Size Matters

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1:34I think we all got our coins of fairness on there. Where'd you get your stacks of paper, you scribble on, Wade? Amazon. Whatever it is, Prime helps you get more out of whatever passions you're into or getting into. Head to amazon.com slash prime and follow your obsession wherever it goes. Good evening, gentle listeners or watchers, and welcome to Restractable. This episode, Morose Mark gets stonewalled, warns of insipid AI, then calls for the quintessence of quotes. Babish Bob stands for Sasquatch, Jim Blouse K-pop, and he profoundly pep talks. Wildling Wade goes nuts on Netflix, crashes as Clark Gable, and channels Caveman and The Don.

2:19From undead presenters to tireless self-tuition, yes! It's time for Size Matters. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. I'll get the last nut out of my mouth and I'll be good. That's what she said. Ah! God. I can't take the power of your true laugh. Ah! Ah! Ah! I need to step away from that.

2:53What the fuck? Hello, and welcome back to Distractable, the podcast that was your nephew's favorite once long ago, but now he's too old for that. This isn't as cool as it once was, and he's grown out of it. So we, as desperate, trying to still be relevant people, are clinging on, doing the same thing over and over again in the hopes that someday the magic will relight again, but it never will. One of us is dead. Who is it? That's up for the audience to decide which one of us by the end of the episode. One of us is dead. It's an exciting poll. Well, this is the podcast that you were hopefully looking for.

3:34There's probably a podcast award show that you could nominate us for something like that. Hey, why don't you do that thing for us? Or don't, I guess. We need the publicity. We've fallen off. We've changed. We are actually not good at public. Did you guys know that we are actually extremely bad about publicizing ourselves? I would have heard that somewhere, but we didn't publicize it very well. It's actually, it's very true because most of the podcasts out there, you know, they have celebrities and traditional stuff. And I'm not saying that they're, you know, just pounding the pavement. They have teams for that, but we don't even have a team for that.

4:10Are we supposed to have a team? Actually, yeah, we are. Oh, God. We need to be on each of Shakira's hips. And as Shakira does a hip dance, it says distractible, distractible. Maybe I just want that. Yeah, that sounds like a Wade thing. That sounds like a Wade thing. Hey, honesty, you know, that's a good man. I don't have to be effective, but it would work on me. I'll tell you that. Well, you are our target audience. We don't have enough Wade listening to this podcast. I can tell you that. How many middle-aged bald men are out there? Come on, tell me. I was chosen to be on this podcast because I was so relatable to the mid-aged bald audience.

4:46Yep, it's true. Science. No one knows if I'm 25 or 55. You'll never tell. Are you a guru? Wait, that's my bed. Give him the guru point. Alright, he's a guru. Okay, wow. But you're not getting any small talk point, Wade. Wink. You might. You might. You don't know that, Mr. Host. I like that you preempted that. He doesn't deserve any, and he won't. You might not. It's true. Maybe. I deserve all of them. But just like most things in life, this is Schrodinger's podcast And you don't know what the contents are going to be like until you look Because we're both dead and alive Can we do a podcast episode where just in the middle We just leave it blank for like 30 minutes And it's like, ah, the box was empty I mean, yeah, man Do you want to do that regardless of whether people will enjoy it or not?

5:35Or are you thinking that would be I'm in that phase of life where I'm getting old enough Where I'm like, I don't care anymore because it's funny And I want what I want If we just label ourselves as avant-garde, we can get away with anything, right? What does avant-garde stand for? Let's go guard! Avant! Avant-garde! All right, I'll take it. My Remarkable is out of commission. What's up with that remarkable company that made it? If that is your real name. You probably owe them a penny that they're not going to forget about. You know, they haven't messaged me since. Apple I'm talking about the Apple thing I owe them a penny I have not gotten any emails about that Tim Apple was on his exercise bike having his morning smoothie and almost spit strawberry banana kale out his nose when he heard Mark upset about the billing situation there was a loophole he was very upset and someone walked up to him and they're like oh Mr.

6:34Apple what's wrong penny for your thoughts and he's like penny that's what Mark owed I can say it was his penny it's paid off Yes Fuck What situation did you just come up with No you know what Wade for once I was with you I totally understand What just happened it's it's Mark It makes sense just just trust All you need to know is you're Off the hook for now Little did he know he owed more than a penny based on Interest it was 1.001 pennies And the interest will continue to accrue You guys hearing a narrator in your head or is that just me i always hear that and it always sounds like wade's narrator voice that's weird well we're back at this and i don't owe anybody any money that i'm gonna publicly say out loud do you guys owe anyone any money i have a mortgage banks stuff probably yeah i think they know i don't think they're gonna let that slide well then we've tapped the uh the debt topic dry uh let's move on to small talk i got nothing for you because i get no points for this anyway so i have a lot of small talk don't worry i'll fill it all up self-fulfilling prophecy wade that's what that is bob go ahead did you see that vo3 google's ai video the thing that people love when we talk about it's a great topic i i don't know how widely discussed this has been and how serious it is but i saw a bunch of uh ai nerds that i follow online chattering about how there's a new emergent capability coming out of vo3 emerging day apparently it can now it was not like designed to do this but it just started doing a thing where you can have it generate something and then take like a frame oh for fuck's sake listen to ai camera zoom out zoom out you fuck you could take a frame which i'm going to indicate like this you can take a frame of video and like just just write notes on the frame and be like move this over here and make this cloud bigger or whatever you can do something like that feed it back to video 3 and be like make that same video but with these notes or changes and it will incorporate them that it has figured out how to take like visual annotations and just do generally what you want to do and that was not a thing that they put into it it just started doing that because it keeps developing as it gets more use and they put more data into it or however it works is that like saying it can better manipulate because i saw that runway ml had a demo for theirs that was like it'll replace the entire VFX pipeline.

9:22People should be like concerned for their jobs, number one. And I know people get on my case for like downplaying it sometimes, but I just want people to be also be aware of what its actual capabilities are so that they can react accordingly. And someone pointed out like the problem with that replacing VFX pipelines is the kind of video that it outputs is very different from what movie quality video is and the kind of bit depth and the resolutions and we don't know what you put into it and like it's if it's close enough isn't good enough for a lot of industries um and a lot of what ai does is close enough it gets very close sometimes but it's close enough doesn't cut it when you've got a someone point out in the vfx industry they call it pixel fucking right so it's when the director sends an entire shot back because they didn't like this one thing happening in the far right corner and then they keep doing that 30 times with various random bullshit that they don't like and studios do it all the time that's why it costs millions of dollars sometimes it's it's ridiculous but you're unique in your knowledge of like movie making and your eye for it i'm sure compared to like the average i mean me or people who average movie enjoyers but i feel like a great example of what you're saying in terms of the quality is like if if if any of you out there have seen the commercials that companies have done using ai you could tell and it's not just because like the images were totally rational right a lot of times you can tell something is ai generated because there's like 19 fingers or like it's the will smith eating spaghetti meme you look at it and it's like ah well but the there was like a i think it was a coca-cola commercial or some some companies were doing something where it was like ai generated visuals in a commercial and everything was totally normal whatever it was but you you could look at it you could just tell like why does this look fuzzy although it's because it's lower resolution or the bit depth or whatever like for the technical reasons it's because it's not as good and commercials are not as high of a standard the movie standard is like gonna be on the fucking biggest screen you can imagine it needs to be extremely like beautiful and perfect and you can't have commercials is like that shit's compressed i was watching the commercial on youtube tv it's not like i'm high but even there you look in the the ai generated commercial comes on and your eye is like oh something about that is like bad looking right and there are technical reasons for that but i feel like even normal people can still tell it's not even close in terms of quality that you get out of ai generated stuff versus made by professionals to to that standard we're not downplaying it we're not downplaying it but i am curious also we're not even using it just to be clear i don't want to pay 250 bucks to make uh sasquatch vlogging even for a bit i'm not gonna pay 250 a month it's probably more now i bet they i bet they've raised the price of that shit well i have james small talk do you guys want to hear about more joys of having a child always fascinating times in the world of james he's he's uh he really loves mark you i think in one of the previous episodes you talked about uh the movie k-pop demon hunters in the weekend immediately following when we recorded that i uh happened to watch it and i uh i agree with your take it's pretty good movie it's just enjoyable because we watched the movie We were playing the music And we just like played it for James He fucking loves the music From that movie He really likes Golden And he really likes the soda pop He's like dancing more than he's ever Danced before Anytime it comes on he starts dancing And there's like the drop In uh I forget which one But the one where it's like We're going up That's in Golden He like when the drop is coming he stopped and he goes ready ready we're going it's really funny and that's very cute and very fun and uh so to balance it out uh this is the other thing that he's doing a lot lately we were in the car and he was just screaming and not like angry or sad or anything he was happy and he was just going and like it was a lot and eventually i reached a point where i was like man how do I stopped that from happening For a minute and I just sort of was like Hey buddy what are you doing What hey James and I Get his attention and I finally got his attention And he looked at me and I was Like yeah okay what are you doing And why and he just goes I'm buying Because Bah And I was like you know what he fucking He answered me directly I Cannot fault him he Knows exactly what he's doing and And he's really committed to it.

14:26And so I've had a headache for about a week and a half. But it's still pretty funny. But that one is way more unpleasant because he really does just scream a lot right now. It's fucking loud. But he's having a great time. So it's hard to complain. All right. Well, you know, that's great. Bah to bah. And that's all you need. He's buying, obviously. All right. Wade, I've gotten a point opportunity for you. I'm listening Name a K-pop Demon Hunters song Golden Yay he did it He does listen Name another More Golden Have you seen that movie I have not seen it Impressive I know Molly just went out with the girls and watched it recently But I have not seen it yet You guys keep talking about it she seemed to enjoy it So it's like okay maybe I need to check it out I believe that it's still way up in the charts that movie is nuts because it is just destroying every record that well not every record that Netflix has had but it's definitely staying at number one for a very long time and the viewership is increasing because people just people do what I did and they're just like hey you should check it out because it's fun and it is and it made me realize also that I haven't watched anything on Netflix in a very long time I haven't had a reason to so this is cool that there's like a reason to So I think that's fun.

15:50I think that's nice. Yeah, if only they didn't make me re-log in and then warn me about logging in every time I went to watch them. Well, if you weren't a criminal, it wouldn't be a concern. It's like, I'll be watching on the TV. I'm like, I'm going to watch some on my tablet. And it's like, this is not the same device. Are you committing crimes? What's your password? Proof you're not committing. Okay. You have 14 days. If we even suspect this isn't you, you're done. You're done. You'll sweep with the fishes. All right, Netflix, can I keep watching my show now? Yeah, all right. I love that, Corey.

16:23You could be sleeping with the fishes. It's so aggressive. Every time I go to log in, it's like, well, well, well, look who's logging in again. It's really you this time, bitch. I'm not saying it's not annoying, because I do hate that. We don't even have Netflix right now, but it was doing that to us previously when we did have Netflix. But I have another app that I use where it does the same thing It aggressively logs me out but every time I open it It like doesn't realize it's Logged me out and so I Open it and it'll be like oh I'm loading Let me load your notes hang on Wait a minute You're not logged in and so It takes like a minute and then eventually It's like put your password back in and I'm like Why the fuck did you try and load everything Then like what you forgot You logged me out and then what Yeah I mean I I'm always like I find it annoying But then I remember I guess if people hacked my accounts and stuff I would be mad and that would take a lot more I just like to be mad about stuff I'm mad about everything I just don't like the you have 14 days And then we'll see if you get to keep watching this Wait to what?

17:28What did they say that? I thought you were just saying that It's to like prove that you're not borrowing someone else's Netflix You have to like log in on your home Network or some bullshit To prove that it's you and not someone that's not you How would that prove it? Can't you just be like Hey it's me If you're traveling, forget it. Like, if you want to go on a trip, Netflix is like, You're dead to me. You need to be at home on your couch. I can't even believe. What is this internet? This isn't our internet. Who are you sleeping with? Is it Max? Was it Max? It was HBO Max. Yeah, are they switching it back to HBO Max now?

18:03Yeah, I think they are. So when is it switching back to Twitter then? Because I'm glad companies are starting to realize getting rid of the brand name they've had for decades was really stupid. That is its natural musk.

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18:57Their lemon agenda has infiltrated everything, even our music. That hit song named after the color of lemons? Not a coincidence. Big Lemon has been pulling strings in the industry for years. Think about it. But now 7up is fighting back with their new lime lemon soda Now lime comes first 7up, flip the sip This episode is brought to you by Hulu We've waited 15 long years Which is a very long time and I don't like saying that out loud For King of the Hill, I've waited 30 I've waited 35 Yeah, time didn't stop though because Hank's retired now Look, despite 15 years passing The Alley guys are still right there Alamos on ice, beers in hand It's the same hill, it's a new day They're back An all new season of King of the Hill Is now streaming on Hulu on Disney Plus Wade you got the segue point You wanna know why?

19:58I'm hilarious Okay if I say no That's right It's a trap If I said no it would be true Okay then say no It wasn't because you were hilarious, but it's not because you're not hilarious. It's because you said a quote, and this whole episode is about quotes. Oh, no. Huh? What's up? I was going to say, I love quoting things. I quote things all the time, but I don't know anything about them. Wade said, you're going to be sleeping with the fishes. Mmm. Well, you know, that's too many words. That's just too complicated. I mean, I get the message, you know, I get the message. But I'm like, is seven words as many as that needs?

20:41I think we're smarter than that. I think that we can optimize these quotes and go back and forth and shorten them and still keep the meaning. Okay. Now, the rules are as follows. And I'm going to use this as an example. We're going to have more quotes than this. But if it was going to be, you're going to be sleeping with the fishes. you can tie in the literal meaning or the metaphor that it's going for. So you could either shorten it. It just has to mean the same thing that the words mean and us all agree that it means that or mostly me agree because I'm judging, but I'd rather you worry about shortening it than being perfectly accurate is all I'm saying.

21:26But it has to it has to be close. Are we going for one shot? Give me the shortest you've got, or are we going back and forth on this? Here's the strategy. I don't think if you can jump down to one word, I'll try like maybe, but I don't think that these can be not all these can be boiled down to that. You want to not be the last one because whoever messes up ends the chain and we all agree. So you can go short. I don't think I should allow you to go to two or one. I'll keep count of the number of words in there and I will say you have to at least I'll just say at least one word shorter but it has to go down so I'll leave it to that I'll leave it up to you you strategize however you want that's just the situation that we're in all right here we go heads uh is weighed this time I'll say and tails about bonk wait man you got that really good sound on that one that was a good footing all right so your quote wade i'll give you a choice you can either have a movie quote or a historical real person quote oh let's start with movie that's that's the manic to what we were talking about so i pulled these from the hundred uh the afi which is the american film industry or something like that they're listed ai oh no they're gonna hate that mark ai quotes no no no we're it's the uh top 100 quotes from a bunch of different movies um and so this is the number one quote on their list gone with the wind 1939 frankly my dear i don't give a damn it's eight words one two three four five six seven eight yeah eight words frankly my dear i don't give a damn optimize look lady i don't care

23:13that's good look lady i don't care five words that's a hell of an optimization bob can you optimize further just for context i believe my dear the character's name in the movie is vivian lee i just want to throw that out there i think that's who this is so yeah my version would be uh Look, Vivian, I'm tired. That works. That's still the meaning. Wait. Babe, shut up.

23:57Okay, so that was three. Okay. Do sounds count as words? Can I make a sound to begin with? I want to hear it and we'll make a judgment afterwards. Who cares?

24:13I'll allow that. I will. It's losing a little bit. It's borderline, right? If it was directed at a person who just said something to me and I was just like, who cares? Like it means it's close in the context, right? I think the only thing that I think would be debatable and and Wade you tell me if this is the word uh word we can't say uh is it losing who you're speaking to because that is part of the quote this is up to you I don't know that I care that I keep that context or not but if you wanted to keep that context that's your decision I liked it so I'm just gonna go based on what I liked i think it worked but you know can you go shorter that was that was babe's lips i and i would agree you can you really can only do this to someone you know it won't go well i gotta give it to you bob can you go shorter than one word no no words no no sound listeners i'm looking disapprovingly.

25:21Yeah, I'm gonna, feel free to bend the rules as we go on, but I'll give that one to Wade. That was a good fight. Alright. Okay, Bob, movie quote or real life quote? Oh, historical figure quote, please. I'm not guaranteeing that you'll know these, but I'm assuming that you'll understand the context. Ernest Hemingway, but man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated so that's but man is not made for defeat a man can be destroyed but not defeated it's 15 words so wordy am i right let's shorten that down but man is not made for defeat a man can be destroyed but not defeated uh yeah well this this feels too short but i have can i just fully replace it whole cloth with another quote go for it never give up never surrender that's it all right let's see never give up i'm made for defeat can be destroyed but not defeated you know i think i think it does because the whole meaning of this is to inspire right i think that works it's a two-parter yeah it's a it's implied that you you're not giving up despite your setbacks or losses, but you're not ever surrendering because you cannot be defeated.

26:49I like it. Wade. Okay, no prayer. You cannot win!

26:57Now, who are you talking to? Because if you're talking to the people you're trying to inspire, I'm pretty sure that's not working. Shit! The bad guy! That guy! You could have said, we cannot lose! No, no, no. I want to make sure they know. Your general gets up on the podium. We cannot win. Give up. Surrender. All right. I got to give that to Bob. He spoke to the speaking to the wrong people. Sorry. That one got really short, really fast. I just was having it. That's a long one. I thought long would be easier. Long was way harder. That's why I tell every girl I dated. Hey. Hey. Hey.

27:42All right, Wade, back to you. Movie or historical? Oh, let's do historical. Gandhi once said, You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. Eight words. I counted ten. Hold on, we gotta redo that. You cannot is one word. Oh, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. Eight words. open your palm to shake idiot seven not right okay all right okay yeah that's great all right seven he's making it easy for you bob he's making it easy i want to go on a limb this requires this is imagining it's said in context that someone is attempting to shake my hand with a closed fist what do i do with that What do I do with that?

28:38Six? You guys are skating by. I think if... Now, wait, you don't have to build off of that one. You build off of the original. But I think I can accept it because you're talking to the right people and we just disqualified one for talking to the wrong people. What am I going to do with that? Six. Open hand. Grab mine. Shake.

28:59I don't know if you're teaching a caveman. Shake works. I'll accept it. It works if this is a... The literal is kind of teaching how to handshake. Gandhi, best handshakes. We all know this. Okay, five words. So I have to do four. That's the rules we're establishing here. Got it. Shake hands, not punch. That works. That works. We're down to four. Wait, can you do three? No, shake it.

29:34honestly that's the closest to the original quote we've had yet because it's you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist i just it did not it's like the denial it's the oh it's great three bob open moron i think i bet gandhi said moron okay i'm pretty sure he was insult it's borderline because i it could be confused for anything but given that the quote is you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist it starts closed and you say open moron and i believe he thinks that violence is probably stupid by the most technical and skating of margins i'm gonna give it to you but just barely when it's like that that good i i'm maybe if i do this equal of this i should be like wade you could match that and you'll split a point or something like that or you match it to beat it and if it's a better two word then we'd evaluate from there i know what gandhi said in one word oh yeah oh shit oh fuck fist out and out right now it was started bro i gotta give it to you no wait but i get it i get a chance at zero words then i get a chance at zero words i'm gonna use wade's same context i'm gonna use wade's same context all right yeah hand out hand out to shake fist out now that's so close but you are telling them to close their fist by the only definition that was that would work if it was too close as a fist for every listener he just it was two fifths bumps and they went they hit fist and they went It's so close.

31:23I'm giving it to Wade. Yeah, well-fought round god damn. I'm not gonna get through my whole list. That's for sure Oh, I need to drink it movie

31:38I'm not taking a sip of anything movie Movie it is okay from the godfather the second most memorable quote in all of moviedom I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse What's the most quotable? What's number one? We just said it before Believe it or not, it's frankly my dear I don't give a damn That's rated Oh, oh, I thought you meant that was the second most popular quote from The Godfather Oh, no, God I was like, what's more popular than that from The Godfather? Look how they massacred my boy I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse I got it There is no way he can say no.

32:19That works. There is no way. Wait. Oh, fuck. There is no way he can say no. Eight. Wait. We will make this deal now.

32:32I don't feel threatened. Yeah, but imagine me more Italian. Say it more Italian. Let's feel it. Hey, we will make this deal now.

32:46Oh, sorry. I didn't know you were fluent in Italian. It's one of those things I don't like to bust out unless I have to. Was there a hey, hey, we'll make... You wasted one on hey. I mean, that still works. That's still seven, right? It makes it as a hey, we'll make this deal now. It's six, actually. If you're using wheel as a contraction rather than we will, yeah. Contractions, yeah. Contractions are valid, I think. All right, Bob. He's definitely going to do this. He's definitely going to do this. Five. That does qualify. Oh, it's a deal. That works. Oh, it's a deal. You say yes.

33:29I think talking directly to him is outside of the context, but I like it. It's, you know, it's cutting out the middleman. It's shortening the movie, actually. It just goes right to him. Say yes. Boy dead. Oh, I thought that was your attempt. We're short in the movie It's down to less than three words Wade Deal done Yeah, actually wait, now that I think about it That's relating, that's right, you're even talking to the right person You're talking to the original person Hey, you're back Consigliere Alright, Bob, it's in your quote I don't remember the exact setup from the movie But I'm assuming this quote Is following someone Addressing the character and being like Whoa, how are we gonna get him to do that And I look him right in the eyes and I go Moida Alright,

34:22that's six letters, two syllables. Yep, Moida, Moida, I appreciate the accent, because otherwise I would've said it before the line. But yeah, that's as Italian as it comes. Very threatening in Italian. Wade, can you beat that? If I steal it a little bit, it'll be the same idea, I guess, but uh... Threat. I didn't have to say anything I forgot I meant to say deal It was meant to say deal It's your instinct to keep the listeners involved That's really good Yeah listeners I made a throat cutting motion As I said threat instead of deal I don't know that I get to keep that one I concede Yeah, if you'd have said nothing, I would have given it to you because...

35:13Threat? Shorter than murder? No, it's not. All right, whose turn was it? I've forgotten. I think I went first on that. Yeah, it's Wade's turn. So, Wade, you can get a movie or a real-life quote. Let's do another movie. On the Waterfront. You don't understand. I could have had class. I could have been a contender. I could have been somebody instead of a bum, which is what I am. You don't understand. I could have had class. I could have been, could have is one word, been a contender. I could have been somebody instead of a bum, which is what I am. 21 words. Jeez. All right. You don't get it. I could have been higher class, a winner.