said flags are going to be rectangular [TS]

00:14:27 ◼   ► because they're in some subset that [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► native standardized to be compatible [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► with some other thing I'm very confident [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► that there is no reason for this and if [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► there is a reason [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► please let breeding now is the [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► switzerland flag more square or is that [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► sort of rectangular as well because [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► obviously switzerland has that much more [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► square flag and others [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► let's see it's a little flag emoji least [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► with the little flag emoji is also [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► rectangular phone say this is playing [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► into my belief that I've decided to [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► rectangular eyes [TS]

00:14:58 ◼   ► no although national flags for some [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► reason that I don't get me wrong you [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► know how much I love the Napoleon I'm [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► outraged nothing like silly i'm just [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► saying there'll be some stupid reason I [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► think it's laziness that's probably [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► where is laziness of the reason well I [TS]

00:15:11 ◼   ► sure sure might be a better one that [TS]

00:15:15 ◼   ► might be right [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► alright so we had an email from a [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► listener know named Caleb who write all [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► sorts of things that i won't go into but [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► some of them are quite interesting [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► actually now that I'm reading a backup [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► forgotten half of these things what are [TS]

00:15:30 ◼   ► you doing here is your listeners you're [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► teasing me over you're going through [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► this email that what you're now going to [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► pick out the least interesting of the [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► things dimension as you go [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► it's a very proprietary email which I [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► find quite funny because so many hello [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► listeners a sort of a big gray vans so [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► he actually says if you're keeping track [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► I was a brady fan first periodic videos [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► is the first channel i subscribe to my [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► wife is a fan too [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► she loves objectivity she also wants you [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► to know she has a crush on you [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► this seems very likely to get cut from [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► the podcast yeah probably i'm making it [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► up so the thing that's really [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► interesting that Caleb says is i did a [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► small experiment in listening and I [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► listened [TS]

00:16:15 ◼   ► this is to hello Internet my recent in [TS]

00:16:17 ◼   ► reverse chronological order it is kind [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► of funny how often follow up was the big [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► conversation about something that and [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► earlier episodes has only been brought [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► up in passing it actually worked well [TS]

00:16:29 ◼   ► the only problem is that i finally made [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► it through the archive and I think this [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► raises an interesting question because [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► you know you get these people that say [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► you should watch that star wars films in [TS]

00:16:38 ◼   ► different orders and that sort of thing [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► and they even have names to these orders [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► machete order [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► yeah could we have the Caleb ordering of [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► listening to hello internet which is [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► listening in reverse chronological order [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► and I wonder what the pros and cons of [TS]

00:16:51 ◼   ► listening to a podcast in Reverse are [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► and what your thoughts are on that I [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► don't know it depends a lot on the [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► podcast [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► what do you do when you get into a new [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► podcast you think this looks good [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► will you tend to pick it up from where [TS]

00:17:04 ◼   ► they're at will you go to the start will [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► you ever go backwards will you just pick [TS]

00:17:08 ◼   ► and choose based on topics when you go [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► into a new podcast it's been around for [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► awhile whats your immersion strategy [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► ok so i generally listen to podcasts in [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► chronological order so if I find [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► something that I [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► think I might like I will go back and i [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► will download the whole of the archive [TS]

00:17:30 ◼   ► and I will listen in chronological order [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► and I always feel like that's the best [TS]

00:17:34 ◼   ► way to do it like that feels like the [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► best way to experience it because if you [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► doing it in reverse chronological order [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► like I have done this with some shows [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► and I just think it ends up in this [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► weird state whereas you're listening to [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► new episodes as they come out but then [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► you're also listening to old episodes so [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► you are a time traveler who is both [TS]

00:17:52 ◼   ► going forward and backward in time that [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► just sounds awesome [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► no it's it's confusing it's jarring it's [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► no good in my podcast player which is [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► i'm currently using overcast but you can [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► do this in a bunch of different podcast [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► apps I have all of my podcast ordered [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► oldest to newest by podcast so when i [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► open up my podcast player I'm always [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► seeing the oldest episodes and then I am [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► working my way through my podcasts that [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► way and there's a bunch of reasons why i [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► like to do this but i think that is the [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► best way to see how it changes and to [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► understand how the podcast is later on I [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► mean the disadvantages very often [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► podcasts kind of start off in the [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► beginning a little bit different than [TS]

00:18:42 ◼   ► they end up towards the end but i think [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► all the nuances is clearly the way to go [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► but what about you [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► that's disappointingly boring of you [TS]

00:18:49 ◼   ► great how thought maybe you would have [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► some twist on it not just like when we [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► go to the store and then follow through [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► to the end I mean of course that's the [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► logical way to do it but what you want [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► me to suggest you think I'm gonna do [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► random order I think you should listen [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► in completely random order so that [TS]

00:19:02 ◼   ► nothing in the universe makes sense well [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► in some ways that's what i do on course [TS]

00:19:06 ◼   ► yeah right okay uh-huh if there's a new [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► one a new podcast cause of most podcast [TS]

00:19:12 ◼   ► do get better over time said to going [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► straight back to the start you might [TS]

00:19:15 ◼   ► have to wade through some tree call [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► before they find their faith but also if [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► I find a new 1i listen to the most [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► recent episode because that basically [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► puts a marker in the sand that says is [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► this good or not and is the leadership [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► brighter is the future gloomy and if it [TS]

00:19:31 ◼   ► is good i would tend to look at the back [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► catalogue and just cherry-pick the [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► titles that I think look like they'll be [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► about things that interest me [TS]

00:19:39 ◼   ► because I'm very aware that if you [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► listen to our episodes are we talking [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► about things that are no longer in the [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► news their opinions may have changed on [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► things and I couldn't getting riled up [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► by things that are no longer relevant [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► so I tend to just go back and look at [TS]

00:19:51 ◼   ► the ones that are all that's that's [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► really going to be in my sweets but all [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► the plane crash episode i listen to that [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► one right and ignore lots of the back [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► catalog so cherry pick from the past and [TS]

00:20:00 ◼   ► pick up from where they're at the moment [TS]

00:20:02 ◼   ► tends to be my philosophy but see here's [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► why I really like doing all kinds of [TS]

00:20:09 ◼   ► media in terms of oldest to newest I [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► think there's a lot of advantages and [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► going oldest to newest and I do the same [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► thing like when I save articles to read [TS]

00:20:19 ◼   ► like a compressive button on my web [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► browser and save them into an app to [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► read later i also have those kinds of [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► things open up oldest to newest because [TS]

00:20:28 ◼   ► i find that time acts as a kind of [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► attention filter so if I'm always [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► listening to stuff kind of behind the [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► actual current time or I'm reading [TS]

00:20:41 ◼   ► articles that past me saved several [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► weeks ago instead of what passed me [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► saved minutes ago [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► it acts as a kind of filter like do I [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► actually care about this thing anymore [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► and so very often like when a podcast [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► will come up [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► I feel like oh great this podcast is [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► talking about things that are totally [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► not relevant to me anymore i can just [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► delete and I feel like great I got an [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► hour of my life back because this thing [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► would have mattered when I would have [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► listened to it but it doesn't matter now [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► that i'm listening you know weeks behind [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► and I feel like it's an excellent way to [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► have a bit of perspective on what [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► matters are or what doesn't matter like [TS]

00:21:16 ◼   ► with articles as well it's really easy [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► to save a bunch of articles to read [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► later that you realize later I don't [TS]

00:21:24 ◼   ► really care i only just carried in the [TS]

00:21:26 ◼   ► moment and so you're acting as a kind of [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► chronological attention filter for the [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► media that you consume is the same [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► reason why do this with like movies to [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► watch and books to read like I put them [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► all on a list and you let future you see [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► what still matters or what is still [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► relevant [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► that sounds like you're describing my [TS]

00:21:45 ◼   ► method more than your method where you [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► pick up from where it's at now but you [TS]

00:21:49 ◼   ► look at the past and cherry-pick the [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► things that are worthy of your attention [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► rather than listening to everything [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► you're advocating what I said know what [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► you said no but I don't just go through [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► the back catalogue and select randomly i [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► will say like download absolutely [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► everything and then I just delete as I'm [TS]

00:22:04 ◼   ► going through right if something isn't [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► relevant to the current well that's [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► that's just semantics i mean it's just a [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► mechanism i mean i'm looking at the [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► whole back catalogue em I'm may not have [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► put them onto my player i'm just looking [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► at the fade and then I'm just deleting [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► in my mind anti-lock I'm not gonna [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► listen to that one that's not where they [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► look at the place where you can come [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► unstuck with your strategy and maybe it [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► doesn't matter because you wouldn't [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► listen to this sort of podcast anyway [TS]

00:22:27 ◼   ► it's because you live in your bubble you [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► might not know what's relevant or not [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► and if i can give you an example [TS]

00:22:34 ◼   ► okay huh there's a podcast i quite like [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► at the moment it's the BBC politics one [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► with this guy called John pain is really [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► good and every Sunday he does interview [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► so I download up and a week or so ago [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► his sunday show was about the battle for [TS]

00:22:48 ◼   ► the prime ministership of Britain around [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► the two women who had come down to this [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► face-off and now we're previewing the [TS]

00:22:55 ◼   ► candidates and talking about it and I [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► downloaded it and thought that's going [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► to be a nice listen tomorrow and of [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► course the next day one of those [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► candidates dropped out and Theresa May [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► became prime minister now if i lived in [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► the gray bubble and didn't know that I [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► could have settled in with my pipe and [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► much smoking jacket and set on the sofa [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► and thought this is gonna be a nice [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► listen I would spend an hour and a half [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► listening to this great setup of this [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► great contest that was about to happen [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► and then I would have thought I can't [TS]

00:23:20 ◼   ► wait to find out who wins and then I'll [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► found out a little finish to cut the [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► days before and I would feel like all [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► that was a waste of my time that preview [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► of that battle didn't even happen it [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► would be like watching a two-hour [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► preview of a big football match that [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► then gets cancelled [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► you can never understand the way even [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► phrase things two things here first of [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► all you always imagine that I'm just [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► totally isolated from the outside world [TS]

00:23:40 ◼   ► one hundred percent since it was very [TS]

00:23:42 ◼   ► likely that you would know that a prime [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► minister has been elected it's the same [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► way when I'm going through stuff oldest [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► to newest I am dimly aware of events [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► that have occurred in the world which is [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► the very reason I'm able to select what [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► it is that I do or do not want to listen [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► to and secondly if you did settle town [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► with your pipe to listen to this [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► excellent excellent preview of the Prime [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► Minister battle that was coming up when [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► it was over wouldn't be in [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► terribly satisfying to say I wonder who [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► won this battle but then you would [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► immediately get to know the answer it's [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► like binge watching TV i have actually [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► done that on occasion with stuff why I [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► know an event has occurred but I'm [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► listening to people discuss an event [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► beforehand sort of listen I think I'm [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► gonna sit here and try to make a [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► prediction about what will occur and was [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► fantastic as i get to know if I'm right [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► instantly don't get me wrong right in [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► response to your response [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► first of all i don't think i [TS]

00:24:33 ◼   ► underestimate how out-of-touch you are [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► you never cease to amaze me with new [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► stories you haven't heard of it's never [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► okay that's another argument that is [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► another argument about it still never [TS]

00:24:43 ◼   ► ceases to amaze me [TS]

00:24:45 ◼   ► and second of all there's nothing wrong [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► with living your life with a little bit [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► of a time offset i don't think i do it [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► quite as dramatically as you but I do it [TS]

00:24:53 ◼   ► sometimes I think it's hugely beneficial [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► yeah and I do if I not shopping on a [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► Sunday because that i will often record [TS]

00:25:00 ◼   ► the ground pray that day and avoid all [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► social media so I don't know the result [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► and last night I will watch the race and [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► I'm five or six hours behind the rest of [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► the world but i'm getting just as much [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► excitement from watching it five or six [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► hours later so you there's nothing wrong [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► with the time officer and in many ways i [TS]

00:25:16 ◼   ► see that's what you do in your life in a [TS]

00:25:18 ◼   ► lot of ways you you offset time and [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► that's fine [TS]

00:25:21 ◼   ► the problem with this politics situation [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► is you'd be doing a time offset and they [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► did nothing wrong with hearing about the [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► contest and then finding out what [TS]

00:25:29 ◼   ► happened later with the contest but if [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► the contest gets cancelled altogether [TS]

00:25:33 ◼   ► there is a little bit of a robbery that [TS]

00:25:36 ◼   ► happened because they'll be talking [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► about things that they think will happen [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► over the next six weeks em and they [TS]

00:25:40 ◼   ► could tell you and then they're going to [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► be doing this in two weeks time and [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► they're going to be having a debate in [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► the community hole in three weeks time [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► and i think when that debate comes that [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► you know and if none of that stuff even [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► happens I do think you have sunk a [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► little bit of time into something you [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► probably shouldn't have [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► so there is value to be gained from [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► thinking huh that's what everyone [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► thought would happen and not have it [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► happened isn't that interesting but put [TS]

00:26:01 ◼   ► it this way i didn't listen to it [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► because I thought it would be a waste of [TS]

00:26:03 ◼   ► my time but it right and greatly save [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► yourself an hour of your life [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► I mean this is you know when i started [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► doing this little I mean a long time ago [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► now i used to listen to more political [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► shows that i currently do i mean i don't [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► think i have anything that could be even [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► described as a political show on my [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► subscriptions anymore I know but of [TS]

00:26:21 ◼   ► course shows sometimes touch on politics [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► because it's unavoidable but it was [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► precisely this time offset that made me [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► realize like why am I even listening to [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► these political shows anyway it's almost [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► always stuff that totally doesn't matter [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► in a week if I wait a week to listen to [TS]

00:26:34 ◼   ► it and then it has no impact on anything [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► well why am i listening to it the moment [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► that it comes out there's not really any [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► benefit there so I'm feeling a extra [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► intense about this because i was just [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► talking to a friend of mine who I was [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► trying to talk out of for a while paying [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► attention to the news and he did do my [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► like read newspapers a week later [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► experiment was like oh yeah like [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► introducing this time delay makes it [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► really obvious that none of this stuff [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► actually matters and so I feel like [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► everybody should have a little bit of a [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► time delay with everything that they're [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► doing because time axis and excellent [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► filter of what are you going to be [TS]

00:27:07 ◼   ► interested in long-term not just what do [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► you think you're interested in [TS]

00:27:11 ◼   ► immediately [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► well yeah where does that end I mean [TS]

00:27:15 ◼   ► nothing matters in the long term doesn't [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► we're all gonna be dead in 60 or 70 [TS]

00:27:18 ◼   ► years we might as well just stop it [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► doing anything [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► excellent extrapolation breeding him [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► possibly disagree [TS]

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00:29:00 ◼   ► goodness it's summer [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► thank goodness for fracture site can we [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► do a paper cut [TS]

00:29:06 ◼   ► of course there's a British paper cut my [TS]

00:29:08 ◼   ► paper cut is everyone trying to solve my [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► problems online now I've discussed this [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► before in the context of relationships [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► gonna go [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► it can happen both ways but i think from [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► what I've heard and what I've [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► experienced and what i've read mail was [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► a more guilty of this than females but [TS]

00:29:28 ◼   ► everyone does it and that is when [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► someone complains or has a problem right [TS]

00:29:34 ◼   ► they don't necessarily want you to try [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► and solve it sometimes they just want [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► some sympathy or they want to vent and [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► trying to solve it is not what you [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► should do disagree you what I'm sorry [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► it's true if your wife come home from [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► work and had a difficult day and it's [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► been so difficult i had a really tough [TS]

00:29:49 ◼   ► day today they don't necessarily want [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► you to say we should have done this for [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► tomorrow you should do this sometimes [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► they just want and I'm around the [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► shoulder or a sympathetic word saying [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► well that sounds tough [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► good on you for getting through it let's [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► have dinner and I think the same is true [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► on social media if I'm sometimes griping [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► about something that annoys me [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► for example the twitter app and I'm [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► saying not so annoying twitter i don't [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► want a huge big long list of all the [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► other different apps i should use or the [TS]

00:30:18 ◼   ► different things i should do or we told [TS]

00:30:21 ◼   ► our that's a crap you shouldn't be using [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► anyway sometimes I just want people to [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► either say yeah sucks doesn't it or just [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► say you know don't worry that was a [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► funny joke you made at their expense [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► anyway good on you [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► that's also drawn I don't want to be [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► told all the things i'm doing wrong and [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► all the things i should change just put [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► your arm around my shoulder and say yeah [TS]

00:30:41 ◼   ► I here [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► man you don't have to solve problems [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► why do you want to wallow in your own [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► problems and not receive solutions [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► because that's human just like that [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► sometimes sometimes I don't want to [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► solve the problem they just want to grow [TS]

00:30:53 ◼   ► if someone has a solution [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► don't you want to hear the solution no [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► not necessarily [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► well now you know that because usually a [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► solution implies that i'm doing [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► something wrong and if i'm feeling [TS]

00:31:05 ◼   ► pissed off [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► you're just gonna piss me off even more [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► by telling me I'm doing something wrong [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► just tell me you're on my side [TS]

00:31:11 ◼   ► don't like but what if you are doing [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► something wrong if you and I great if [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► you and I played football together okay [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► and I was the goalkeeper for the team [TS]

00:31:18 ◼   ► and we made the world cup final okay and [TS]

00:31:20 ◼   ► right at the end of the world cup final [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► I jumped the wrong way and let in a girl [TS]

00:31:23 ◼   ► and we lost the world cup final at the [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► end of the game when i'm in tears in [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► front of a hundred thousand people in [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► the stadium I would not want you to come [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► up to me and say Brady if we make the [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► world cup finals again in four years and [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► that happens next time jump to the left [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► it was obviously shirts comparison ever [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► because there's no because there's no [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► solution for that [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► that's a situation where is there a [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► solution that could be offered no [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► there's no solution at all it's like out [TS]

00:31:48 ◼   ► you just lost us the big game [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► I'm sorry buddy right I'll put my arm [TS]

00:31:53 ◼   ► around you but if you're like oh I have [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► a problem with the twitter client I [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► don't like this thing about it and [TS]

00:31:57 ◼   ► somebody says oh there's a different [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► twitter client that does things [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► differently that's a solution what [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► you're saying here is a bit like it like [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► someone's talking about like a death in [TS]

00:32:06 ◼   ► the family and someone's like well you [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► know if we invented anti-death [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► technology right then this wouldn't be a [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► problem is like now this is not even [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► remotely comparable you're giving an [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► analogy for which there is no solution i [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► would not offer a solution for like you [TS]

00:32:18 ◼   ► should have jumped the other way [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► that's just what is it like Monday [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► morning quarterbacking if we had a time [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► machine and could go back in time things [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► could have been different [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► that kind of stuff is just obnoxious [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► because at the end of the game they [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► would be value in you telling me if that [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► happens again in the future game Brady [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► you should jump to the left or you know [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► learn from experience in the heat of the [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► moment and in three or four weeks after [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► the football game there would be value [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► and is watching the video together and [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► saying now Brady if you're goalkeeping [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► again and that same player does that [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► thing now you know what to do but in the [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► heat of the moment when passions are [TS]

00:32:52 ◼   ► high that is not the time [TS]

00:32:54 ◼   ► the solutions this is the time for [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► sympathy and a consulting arm and it's [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► the same on twitter if I'm venting on [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► Twitter and making a joke or saying [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► something angry I just want my friends [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► to kind of agree with me and agree that [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► things are crap I don't want them to be [TS]

00:33:09 ◼   ► with their arms crossed in there serious [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► cgpgrey voice telling me will in fact [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► there is a solution to that problem with [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► your venting about I just let the steam [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► rise and that the passions guy and then [TS]

00:33:21 ◼   ► later on I'll probably find the solution [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► myself i'm just venting [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► I don't want you all telling me stuff [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► like that I'm sorry and if i'm wrong [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► okay but then why are there like [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► thousands of books and bits of advice [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► along these lines to about like you know [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► relationships and stuff saying when one [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► person's like you know upset and venting [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► about their problems it doesn't mean [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► they want you to sit there and solve [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► them [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► this is like a known thing but we're not [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► married that doesn't matter you know [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► we're not we're not married right this [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► doesn't matter right so the cyst in the [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► big book of why brady and gray cannot be [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► shipped together right this would be [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► another one of these examples of like [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► Brady comes home and just wants to talk [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► about his feelings and once no solutions [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► to easily solvable problems and gray has [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► no patience for this whatsoever [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► I don't get me wrong great i'm guilty of [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► this I am guilty of this when people are [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► upset i'm also mr. know-it-all saying [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► well you should have done this or next [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► time you should do that or you could fix [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► that but I do it but the minute i do I [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► realize that some mistake [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► pepperidge it you in any way yeah that's [TS]

00:34:22 ◼   ► what that's what we do and that's [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► certainly what everyone who follows me [TS]

00:34:26 ◼   ► on Twitter does everything the closest I [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► can get to sympathizing with this is if [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► I complaint on the podcast about [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► something or if I complain on twitter [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► about something [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► people often offer solutions but where I [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► get annoyed at is when someone solution [TS]

00:34:41 ◼   ► is no good right when their solution [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► doesn't work and usually it's because [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► you have not adequately understood the [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► problem domain solution offer that you [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► are just giving me a thing that doesn't [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► actually make stuff better [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► it's just an alternative this is not [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► actually a solution and that's where I [TS]

00:34:59 ◼   ► get annoyed just feels like you don't [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► understand the problem if I want a [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► solution i will make it clear that i [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► want a solution if I'm just trying to be [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► a wise ass and making jokes at [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► which is expense okay just go with me [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► you keep flipping around a couple of [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► things here which is your joking on [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► Twitter or like you're complaining about [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► a thing that has a solution loser to [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► again totally different social scenarios [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► right i think so you don't think so i [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► think if something is pissing me off [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► like you know I'm saying I've got a sore [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► hand because of the way i'm holding the [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► iphone i can make some joke as my way of [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► venting my frustration or i could say [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► has anyone got any suggested alternative [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► ways to hold an iphone because my hands [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► hurting there are two different ways of [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► dealing with problems sometimes you put [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► the call out for help [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► sometimes you say this is pissing me off [TS]

00:35:45 ◼   ► I'm just gonna take a swipe at them [TS]

00:35:46 ◼   ► because that's what we do these days [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► look if people have adequate solutions [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► they should offer them this is clearly [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► the better path in society just sitting [TS]

00:35:55 ◼   ► around everybody feeling sorry for [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► everybody else it gets you nowhere [TS]

00:35:59 ◼   ► disagree but you are alright well I'm i [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► guess i'm suffering from expert ake [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► because everyone's an expert and I have [TS]

00:36:08 ◼   ► you know another hundreds and hundreds [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► of them sharing their expertise with [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► milk i can only handle so much expertise [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► which one solution don't you this is [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► what i don't understand I don't [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► understand this part not always and look [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► this is behavior that you can train [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► people out of four why do you think I'm [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► talking about it [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► no I'm that you can train people out of [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► the behavior where all they're doing is [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► complaining because they want a bunch of [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► sympathy from other people just shower [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► me with sympathy so that I feel better [TS]

00:36:37 ◼   ► in my own wallowing like now you can [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► train people out of this if this is the [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► thing that you can do you can learn to [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► stop doing this and I think you're [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► better off if you stop doing that right [TS]

00:36:46 ◼   ► just complaining to get sympathy from [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► other people [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► it's not a good personality trait well [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► when you say it like that it sounds very [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► bad yet because that's what it is that's [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► but let me phrase it another way it's [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► turning to my fellow men and women for [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► comfort in times of made until 50 yeah [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► oh my god alright but again there's like [TS]

00:37:06 ◼   ► a whole range of scenarios here right [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► we'll put like death in the family of [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► turning to humankind for comfort and [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► need to on the other side complaining [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► about stuff that is potentially fixable [TS]

00:37:19 ◼   ► at the other end right and I just think [TS]

00:37:21 ◼   ► so many people like to complain about [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► stuff that's potentially fixable [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► I mean the classic example of this is [TS]

00:37:27 ◼   ► someone comes home and they start [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► complaining about a bunch of stuff [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► related to their job right this is like [TS]

00:37:32 ◼   ► the standard scenario and and the answer [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► in that is ok well let's talk about this [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► let's come up with solutions like are [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► there things that you can do differently [TS]

00:37:41 ◼   ► at your job or enjoy your job [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► this is where it is good that you are [TS]

00:37:45 ◼   ► matched with your wife because you are [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► wrong about that you have wrong you are [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► wrong that you should always sit down [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► when someone is complaining and say [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► let's talk this through [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► I know for a fact that i'm not wrong on [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► this but I just agree with you and I [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► also disagree with some of the analogies [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► your drawing for a change to with deaths [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► in the family but it's not really [TS]

00:38:09 ◼   ► something we could wait into we could [TS]

00:38:11 ◼   ► totally weight into it look just to make [TS]

00:38:13 ◼   ► it simple like I know like teenage much [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► younger me used to have this thing that [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► everybody is where like you complain [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► about a thing and then you're like [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► you're wanting people to express [TS]

00:38:22 ◼   ► sympathy with you right like I used to [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► do this when I was a kid but then you [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► can train yourself out of this behavior [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► right nothing useful is happening to you [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► nothing useful is happening to the [TS]

00:38:32 ◼   ► people that you're talking to like you [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► can learn not to do this degree I don't [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► great if I say man Twitter's crap and I [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► make some funny joke and everyone's like [TS]

00:38:41 ◼   ► yeah Barry you made a funny joke anyway [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► great was crap i feel better stop right [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► there [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► humor is a thing that is valuable in and [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► of itself if you are complaining about a [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► thing in such a way that other people [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► are laughing and it's a funny story that [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► is valuable but you're moving the [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► goalposts here this was my original goal [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► posts [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► how was your original goal okay okay [TS]

00:39:01 ◼   ► yeah well I wasn't saying [TS]

00:39:03 ◼   ► twitter is really poor and causing me [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► some frustration today most and then [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► being upset by people saying alternative [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► to twitter i was making like a wiseass [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► comment about the twitter app about [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► something about I didn't like i was [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► making like a joke about it okay and [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► then everyone's like water use you know [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► use this button use this news tweet ball [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► use this and you've got this setting [TS]

00:39:22 ◼   ► I'm not our man I was just making a joke [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► their crap yeah I don't know that i'm [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► using the wrong app now I understand [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► clearly everybody when Brady makes jokes [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► on Twitter just laugh at his jokes [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► that's all he wants [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► the goalie big Normie or unfollow me or [TS]

00:39:37 ◼   ► mute me but don't give me tech support [TS]

00:39:39 ◼   ► if I want tech support I'll ask for it [TS]

00:39:41 ◼   ► actually won't take support alko gray [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► got there I know it's gonna happen [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► they're really i am the tech support for [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► a bunch of youtubers and that's fine [TS]

00:39:51 ◼   ► now you've been going to ground too much [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► like you're impossible to get your worse [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► than usual at the moment [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► what do you mean I'm always reachable as [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► I ever have been [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► I think you've been a bit less reachable [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► lightly I don't agree with them [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► ok maybe i'm wrong i think you're wrong [TS]

00:40:04 ◼   ► so as you know the olympic games are [TS]

00:40:06 ◼   ► about to start shortly [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► do you know where they're being held no [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► right there bring him a couple of weeks [TS]

00:40:17 ◼   ► in rio I literally did not know that [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► it's okay it's okay to be honest I've [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► been about less excited by these [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► olympics i haven't been getting as hyped [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► by them as I normally would [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► oh yeah you normally get super excited [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► for the Olympics I wouldn't say I get [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► super excited by them but I'm not [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► looking forward to them that much but [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► hopefully that changes and so obviously [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► normally I wouldn't have much to talk [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► about with you about the Olympics but [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► there was a story that caught my eye a [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► couple of days ago that I thought even [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► you made slightly raised one eyebrow to [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► him [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► I think it's a bit of a publicity stunt [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► but i still think it's awesome the [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► people from the charity [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► english heritage here in the UK have [TS]

00:40:58 ◼   ► started a petition calling for the [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► re-introduction or not the [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► reintroduction i think the first time [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► introduction to the Olympics for the [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► sport of ousting who can you imagine [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► jesting at the Olympics I think even you [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► would watch that [TS]

00:41:16 ◼   ► yeah I'd watch that at least once but [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► that's that big so I haven't actually [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► looked at the petition yet but this sort [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► of arguing that Justin requires a lot of [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► skill and strength and things like that [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► and i find that hard to argue with I [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► think Justin must be pretty difficult [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► sport to be good at and i think i'd be [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► up for i think i'm willing to [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► potentially pending further [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► investigation particularly regarding the [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► well-being of animals I'd be up for [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► consideration of justic [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► I was just quickly trying to pull this [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► up here and of course you know when you [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► google for Olympic Games jousting [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► there's all kinds of pictures of people [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► on horseback in armor in front of [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► castles I feel like yes correct we meet [TS]

00:42:00 ◼   ► more there it looks amazing it would [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► definitely be a condition of my support [TS]

00:42:06 ◼   ► that the Justice war metal armor and not [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► some rubber modern suits with helmets [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► that have to be wearing our school [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► jousting outfit I don't want the nike [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► rubber jousting suit one hundred percent [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► agree go metal or go home right I don't [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► feel like we've made a super safe just [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► assume not interested in her and not to [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► use like virtual cyber polls casting [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► sticks or anything has to be hosting [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► stick that thing is unlikely that the [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► name of them the whole thing that makes [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► this exciting is it seems stupidly [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► dangerous right [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► yeah there's all kinds of dumb sports in [TS]

00:42:40 ◼   ► the Olympics that people bring up all [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► the time I don't see why Justin couldn't [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► be part of this i mean if you or someone [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► else now I would get into a conversation [TS]

00:42:49 ◼   ► with you about golf in the Olympics [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► which has been the big controversy is [TS]

00:42:52 ◼   ► golf Olympics the Gulf is in this [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► olympics now [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► thumbs down yeah well it's causing a lot [TS]

00:42:58 ◼   ► of problems actually is this new this [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► year [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► yes I totally disagree with and the [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► problem is all the good players are [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► pulling out partly because of the Zika [TS]

00:43:07 ◼   ► virus which is this problem and rio at [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► the moment but it also is just basically [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► betraying how unserious Lee they're [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► taking it and the introduction of golf [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► into the olympics i think was a very [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► cynical moved by the international [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► olympic committee and it's just turning [TS]

00:43:20 ◼   ► into a bit of a debacle I would much [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► rather watch jousting than golf at the [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► Olympics [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► why is it a cynical move is just get the [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► Gulf eyeballs on to the Olympics is that [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► the world idea particularly in Asia [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► because in Asia golf has a huge [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► following and in Asia is a bit less [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► engagement with the other pics then in [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► some other parts of the world so I think [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► they thought if we get golf in there [TS]

00:43:39 ◼   ► that will increase people's interest and [TS]

00:43:41 ◼   ► also just golf as a sport attracts huge [TS]

00:43:44 ◼   ► corporate sponsorship in general so I [TS]

00:43:46 ◼   ► think they're thinking if we've got golf [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► at the Olympics you know we'll have more [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► big corporate deals and better sponsors [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► and things like that so I mean I guess [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► golf is the sport of the corporate world [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► of course yeah exactly but it doesn't [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► mean it has to be in the Olympics and I [TS]

00:43:59 ◼   ► think that Ben [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► showing up now because the players don't [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► care but you know the players have the [TS]

00:44:03 ◼   ► four tournaments they really want to win [TS]

00:44:05 ◼   ► every year moving pictures and one of [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► them so they're quite happy to pull out [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► and you know they're citing this Zika [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► virus concern which is fair enough but [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► it's not hitting other sports in the [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► same way so just sounds really boring i [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► mean that's my own personal bias against [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► golf is it's it's really dull not [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► yes good golf tournaments don't get me [TS]

00:44:24 ◼   ► wrong I like watching a good major if [TS]

00:44:27 ◼   ► there was any sport that was present in [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► the house when I was growing up it was [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► golf on TV by my father and I always [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► thought this is incredibly boring does [TS]

00:44:37 ◼   ► your dead leg off [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► yeah he does play golf I'm not sure how [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► much you please currently but at least [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► when I was in high school my dad played [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► golf pretty regularly and I was out on [TS]

00:44:47 ◼   ► the court a couple of times [TS]

00:44:49 ◼   ► the court is that not just realize about [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► nothing right way to describe your cool [TS]

00:44:54 ◼   ► and of course as you might expect the [TS]

00:44:58 ◼   ► best part of playing golf was driving [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► the golf cart for me that was the super [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► fun part and those things can really [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► move with the floor it and oh yeah [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► there's my fondest memories of being out [TS]

00:45:08 ◼   ► on the golf course is riding in the [TS]

00:45:11 ◼   ► electric golf cart [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► what other kind of terminology and I you [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► have the the wooden clubs and you have [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► the iron clubs [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► yeah kinda I mean kind of theirs that [TS]

00:45:22 ◼   ► you have the wooden clubs in the iron [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► clubs you have woods and ions yeah but [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► most of the time they're actually made [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► of wood is cold words right but the wood [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► clubs are for long-distance shots of [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► remember irons are for the close shots [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► because they have their steeper so you [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► can do little fun upward trajectories [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► yeah that's you unite ions and you're [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► pitching wedges and sandwiches and right [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► and there's been apart for the course [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► when you get the expected number of [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► strokes per hole [TS]

00:45:50 ◼   ► what if you get one less than you should [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► have gone for that how is that a birdie [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► something yet is it really is [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► yes what if you get one more than you [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► should have got for that how I have no [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► idea [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► have I got nothin nothin bernie is the [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► only only one I knew there that bogey [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► bogey ok alright i feel like i should [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► have known these things but I don't if [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► you get to less than you should have got [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► for the whole to less that's awesome [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► what's better than a bird [TS]

00:46:13 ◼   ► I have no idea i got another berry [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► that's that's an eagle amigo ok [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► oh yeah that sounds familiar so what if [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► you get to worse and you should have got [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► for a whole what's worse than a bogey [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► penguin is a penguin rather boring [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► that's just a double bogey double bogey [TS]

00:46:30 ◼   ► out okay I bet you can guess what you [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► get for three worse than how [TS]

00:46:33 ◼   ► triple-bogey yeah you're learning fast [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► man [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► here we go what an exciting sport this [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► golf is so so tell you what like I might [TS]

00:46:42 ◼   ► know a lot about golf terminology and I [TS]

00:46:44 ◼   ► know nothing about jesting terminology [TS]

00:46:46 ◼   ► so that's that's next for me I couldn't [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► knew anything about jesting that I know [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► that they just it's a tilt yard is the [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► word for where they're jamming sting and [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► we still got the wikipedia article i [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► have the BBC news article right [TS]

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00:48:12 ◼   ► your position between your audiobook and [TS]

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00:48:29 ◼   ► Internet pick a book out of the 180,000 [TS]

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00:48:36 ◼   ► listening today thanks again too [TS]

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00:48:41 ◼   ► well dr. heron yes how are you feeling [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► today [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► hmm do you feel knowledgeable do you [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► feel worldly I'm feeling wise feeling [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► very wise i'm feeling a steam it [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► congratulations by the way [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► congratulations on your honorary [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► doctorates thank you very much [TS]

00:49:04 ◼   ► it was a really really great day for [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► those who don't know the University of [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► Nottingham where I've done a lot of work [TS]

00:49:11 ◼   ► for many years now awarded an honorary [TS]

00:49:13 ◼   ► doctorate a few days ago as we're [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► recording and it was at the graduation [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► ceremony for the school of physics with [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► all the physics and astronomy students [TS]

00:49:22 ◼   ► who did real hard work and we're getting [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► there richly deserved degrees and [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► doctorates and things and also had to [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► put up with a short speech about me and [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► me getting an honorary doctorate at the [TS]

00:49:33 ◼   ► University and got a certificate and I [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► got to dress up in funny clothes and I [TS]

00:49:37 ◼   ► got treated like a VIP and it was one of [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► the best days ever and it was that I had [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► a smile from ear to ear and it was just [TS]

00:49:45 ◼   ► a few notches below wedding day in terms [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► of just super super happy days [TS]

00:49:50 ◼   ► that's fantastic i watched your speech [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► online the video is available and in the [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► show notes for anybody who wants to see [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► it i think i did a very good job kept it [TS]

00:50:00 ◼   ► nice and short [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► nice and punching short is usually good [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► you're just good at things that it's a [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► funny thing that the day like I compared [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► it to a wedding and it is like that it's [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► one of those days where like there's [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► lots of attention on you and there's [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► lots of good will and everyone's just [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► really happy for you and you're feeling [TS]

00:50:18 ◼   ► a lot of love and that's really nice [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► like it's a really great celebration but [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► the thing that's funny about it is [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► you're very aware that it's happening [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► for like a hundred and fifty people at [TS]

00:50:29 ◼   ► the same time [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► in the same room and their families and [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► friends are there and they're the center [TS]

00:50:34 ◼   ► of their world and the person next to [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► them has their family and friends there [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► and as they come up in like that [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► conveyor belt and they're having their [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► names right out and they're shaking the [TS]

00:50:42 ◼   ► hand of the vice-chancellor that's a [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► really big moment in their life and for [TS]

00:50:45 ◼   ► their family and it's all happening so [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► much and so simultaneously it's a really [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► difficult thing to get your head around [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► and I tried to reflect some of that also [TS]

00:50:53 ◼   ► what I said you know I realized that the [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► day wasn't about me in many ways it [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► wasn't about me because I just had an [TS]

00:50:58 ◼   ► honorary doctor and these people had [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► done the real deal and they were the [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► real heroes of the day so I hope I [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► reflected that in some way but it was a [TS]

00:51:05 ◼   ► really great day for me and it was [TS]

00:51:07 ◼   ► really great day 473 other people as [TS]

00:51:10 ◼   ► well so how did it come about that you [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► got an honorary doctorate like what is [TS]

00:51:17 ◼   ► the process for selecting an honorary [TS]

00:51:19 ◼   ► doctor [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► well I don't entirely know who they give [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► out some every year i don't know how [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► many they give out i would guess in the [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► range of that doesn't normally two [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► people a lot more restrained than me [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► that have done amazing things in [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► business or whatever for umpteen many [TS]

00:51:35 ◼   ► years suddenly it was really nice for [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► them to give one to me names are [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► submitted by people who I don't know why [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► didn't I don't you know I I don't think [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► about when i submitted discussions that [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► had committees may the Center of the [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► University then considers I imagine they [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► considered recommendations and approved [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► to them i don't know what gets [TS]

00:51:58 ◼   ► disapproved but it all happened behind [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► my back my wife was actually aware of it [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► because they needed information about me [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► to consider the application so it turns [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► out professor merrifield at the [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► University of Nottingham who I think had [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► a bit to do with this contacted my wife [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► to find out things about my past and [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► history and work and things like that [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► the doing background checks on you to [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► make sure that they something terrible [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► well maybe yeah there was some some of [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► that so it all happened behind my back [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► and I knew nothing about it whatsoever [TS]

00:52:24 ◼   ► at all and then I got a letter from the [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► vice-chancellor of the University a few [TS]

00:52:28 ◼   ► months ago actually my wife was with me [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► at the time like this university [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► envelope came and more physical [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► what's that we're going to work with and [TS]

00:52:36 ◼   ► because obviously i do business with the [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► university I was like are just be some [TS]

00:52:39 ◼   ► boring letter about something financial [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► I've got to do or something so i wasn't [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► going to open and she said [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► it opened at me so I opened it and it [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► was this of course is lovely letter from [TS]

00:52:47 ◼   ► the boss of the unique saying we're [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► going to give you this honorary [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► doctorate so I was over the moon and [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► then obviously waited a few months and [TS]

00:52:54 ◼   ► when did all the official ceremony stuff [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► this week and it was great it's great [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► they get that was a special VIP lunch [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► beforehand and got to wear the robes and [TS]

00:53:04 ◼   ► the silly Hatton walk down the aisle at [TS]

00:53:06 ◼   ► all the fancy pompous music and national [TS]

00:53:10 ◼   ► anthems and I loved all the formality of [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► it and got my certificate and very cool [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► doctor of letters is what I am I have to [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► say the picture of you signing the [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► certificate i guess that's what that is [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► in front of you that you have on your [TS]

00:53:28 ◼   ► blog which might be one of my favorite [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► pictures if you ever somehow I don't [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► know it just it just looks perfect here [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► there's little fancy outfit you have a [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► funny look on your face I really really [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► like this photo of dr. Brady at the [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► ceremony i think it's it's absolutely [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► fantastic [TS]

00:53:44 ◼   ► so you of course you don't have a doctor [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► as far as i know you didn't reach that [TS]

00:53:49 ◼   ► level did you know I i have not reached [TS]

00:53:51 ◼   ► the heights that you have read spreading [TS]

00:53:53 ◼   ► now so is there anything you'd like to [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► ask me then that's probably the more [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► pertinent question now that you know I [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► can [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► is there anything I can help you is a [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► now I mean mostly mostly when I'm saying [TS]

00:54:03 ◼   ► stuff i usually just want sympathy [TS]

00:54:05 ◼   ► I don't want the kind of answer is that [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► a learned man of letters might be able [TS]

00:54:08 ◼   ► to Paris so I just like to throw stuff [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► out there and I mean that's basically [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► what I'm doing is I'm sympathizing with [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► your your lower level of education is [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► drew its i am a mirror a mirror peasant [TS]

00:54:19 ◼   ► in your shadow now you can also do you [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► think you could change the hello [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► internet website to say it's presented [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► by cgpgrey and dr. Brady Haran well i [TS]

00:54:29 ◼   ► mean i think that is an interesting [TS]

00:54:32 ◼   ► question because although I you know I [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► don't want to dwell on this fact but i [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► understand that there are some questions [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► about whether or not [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► honorary doctors can use the doctor [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► honorific outside of the day of ceremony [TS]

00:54:45 ◼   ► that occurs this is a fair question and [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► I think should be addressed [TS]

00:54:49 ◼   ► I mean I don't want to bring it up I [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► don't wanna I don't want to poo poo on [TS]

00:54:52 ◼   ► your parade here no no course it's [TS]

00:54:55 ◼   ► basically the only question anyone [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► I've about the whole thing exactly [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► bracket phrase perhaps in the way of [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► yeah but are you a real doctor [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► my position is that I am NOT who there [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► is mixed opinion on actually and [TS]

00:55:11 ◼   ► different people do different things [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► with that and you can read different [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► things about it but I think the proper [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► way is to not use it and the only way it [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► gets used is an official correspondence [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► with the university that bestowed on you [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► but there are people who have taken the [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► name doctor within honorific degree like [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► this [TS]

00:55:31 ◼   ► mm I think Benjamin Franklin was one of [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► them okay yeah yeah so i may be wrong [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► about that but I'm sticking with it [TS]

00:55:38 ◼   ► until you google it and find out [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► otherwise i'm not doing that all i can [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► hear your steampunk keyboard his thing [TS]

00:55:44 ◼   ► away in the background I don't let me so [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► other than for this week and times of [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► convenience [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► mm I'm not gonna roll out using it maybe [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► on some plain bookings and her in the [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► hotel gonna get parades I'm not gonna [TS]

00:55:57 ◼   ► roll it out [TS]

00:55:58 ◼   ► I haven't done it and I don't [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► necessarily do it but I i want to leave [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► that option open if you think that's how [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► they do upgrades clucking at look we [TS]